(Final Fantasy VIII) Balamb Garden: Relaunch Recruitment Open

[Fenrir]

This RP is currently not accepting new characters: if you have shown previous interest in the game or have been working on a character before this topic was locked feel free to still send a character sheet to Revenent.

The Premise:
It is thirty years after the events of Final Fantasy VIII and this game follows the lives of the students at Balamb Garden, an elite military academy, that trains young adults to be mercenaries. There are many reasons children are accepted into the ranks of any one of the three Gardens: Balamb, Trabia, and Galbadia.  Enrolling between the ages of five and fifteen, some students come as orphans, some to gain power, some fame and fortune, and some for a better life.  Whatever the reason almost all students are accepted into the Garden and complete their training between the ages of fifteen and nineteen, depending upon their ability, perseverance, and skill.  There are three ranks or stepping stones within every Garden- Cadet, Candidate, and SeeD- and if a student has not reached SeeD status by the age of twenty they are dismissed from the Garden.  Those that are released typically enlist in various armies and are highly valuable despite their lack of SeeD title. 

All three Gardens are now politically neutral: typically fighting on either side of a disagreement as long as that side has the money to pay for their services.  Before the defeat of Ultimecia, Galbadia was firmly on the side of the Galbadia army and actually on the side of the Sorceress Edea at some point.  They were given the option to become neutral or risk being removed from Garden Status.  It was an easy choice, to ensure they maintained their power they agreed to a neutral standing on all issues: even giving up their rights to grant SeeD status.  Balamb Garden is currently the only Garden able to officially grant SeeD status, Trabia having lost the ability to do so as well with the missile attack thirty years ago.  The other Gardens are able to train Cadets and Candidates and most students transfer to Balamb when they wish to apply to become SeeD.  It is also the Garden that houses the most abundant number of SeeD mercenaries, holding the most weight as a political power because of its exclusive rights and regulations of SeeD members.

SeeD status individuals are essentially property of the Garden and have high status in most situations due to the Garden's backing and rarely get a choice in missions or sides to pick from.  If a SeeD mercenary is demoted from their position they will find themselves shunned by most of polite society due to the Garden's reputation as a professional business but the criminals and the desperate are not above picking up the dropped fruit. 

Current Threads

Common Threads
We currently have our own sub forum if you would like to take a look at all the threads we currently have going on.  These are the most common ones desire to those considering joining.

• Information Guide (currently a work in progress to be updated)
• Accepted Character Sheets (note the inital thread holds a lot of needed information for creating a character or ideas on where to start once accepted)
• The Office: Game Discussion
• The Fireside: OoC
• Garden Grounds - Day 2: Night Time This is the post where the current incarnation has begun, it is not it's own thread
• Extremities - Day 2: Night Time  Again, this is the post where the current incarnation has begun, it is not it's own thread

Things to Know:
This is a continuation of previous attempts at a Balamb Garden Group Game: as it stands those that were active in the game previously have had the first dibs on characters/weapons/Guardian Forces and the like and now we are recruiting for new blood.  Some of these characters also have a rich predetermine history that has been RP'd out: and some of the main plot as already started however, it should be easy for new characters to slide in.  Balamb Garden is a mostly free form RP game: this means characters/monsters and the like to do not have stats to work with.  This also means that a player must be careful and aware that not every hit is going to land and not every bad ass move is going to work out correctly: please try and write accordingly.  There is a plot line and there will be missions that characters will need to complete throughout the game.  Some missions will tie directly into the plot line while some will be entirely for fun.  The GMs and their assistants will be handling NPCs for missions as well as enemies that characters will meet in combat, but, aside from missions and the planned plot, there should be plenty of 'free' time for the characters for adventures or subplots as a player deems necessary.  All characters currently created for this game will fall under the rank of Candidate or Cadet (explained in the Information Guide).  Throughout the continuation of the game characters can apply to become a SeeD at a later time.

Any other questions can be posted here, PM'd to Fenrir or the Co-GM Revenent, or addressed in the Information Guide.  Any questions posted here can be adequately answered by either GM or the appointed assistant TheHangedMan (if he answers a question on a GM's behalf he does have the authority to do so).

Characters and Guardian Forces:
We are currently welcoming male and female characters.  Cannon characters or relation to those are not allowed (however cannon guardian forces are welcomed- though the power of a Guardian Force will be considered).  Also there will be no character containing a sorceress ability (innate magic).

There are typical favorites for people as far as weapons (gunblades, guns, and apparently lances/pole arms) and specializations (magics) go  but there are TONS of other ideas for weapons as well as specializations.  Unused or less used weapons include: bow, chakram, sai, axe, kama, nunchucks, tonfa, various types of abnormal swords, etc.  Specializations has a long list of available categories as well: tactics, weapon repair, defense, communications, etc. Right now our specializations are extremely combat heavy: other specializations can and should be considered- just because a character is not specializing in combat does not mean they have to be a terrible fighter. Please keep that in mind.  However, you are not bound by either of these list and each weapon/specialization does not have to be completely unique by any means but there are a lot of holes that can be filled as far as weapons and specializations go!  I encourage you greatly to be creative with both. There is a list that is updated on the first post of the Accepted Character Sheets Thread has a list of current weapons and specializations: and if we are no longer taking applicants for a particular weapon or specialization it will be noted there.  (right now we are only restricting lances/spears/medium-long range pointed staff thingy (the category name escapes me)).

As far as Guardian Forces go: there are plenty still up for grabs!  We welcome canon Guardian Forces as well as created ones but once a guardian force has been taken it is no longer available to other applicants (so when creating a character, make sure the GF you would like is not already taken).  Guardian Forces are handled different ways by their characters: some are used more as companions while some only use them for battle.  It is possible to have your guardian force 'be it's own character' and make it's own post if it is away from your normal player character: however this is not required- I just think it's fun! If your GF is from Final Fantasy mythology I request that its special attack stay fairly similar to at least one of the games: I don't want an Ifrit that suddenly has frost flare or something so far out of the Final Fantasy realm.

Character Sheet:
All Character Creations should be posted here in this thread or PM'd to Revenent.  Revenent is currently in charge of new character initiation and he will be the main point of contact for new players and character approval.

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[b][size=14pt]CHARACTER APPLICATION[/size][/b]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b] Must be at least 16 if you want access to NSFW scenes.
[b]Enrollment Age:[/b] Between 5 and 15
[b]Gender:[/b]
[spoiler=Theme Song](Include, Youtube video Theme Song)[/spoiler] (optional)

[b]Weapon:[/b] Name [b]Weapon Description:[/b]
[b]Specialization:[/b]  This is what your character has spent most of their time training for - what the Garden [i]actively [/i]is training your character to do - this is undeniably what they are best at...
[b]Extra Skills:[/b] These are other skills your characters have developed outside of their Garden Training (particularly coming from a character's background).  Please note: if your character has a skill that another character is specializing in, the character with that specialization will always be more skilled at it than your character
[b]Current Ranking:[/b] Cadet or Candidate
[b]Victory Motto:[/b]
[b]Limit Break:[/b] Name [b]Limit Break Description:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]Backstory:[/b]

[b]Appearance:[/b] Either written, an image, or both. Having an image is preferred, as headshots are part of the standard post header.

[size=14pt][b]GF APPLICATION[/b][/size]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Established Connection:[/b]  This means, how have you interacted with this GF so far- are they new? Have you yet to meet them? Have they been your GF for years?  Etc.
[b]Element:[/b]
[b]Description:[/b]
[b]Bonus:[/b]  These bonuses *must be passive* can be a stat boost or other passive ability within reason
[b]Special Attack:[/b] Name [b]Special Attack Description:[/b]

[spoiler=Character Journal]This is where you can choose to 'record' events or extra facts about your character for other's benefit: either from the beginning or throughout the game. If this is a new character, you are welcome to include things that their average classmate should know about them already.[/spoiler]

[Angie]

Hmm, I'd really like to get into this, I've got character ideas in mind, but I do have a question: Is there much call for a "Face" style specialization, someone whose skills lie in negotiation and clever deception? Or perhaps more to the point, what are we lacking?

[TheHangedOne]

A leadership/commander type role would definitely be acceptable as a specialty. Like Fen said, we have a lot of combat heavy specializations, so that would help balance things out. Likewise, as Fen said, their combat skills wouldn't necessarily be bad, per se, but they would have a lot more in the way of non-combative skills like history, military tactics, and on the combat side of things,  defensive specialties.

[DarkNevaeh]

To add to that, examples!

Defense:  You might take classes with Paladins and other heavy armor types, to know what defenses to use when.
Tactics: These classes would be based more in dealing with humans and their specialties instead of things like monsters (because Monsters don't negotiate)
History: To be a diplomat, you need to know culture, history...the basics of what not to do especially.


You might also take classes like monster geography (what monsters are known to be where), Leadership classes, and might be apprenticed (maybe, at some point) by a higher ranking member, such as a Headmaster for a garden or an already established diplomat, so that you can go into the fields and get hands on training.

Hope that helps!

[Revenent]

Hmm, I'd really like to get into this, I've got character ideas in mind, but I do have a question: Is there much call for a "Face" style specialization, someone whose skills lie in negotiation and clever deception? Or perhaps more to the point, what are we lacking?

A leadership/commander type role would definitely be acceptable as a specialty. Like Fen said, we have a lot of combat heavy specializations, so that would help balance things out. Likewise, as Fen said, their combat skills wouldn't necessarily be bad, per se, but they would have a lot more in the way of non-combative skills like history, military tactics, and on the combat side of things,  defensive specialties.

To add to that, examples!

Defense:  You might take classes with Paladins and other heavy armor types, to know what defenses to use when.
Tactics: These classes would be based more in dealing with humans and their specialties instead of things like monsters (because Monsters don't negotiate)
History: To be a diplomat, you need to know culture, history...the basics of what not to do especially.


You might also take classes like monster geography (what monsters are known to be where), Leadership classes, and might be apprenticed (maybe, at some point) by a higher ranking member, such as a Headmaster for a garden or an already established diplomat, so that you can go into the fields and get hands on training.

Hope that helps!

To clarify, yes, someone more focused on "intellectual combat," negotiations and such, would be very welcomed.

[Faeli]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name:  Jasmine Precep
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 8
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyMWORBjPw

Weapon: Longsword and Punching Dagger
Weapon Description: Jasmine is somewhat unique in that she has chosen to study the longsword rather than its more powerful and technological advanced gunblade cousin.  Her long sword appears rather like a rapier on steroids, for while it does indeed have a bladed edge, the blade itself is decidedly long and narrow.  There are a series of spikes build into the base of the blade to make the blade difficult to remove once impaled through someone, although a small switch in the hilt can allow these spikes to be retracted.
Specialization: Interrogation
Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: "You'll get no Eulogy from me..."
Limit Break: Severity
Limit Break Description:  Jasmine whirls her sword in a circle twice, backing away from the enemy, and then dashes forward, leaping upon them and impaling them upon her longsword, driving it through the ground behind them as they fall backwards.  Once pinned, the girl pulls her right hand free and, with her punching dagger, punches her helpless opponent several times before grabbing the sword again and, while twisting the hilt, cruelly jerks it free.

Personality: Jasmine has a split personality or, more correctly, she has a second personality which is kept shackled and controlled except in cases where it is needed.  In her primary personality, Jasmine is a pacifist and something of a masochist.  She tries her best to get along with everyone and has something of a low self-opinion, always considering any failing or conflict to be her fault.  She is extremely agreeable and prone to accepting commands.

Her repressed personality is darker.  It doesn't speak, doesn't feel mercy, and is very much a sadist.  It is released when battle comes and joins into the fray with every ounce of vigor.  Still, it is also extremely prone to obedience.  Long years of harsh training have taught it the folly of rebellion and, despite many cadets and candidates being slightly uncomfortable with Jasmine's second personality (which is sometimes called 'Reaper,' 'The Beast,' or 'Bitch-mode' although it doesn't seem to respond to any name) there aren't many who actively fear it.

Backstory: Like many cadets, Jasmine is an orphan.  Unlike many cadets, Jasmine was extremely poorly devolopped at the time she made it to the Garden.  Combative, belligerent, and generally angry, Jasmine would frequently get into fights and would tend to take them beyond the schoolyard tussles that most fights became.  The Staff of the Garden tried a lot of things, but little seemed able to cool the rage in Jasmine's heart.  Everything that was attempted seemed either ineffective or only served to set Jasmine against the staff itself.

Eventually, one of the staff Psychologists came upon an uneasy solution... a desire to split the anger and malice of Jasmine's personality away from the rest.  It took him years to do so, but eventually he succeeded, producing a cadet who, while wearing a set of magnetized manacles, seemed actually incapable of experiencing anger.  The perfect student, she got along with everyone and obediently did what she was told.  When the manacles came off, the woman became sullen and angry, an arrow screaming towards whatever target she was given.  It still took much training to get her to obey commands, but by the time the girl turned thirteen she was an effective, if somewhat broken, cadet.

Unlike the majority of Cadets, Jasmine was given her GF.  The staff realized that some of the dumber or more morally questionable cadets might well either take undue advantage of Jasmine's refusal to defend herself or Beast's refusal to stop attacking and needed Nixie to help equalize the forces.  The ploy worked... for the most part.  While Beast hasn't actually killed anyone and Jasmine hasn't suffered as much as she could have, it does seem that Nixie allows things to pass which the staff would prefer she didn't.

Appearance

GF APPLICATION
Name: Nixie
Established Connection:  Three Years
Element:  Water
Description: Nixie appears as a naked woman with deeply pale blue skin an a small shawl wrapped around her neck, the ends draping down to cover her breasts. 
Bonus:  Jasmine has slightly enhanced speed and a passive regeneration, slow enough to be a non-factor in actual combat, but fast enough to keep her at her best between fights.
Special Attack: Elemental Warding
Special Attack Description: Nixie Appears and clutches her hands before her, closing her eyes.  Her shawl slowly begins to unwind and spins in a slight circle, bestowing each of Jasmine's allies, as well as Jasmine herself, with a full-cure and the Regen Affect.

Character Journal

There is little known about Jasmine, but there are a lot of rumors:
- Nixie is sentient and will appear and help protect Jasmine in the event that her welfare is endangered, including releasing the woman's manacles.
- Nixie, being a fey, seems to have a fairly liberal idea of what constitutes Jasmine's welfare being endangered.
- Nixie can be bribed by tuna.
- Jasmine's serrated blade tends to cut through cloth as well as flesh when she strikes, much to the embarrassment of some of her less armored foes.
- There have been students who intentionally released Jasmine's Beast for the purposes of dueling.  Most ended up in the infirmary in various stages of undress.
- Jasmine could have become a Candidate several years ago, but keeps refusing to take the SeeD Test.
- Jasmine has a birthmark on her right asscheek.
- Jasmine has a larger than regulation bed, and may share it with Nixie.

[Acula]

Hello there - love the Final Fantasy series, so very interested in this RP.

Would a medic/healer/non-combatant be playable in this, or does the storylines require the player to be able to fight?

[Revenent]

Just a small clarification, Faeli: cadets don't take the SeeD test. They take the candidacy test to become candidates, and candidates take the SeeD exam (which has a written portion and a field portion) to become SeeD. Anyway, looks good to me, but we'll let you know soon if it's approved to be added to the character thread.

Hello there - love the Final Fantasy series, so very interested in this RP.

Would a medic/healer/non-combatant be playable in this, or does the storylines require the player to be able to fight?

Only a small portion of this RP is spent in actual missions, and only a small part of those in actual combat, so non-combatants are totally fine. One of my own characters is basically non-combatant, and another prefers to avoid fighting when in the field.

[Acula]

Awesome - sounds great! I'll work up a character and submit it for approval. :)

[Green Goo Theory]

Bookmarked for when I get home and back to my computer.

[la dame en noir]

This is wayyy too tempting...

One of my FAVORITE Final Fantasy games @_@

[AndyZ]

Moved further down the page

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Zedd Hallister
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 6
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwP-OmsTAzQ)

Weapon: Zedd has some basic training in martial arts, but doesn't otherwise carry a weapon.
Specialization: Black Magic
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: You just didn't want it badly enough.
Limit Break: Tricast Limit Break Description: Mixing the powers of fire, ice and lightning, Zedd creates a coruscating wave of energy sure to cause all kinds of destruction to anything it hits.

Personality: Zedd usually comes off as friendly but intelligent and focused.  When things go well, he exudes a warm confidence that he tries to pass on to others.

Backstory: Zedd's first memories are at Trabia Garden.  He keeps a journal but rarely looks through it, as attempting to read through the past always feels alien to him, as if someone else had the various concerns and childish worries written therein.

The idea of magic in particular has always fascinated him.  Why spend years learning how to use a gun or sword when you can call forth a whirlwind to obliterate your enemies?  For that matter, why learn how to confuse or petrify them when you can simply destroy them with eldritch power?

In his youth, that quest for power drove him to perpetual practice, but into his adolescence, the road of isolation so common to SeeDs concerned his instructors.  He was given Seraph, a holy GF who inspired more of a sense of compassion within his heart.  Although he didn't really develop any major interest in White Magic, he could still use Seraph to help when his friends were hurt.

As he got further through his Candidacy, it became apparent that he was likely SeeD material, and he was transferred to Balamb Garden to see if he could properly qualify.  He still has a road ahead of him as well as brand new friends to make, but he expects to put forth that effort with the same zeal that has helped him to master darker magics.

GF APPLICATION
Name: Lakshmi
Established Connection:  Zedd has had Lakshmi for a few years now.  In many ways, she provides a sort of moral compass to him, keeping him from simply abusing his abilities or letting his power go too far to his head.
Element: Holy

Description

Bonus: Energetic.  Zedd always seems to have enough stamina, whether only needing to sleep for four hours a night, able to call up enough power to keep casting spells without easily wearing himself out, or just being ready for another sexual romp.  He can remain conscious to keep casting even when his body is in broken ruins. 

Zedd claims that she also influences luck in small ways, giving him minor bits of good fortune, but it's difficult to tell how much of that is in his head.
Special Attack: Alluring Embrace Special Attack Description: As Lakshmi appears, her warmth and beauty suffuses those who have earned the care and respect of her wielder, healing them of damage.

Character Journal

Just when I was really starting to get used to this place and think of it as a home, I have to leave for another Garden.  Well, I guess it's just as well.  There's a lot of SeeD candidates out there, and it'll help to know as many as I can.



So far, I have to admit that I'm not very impressed.  Someone killed the Headmaster here?  Headmaster Rayco is too tough to be taken out so easily, and she's blind.  I can't imagine why they'd put someone in charge who couldn't defend themselves, but maybe I'll find out.



I've been warned about a few of the classmates.  Alyssa Deftrix is an ice queen: steer clear.  Lalo Kesko is the Garden's communal GF: everyone gets to Junction her.  One of the nurses really likes lollipops, but I don't think that was a euphemism.  The Disciplinary Committee is needlessly strict.



Big party tonight.  Hopefully I'll get the chance to meet some ladies.

[DarkNevaeh]

This is wayyy too tempting...

One of my FAVORITE Final Fantasy games @_@

Join us...mwahahhaha!

Any questions, we are here for to answer.

[Silk]

hmm might look into this myself. Been playing a lot of 14 lately and with triple triad in that has got my 8 juices going again. xD

[Green Goo Theory]

Still interested and thinking about character.  Just too wiped to actually piece something together.  Plenty of open GF's for me too.  Even the semi-obscure canon ones. 

[DarkNevaeh]

Also know that you can come up with your own and run it by the GM's and if they approve it, youre good to go.

[Green Goo Theory]

Not a fun of a custom gm personally.  Not when there are literally dozens available still if you consider all the games.  Thanks though.

[Acula]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name:Iflanic Crysta
Age: 19
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Female

Theme Song

Ludo - Love me Dead - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH3oMNKApI

Weapon: Lance Weapon Description: A long pole-arm with a blade on one end that forks into two. The lance is very light with a little flex in it for better maneuverability.
Specialization: Healing, First Aid
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: Your tears are wasted on me.
Limit Break: Permafrost Prisms Limit Break Description: Iflanic is able to manipulate and focus energy into her lance, which gains ice properties. This ice instantly attempts to freeze whatever it touches, which causes the enemies movement to be hampered. This effect lasts roughly two rounds, unless outside elements (such as a hot environment) decrease the effects.

Personality: Iflanic is calm, collected, and logical. Iflanic would not consider herself unfriendly, but sometimes comes off this way to others due to her quiet nature. This, with her odd habit of mumbling under her breath has made lasting friendships difficult. Her compassion is seen most often when she is attempting to heal others, and she has a very hard time watching others suffer.

Backstory: From early childhood Iflanic desired to help others. A lonely girl, she found she made friends when she helped others and showed her kindness. This began her love of medicine and would continue to influence her to this day.

When she was around 6 or 7, an attack on her tiny village completely wiped out the population - except Iflanic. The authorities took her to Balamb Garden where she has been ever since.

At first Iflanic argued that she was a pacifist, and refused to fight, but after repeatedly seeing a few younger girls get bullied, she picked up a weapon and taught the bullies a lesson. Since then, she's come to terms with the fact that sometimes you have to fight, though she prefers not too.

Appearance:

GF APPLICATION
Name: Seiryuu
Established Connection:  Iflanic has been with Seiryuu for several years, and many believe Seiryuu's apathetic nature has rubbed off on her. In reality, it is the other way around, as Iflanic attempts to befriend the seemingly unfeeling GF. Seiryuu, in turn, does not understand Iflanic's desire for peace, when the GF feels it should be power she seeks.
Element: Ice
Description: Seiryuu is a tall, blue-green woman with braided dark green hair. She has small blue scales patches on her skin. Generally nude, carefully placed scales keep her decent.
Bonus:  Boosts Healing
Special Attack: Song of the Rising Dragon Special Attack Description: Seiryuu sings a piercing song that deafens enemies and attempts to paralyze and poison them.

Character Journal

- Iflanic has unnatural luck at card games, but she doesn't understand the rules.
- Her favorite food is lollipops and is almost always eating one.
- Despite her age, Iflanic has never been on a date.
- Iflanic has few friends, but is generally welcomed on whatever team she's placed.
- Although no one has ever heard it, Iflanic is rumored to have a beautiful singing voice.
- Her classmates generally describe Iflanic as cold and unfeeling. This is an interesting error, as she can be quite hot-headed when provoked.

[Revenent]

There's only two real issues I see here:

1. According to the Information Guide, students are dismissed from Garden if they haven't achieved SeeD status by age 20, so she couldn't be a candidate at 23. Should probably have added that to the character application layout, so my mistake. I'll ask Fen to add that note.

2. Again, something that might not have been stated as obviously as it could have, but Shiva was, until recently, in the possession of AndyZ's character Alyssa. She lost her due to the story reasons, so, depending on his explanation, Shiva could have ended up in Iflanic's possession, but it would have been a very recent development. Like, today or yesterday in terms of IC time.

Beyond that, everything looks good to me.

[Acula]

There's only two real issues I see here:

1. According to the Information Guide, students are dismissed from Garden if they haven't achieved SeeD status by age 20, so she couldn't be a candidate at 23. Should probably have added that to the character application layout, so my mistake. I'll ask Fen to add that note.

2. Again, something that might not have been stated as obviously as it could have, but Shiva was, until recently, in the possession of AndyZ's character Alyssa. She lost her due to the story reasons, so, depending on his explanation, Shiva could have ended up in Iflanic's possession, but it would have been a very recent development. Like, today or yesterday in terms of IC time.

Beyond that, everything looks good to me.

Thank you for the notes - I'll change both issues. Sorry about Shiva, I completely missed that she was taken somehow. No worries!

I looked over the approved character sheets and didn't see Siren taken - is that correct or did I miss it perchance?

[Revenent]

Thank you for the notes - I'll change both issues. Sorry about Shiva, I completely missed that she was taken somehow. No worries!

I looked over the approved character sheets and didn't see Siren taken - is that correct or did I miss it perchance?

I looked through both the current accepted characters and the ones in the previous run of the game and Siren wasn't in either, so I think you're completely safe with that pick. Thank you for being understanding. ;D

[AndyZ]

Part of the reason you missed it is because nobody currently has Shiva.  She got unjunctioned about 19 hours ago.  As her previous owner's player, I'll offer that you can grab her if you want her, but will also warn that her previous owner is kinda adamant about getting her back.

(The original swapout happened because someone else really wanted her, but that player didn't stay on Elliquiy)

[Fenrir]

I don't want people to think I'm not keeping an eye on this thread: I am- I'm just busy elsewhere in the game so I have left answering questions and the like to others!  So hiya everyone!  Welcome to all those interested :D

(also as a side note... Tonberry shuffle... please say you're taking Tonberry King!) *cough*

Thank you for the notes - I'll change both issues. Sorry about Shiva, I completely missed that she was taken somehow. No worries!

I looked over the approved character sheets and didn't see Siren taken - is that correct or did I miss it perchance?

As Rev said, she's not currently taken but she was rather recently in character.  That does not mean you cannot have her it just means if you would like Shiva it would have to fit that story line- which as AndyZ implied it could be an interesting struggle if two characters were fighting over her but that's between you!  Siren is not publicly taken at the moment but I am working with an individual who has taken her and her sheet is not all the way approved.  (and we've been working on it since before Rev took over new characters: so no one be offended I'm looking at this sheet as opposed to any others!)  So in simple terms Siren is not available.

[Acula]

Goodness - I seem to be picking all the popular GFs! What's a girl to do haha.

I have no problems giving Shiva back to her original owner. :) And it seems Siren is taken! I suppose I could always make up a GF, just for sanity's sake.  ;D

[AndyZ]

How about I give up Seraph that I was originally going to put on my new character?  Would you like Seraph?

[Acula]

How about I give up Seraph that I was originally going to put on my new character?  Would you like Seraph?

That's very nice of you! No worries though, I created an original GF based on Chinese mythology. If that doesn't work I might take you up on your offer though!

And on that note, I've edited my character profile. Please let me know if there is anything else that needs tweaking!

[AndyZ]

I'll switch over just in case it doesn't work out for you.  ^_^

[Revenent]

That's very nice of you! No worries though, I created an original GF based on Chinese mythology. If that doesn't work I might take you up on your offer though!

And on that note, I've edited my character profile. Please let me know if there is anything else that needs tweaking!

Everything looks good to me now. I'd say your approved, though I think you still have to wait on Fen's ultimate approval? Not sure how she meant this to work.

[Fenrir]

Everything looks good to me now. I'd say your approved, though I think you still have to wait on Fen's ultimate approval? Not sure how she meant this to work.

I sent you a PM about how I would like for it to work! 

But, him and I can work that out between ourselves later and I don't want to keep you waiting!  I have one comment on her limit break:  I would suggest having a little more clarification honestly.  It instantly tries to freeze enemies- is this a complete freeze (kind of equaling to stop) or would it just effect their speed by being cold (like a slow)?  Also I would say the frost lasts two rounds (for two attempts) unless they were in an extremely warm climate (like where Ifirit lives!). I would say pick one of those for a bit of clarification on her limit break annnnnd then I would say she is approved as well and you can post her in the Accepted Character Sheets after you add it in.

[Acula]

I sent you a PM about how I would like for it to work! 

But, him and I can work that out between ourselves later and I don't want to keep you waiting!  I have one comment on her limit break:  I would suggest having a little more clarification honestly.  It instantly tries to freeze enemies- is this a complete freeze (kind of equaling to stop) or would it just effect their speed by being cold (like a slow)?  Also I would say the frost lasts two rounds (for two attempts) unless they were in an extremely warm climate (like where Ifirit lives!). I would say pick one of those for a bit of clarification on her limit break annnnnd then I would say she is approved as well and you can post her in the Accepted Character Sheets after you add it in.

Hurray for approval! I'll go clarify her limit break - I was afraid of making her overpowered so I kept it a little vague. I'll change that now, then post in the Accepted Character Sheets. :D

[Fenrir]

Hurray for approval! I'll go clarify her limit break - I was afraid of making her overpowered so I kept it a little vague. I'll change that now, then post in the Accepted Character Sheets. :D

I appreciate the concern.  I would rather players worry about being too overpowered than having to make them pull back being too powerful.  Honestly, there are stronger limit breaks in the game but I like this one: in my mind it does initial damage (with the weapon) extra damage (with the frost) and then it would have the effect of slow or stop.  So it's far from useless and can be extremely handy in a hard situation.

[Green Goo Theory]

I haven't had a chance yet to peak through all the approved characters yet but I was just curious.  How are self-buffing and/or transformation style limit breaks treated?  I know they really aren't in the vein of usual FFVIII limit breaks but they aren't really unheard of for the franchise. 

Just wanted to know before I moved on to the rest of character creation. 

[DarkNevaeh]

Limit Breaks vary from person to person.  Having a self heal/buff as a Limit Break, considering that you are near death, could be a cool idea.  Maybe something like a Limit that casts Wall and Shell which halves damage from physical and Magical damage for a few rounds?

Just an idea.

[AndyZ]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Zedd Hallister
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 6
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwP-OmsTAzQ)

Weapon: Zedd has some basic training in martial arts, but doesn't otherwise carry a weapon.
Specialization: Black Magic
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: You just didn't want it badly enough.
Limit Break: Tricast Limit Break Description: Mixing the powers of fire, ice and lightning, Zedd creates a coruscating wave of energy sure to cause all kinds of destruction to anything it hits.

Personality: Zedd usually comes off as friendly but intelligent and focused.  When things go well, he exudes a warm confidence that he tries to pass on to others.

Backstory: Zedd's first memories are at Trabia Garden.  He keeps a journal but rarely looks through it, as attempting to read through the past always feels alien to him, as if someone else had the various concerns and childish worries written therein.

The idea of magic in particular has always fascinated him.  Why spend years learning how to use a gun or sword when you can call forth a whirlwind to obliterate your enemies?  For that matter, why learn how to confuse or petrify them when you can simply destroy them with eldritch power?

In his youth, that quest for power drove him to perpetual practice, but into his adolescence, the road of isolation so common to SeeDs concerned his instructors.  He was given Lakshmi, a holy GF who inspired more of a sense of compassion within his heart.  Although he didn't really develop any major interest in White Magic, he could still use Lakshmi to help when his friends were hurt.

As he got further through his Candidacy, it became apparent that he was likely SeeD material, and he was transferred to Balamb Garden to see if he could properly qualify.  He still has a road ahead of him as well as brand new friends to make, but he expects to put forth that effort with the same zeal that has helped him to master darker magics.

GF APPLICATION
Name: Lakshmi
Established Connection:  Zedd has had Lakshmi for a few years now.  In many ways, she provides a sort of moral compass to him, keeping him from simply abusing his abilities or letting his power go too far to his head.
Element: Holy

Description

Bonus: Energetic.  Zedd always seems to have enough stamina, whether only needing to sleep for four hours a night, able to call up enough power to keep casting spells without easily wearing himself out, or just being ready for another sexual romp.  He can remain conscious to keep casting even when his body is in broken ruins. 

Zedd claims that she also influences luck in small ways, giving him minor bits of good fortune, but it's difficult to tell how much of that is in his head.
Special Attack: Alluring Embrace Special Attack Description: As Lakshmi appears, her warmth and beauty suffuses those who have earned the care and respect of her wielder, healing them of damage.

Character Journal

Just when I was really starting to get used to this place and think of it as a home, I have to leave for another Garden.  Well, I guess it's just as well.  There's a lot of SeeD candidates out there, and it'll help to know as many as I can.



So far, I have to admit that I'm not very impressed.  Someone killed the Headmaster here?  Headmaster Rayco is too tough to be taken out so easily, and she's blind.  I can't imagine why they'd put someone in charge who couldn't defend themselves, but maybe I'll find out.



I've been warned about a few of the classmates.  Alyssa Deftrix is an ice queen: steer clear.  Lalo Kesko is the Garden's communal GF: everyone gets to Junction her.  One of the nurses really likes lollipops, but I don't think that was a euphemism.  The Disciplinary Committee is needlessly strict.



Big party tonight.  Hopefully I'll get the chance to meet some ladies.

[Revenent]

Er...is his GF Seraph or Lakshmi?

[AndyZ]

I forgot to fix the backstory >.< Lakshmi

[Lockepick]

TAKEN

The Balamb Fourth is looking for its third founding member

I'm trying to start a little project here in the game, so I got permission to put this advertisement out in hopes that somebody that was looking to join this game, or make a new character, might take interest. I should be clear that this isn't first come, first serve -- nobody is guaranteed anything here, and I will try to be as honest and forthcoming as possible with the process so nobody wastes any effort building towards something if we find a stronger compatibility with another character.

What is the 'Balamb Fourth?'

The 'Balamb Fourth' is a working name for what hopes to be an Elite Squad of SeeDs. Traditionally SeeDs work alone, but Balamb Garden (through acting Headmaster Ballari) has an interest in testing out a Squad -- and the Balamb Fourth would be that test. The three characters would be Candidates brought together In Character, within the current timeline of the game. They would work to graduate and become SeeDs, and then from there, work to establish a high Ranking and reputation. The Squad is designed to be an efficient and self sufficient unit; three people that know how to work off each other's strengths and weaknesses to handle anything that gets thrown at them. We want to be the Squad that's known for getting the job done at any cost.

While attaining SeeD status and evolving their SeeD rank is a priority of the group, we also welcome any personal plots or personal goals that the Squad can assist with. If one member of the Squad succeeds -- we all succeed.

It should also be noted that very little about the Squad is set in stone until we have that third member and their input. Even the name I listed is up for debate, it's just a placeholder! There is a base plot already in the works on how the Squad is brought together, but only in the most broad sense, and I'm sure that could also be adjusted if need be!

Who is the 'Balamb Fourth?'

The current two founding members are: Bastian Durant played by myself, and Velten Gregor played by Renegade Vile.

To save you from having to read the entire profiles in just a cursory glance: Bastian is focused on Support via Grey/White Magic; where Velten is a Close Combat Tank/Shocktrooper.

What are we looking for in a third founding member?

Assuming you're already interested in the major goals of the Squad, the two next most important things we need in our third founding member are: Specialization and Personality.
- Specialization: In our effort to be self-sufficient and efficient, it is the most appealing for us to have a spread of specializations. Based on where Bastian and Velten fall, we are looking for somebody focused in -- Mid/Long Range Combat, Black Magic, or Both.
- Personality: We're looking for a third that upholds the major traits of the Squad, somebody who is -- Tenacious, Professional, and Self-Motivated.

As long as somebody can identify with those details listed -- the rest is pretty open. We don't believe that the third character needs total cohesion with our two characters -- we're three people brought together by a goal, not triplets separated at birth or clones. Both of us are comfortable with conflict within the team, but want to ensure those conflicts are not so major that they are irreconcilable. Even the term 'Professional' refers to during the job -- your character can smoke crack off the clock, as long as he doesn't show up for a mission high or strung out, or we need to constantly worry about him running from his post to score crack during the job.

Lastly: we want somebody invested and excited for the project! Like I mentioned before -- very little of this idea is set in stone because we're waiting for the third founding member to be involved in the discussion.

What does the 'Balamb Fourth' offer you?

It offers guaranteed allies in game and a base PC-driven plot that will hopefully get the attention of the GMs. Neither of us are GMs, and we can not guarantee anything in regards to that. All I can say is that the GM is aware of this plan, and approves of it -- so we have Fenrir's blessing. Allies means you've got people to help you out with your personal plot without trying to fight you for the spotlight, and it means you've got other people's personal plots that you can tag along with and be involved in.

Interested?
Contact Lockepick and Renegade Vile and let us know what you're thinking! We encourage any discussion on the topic, even if it doesn't come with a full character sheet. Feel free to ask any more clarifying questions that I didn't address. If we do get multiple hits on this, we will do our best to be honest with all candidates as to not string anybody along. It's our goal to keep the search going for a week before we move to an alternative option -- though we don't need your character finished/approved within that time frame if we've discussed.

Thank you for reading, and we hope to hear from you!

[TheHangedOne]

This has captivated my interest. I'll spend some time today working on a black mage.

[TheHangedOne]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Feardorcha "Mah" Mahzun
Age: 17
Enrollment Age: 5
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maGedJfv66M

Weapon: Battle Staff Weapon Description: A six foot long staff, made of lacquered hardwood. It has been reinforced with metal bands, and end caps, making it not only more durable, and heavier, but giving it some extra 'oomph' when hitting creatures.
Specialization:
Black Magic: Feardorcha has always had a natural talent for utilizing magic, but he truly excels with the destructive school of black magic.
Bookworm: When it comes to studying, Feardorcha works best with books. Not only is he an adept speed reader with excellent retention, but he's become quite accustomed to navigating through libraries and appendixes.
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: We can learn something from this.
Limit Break: Obscure Limit Break Description: When the going gets tough, and it seems like he's going to falter and fall, Feardorcha has a special spell that he can utilize. Obscure attacks all hostiles around him; it is a Dark-element magic attack, which also has a high chance of inflicting blind.

Personality: Quiet and contemplative, Feardorcha, when not found in the library, can often be found meditating. He is mature, and though he has an almost lackadaisical way of moving around the garden, he always seems to be punctual. That apparent laziness fades out on the field, and he moves at a fairly brisk pace (for a mage, at any rate; he won't be winning any races any time soon).

Backstory: His parents were killed in a monster attack, and Feardorcha wound up in the Garden system as an orphan. As such, he had a rough time of it in his first few years, often finding solace in make believe stories and his own daydreams.

But, time is constantly flowing, constantly changing; changing those who are trapped in its current. As time went on, and he matured, the fantasy and science fiction novels were replaced with treatises and grimoires. As he grew older, and began to take on the tougher classes, he found a natural aptitude for magic, which he has since fully embraced and dedicated himself towards. He is an eager learner, and this has helped him to excel in his chosen field. However, he does lag behind on the more physical aspects of his training; all that time sitting around and reading is not conducive to developing muscles and the like.

For his birthday when he was 16, he decided to get a tattoo done, as he had seen others with tattoos, and thought they were cool. Of course, he decided to get one that made sense to him, that appealed to him, that held significance. What he eventually settled on was a third eye tat on his forehead. He actually enjoyed the process of it, and became somewhat addicted to it. Flash forward a year later, and there are many more tattoos on him. Old sayings in archaic languages, magical diagrams; there is a wide variety of esoteric art adorning his skin. Perhaps a bit obsessive, he fully intends to cover what parts of him are currently bare with more ink, the moment he has the money to afford it.

It is his personal belief that the diagrams inked on his flesh enhance his magical powers, however, no one has been able to confirm if this is the case or not, and it may very well be a psychosomatic condition.

Appearance

GF APPLICATION
Name: Punkin
Established Connection:  Punkin and Feardorcha have been junctioned together for only a few months now. The two met while Feardorcha was out practicing his spells out on the island of Balamb. Being a mischievous and playful creature, she challenged him to a gamble; if he lost, he had to serve her, and if he won, she had to serve him. He agreed to this, and they had a battle of wits; riddles. Best 3 out of 5. It was narrow, but he managed to barely outfox the Faerie, and, being a good sport, she became his Guardian Force. They usually get along, but some times, she gets antsy with how 'boring' he can be.
Element: Wind
Description:

Appearance

Bonus:  Confusion Guard (not likely to be confused), Charm Guard (not likely to be charmed)
Special Attack: Dust Storm Special Attack Description: An exhalation of magically produced pollen is sent flying in a solid wave towards all present enemies. while the wind itself does little damage on its own, the pollen has a tendency to put people to sleep. 

Character Journal

Nothing here yet.

[Silk]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Alexis Valeth
Age: 19
Enrollment Age: 12
Gender: female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-0XASP1-I

Weapon: Last Resort
Weapon Description: The Last Resort is a military grade stun rod that Alexis keeps back as a emergency weapon if she is forced into an engagement, however she much prefers to not be caught in a situation where she has to use it. The Stun rod has little offensive power but it is designed to either incapacitate enemies or hamper their ability to fight. (Low damage but additional effects: Chance to stun/Paralyze)
Specialization: Primarily: Operations (Non combat support role) Secondary: Combat manipulation (Buffing and debuffing, but little combat power)
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: I don't leave nothing to chance!
Limit Break: Tabula Rasa
Limit Break Description: Tabula Rasa has no effect on Alexis. Other members of Alexis's party combat capabilities are enhanced for a short time. (As if under the effects of Haste, Double and Triple)

Personality: Alexis is very determined to complete her task so she may not be a failure to her family's legacy of military. Although she is known to have a bit of a rebellious streak she still considers what people tell her, she just prefers to achieve it in her own way. After some unfortunate circumstances as a result of her GF she has become somewhat reserved, however she will not let her feelings get in the way of her duty as a SeeD candidate.

Backstory: Alexis comes from a family legacy of military individuals, her parents from a young age were rebels fighting to liberate Timber, after the sorceress wars her parents joined a militia to defend Timber and Alexis was expected to follow in their footsteps, however after hearing of the daring tales of SeeD during the occupation, Alexis left home against her parent's consent to join Garden to become a SeeD. Believing that SeeD protect everyone around the world, not just some city. Due to her lack of physical capability she was relegated to a support role, initially she was not very capable however after she was gifted the Succubus GF by the Garden her ability to perform improved immensely. However she found that she often suffered unwanted solicitation's by her peers, leaving her to seek solace in isolation when she is not on duty as she does not wish to leave succubus behind, although the whispers of Succubus might be playing a part in this.

Appearance:

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GF APPLICATION

Name: Succubus
Established Connection:  Three years approximately, Succubus has a bit of a horrible habit of whispering to Alexis even when she is not summoned.
Element: Dark
Description:

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Bonus:  "Allure" Alexis has a unnatural aura of attraction making her appear more appealing and beautiful than she normally is. Battle effect: Less likely to be the target of attacks.
Special Attack: Charming Manipulation Special Attack Description: Affects all enemies. Succubus appears to the enemy and charms them, causing them to potentially attack their allies as her supernatural charms affect their judgment.

Character Journal

Due to the bonus of Succubus, there is often a unnatural allure to Alexis that might perk "interest" from others.

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[kckolbe]

Silk, I really like how you play up the RP negatives of such a GF's affects.  Looking forward to being one of the people she doesn't look forward to seeing.  ~grins~

[Revenent]

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CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Alexis Valeth
Age: 19
Enrollment Age: 12
Gender: female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ-0XASP1-I

Weapon: Last Resort
Weapon Description: The Last Resort is a military grade stun rod that Alexis keeps back as a emergency weapon if she is forced into an engagement, however she much prefers to not be caught in a situation where she has to use it. The Stun rod has little offensive power but it is designed to either incapacitate enemies.
Specialization: Primarily: Operations (Non combat support role) Secondary: Combat manipulation (Buffing and debuffing, but little combat power)
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: I don't leave nothing to chance!
Limit Break: Tabula Rasa
Limit Break Description: Tabula Rasa has no effect on Alexis. Other members of Alexis's party combat capabilities are enhanced for a short time. (As if under the effects of Haste, Double and Triple)

Personality: Alexis is very determined to complete her task so she may not be a failure to her family's legacy of military. Although she is known to have a bit of a rebellious streak she still considers what people tell her, she just prefers to achieve it in her own way. After some unfortunate circumstances as a result of her GF she has become somewhat reserved, however she will not let her feelings get in the way of her duty as a SeeD candidate.

Backstory: Alexis comes from a family legacy of military individuals, her parents from a young age were rebels fighting to liberate Timber, after the sorceress wars her parents joined a militia to defend Timber and Alexis was expected to follow in their footsteps, however after hearing of the daring tales of SeeD during the occupation, Alexis left home against her parent's consent to join Garden to become a SeeD. Believing that SeeD protect everyone around the world, not just some city. Due to her lack of physical capability she was relegated to a support role, initially she was not very capable however after she was gifted the Succubus GF by the Garden her ability to perform improved immensely. However she found that she often suffered unwanted solicitation's by her peers, leaving her to seek solace in isolation when she is not on duty as she does not wish to leave succubus behind, although the whispers of Succubus might be playing a part in this.

Appearance:

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GF APPLICATION

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Name: Succubus
Established Connection:  Three years approximately, Succubus has a bit of a horrible habit of whispering to Alexis even when she is not summoned.
Element: Dark
Description:
Bonus:  "Allure" Alexis has a unnatural aura of attraction making her appear more appealing and beautiful than she normally is. Battle effect: Less likely to be the target of attacks.
Special Attack: Charming Manipulation Special Attack Description: Affects all enemies. Succubus appears to the enemy and charms them, causing them to potentially attack their allies as her supernatural charms affect their judgment.

Character Journal

Due to the bonus of Succubus, there is often a unnatural allure to Alexis that might perk "interest" from others.

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Save for that one unfinished, underlined sentence, Silk, you're good to post up your character whenever you like. Welcome to the game. :-)

[Green Goo Theory]

Limit Breaks vary from person to person.  Having a self heal/buff as a Limit Break, considering that you are near death, could be a cool idea.  Maybe something like a Limit that casts Wall and Shell which halves damage from physical and Magical damage for a few rounds?

Just an idea.

If it was something as mundane as that I'd go a step past into Big Guard instead of just Wall.  On that note what about the transformation-based limit breaks I mentioned above as well? 

[Revenent]

If it was something as mundane as that I'd go a step past into Big Guard instead of just Wall.  On that note what about the transformation-based limit breaks I mentioned above as well?

We already have one transformation-based limit break, but it's on a character who was approved before Fenrir took over the game, so I'm not 100% sure. Since that character is currently in the game, though, I'd say transformation LBs are acceptable, if they're within reason and explained well enough.

Sorry I didn't answer your question earlier. You wouldn't believe the work load we've had with how this game's exploded back into life. ><

[la dame en noir]

So canon GF's are available right? Cause I really want to get my hands on Ifrit if at all possible.

[DarkNevaeh]

That I missed, my apologies. 

My character, Kir, does a variation of transform.  So its possible, depending on how you want to do it.

[Revenent]

So canon GF's are available right? Cause I really want to get my hands on Ifrit if at all possible.

To my knowledge, Ifrit is not taken, nor does anyone intend to take him, so by all means. ^ ^

[la dame en noir]

To my knowledge, Ifrit is not taken, nor does anyone intend to take him, so by all means. ^ ^

Awesome! Thank you :D

[Green Goo Theory]

We already have one transformation-based limit break, but it's on a character who was approved before Fenrir took over the game, so I'm not 100% sure. Since that character is currently in the game, though, I'd say transformation LBs are acceptable, if they're within reason and explained well enough.

Sorry I didn't answer your question earlier. You wouldn't believe the work load we've had with how this game's exploded back into life. ><

No worries about the delay.  With that in mind I'm not sure exactly how to explain away a transformation LB.  At least not to the extent that I had envisioned. 

That I missed, my apologies. 

My character, Kir, does a variation of transform.  So its possible, depending on how you want to do it.

Alright.  Thank you for that. 

[Silk]

Corrected the post. :) And thanks Kck, I thought given the nature of a Succubus it would be an apt downside for using her since she offers a little bit more than the usual stat boost+nuke GF, Also it means I'll have to be reserved in using her as the more attuned I get with her the stronger her influence would become. Otherwise I could just go "Hey enemies :D Kill eachother please Kthanksbai"

[PhantomPistoleer]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name:  Abel Merryweather
Age: 19
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Male

Wild and Young

https://youtu.be/9BZlgCIhyXU

Weapon: Stare Decisis
Weapon Description:  Stare Decisis is an arbiter's war hammer, forged in the Island Closest to Hell from the remains of a Great Hexadragon.  It has existed, in one way or another, in the Merryweather line of men for nearly 15 generations.  The warhammer was, at one time, a symbol of order and law.  It is imbued with magics that permit it only to be wielded by the rightful heir in fee tail, and is prophesied to escheat to the hereafter when there is no issue in the Merryweather line.

Specialization:  Tactics
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: "Gnuk, gnuk!  Got you!"
Limit Break: Order Prevails
Limit Break Description:  In the heat of battle, everything in 10-meter radius around Abel slows to a halt.  Abel winks, heaves his warhammer over his shoulder, and charges towards his opponent.  He pivots, using the full weight of the hammer to smash his enemy upwards.  As the enemy is elevated slowly by the blow, Abel turns and slams him back down into the ground.

Personality:  Abel is a studious, passionate, and upstanding young man.  He takes scholarship seriously, but learning comes easy for him.  He has a weird, somewhat morbid sense of humor, and his more serious friends think him a troublemaker.  He likes dirty jokes, playing harmless pranks on his classmates, and hanging out with his friends at the quad.  His easy-going demeanor and his inability to take insult made him an excellent candidate for diplomacy, but his sense of humor doesn't translate very well.

Abel is crazy for Triple Triad.

Backstory:  Abel Merryweather and his siblings became wards of the state after his widowed father fell in the line of duty protecting the Duke of Dollet from an assassination attempt.  The three brothers were enrolled into the Balamb Academy, and for all intents and purposes, did relatively well.  Claudius became SeeD at age 19, and entered into military service, but fell in battle shortly after his graduation.  Abel was 12, and Edward was 10. 

Though his brother's death affected him greatly, Abel managed to move in with the support of his friends.

Appearance:  Abel is a handsome young man with brown hair and piercing green eyes.

GF APPLICATION

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Name:  Arbiter
Established Connection:  Arbiter is unique in that she has a familial connection to the rightful heir of the Merryweather clan;  as such, Abel connected with Arbiter at the age of 8 when his older brother perished in battle.
Element:  Status
Description:  A bloody woman, scorched by fire, and made blind, who holds a weeping sword and golden scales.
Bonus:  Str-J;
Special Attack: Scales of Justice Special Attack Description:  Arbiter crawls out from the earth, and hovers over the battlefield.  Opposing parties find themselves standing on opposite scales.  If one party is of a greater level than the other, then they are deemed to be "heavier" on the scales.  Arbiter thus raises the parties aloft, and the two parties are then made equal (LEVEL-UP, LEVEL-DOWN).  Arbiter is not interested in hurting enemies or helping allies:  she is only interested in equality.

However, Arbiter behaved differently for Abel's brother, Claudius.  For him, Arbiter's Special Attack was Sleep of the Just -- instead of utilizing the scales, Arbiter utilized her blade to hurt enemies.  No one really knows why Arbiter functioned differently for the brothers.

Character Journal

--  Abel loves games, and is familiar (and very good at) all regional versions of Triple Triad.
--  Abel's favorite thing to do is going fishing with his friends over at the Fishing Spot in Balamb Town.
--  Abel recently went through a devastating breakup with a long-term girlfriend.
--  Abel's best friend, Archibald, recently graduated from SeeD;  the relationship has become strained now that they no longer speak to one another.

[Crash]

Are you okay with someone only a little familiar with the game?  I always thought it looked like it would be a good rpg.

[Silk]

If your looking for a crash course of what ff8 is from a comical point of view I suggest watching spoony's review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njLpZDfUCQ&list=PLCjTX7Dv3khpqGVPQqkMf7HaQvbscTReY

Even if he paints the game in a mostly negative light it'll tell you most of what the game is about. :)

[Fenrir]

PhantomPistoleer, I won't say anything about your character specifically because Rev is handling accepting character sheets... but I will say the picture of Abel makes me want to create a new character just to stare back at him ;D

Are you okay with someone only a little familiar with the game?  I always thought it looked like it would be a good rpg.

I haven't watched Silk's suggestion of a video yet (unfortunately I'm on rather limited internet at the moment) so I can't say how accurate or inaccurate it might be for a reference!  But!  We are perfectly okay with someone that is not completely familiar with the game: as long as your character fits in with the current accepted characters (such as how limit breaks works or GF bonuses).  I, personally believe that even though the world is set in the FF8 world that things are different enough where someone unfamiliar could assimilate well (the background might be the 'worst' part as far as having a connection to the world directly: as far as story line goes).  If you have any questions while making a character (no matter what it may be) you can post them here and Rev, myself, or TheHangedMan will do our best to either help or answer your question.

[Crash]

Fenrir - once I get my paper written this weekend I will work on something.  Thanks.

Silk - Thanks I will look at it later.

[PhantomPistoleer]

So, Final Fantasy VIII was kind of confusing.  The storyline wasn't coherent, and perhaps that's because it was probably too subtle for its own good. 

It revolves around Squall Leonhart, a student at Balamb Garden.  Balamb Garden is a sort of paramilitary training academy that's mobile -- it can fly and stuff.  There are two other Gardens -- and, uh, they're at odds?  Please see below:  the greatest action sequence on the Original Playstation.

https://youtu.be/j3yngLPkA2U

It seems kind of dumb and dull now, but this was the shit when it came out. 

Anyways, Squall and the gang are all involved in paramilitary actions for one reason or another -- but the focus of the game is more on Squall's kind of weird romance with some resistance fighter chick.  So, this really nice, sweet, passionate girl sees something in Squall that makes her want to push past all of his bullshit.  Quite frankly, Squall's been sort of an ass this entire time.

There's also a witch?  And there's flashbacks to a fun protagonist that's somehow associated to the original protagonist?  And you visit really strange places?  And one of your companions can run around the entire planet as his limit break (which was awesome)? 

I don't know.  It didn't make sense.  But it's my favorite Final Fantasy.

[Acula]

I don't know.  It didn't make sense.  But it's my favorite Final Fantasy.

I'd rank 8 in my top 3 final fantasy games. It was just so dramatic and focused so heavily on romance. None of my guy friends liked 8 at all.

[Fenrir]

I know this may seem strange, considering the world we'really creating is specifically in the FF8 world.  It's literally my least favorite.  I like the magic and junctioning system but I always enjoyed FF games because of the story... and FF8 story to me... was *cough cough* okay I guess.

[kckolbe]

Really, the whole game goes downhill after Squall makes SeeD.

[Fenrir]

Really, the whole game goes downhill after Squall makes SeeD.

The particular moment I lost it: I can remember clearly to this day.  It went something kinda like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IskmZ-8K38

[PhantomPistoleer]

I'd rank 8 in my top 3 final fantasy games. It was just so dramatic and focused so heavily on romance. None of my guy friends liked 8 at all.

Yeah, none of my friends liked it, either.  They were all stuck on Final Fantasy VII.

Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy III (with Cecil the Paladin) are my favorites.  Aside from Final Fantasy III, no one agrees with me.

I know this may seem strange, considering the world we'really creating is specifically in the FF8 world.  It's literally my least favorite.  I like the magic and junctioning system but I always enjoyed FF games because of the story... and FF8 story to me... was *cough cough* okay I guess.

Wow!  That is strange.  But I also really like the magic and junctioning system. 

My favorite thing about FF8 is that Balamb Garden feels like your home.  I like the characters, the art direction, and the music.  And lastly, I just absolutely loved Triple Triad.  Best RPG mini-game ever.

[PhantomPistoleer]

The particular moment I lost it: I can remember clearly to this day.  It went something kinda like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IskmZ-8K38

Ah!  I totally forgot about this!  They all knew each other in the same orphanage!  Ha ha ha.

[Green Goo Theory]

I...mostly disliked everything about 8.  The story was lackluster to me.  The romance I felt was..forced?  That's the wrong word but I'm not sure what else to use.  The junction and GF system really grinded my gears.  And the equipment set up?  #@$%!@#$@! that.   I still felt it's a fun world and it's still a cyberpunkish FF based world so it's all good for roleplay.  That and it's not as overdone as VII.

On that note IX was probably my favorite game.  Somewhere up there with Tactics, IV, and VII. 

Also, almost done with the character sheet. 

EDIT:

On that note I'm still debating on the weapon.  Going to be a firearm and I'm going to fill a sniper role since I haven't seen anyone filling up that spot.  My question I guess is weather or not something like a gunarm could make the jump over to 8? 

[kckolbe]

For me, VI was the best hands-down (though Tactics did rock, amazing writing).  With VIII, I liked the merc school idea, and LOVED the field exam.  Would have liked one or two more of those.  I *really* liked the Seifer/Squall rivalry, and hated that it ended so soon.  He was the only interesting char to me, other than Quistis, who just kinda stopped developing.

[Green Goo Theory]

I loved the concept of 8 at first.  It had so much potential.  The mercenary school churning out what were essentially student soldiers?  That could get into the dark and gritty Final Fantasy type vibe really well.  The kind of thing we saw more in VII and to some extent made it so popular (among other things).  The problem is they didn't exactly follow that at all.  The focus changed abruptly and quickly.

[TheBlackThrone]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Boen Mikhael Highwind
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 13
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://youtu.be/BIF_b4WIlCQ

Weapon: Breaker (Halberd) & One-Two (Battle Axe)  Weapon Description: Boen utilizes a halberd that is seven-feet in length. The axe-head is roughly two-feet wide with a razor edge and a one-foot horn. At the end of its arm is a morning star pummel for delivering blunt attacks. Its arm is adjustable with the twist of its grip, shrinking the weapon down to single-handed use and to be joined by a normal-sized battle axe strapped to his other hip. The weapon was first crafted by Boen himself from the junk he found about Esthar City, and later when he joined the garden, he upgraded the pole-arm to include electrical nodes for giving his opponents a shocking experience.

Halbred

Battle Axe

Specialization: Breaker/Dragoon: As a breaker, Boen will use his raw strength to break the enemy’s guard. No matter how sturdy the enemy tank may be, with precise critical strikes Boen can shatter its defenses—magical or physical—overtime. By breaking the enemy’s defense, he opens the threat up to not only the devastating assault from his halberd, or in the case of close-quarters combat, his axes, but also his team.
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: “Breakin’em down!”
Limit Break: Airborne Limit Break Description: Stabbing his halberd into the ground, Boen will vault skyward into the air for three turns. While airborne, he is able to avoid all damage from grounded enemies, airborne creatures are another story. After three turns, Boen will descend like a meteor on the enemy or enemies, landing upon the intended target with an explosion that bears a damaging aftershock to harm those enemies within its destructive radius. The primary target suffers more damage than the other targets caught within the AOE, and all targets are affected regardless of their defense.

Personality: Boen is a friendly candidate, and is often seen as a big, ol’ teddy bear by female students. It is possible that the hardship he faced growing up in Esthar City has made him humble, modest, and thankful for even the smallest things in life. He is a hard worker, driven by his determination to become stronger so that he could one day return to his hometown and exterminate the beasts plaguing his city. This determination has allowed him to excel as a Cadet and reach Candidate status first-time go. The dragoon can be seen training frequently: running, swimming, lifting weights, scaling platforms, and battling beasts in the Training Grounds. He has to stay in top physical shape not only just to use his halberd, but to increase the effectiveness of his limit break. He also is quite competitive, but all in good sport. If he is to be the best, then he will strive to be and friendship won’t get in his way.

Magic isn’t his strong suit. He doesn’t have the patience to master spells, especially when he’s already proficient in his physical abilities. Girls are another subject that isn’t his strong suit possibly due to his ambitions outweighing any desire for a love interest. This doesn’t mean that he’s not interested in women, what it means is, he’s quite naïve and will more than likely be oblivious to any tactics a female may use to hint to him that she’s interested. This often leads to girls (as well as bros) thinking that he’s dumb when really growing up in Esthar City didn’t grant him any experience in that category.

Being a big guy, Boen loves food. He is nearly as partial to it as Fat Cadet and will rarely refuse a good meal. Food can be rather emotional for him, especially if the meal is so delicious that it reminds him of his mother’s cooking.

He doesn’t tolerate bullying or any wrong-doing in his presence. If he sees it, he will attempt to break it up for his belief is what kind of man would he be to allow it? In his eyes, only cowards turn the other cheek. He isn’t an easy one to insult for his self-confidence is impeccable. He isn’t afraid of anyone!

Backstory: Boen was born to Heather Marie Highwind and Owen Fernand Highwind, descendants of the infamous Highwind bloodline. In Esthar City, Owen and Heather worked together in a shop, repairing vehicles and other mechanical equipment that the residents of the tiny town of Tinker or Tinker Town needed. It was only natural that Boen would join the family business and help out any way that he could. Every now and then, monsters would breach the town defenses and a minute men militia was mobilized to take them out. Both his mother and father, the Highwinds, would don their polearms and join in the battle to protect their home. The blood of a long history of dragoons was hot in their veins, and as soon as Boen was old enough to hold a pole-arm properly, he too joined the fight. Boen was six when he lost a finger to a Bite Bug. The creature snapped it clean off and thankfully hadn’t eaten it for his parents were able to recover it. Facing such a traumatizing injury at such a young age hardened the boy, and at 7-years-old, he built his own polearm and fought alongside his parents.

Over the years, the monster population began to grow and new, more nefarious species began to appear. It was then that Heather and Owen decided to bring up the idea of enrolling Boen at the garden across the water. Boen, at first, immediately refused fearing that his parents were growing old and wouldn’t be able to fend the creatures off without him. It was only when his father Owen explained to him that if he didn’t grow stronger than his stay would only delay the inevitable and be a waste of opportunity that he decided to leave his home.

Appearance: Boen is 6’4” and 225 lbs of muscle. Because of his size, the first impression that he often gives to others is intimidating when really he wouldn’t hurt a fly—one that isn’t evil at least. His hair is black and short, eyes blue, and he likes to keep his sideburns curved like thin sickles. When not wearing his candidate uniform, he can be found wearing tanks, hoodies, jeans, basketball shorts, flip-flops, or work-boots. He’s rather laid-back. Down his left arm is a tribal tattoo of a serpentine dragon whose jaws part about his wrist. It is said when Boen summons the Black Dragon that his tattoo will glow yellow. Light scars can be seen on his body depicting a difficult past, and there’s a scar across his right ring finger where his digit could have come off once. When in battle, he’ll wear sturdy leather gloves to grip his polearm with.

GF APPLICATION
Name: Black Dragon
Established Connection: Boen's recovery after being bitten by a Bite Bug wasn't an easy one. He was stricken with fever, and while he laid sweating and burning up in his bed, he began to have delusional dreams. The one dream he had was lucid. At six-years-old, he stood in the middle of Esthar City. Above him, black clouds churned and from its swirling center descended a great dragon as black as a shadow. When the creature landed before him, the ground shook as it approached him on the body of a black-scaled lion with large, eagle-like wings. Raising its large head, its spiked mane flared and trembled as a serpent-like hiss escaped its teeth. Boen awoke right after, his fever no longer severe and oblivious of the tattoo the beast had left on his arm. He realized the next day when he was suddenly feeling a lot stronger.
Element: Thunder
Description: 

Black Dragon

Bonus:  +STR, +DEX, +LUCK
Special Attack: Lightning Storm Special Attack Description: The sky will populate with nimbus clouds and descending from them with electricity dancing about its wings will be the black dragon. The beast will swoop over all enemies in its path electrocuting them with powerful volts of lightning that ignore the enemy's defenses. A 50/50 random status effect that can happen to those remaining alive is paralysis.

Character Journal

No entries at this time

[AndyZ]

Final Fantasy seems to be famous for its, in my opinion, lightning in a bottle talent.  It can make something that is absolutely fantastic out of whole cloth, but isn't very good at determining what is good and what isn't, so you end up with a lot of bad and good randomly enmeshed without any easy way to differentiate.

13-3 brings an obvious point in that it had a FANTASTIC combat system which I absolutely adored.  If they remade all the games using the concept of job-switching and their particular battle method in that, I could gladly play through  all of the FF games all over again, and hope to no end that they keep that method for future games.  Turn-based games tend to bore me quickly.

It's just that the story to all of 13 was so absolutely atrocious, and 3 was the worst of the lot for that.  I did like Caius Ballad, though.



The easiest way to oversimplify FF8, if you've seen Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, would be Teenage Mercenaries-in-training with Stands.  If you don't know what Stands are, you'll have to find out what Guardian Forces are.

As far as the FF8 villainess, I don't remember the story exceptionally well (only played through once, it was 15 years ago and I wasn't sleeping or breathing well so long-term memory didn't fully stick) but as I recall, the sorceress regretted a decision she'd made in the past and wanted to warp time.  The problem was, compressing time doesn't work too well for everyone else, and while she might be frozen in an instant of paradise or whatever, the entire world would be trapped in stasis.

I could very well be wrong, and feel free to correct me.

[Crash]

 

EDIT:

On that note I'm still debating on the weapon.  Going to be a firearm and I'm going to fill a sniper role since I haven't seen anyone filling up that spot.  My question I guess is weather or not something like a gunarm could make the jump over to 8?

I was thinking of sniper too, but I am still up in the air.  I know we have a lot of specializations directly related to combat.  I am thinking of going more infiltration/stealth.  Not sure about magic.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Oooh.  Hey, um, for whatever reason, I was under the impression that anybody could draw magic?  Just... some were better than others.  Is that different?

Additionally, I have decided to submit my character sheet as is.  I'm not very good at crafting elaborate backstories.

[la dame en noir]

Are there any characters in particular that this game needs? I don't want to make mine similar to anyone else's.

[kckolbe]

Do we have any students who are GF specialists?

[TheHangedOne]

Do we have any students who are GF specialists?

No.

Are there any characters in particular that this game needs? I don't want to make mine similar to anyone else's.

I'm not quite sure about what we need, but here is a list of the current specializations we have:

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    Demolitions
    Infiltration/Extraction and Parkour
    Grey Magic (Secondary White Magic)
    Grey Magic
    Acrobatic Melee Combat
    Melee Combat
    White Magic (Secondary Grey Magic)
    Black Magic
    Close Combat/Commando
    Frontline Shocktrooper
    Mid to Close Range Combat
    Potion Crafting and Support
    Archery/Scouting
    Junction Changes
    Brute Force, Power

And here are weapon types:

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

    Hand Claws
    Sword Whip
    Grenade Launcher/Hand Gun
    Giant Shuriken
    Two Daggers
    Stratocaster (guitar)
    Gun Blade
    Fists
    .357 Revolver
    Firestarter (short sword and buckler combo)
    Kurogetsu - Projectile/Sword
    Eclipse - Short staffed scythe  of sorts
    Assault Rifle
    Lovemaker (a 'gun' of sorts that fires potion concoctions)
    Orphan (specialized bow)
    Falcon's Claw (katana) and Falcon's Talons (kunai)
    The Negotiator (lead pipe), The Linehauler (chain), The Equilizers (brass knuckles)

I believe they are up to date.

[la dame en noir]

@_@ My muse just shit itself...

okay

I'll continue to brainstorm. Thank you, THM.

[Fenrir]

Are there any characters in particular that this game needs? I don't want to make mine similar to anyone else's.

I would really like to see a completely bookish character.  I know a lot of students study and the like but for some reason a character that understands concepts better than execution.  Like a scholar type specialization: they would have a lot of the answers but be pretty 'useless' in battle.

ALSO- for anyone in need of a unique character idea I have several... particularly I've had the idea of a young student who THINKS (note, she would not actually be one in anyway) she's a sorceress.  She would be completely convinced she's a direct descendant of the line of innate magic users.  It could be played off as a joke where people are always laughing at her for it- or a more serious this is what she truly believes.  She could actually try and acquire a knight.

The list isn't completely up-to-date Manny :(  It's on my ta-do list

[PhantomPistoleer]

@_@ My muse just shit itself...

okay

I'll continue to brainstorm. Thank you, THM.

Aww.  You know what might help?  A listing of possible specialities?

These are all of the jobs found in all Final Fantasies.

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Physical classes
2.1 Warrior
2.2 Monk
2.3 Samurai
2.4 Dragoon
2.5 Thief
2.6 Ninja
2.7 Dark Knight
2.8 Paladin
2.9 Hunter
2.10 Viking
2.11 Berserker
2.12 Mystic Knight
2.13 Onion Knight
2.14 Machinist
2.15 Freelancer
2.16 Gunner
3 Magical classes
3.1 Black Mage
3.2 White Mage
3.3 Devout
3.4 Magus
3.5 Summoner
3.6 Time Mage
3.7 Scholar
3.8 Green Mage
3.9 Sage
3.10 Alchemist
4 Mixed classes
4.1 Red Mage
4.2 Blue Mage
4.3 Geomancer
4.4 Bard
4.5 Beastmaster
4.6 Dancer
4.7 Gambler
4.8 Mime
4.9 Puppet Master
4.10 Memorist

And these are all of the jobs found in GI Joe.  :)

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Medical Corps

Field Medic
Stalker (medic)
Doc (medic)
Falcon (medic)
Sidetrack (medic)
Med Alert (medic)
Lifeline (rescue trooper, medic, rescue operations)
Sgt. Lifeline (rescue trooper, medic, rescue operations)
Stretcher (medical specialist)
Sideswipe (medical specialist)
Airborne [SP] (battlefield medic)
Scalpel (medic)
Medi-Viper (medical trooper)
Doctors
Doc (medical doctor)
Doc [07] (medical doctor, medical corps officer)
Lifeline (X-ray technician)
Dr. Link Talbot (combat veterinatrian, veterinarian/scientist)
G.I. Jane (combat nurse)
Biochemical

Engineering and Research
Airtight (chemical officer)
Clean-Sweep (chemical operations specialist)
Ozone (ozone replenisher trooper, chemical laboratory specialist, chemical laboratory expert, environmental health)
Mirage (bio-artillery expert)
Cobra Trooper (chemical engineering)
Cesspool (CEO - chief environmental operative)
Mega-Viper (bio-military technicians)
Cyber-Viper (bio-intelligence warfare)
Hotwire (bio-mechanical engineer)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Flash (CBR)
Gung-Ho (bio-military expert)
Airtight (hostile environment specialist, CBR, hazardous substance control)
Clean-Sweep (anti-tox trooper)
Cobra Trooper (hostile environment specialist)
Toxo-Viper (hostile environment trooper)
Sludge Viper (hazardous waste Viper)
Toxo-Zombie (toxic disaster trooper)
Heavy Water (radiological wepaons specialists)
Logistics

Transportation
Steeler (transportation)
Tollbooth (transportation)
Cannonball (transportation)
Clutch (transportation, transportation engineer, motor vehicle operator)
Cutter (hovercraft pilot, hovercraft captain, vehicle operations specialist)
Flint (L.A.V. [Land Assault Vehicles])
Crankcase (motor vehicle driver, G.I. Joe vehicle driver)
Frostbite (motor vehicle driver, transportation, vehicle specialist)
Cross-Country (transport expert)
Rumbler (fast attack vehicle driver)
Skidmark (fast attack vehicle driver)
Rapid-Fire (fast attack expert)
Blaster (ground effect vehicle operator)
Blocker (mechaniced recon)
Stretcher (troop transportation)
Sideswipe (troop transportation)
Bullhorn (SWAT vehicle driver, motor transport operator)
Rollbar (Humvee driver, assault vehicle driver)
Infantry Division (vehicle specialist)
Dragonsky (vehicle driver)
Long Range (transportation expert)
Trakker (advanced vehicle specialist)
Stinger Driver (transport, vehicle driver, infantry vehicle driver)
Thrasher (Dreadnok driver)
Ice Viper (transportation)
Red Ninja (vehicle operations)
Headhunter Driver (Headhunter vehicle operators)
Specific Vehicles
Clutch (VAMP driver, VAMP Mark II driver, Monster Blaster APC driver, Desert Coyote vehicle driver)
Gung-Ho (Battle Wagon driver)
Bazooka (Quick Strike driver)
Crankcase (AWE Striker driver)
Sgt. Slaughter (Warthog AIFV driver)
Iceberg (Mudbuster driver)
Cross-Country (Battle Wagon driver, Mudbuster driver)
Rumbler (R/C Crossfire driver)
Blaster (Vindicator pilot)
Blocker (Eliminator driver)
Dodger (Marauder driver)
Knockdown (Sky Sweeper driver)
Skidmark (Desert Fox 6WD driver)
Windchill (Arctic Blast driver)
Barricade (Badger driver)
T'Gin-Zu (Pile Driver operator, Pile Driver vehicle operator)
Rampage (Split Fire driver)
Stinger Driver (Stinger driver)
Motor Viper (Stun pilot)
Thrasher (Thunder Machine driver)
Ice Viper (WOLF driver)
Alley Viper (Parasite driver, Rage vehicle driver)
Darklon (Evader driver)
Wild Boar (Razorback driver)
Overord (Dictator driver)
Red Ninja (Battle Ax operators, Battle Ax vehicle operators)
Vypra (Rattler 4-WD driver)
Neo-Viper (Ringneck driver)
Coil (high speed pursuit vehicle driver)
Ordnance
Ace (ordnance officer)
Airtight (ordnance)
Fast Draw (ordnance)
Nunchuk (ordnance)
Dodger (heavy ordnance operator)
Heavy Duty (heavy ordnance trooper, heavy ordnance specialist)
Cobra Commander (ordnance [experimental weaponry])
Destro (enemy weapons supplier, weapons manufacturer, weapons manufacturing and supply)
Warwolf (alien arms dealer)
Headhunter BAT (weapons manufacturing)
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Stalker (explosive ordnance disposal)
Tripwire (mine detector, explosive ordnance disposal)
Tunnel Rat (EOD, explosive ordnance disposal)
Long Arm (SWAT bomb technician, bomb disposal robotic systems operator, explosive ordnance disposal)
Sub Viper (mine disposal)
Repair and Maintenance
Dodger (armored vehicle maintenance)
Cover Girl (AFV mechanics, armored fighting vehicle mechanic)
Rollbar (mechanic)
Dragonsky (mechanical engineer)
Shipwreck (machinist)
Lady Jaye (armament repair)
Switch Gears (mechanical engineer, weapons technician)
Salvo (TOW/Dragon repair technician, weapons repair technician)
Grunt (small arms armorer, small arms repairman, small arms/artillery repair)
Duke (small arms armorer, small-arms repair)
Blowtorch (small-arms armorer)
Beach Head (small arms armorer)
Mercer (small arms armorer)
Rumber (small arms armorer)
Charbroil (small arms armorer)
Flash (fire control repairer)
Cold Front (fre control technician)
Crazylegs (parachute rigger)
Airborne [SP] (Sky Patrol parachute assembler)
Dusty (refrigeration and air-conditioning maintenance)
Dart (refrigeration repair technician)
Grand Slam (special electronic devices repairer)
Sci-Fi (electronic instrument repair)
Dodger (electronics maintenance, electronic maintenance)
Countdown (electrical engineer)
Double Blast (electrical engineering)
Shrage (batle technician)
HISS Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
Stinger Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
HISS Commander (mechanical & electrical systems)
Arctic HISS Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
Techno-Viper (battlefield technician)
Ice Viper (arctic technician)
Burn Out (Dreadnok mechanic)
Hotwire (BAT mechanic, battle android trooper maintenance & repair)
Quartermaster Corps
Roadblock (cook)
Ice Cream Soldier (barbecue chef)
Hi-Tech (operations support specialist)
Checkpoint (carpenter)
Identity-related Designations

Cobra Commander (with battle armor, battlefield command uniform)
BAT (android trooper, battle android trooper, battle armored android trooper, independently targeted combat robot)
Inferno BAT (battle android trooper, independently targeted combat robot)
BAT II (android trooper)
Headhunter BAT (Headhunter battle android trooper)
Sky BAT (battle android trooper)
Zandar (Zartan's brother)
Zarana (Zartan's sister, sister to Zartan)

I hope that helps, LA DAME!  ^_^

[Crash]

Hmm...combat medic could be fun...

[Green Goo Theory]

What about my question about the gun arm?  Annndd never thought of the bookish type.  That is one type of character I've used but never in a Final Fantasy setting.  I think I might have to do that. 

[Faeli]

No.
I'm not quite sure about what we need, but here is a list of the current specializations we have:

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

    Demolitions
    Infiltration/Extraction and Parkour
    Grey Magic (Secondary White Magic)
    Grey Magic
    Acrobatic Melee Combat
    Melee Combat
    White Magic (Secondary Grey Magic)
    Black Magic
    Close Combat/Commando
    Frontline Shocktrooper
    Mid to Close Range Combat
    Potion Crafting and Support
    Archery/Scouting
    Junction Changes
    Brute Force, Power

Jasmine specializes in Interrogation

[la dame en noir]

I would really like to see a completely bookish character.  I know a lot of students study and the like but for some reason a character that understands concepts better than execution.  Like a scholar type specialization: they would have a lot of the answers but be pretty 'useless' in battle.

ALSO- for anyone in need of a unique character idea I have several... particularly I've had the idea of a young student who THINKS (note, she would not actually be one in anyway) she's a sorceress.  She would be completely convinced she's a direct descendant of the line of innate magic users.  It could be played off as a joke where people are always laughing at her for it- or a more serious this is what she truly believes.  She could actually try and acquire a knight.

The list isn't completely up-to-date Manny :(  It's on my ta-do list

I was actually thinking the bookish type for my character. So I guess I was on something semi original lol. Thank you for your input :D

[kckolbe]

ALSO- for anyone in need of a unique character idea I have several... particularly I've had the idea of a young student who THINKS (note, she would not actually be one in anyway) she's a sorceress.  She would be completely convinced she's a direct descendant of the line of innate magic users.  It could be played off as a joke where people are always laughing at her for it- or a more serious this is what she truly believes.  She could actually try and acquire a knight.

This is a really cool idea.  It's Don Quixote mixed with FF8.

[Lockepick]

The Balamb Fourth (or whatever we decide upon) has found a third member, and will not be taking any more applicants -- though we of course welcome anybody looking to RP with the group, or with individuals within the group.

[Revenent]

To answer or clarify some of the questions that have been posted:

We could probably justify a character with a gunarm, as long as it's well-explained. Though I don't know if we're taking any firearm students at the moment, except maybe snipers/marksmen.

We sort of have a GF specialist PC (Gustave), though his combat style doesn't revolve around it. His limit break is basically a boost to his and an ally's summoning power, though.

Here's up-to-date lists of currently used specializations and weapons:

Specializations

Demolitions
Infiltration/Extraction and Parkour
Grey Magic (Secondary White Magic)
Grey Magic
Acrobatic Melee Combat
Melee Combat
White Magic (Secondary Grey Magic)
Black Magic
Close Combat/Commando
Frontline Shocktrooper
Mid to Close Range Combat
Potion Crafting and Support
Archery/Scouting
Junction Changes
Brute Force, Power
AoE Weaponry
Interrogation
Mounted Combat
Healing/First Aid
Strategy against Monsters
Operations
Tech Support
Owning Dog

Weapons

Hand Claws
Sword Whip
Grenade Launcher/Hand Gun
Giant Shuriken
Two Daggers
Stratocaster (guitar)
Gun Blade
Fists
.357 Revolver
Firestarter (short sword and buckler combo)
Kurogetsu - Projectile/Sword
Eclipse - Short staffed scythe  of sorts
Assault Rifle
Lovemaker (potion-launching rail gun)
Orphan (clockwork bow)
Falcon's Claw (katana) and Falcon's Talons (kunai)
The Negotiator (lead pipe), The Linehauler (chain), The Equilizers (brass knuckles)
Hot Mess (magic launcher)
Longsword and Punching Dagger
Spear
Lance
Gauntlets
Doll
Stun Rod
Double Scythe
Modular Gunblade
Dog

Seeing as we have so many players, though, repeats may be acceptable.

[Green Goo Theory]

It was more gun arm (or the cybernetic limb) as a theme.  It doesn't have to be a transforming gun hand (since even in the original game it's strongly implied it transforms) but rather one of the melee weapons like the Atomic Scissors.  Or something modular as a tool with a techie character. 

[Revenent]

It was more gun arm (or the cybernetic limb) as a theme.  It doesn't have to be a transforming gun hand (since even in the original game it's strongly implied it transforms) but rather one of the melee weapons like the Atomic Scissors.  Or something modular as a tool with a techie character.

Sure, we can make that work. With all the technology we see from Esthar and the Gardens, a cybernetic limb wouldn't be a huge leap.

[Revenent]

Feardorcha "Mah" Mahzun is approved to be added to the character thread.

[Revenent]

Abel Merryweather is approved as well.

[Fenrir]

Here's up-to-date lists of currently used specializations and weapons:

Specializations

Demolitions
Infiltration/Extraction and Parkour
Grey Magic (Secondary White Magic)
Grey Magic
Acrobatic Melee Combat
Melee Combat
White Magic (Secondary Grey Magic)
Black Magic
Close Combat/Commando
Frontline Shocktrooper
Mid to Close Range Combat
Potion Crafting and Support
Archery/Scouting
Junction Changes
Brute Force, Power
AoE Weaponry
Interrogation
Mounted Combat
Healing/First Aid
Strategy against Monsters
Operations
Tech Support
Owning Dog

Weapons

Hand Claws
Sword Whip
Grenade Launcher/Hand Gun
Giant Shuriken
Two Daggers
Stratocaster (guitar)
Gun Blade
Fists
.357 Revolver
Firestarter (short sword and buckler combo)
Kurogetsu - Projectile/Sword
Eclipse - Short staffed scythe  of sorts
Assault Rifle
Lovemaker (potion-launching rail gun)
Orphan (clockwork bow)
Falcon's Claw (katana) and Falcon's Talons (kunai)
The Negotiator (lead pipe), The Linehauler (chain), The Equilizers (brass knuckles)
Hot Mess (magic launcher)
Longsword and Punching Dagger
Spear
Lance
Gauntlets
Doll
Stun Rod
Double Scythe
Modular Gunblade
Dog

Seeing as we have so many players, though, repeats may be acceptable.

Thank you so much for updating this list Rev- I'll be selfishly adding/updating it to the Accepted Character's Sheet!

[Crash]

Wow that is some list of specializations taken.  Can there be some overlap?

[la dame en noir]

Aww.  You know what might help?  A listing of possible specialities?

These are all of the jobs found in all Final Fantasies.

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Physical classes
2.1 Warrior
2.2 Monk
2.3 Samurai
2.4 Dragoon
2.5 Thief
2.6 Ninja
2.7 Dark Knight
2.8 Paladin
2.9 Hunter
2.10 Viking
2.11 Berserker
2.12 Mystic Knight
2.13 Onion Knight
2.14 Machinist
2.15 Freelancer
2.16 Gunner
3 Magical classes
3.1 Black Mage
3.2 White Mage
3.3 Devout
3.4 Magus
3.5 Summoner
3.6 Time Mage
3.7 Scholar
3.8 Green Mage
3.9 Sage
3.10 Alchemist
4 Mixed classes
4.1 Red Mage
4.2 Blue Mage
4.3 Geomancer
4.4 Bard
4.5 Beastmaster
4.6 Dancer
4.7 Gambler
4.8 Mime
4.9 Puppet Master
4.10 Memorist

And these are all of the jobs found in GI Joe.  :)

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Medical Corps

Field Medic
Stalker (medic)
Doc (medic)
Falcon (medic)
Sidetrack (medic)
Med Alert (medic)
Lifeline (rescue trooper, medic, rescue operations)
Sgt. Lifeline (rescue trooper, medic, rescue operations)
Stretcher (medical specialist)
Sideswipe (medical specialist)
Airborne [SP] (battlefield medic)
Scalpel (medic)
Medi-Viper (medical trooper)
Doctors
Doc (medical doctor)
Doc [07] (medical doctor, medical corps officer)
Lifeline (X-ray technician)
Dr. Link Talbot (combat veterinatrian, veterinarian/scientist)
G.I. Jane (combat nurse)
Biochemical

Engineering and Research
Airtight (chemical officer)
Clean-Sweep (chemical operations specialist)
Ozone (ozone replenisher trooper, chemical laboratory specialist, chemical laboratory expert, environmental health)
Mirage (bio-artillery expert)
Cobra Trooper (chemical engineering)
Cesspool (CEO - chief environmental operative)
Mega-Viper (bio-military technicians)
Cyber-Viper (bio-intelligence warfare)
Hotwire (bio-mechanical engineer)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
Flash (CBR)
Gung-Ho (bio-military expert)
Airtight (hostile environment specialist, CBR, hazardous substance control)
Clean-Sweep (anti-tox trooper)
Cobra Trooper (hostile environment specialist)
Toxo-Viper (hostile environment trooper)
Sludge Viper (hazardous waste Viper)
Toxo-Zombie (toxic disaster trooper)
Heavy Water (radiological wepaons specialists)
Logistics

Transportation
Steeler (transportation)
Tollbooth (transportation)
Cannonball (transportation)
Clutch (transportation, transportation engineer, motor vehicle operator)
Cutter (hovercraft pilot, hovercraft captain, vehicle operations specialist)
Flint (L.A.V. [Land Assault Vehicles])
Crankcase (motor vehicle driver, G.I. Joe vehicle driver)
Frostbite (motor vehicle driver, transportation, vehicle specialist)
Cross-Country (transport expert)
Rumbler (fast attack vehicle driver)
Skidmark (fast attack vehicle driver)
Rapid-Fire (fast attack expert)
Blaster (ground effect vehicle operator)
Blocker (mechaniced recon)
Stretcher (troop transportation)
Sideswipe (troop transportation)
Bullhorn (SWAT vehicle driver, motor transport operator)
Rollbar (Humvee driver, assault vehicle driver)
Infantry Division (vehicle specialist)
Dragonsky (vehicle driver)
Long Range (transportation expert)
Trakker (advanced vehicle specialist)
Stinger Driver (transport, vehicle driver, infantry vehicle driver)
Thrasher (Dreadnok driver)
Ice Viper (transportation)
Red Ninja (vehicle operations)
Headhunter Driver (Headhunter vehicle operators)
Specific Vehicles
Clutch (VAMP driver, VAMP Mark II driver, Monster Blaster APC driver, Desert Coyote vehicle driver)
Gung-Ho (Battle Wagon driver)
Bazooka (Quick Strike driver)
Crankcase (AWE Striker driver)
Sgt. Slaughter (Warthog AIFV driver)
Iceberg (Mudbuster driver)
Cross-Country (Battle Wagon driver, Mudbuster driver)
Rumbler (R/C Crossfire driver)
Blaster (Vindicator pilot)
Blocker (Eliminator driver)
Dodger (Marauder driver)
Knockdown (Sky Sweeper driver)
Skidmark (Desert Fox 6WD driver)
Windchill (Arctic Blast driver)
Barricade (Badger driver)
T'Gin-Zu (Pile Driver operator, Pile Driver vehicle operator)
Rampage (Split Fire driver)
Stinger Driver (Stinger driver)
Motor Viper (Stun pilot)
Thrasher (Thunder Machine driver)
Ice Viper (WOLF driver)
Alley Viper (Parasite driver, Rage vehicle driver)
Darklon (Evader driver)
Wild Boar (Razorback driver)
Overord (Dictator driver)
Red Ninja (Battle Ax operators, Battle Ax vehicle operators)
Vypra (Rattler 4-WD driver)
Neo-Viper (Ringneck driver)
Coil (high speed pursuit vehicle driver)
Ordnance
Ace (ordnance officer)
Airtight (ordnance)
Fast Draw (ordnance)
Nunchuk (ordnance)
Dodger (heavy ordnance operator)
Heavy Duty (heavy ordnance trooper, heavy ordnance specialist)
Cobra Commander (ordnance [experimental weaponry])
Destro (enemy weapons supplier, weapons manufacturer, weapons manufacturing and supply)
Warwolf (alien arms dealer)
Headhunter BAT (weapons manufacturing)
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Stalker (explosive ordnance disposal)
Tripwire (mine detector, explosive ordnance disposal)
Tunnel Rat (EOD, explosive ordnance disposal)
Long Arm (SWAT bomb technician, bomb disposal robotic systems operator, explosive ordnance disposal)
Sub Viper (mine disposal)
Repair and Maintenance
Dodger (armored vehicle maintenance)
Cover Girl (AFV mechanics, armored fighting vehicle mechanic)
Rollbar (mechanic)
Dragonsky (mechanical engineer)
Shipwreck (machinist)
Lady Jaye (armament repair)
Switch Gears (mechanical engineer, weapons technician)
Salvo (TOW/Dragon repair technician, weapons repair technician)
Grunt (small arms armorer, small arms repairman, small arms/artillery repair)
Duke (small arms armorer, small-arms repair)
Blowtorch (small-arms armorer)
Beach Head (small arms armorer)
Mercer (small arms armorer)
Rumber (small arms armorer)
Charbroil (small arms armorer)
Flash (fire control repairer)
Cold Front (fre control technician)
Crazylegs (parachute rigger)
Airborne [SP] (Sky Patrol parachute assembler)
Dusty (refrigeration and air-conditioning maintenance)
Dart (refrigeration repair technician)
Grand Slam (special electronic devices repairer)
Sci-Fi (electronic instrument repair)
Dodger (electronics maintenance, electronic maintenance)
Countdown (electrical engineer)
Double Blast (electrical engineering)
Shrage (batle technician)
HISS Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
Stinger Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
HISS Commander (mechanical & electrical systems)
Arctic HISS Driver (mechanical & electrical systems)
Techno-Viper (battlefield technician)
Ice Viper (arctic technician)
Burn Out (Dreadnok mechanic)
Hotwire (BAT mechanic, battle android trooper maintenance & repair)
Quartermaster Corps
Roadblock (cook)
Ice Cream Soldier (barbecue chef)
Hi-Tech (operations support specialist)
Checkpoint (carpenter)
Identity-related Designations

Cobra Commander (with battle armor, battlefield command uniform)
BAT (android trooper, battle android trooper, battle armored android trooper, independently targeted combat robot)
Inferno BAT (battle android trooper, independently targeted combat robot)
BAT II (android trooper)
Headhunter BAT (Headhunter battle android trooper)
Sky BAT (battle android trooper)
Zandar (Zartan's brother)
Zarana (Zartan's sister, sister to Zartan)

I hope that helps, LA DAME!  ^_^

Crash - here are some more he gave me to look at.

[Crash]

Would Geomancer be a specialization?

Because that just looks like fun!

[Revenent]

Wow that is some list of specializations taken.  Can there be some overlap?

Yep. As I said, we have a lot of characters, so repeats are to be expected. :-)

Would Geomancer be a specialization?

Because that just looks like fun!

I'll direct this one to Fen, just because I'm not sure how that would work with the current magic system in this game.

[Silk]

If I recall Geomancers largely focus on terrain manipulation magic, so they would be more focused on attacking around the target than they would directly (example say if your on a hillside and use the magic to flood the enemy with dirt, or to turn the ground below them marshy to lower movement.)

[Crash]

If I recall Geomancers largely focus on terrain manipulation magic, so they would be more focused on attacking around the target than they would directly (example say if your on a hillside and use the magic to flood the enemy with dirt, or to turn the ground below them marshy to lower movement.)

Yep.  which I imagine would be immensely helpful in a combat situation.  ;D

Yep. As I said, we have a lot of characters, so repeats are to be expected. :-)

I'll direct this one to Fen, just because I'm not sure how that would work with the current magic system in this game.

Yeah I was wondering about that.  It is very specific to the battlefield.  Maybe it would be a specialization in one of the existing magics/wilderness survival and tie all of the spells into some sort of element

Maybe take a Limit Break that would react with the whatever battlefield the character is in. 

[Inari]

Very interested in this. Played this thing like no tomorrow and even had the wallscroll! <3

Now to think up a character to play...

[Fenrir]

Would Geomancer be a specialization?

Because that just looks like fun!

My decision on this would be simple- the character would have an Environment-Target Magic type specialization.  He would know the exact same spells as other (probably Black Magic) users however he(or she, but I'll say he from now on) would simply not cast it at the enemy: he would cast it at the environment.  For example: for Silks specific ideas here how they would work.  Suggested flood the enemy with dirt: he would have no direct control of the dirt, he could cast an aero spell underneath the hillside to loosen the dirt to direct it towards the enemy.  To turn the ground below to make marshy: he would have no direct control of the environment he would just use the spells he had to effect the environment- he would cast a water spell to make dirt mud or the like...  Either way he would be stronger in Earth Magic specifically (since it directly effects the environment).  Does that make sense?  It's not exactly a Geomancer but a way to make the idea fit into the magical rules we currently have- because I'm uncomfortable with the idea of coming up with specific magic spells just for a new type of class ;D  I rather like the idea and would cause a player to think outside the box. 

As far as a Limit Break goes- they get pretty far out there so I could easily see the limit break shifting depending on the battle field (and since we've allowed some bazaar things- it could be a 'made up' magic type spell)

[Crash]

Sounds good Fenrir.  I will run with that.

[Green Goo Theory]

I just want to point out that Aeris was technically a Geomancer.  It was all limit-based of course but they can exist in a non-job based system. 

[Revenent]

I just want to point out that Aeris was technically a Geomancer.  It was all limit-based of course but they can exist in a non-job based system.

It's mostly about how magic works in the FFVIII universe, I think, where it's drawn from...the world, I suppose, and literally stocked up, making it so people can't really "create" spells that do unique things. The exception being sorceresses, who have much more freedom with magic.

[PhantomPistoleer]

It's mostly about how magic works in the FFVIII universe, I think, where it's drawn from...the world, I suppose, and literally stocked up, making it so people can't really "create" spells that do unique things. The exception being sorceresses, who have much more freedom with magic.

Well, you can create magic, though?  IIRC, you could create draws from items.

I think that the Geomancer should be allowed to split Quake into Terra, Terrara, and Terraga.  Additionally, the effects from other spells ought to be earth-based rather than their elemental equivalents.  Like, fira would be lava coming from underground, and blizzard could be a geyser?  And shell and/or protect could be a wall made from earth.

[Crash]

Well, you can create magic, though?  IIRC, you could create draws from items.

I think that the Geomancer should be allowed to split Quake into Terra, Terrara, and Terraga.  Additionally, the effects from other spells ought to be earth-based rather than their elemental equivalents.  Like, fira would be lava coming from underground, and blizzard could be a geyser?  And shell and/or protect could be a wall made from earth.

Makes sense.  Theme the spell but it still has the same effect.

[Lockepick]

This seems to go against the notion of Para-Magic. Would be a neat idea for a new Sorcereress though, if we had any.

EDIT: Para-Magic  is copying an existing source of magic -- whether it's a monster or a draw point. The notion of a unique spell goes against the notion of Para-Magic. It's possible the character has access to some unique draw point, but that usage is only 'unique' until somebody else gets access to it. Same for a monster with some unique, previously undiscovered spell.

[Crash]

This seems to go against the notion of Para-Magic. Would be a neat idea for a new Sorcereress though, if we had any.

EDIT: Para-Magic  is copying an existing source of magic -- whether it's a monster or a draw point. The notion of a unique spell goes against the notion of Para-Magic. It's possible the character has access to some unique draw point, but that usage is only 'unique' until somebody else gets access to it. Same for a monster with some unique, previously undiscovered spell.

So should I think of something else then?

[Lockepick]

Well to be clear, I'm not a GM. So I could be totally off base.

Either way, the general idea might be salvageable. I could easily see a Geomancer as somebody who attempts to use 'ley lines' or whatever to track down Draw Points. I'm not sure how much 'Geomancer-Action' you'd get in game, but it could still work for a general concept. You could combine that with a GF and a Limit Break that uses Geomancer-y effects to help balance out the idea.

I just think the setting doesn't really allow unique magic effects from the character -- Limit Breaks and GF seem to be the best way to replicate magic-like effects.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Well, I really like the geomancer.

Geomancers use bells as weapons, and equip light tunics as armor. They can walk across dungeons without fear of traps like pitfalls, or damaging floors like lava. Their signature skill is Terrain, which lets the Geomancer execute special attacks based on the terrain the party is fighting on.

Crash, you could use a bell as your weapon!

[Fenrir]

While I appreciate everyone's input my decision on the matter still stands: you could create a character whose magical tactics are aimed at the environment but I will not be introducing new types of magic at this time.  I'm not saying the game will not evolve in that direction - but for now the only magics available are the ones in the magic section of the information guide.

[Crash]

I will write something up and see how it works.

[PhantomPistoleer]

While I appreciate everyone's input my decision on the matter still stands: you could create a character whose magical tactics are aimed at the environment but I will not be introducing new types of magic at this time.  I'm not saying the game will not evolve in that direction - but for now the only magics available are the ones in the magic section of the information guide.

Instead of a magical geomancer, what if Crash focused more on being a technical geomancer?  I'm thinking about the skills ninjas use.

Ten-Mon (Meteorology)

Forecasting and taking advantage of weather and seasonal phenomena was an important part of any battle consideration. Ninja were trained to observe all the subtle signals from the environment in order to predict weather conditions.

Chi-Mon (Geography)

Knowing and successfully using the features of the terrain were crucial skills in the historical art of ninjutsu.

[Crash]

Instead of a magical geomancer, what if Crash focused more on being a technical geomancer?  I'm thinking about the skills ninjas use.

I was planning on a scout/recon type character.  Or using geomancy at a tactics thing.

[Green Goo Theory]

CHARACTER APPLICATION

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Name: Ashlee "Lee" Gifford
Age: 16
Enrollment Age: 12 in Balamb
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0

Weapon: Atomic Scissors
-Weapon Description: A type of gun arm pieced together with a variety of purposes in mind.  First and the most obvious is it's use as a weapon in the form of mechanical pincers.  In an immobile state the weapon looks like a giant can opener.  It's capable of also changing its form to fit the task at hand into a variety of simple tools. 
Specialization: Techie, Hacker, Gadgeteer
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: "Why's the party over?"
Limit Break: DRONE.EXE

Limit Break Description:
DRONE.EXE is a summon-style limit break that calls upon a drone built by Lee herself.  Its capable of being upgraded for more functions than normal.  Currently it's only set up for a single method of attack. 

-HELIGUNNER.EXE:  The small flying drone is called in where it begins to spin around quickly in the air to ran down gunfire at multiple targets. 

(OOC note: I was hoping that like some other limits from the game that this can be a limit break that continues to grow with other potential upgrade materials found in the game.  If that's not alright then I'll probably alter the single attack that this has.)

Personality:
Lee is just at home tearing into machines as she hanging out with a group of friends.  Despite her mechanical affinities she is not shy or socially awkward at all.  In fact she loves jumping onto opportunities for social interactions and enjoys sharing any creations with anyone that may be interested. 


Backstory:
Lee was born and raised in the town of Fisherman's Horizon to a family of tinkerers.  It was in her blood to run a cutting torch and a welder.  To tear loose rusted bolts and to piece together frames from nothing but a set of prints on a paper.  Even from the age that she could start walking she was spending most of her days in the shop looking over her parents shoulders and poking away at attempts on designs on the computer. 

As much as the village was ready to welcome her energy they were not a fan of the approach she wanted to take.  She took to weapons immediately.  Everything from piecing together a sword from a piece of scrap steel to pneumatic cannons that fired ball bearings.  To her these were toys and occasional tools for self defense; even if the threat was the occasional monster visited on the shore line. 

Few people were surprised when her accident happened.  When tinkering with a strange piece of equipment that had been sitting in the old scrap piles of the village for decades it activated.  What was once thought to be an old weapon or vehicle had in fact been a damaged and dormant Guardian Force.  It's unexpected awakening was violent and explosive.  Part of the makeshift shop came down around Lee resulting in sever wounds on the then young girl.  As repayment for repairing it as well as the involuntery injuries Ark chose to allow itself to be junctioned by the young girl.

After that Lee's drive was split.  Between her tinkering and strengthening her bond with the Guardian Force.  A lifestyle her parents felt was better suited in the hands of a Garden.  An opportunity that she was willing to leap at.  A chance at better and newer equipment and to better the prosthetic limb that she felt was a blessing in disguise.  It was only natural that Balamb would be chosen given its close ties with the town. 

Once at the Garden she was somewhat disappointing as a student.  She had an exceptional mind but she was scatter brained.  Many times in class she was found doodling some sort of new design on everything from a napkin to the desk mounted computers situated in the class rooms.  Assignments meant to be taken home were often late or missing entirely.  The faculty were often times forced to take away her privelages in the garage where she would spend many nights working on the vehicles. 

It wasn't until training in the field that Lee found the need to buckle down on her studies.  No matter how well she built her weapons it required practical experience to go along with it.  She needed the ability to draw the magic and use it.  She needed to find a way to strengthen her Guardian Force.  She knew that she had a lot more to learn in order to become a SeeD. 

Appearance:
Lee stands and a diminutive 5'0" (maybe 5'2" with her hair up) with her hair kept shaved close on the sides of her head.  Her hair has been known to change colors often and almost always in bright unnatural shades.  While covered in piercings she does try to maintain a professional appearance while in uniform and keep them removed.  She has multiple scars across her body that in the year since have been covered by a variety of tattoos. 

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See above. 

A face claim alternative appearnace.

GF APPLICATION

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Name: Ark
Established Connection:  Lee discovered Ark among the variety of broken down machinery traded or sold to Fisherman's Horizon for parts and salvage.  At first it was thought to simply be a discarded weapon of war that even many people of the small industry town wanted nothing to do with at all due to the nature of such a machine.  Lee however let her curiosity get the best her and she delved into it and started repairs.  Little did she know that this piece of technology she could hardly understand was in fact a Guardian Force.  The violent and explosion awakening of the long dormant Guardian Force gravely injured Lee that resulted in the prosthetic and scars she bears today.  It was in the aftermath that the Guardian Force took it upon itself to join Lee and allow itself to be Junctioned to her. 
Element: Shadow
Description: Ark is a living machine whose native form is that of an airship (spaceship in its native canon.  Either way).  Its large cannon is spinal mounted and makes up a majority of the length of Ark in its ship form.  Its limbs are folded up and take up portions of its fuselage.  It's legs open up and take up the position of both wings and engines positioned towards the rear.  It's capable of transforming between that form and the humanoid form pictured above.  If in a fight (I.E. a boss fight) it can fight in either form for different strengths. 
Bonus:  Auto-scan, Armor, Machine Speech*****
Special Attack:  Eternal Darkness
-Special Attack Description:
When summoned Ark is pulled through a portal in the upper atmosphere and begins a straight dive for the target.  In the middle of its descent Ark spins rapidly with its limbs flipping outward and dropping its speeds drastically.  Its main gun is angled around and stabilized by both arms with a visible glow and arcing electricity running up and down the length of the cannon.  While its charging pods open up across Ark's back and a large array of missiles to bombard the entire area.  By the time the missiles are done firing the cannon is ready and a single shot is launched creating an explosion to envelop multiple targets. 

Character Journal

TBA.

*****

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Machine Speak:  A lesser form of Technopathy in almost the same way Empathy is like a lesser form of Telepathy.  While it doesn't allow outright communication it would give Lee something of a hint.  She could feel stress points in a device almost like pain in a living creature or catch a better glimpse into machine code she may not otherwise be familiar with.  In order to read the signals relayed to her it still requires a certain degree of technical understanding.

[kckolbe]

Definitely a pleasant surprise with her.  Between that and your solid criticism of FF8, looking forward to playing with you.

[Green Goo Theory]

Definitely a pleasant surprise with her.  Between that and your solid criticism of FF8, looking forward to playing with you.

Thanks a lot. 

Were you expecting a bad character or what?  Not that I'm shocked if you were; I asked a lot of questions and my comments were all over the place.  I'm just kind of curious. 

[kckolbe]

Thanks a lot. 

Were you expecting a bad character or what?  Not that I'm shocked if you were; I asked a lot of questions and my comments were all over the place.  I'm just kind of curious.

I didn't think you were really inspired.  Like you said, you were all over the place, so I thought you wanted to play but didn't really have anything calling to you.  Plus, she's just cool as shit.

[Green Goo Theory]

I didn't think you were really inspired.  Like you said, you were all over the place, so I thought you wanted to play but didn't really have anything calling to you.  Plus, she's just cool as shit.

Ah, yeah.  I was motivated to play but like you said my inspiration on a solid character concept was kind of lacking.  I wanted to try to avoid stepping on toes or having a repeat character with weapons, summons, etc.  It's hard but I think I accomplished it and I built a character I'll have tons of fun with.  Thanks for the compliments too.  I'm not used to getting them for character creation. 

[Inari]

I have noticed no one has taken Alexander but I am unsure how I would implement it if I were to choose it:

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_%28Summon%29

I have considered asking for a custom GF but I would be unsure if I would be allowed something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vT4pGd4gRU

[Revenent]

I have noticed no one has taken Alexander but I am unsure how I would implement it if I were to choose it:

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_%28Summon%29

I have considered asking for a custom GF but I would be unsure if I would be allowed something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vT4pGd4gRU

As long as its attacks and bonuses aren't overpowered, you can (pretty much) do whatever you want for a custom GF. :-)

[Green Goo Theory]

I had considered Alexander but had no ideas on how the character would get it.  So I decided to instead go with alexanders alien equivalent. 

[Inari]

In FFVIII you can draw it from Edea or in the final castle fight. I managed to get it from Edea and it was AMAZING! >.<

I am trying my best to figure it out myself. But because I don't know which gender to play I have decided to go for twins. One will have Alexander and the other Dark Falz.

P.S

I loooooooove the song for your character's theme tune~

[Letrixia]

Are you still looking?

[Revenent]

Are you still looking?

Of course. ;D

[Green Goo Theory]

In FFVIII you can draw it from Edea or in the final castle fight. I managed to get it from Edea and it was AMAZING! >.<

I am trying my best to figure it out myself. But because I don't know which gender to play I have decided to go for twins. One will have Alexander and the other Dark Falz.

P.S

I loooooooove the song for your character's theme tune~

Yeah, I knew where to get Alexander.  It's one of my favorite summons of all time.  There's...just no Edea to draw it from for the sake of the RP.

Annd...my character's theme song?  If so thanks.  I just felt it...fit.  Even if the character may not be wearing the titular outfit (or at least not all the time...).

[Revenent]

Yeah, I knew where to get Alexander.  It's one of my favorite summons of all time.  There's...just no Edea to draw it from for the sake of the RP.

Annd...my character's theme song?  If so thanks.  I just felt it...fit.  Even if the character may not be wearing the titular outfit (or at least not all the time...).

They don't necessarily have to be retrieved from the same place. The heroes already got them, after all. I imagine all of the GFs from VIII have either decided to work with Garden like Shiva and Quetz did (Phoenix and Bahamut are currently assigned to two of the NPC instructors, even), or they went off somewhere else to wait for a worthy junctioner. I see Alexander being of the latter variety.

[Green Goo Theory]

They don't necessarily have to be retrieved from the same place. The heroes already got them, after all. I imagine all of the GFs from VIII have either decided to work with Garden like Shiva and Quetz did (Phoenix and Bahamut are currently assigned to two of the NPC instructors, even), or they went off somewhere else to wait for a worthy junctioner. I see Alexander being of the latter variety.

I was halfway joking.  I really didn't come up with anything personally that felt right for Alexander.  Not even the story I ended up using to collect Ark even though both are artificial entities. 

Also...I knew about Phoenix and Bahamut.  I wanted Phoenix...  >:( *shakes fist at the NPC character*

[Revenent]

I was halfway joking.  I really didn't come up with anything personally that felt right for Alexander.  Not even the story I ended up using to collect Ark even though both are artificial entities. 

Also...I knew about Phoenix and Bahamut.  I wanted Phoenix...  >:( *shakes fist at the NPC character*

Banon's an asshole, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to convince Fen to kill him off. >:)

[Letrixia]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Kaoru Mishida
Age: 17
Enrollment Age: 5
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfuGJK9FMUA

(optional)

Weapon: Name Weapon Description: Linked Soul Sword: Her sword is linked with the spirit of the dead mother making it light as a feather for her but for other people are as heavy as a building. [Something like Thors hammer]. Her sword is also a storage for willing souls that want to help her, making her more powerful and granting her abilities each one she collects. [Can be extremely rare]
Specialization: Close Combat
Current Ranking:Candidate
Victory Motto: She says nothing but bows to the body of the dead enemy granting respect to their soul even if its an enemy.
Limit Break:Spirits of the DeadLimit Break Description: Her eyes glow a pale shade of white and her sword releases all stored souls to help her in battle. Each soul grants her duplicate strength and speed making her a very dangerous opponent when she uses this.

Personality:
She is often times quiet and an introvert however she is capable of having fun if she trusts the person. She has a deep hatred for people who disrespects her or any of her friends to the point that she can even loose control of herself when her friends are in danger. She has been known to have a double personality, the usual one when she is much to herself and the one that she rarely shows one that would kill without any remorse to protect those she loves. She tends to keep calm by playing Triple Triad which makes her meditate.

Backstory: She was born inside the garden by a SeeD that was forced to retire for awhile to give birth to Kaoru. Since little all she ever known was the world of her mother, coming home with bandaged wounds and sometimes even in deep depression. Since little she was taught of the importance of respect to every living soul, human, animal or whatever else. She was explained that souls deserved as much respect and care as any human and to give respects to everybody, enemy or otherwise. However that didn't prepared her for what was about to come.

Two weeks later she got word of her mothers falling in battle. She entered the school as fast as she could and worked hard to allow her comrades and her friends to earn their respect and love. It was then when she found her mothers sword on her home and as soon as she grabbed it she noticed her mothers soul in it, she granted her with the ability of soul gathering and told her that she would always be there for her. (Souls gathered as GF's).

Appearance:

GF APPLICATION
Name: Mother
Established Connection:  the dead soul of her mother turned GF. They been together since little and she always protected Kaoru.
Element: Darkness
Description:
Bonus:  Attack Bonus, Speed Bonus and Regeneration ability.
Special Attack:Dark Wave BlastSpecial Attack Description: She slays over the ground sending a wave of dark matter against the enemy.

Character Journal

This is where you can choose to 'record' events or extra facts about your character for other's benefit: either from the beginning or throughout the game. If this is a new character, you are welcome to include things that their average classmate should know about them already.

[Green Goo Theory]

Banon's an asshole, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to convince Fen to kill him off. >:)

Huh...  Killing the Junctioner of Phoenix. 

[PhantomPistoleer]

Appearance:

GF APPLICATION
Name: Mother
Established Connection:  the dead soul of her mother turned GF. They been together since little and she always protected Kaoru.
Element: Darkness
Description:
Bonus:  Attack Bonus, Speed Bonus and Regeneration ability.
Special Attack:Dark Wave BlastSpecial Attack Description: She slays over the ground sending a wave of dark matter against the enemy.

Aww, that's kind of sad.

[Mossberg]

Think I'm going to make a second character. >.> But with my luck it'll take forever to think up a concept.

[Inari]

Yeah, I knew where to get Alexander.  It's one of my favorite summons of all time.  There's...just no Edea to draw it from for the sake of the RP.

Annd...my character's theme song?  If so thanks.  I just felt it...fit.  Even if the character may not be wearing the titular outfit (or at least not all the time...).

Or a future fucked up time/space warped castle! Darn... >.>

My other half was like. "The guy in that song is being oddly specific..." I was just enjoying the beat to the song.

Huh...  Killing the Junctioner of Phoenix. 

The irony hurts...

[Idej]

Recruitment still open?

[Inari]

It is always open as far as I am aware. Perhaps they should put in the title. [Always recruiting]

[Mossberg]

Coming from a player, it is open as far as I know.

[TheHangedOne]

Recruitment still open?

As an official helper, yes, recruitment is still open.

[Crash]

Started my character.  I need to get my background set still.  Hopefully I will have her done in the next couple of days.

[Inari]

I am still deciding on weapons and once I am done with that I think it will be ready to post. 

[TheBlackThrone]

 You can always come up with a unique weapon like turning objects that aren't normally weapons into weapons. I have the one character who uses a guitar as a weapon because I made him out to be a Bard. :)

So there's yo-yo, hockey stick, shovel, umbrella, fan, etc

No one has used wire yet.

We have no one using a rapier.

[Crash]

I am giving my geomancer/survival tactics character machetes.

[Fenrir]

Banon's an asshole, so I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to convince Fen to kill him off. >:)

Other than the fact that I love NPCing that asshole... he may have phoenix for a reason ;D

Also, yep we're still recruiting (as officially helper TheHangedMan says)- if we weren't it would say so in the opening thread!  I do have a number as a cap for the game- once we reach that number there won't be any more characters allowed.  However, anyone that has shown interest previously (before the cap was reached) would still be given the opportunity to create and add their character.

[Inari]

You can always come up with a unique weapon like turning objects that aren't normally weapons into weapons. I have the one character who uses a guitar as a weapon because I made him out to be a Bard. :)

So there's yo-yo, hockey stick, shovel, umbrella, fan, etc

No one has used wire yet.

We have no one using a rapier.

I quite like the idea of one of them uses Talis from PSO2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR98PhygYKY

Around 1 minute mark is when you get to see it in action.

[PhantomPistoleer]

I quite like the idea of one of them uses Talis from PSO2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR98PhygYKY

Around 1 minute mark is when you get to see it in action.

It seems lonely to play PSO2 without anyone.  :(

I still remember my HuMAR character.

These games, especially on the Dreamcast, were way ahead of their time.

[Inari]

I can't get onto PSO2 anymore without a VPN because outside IPs are still blocked. :(

[Crash]

Okay, I have a setting question since I have not played the actual game.  Is the world highly populated or are there areas that need exploring?  I was thinking of having my character getting left or lost in the wilds when her parents (researchers) expedition into a forest disappears.  She meets her GF who helps her survive until she is found and taken to the Garden.

I am not sure this works with the setting though.

[PhantomPistoleer]

I can't get onto PSO2 anymore without a VPN because outside IPs are still blocked. :(

Aww, that sucks.  I hate it when the online aspects of video games die.  I mean, I understand why it happens.

I haven't played PSO in years, though.  It probably doesn't hold up well anymore.  I remember being bored to tears by it when I first played it in single player, but LOVING the online multiplayer.

Okay, I have a setting question since I have not played the actual game.  Is the world highly populated or are there areas that need exploring?  I was thinking of having my character getting left or lost in the wilds when her parents (researchers) expedition into a forest disappears.  She meets her GF who helps her survive until she is found and taken to the Garden.

I am not sure this works with the setting though.

I'm not an official helper or anything, but in the game, the population is pretty high.  You literally end up K.O.ing thousands of people.  But, there is a lot of terrain, and a lot of that terrain is populated (probably more accurate to say that it's infested) by monsters.

[PhantomPistoleer]

You can always come up with a unique weapon like turning objects that aren't normally weapons into weapons. I have the one character who uses a guitar as a weapon because I made him out to be a Bard. :)

So there's yo-yo, hockey stick, shovel, umbrella, fan, etc

No one has used wire yet.

We have no one using a rapier.

As an addendum, Final Fantasies have weird weapons.

Geomancer's use bells.  Wakka in FFX uses a blitzball -- so like, an underwater basketball.  Lulu uses a doll.  Characters in Final Fantasy tactics can use dictionaries and handbags as weapons.  Relm in FFVI has a brush (which is pretty useless).  In FFIX, Quina uses a fork.  FFVI has a gambler job class, and they use cards and dice.  In FFVII, Cait Sith uses a freaking megaphone.

[Fenrir]

Okay, I have a setting question since I have not played the actual game.  Is the world highly populated or are there areas that need exploring?  I was thinking of having my character getting left or lost in the wilds when her parents (researchers) expedition into a forest disappears.  She meets her GF who helps her survive until she is found and taken to the Garden.

I am not sure this works with the setting though.

It would work in this setting: the world is set up like any RPG- Final Fantasy or otherwise.  The population is high in cities or certain areas (like a mining facility or train station etc) however, outside the places where a population is gathered- things can be kind of 'abandoned.'  For example Balamb Garden is populated, Balamb Town is populated, and yes there could be people out farming in the area between the two it would be rather desolated.  Your idea for your character's background is solid- there would be places unexplored or even if they have been explored/mapped unless it's designated it things could change and alter over time- thus becoming 'unexplored... ish' later.  Does that make sense?

I'm not an official helper or anything, but in the game, the population is pretty high.  You literally end up K.O.ing thousands of people.  But, there is a lot of terrain, and a lot of that terrain is populated (probably more accurate to say that it's infested) by monsters.

Seeing as though, you are not an official helper and have not been in the game long yourself, I would request that you leave these questions up to people who can answer them with certainty.  I appreciate your input but I wish to avoid confusion, not only to new players/characters but also to those still playing at the moment.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Seeing as though, you are not an official helper and have not been in the game long yourself, I would request that you leave these questions up to people who can answer them with certainty.  I appreciate your input but I wish to avoid confusion, not only to new players/characters but also to those still playing at the moment.

Eep!  Sorry, Fenrir.

[Crash]

Thanks Fenrir.  I will continue to run with it then.

[Fenrir]

Eep!  Sorry, Fenrir.

It's alright Phantom, I know it's more excitement than anything!  I hope that my request did not come off too harshly: I know what it's like to be excited about something and want to have input.  Plus, I would imagine you have extra excitement to get more players so maybe some character comes and joins you in the fishing spot ;D

Thanks Fenrir.  I will continue to run with it then.

Excellent, I look forward to your sheet.



As for anyone else waiting!  I'm sure by now you have heard from Rev directly, if not I assure you he's working diligently to get to everyone.  I would just like to give a quick reminder that sheets go to him (either by posting them here, and he will contact you- or by PMing them to him).  Once he's gone over the sheet with you (fine tuning or making adjustments as he sees fit) the sheet then comes to me.  There is no need for you to send it to me directly- Rev handles that aspect on his own.  I will then give him any final comments or suggestions.  After that you will likely get the clear to post your sheet.  I hope that you do not see this as some sort of aversion to me handling new characters, I am simply working on other things at the moment.  You may or may not have noticed that we recently reached 1000 posts so we will be getting our own board.  I have been working on getting information together as well as expanding on the information guide.  Not to mention the four characters I have and various NPCs I've been handling posting wise.  ANYWAY, I'm over explaining... I do that some times.  I just wanted to remind people of the processes and to let you know you have not been forgotten in any way!

[Acula]

Thanks for all the hard work Fenrir!

[PhantomPistoleer]

It's alright Phantom, I know it's more excitement than anything!  I hope that my request did not come off too harshly: I know what it's like to be excited about something and want to have input.  Plus, I would imagine you have extra excitement to get more players so maybe some character comes and joins you in the fishing spot ;D

Don't worry, Fenrir.  I feel you!  I will comply with your request.  ^_^

[Letrixia]

I am still waiting on mine.

[la dame en noir]

Now that I finally got up my group rp and I'm pretty much caught up on my RPs, I will be making a profile (or some of it) tonight. :D

She will be a bookish type, gf will be Ifrit, and this will be her

though I might change her appearance later lol

[kckolbe]

though I might change her appearance later lol

Or you could leave her as is ~crosses fingers~

Best of luck writing her up.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Now that I finally got up my group rp and I'm pretty much caught up on my RPs, I will be making a profile (or some of it) tonight. :D

She will be a bookish type, gf will be Ifrit, and this will be her

though I might change her appearance later lol

Am in agreement with KC.  Your character's pretty cute, Dame.  :o

[Revenent]

I am still waiting on mine.

I'll be contacting you in a bit here. I don't always contact people immediately after reading their sheets, whether it's because I'm busy IRL or discussing something with Fen, but I do read them all pretty much as they come in.

[la dame en noir]

lol apparently I have a knack for picking out cute face claims and pictures.

[Mossberg]

I'd say yes, you do, Dame. The character picture and avatar are pretty nice.

[Crash]

lol apparently I have a knack for picking out cute face claims and pictures.

^ This

[la dame en noir]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Juliette Everdeen
Age: 17
Enrollment Age: Six years of age
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiB98Wbsdlo

Weapon: Name Weapon Description:
Specialization:
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: "Had to be me, someone else would've done it wrong."
Limit Break: Name Limit Break Description:

Personality:

Backstory:

Appearance:

Juliette

GF APPLICATION
Name: Ifrit
Established Connection: Juliette has had Ifrit in her possession for nearly 3 years now. At first it was strange, having something connected to her at this intense, but she has grown very fond of the creature. He tends to be rather arrogant, especially when summoned, but because of this Juliette has become a very confident student and soldier.
Element: Fire
Description:

Ifrit

Bonus:  These bonuses *must be passive* can be a stat boost or other passive ability within reason
Special Attack: HellFire Special Attack Description:

Character Journal

This is where you can choose to 'record' events or extra facts about your character for other's benefit: either from the beginning or throughout the game. If this is a new character, you are welcome to include things that their average classmate should know about them already.

[Inari]

TWINS!

CHARACTER APPLICATION

Leto

Name: Leto Visburn
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_8SjoDcku4

Weapon: Oathkeeper
Weapon Description:

weapon

Specialization: Interrogation (Still in training)
Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: "It's ok, you can cry if you want to."
Limit Break: Celestial Wind
Limit Break Description: Leto will spin his partisan around to create a cyclone around and he will then slash the target multiple times for 10 seconds. (estimated total of 8-9 hits)
Personality: When he was younger he was naive about the world and was quite trusting, however as he has grown older he has learned the hard way not to trust everyone and how to hide his honest thoughts and feelings, even around his sister. These days he puts the mask of being a charming, flirtatious, gentleman that can be a very perverted, wicked and mischievous simply when he feels like it. On the inside, he is always assessing people for their intentions and worthiness to see his real self.
What shows that he is the older twin is the fact that he is quite mature for his age, refuses to rely on anyone for help and considering how he appears on the outside he is more insightful than one would think.


GF APPLICATION

GF

Name: Alexander
Established Connection:  Yet to meet him.
Element: Holy
Bonus:
Special Attack: Divine Judgement
Special Attack Description: Alexander will then open his wings to unleash holy missiles do holy damage to the enemy/s.

Senka

Name: Senka Visburn
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWkhgm1gmc&list=PLSOJncUyg7nKfDHAt8iwUKnfulCUhgVFA&index=438

Weapon: Oathbreaker
Weapon Description:

Weapon

Talis: A fairly new piece of technology which the user can simply strap to their belt. When needed, the light machine simply needs to be taken from where it is holstered and will then eject photon cards, on command, which the user throws at their target to deal normal damage. The user can also cast spells onto such as fire, ice, blizzard, poison and silence to deal extra damage and or status effects. 
Specialization: Infiltration/Extraction and Parkour. (Still in training.)
Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: "What's wrong? Did I ruin your hair?"
Limit Break: Toxic Tears
Limit Break Description: Senka will fire multiple talis cards (roughly10-20)into the air and will cast a random status effect on them which has a 25% fail rate depending on resistance check. To finish, she will cast Esuna to remove all status effects on the party.
Personality: When she was younger she was a bit of a crybaby and was prone to being a little more emotionally sensitive than most children. However, this has changed as she has grown up. These days she tends to be more confident, teasing and playful in nature, sometimes to the point of irritation. Her heart is an open book as she believes in hiding nothing about herself and expects the same from others. What truly shows she is the younger twin is the fact that she more immature and has a hot temper compared to her brother and is dependent on him for mental and emotional support, often to the point that it has ruined any possible relationships for either of them.


GF APPLICATION

GF

Name: Dark Falz
Established Connection:  Yet to meet him.
Element: Time/Space/Dark
Bonus: .
Special Attack: Corruption of Time
Special Attack Description: Falz will call upon lances of time to hold and stop time for all enemies for approximately 10 seconds after he has vanished and cast haste on all party members.

Backstory:

Leto and Senka were born with an hour between them to loving parents who doted on them. Everything seemed perfect and set out for the family to do well. Their father had a stable job as a news anchor now the network had been reactivated for so many years and their mother simply stayed at home. Their "perfect" life was thrown into chaos when they travelled to a sea town for a holiday.

While the twins were left with the hotel's child care service their parents went out for a spot of evening sighting only to not come back. Once it was midday the staff contacted the local police who began a search for the parents. It was late evening when their bodies were found at the bottom of a cliff a few hours drive away from the town. The duo didn't realise it, but a year before the incident that took their parent's life they had applied for the twins to go to Galbadia Garden once they were twelve, however, the garden was prepared to take them early considering the circumstances.

Life was very different and hard to adjust to in Galbadia, especially considering the circumstances of their enrollment and the strict and unloving environment they now had to endure. It was when they were thirteen that they discovered what had happened to their parents and that it only took a few days for their parent's death to be classed as a cold case. This gave them both a wake-up call that made them change from generally good children to the rebellious pranksters they are now.

They have been transferred to Balamb garden because the administrators of Galbadia cannot take their antics any much longer. While their talent in class and combat is recognised they felt that their behaviour outweighed their worth as students. Galbadia does not want their training to go to waste and hope that somehow Balamb can straighten out the twins.

Character Journal

To start:

They have transferred to Balamb and rumors from Galbadia of their mischievous nature and antics have travelled ahead of them.

This is what I have so far. I am a little stuck on personality, but I will try to figure it out in time. >.<

I hope they aren't too overpowered!>.<

[la dame en noir]

I'm unoriginal and since I like to dance heavily - would it be okay to have her be a Dancer what duel wields long daggers?

[Revenent]

I'm unoriginal and since I like to dance heavily - would it be okay to have her be a Dancer what duel wields long daggers?

Go for it, I say.

[kckolbe]

Only if Nivek gets a private show.  That was Fen's answer.  Her, uh...internet is down, and she PMed me, no, not that....called me, yeah, and said to give you that answer.

[la dame en noir]

LOL oh goodness me.

I might go with Phoenix >.> But, Ifrit has always been my favorite summon - ugh

I need it fit with the character

i dont know
blah

meh
arh

[Fenrir]

I'm unoriginal and since I like to dance heavily - would it be okay to have her be a Dancer what duel wields long daggers?

You could have a duel wield specialization (we do not have this specialization yet- and it would be limited to two of the same type weapons).  She could be duel dagger wielder (which fits into my previous ()'s... but I still feel the need to clarify stuff) with speed over power (more of a dancing fighting technique).


ALSO, PLEASE EVERYONE NOTE THE FOLLOWING THING I HAVE TO SAY: (that's not to be yelling just to let you know how important it is)
Please include all pictures in spoiler threads.  If you see my own character sheets (the first four after NPCs) it shows a good way to include the pictures in a format that follows not only the way the sheet reads (the pictures are with descriptions- or is a name that links directly to a picture) but keeps the formatting simple.  This will keep down loading times in the accepted character sheets (for if people need to reference things) but also keeps everything flowing together in the same manner.

Only if Nivek gets a private show.  That was Fen's answer.  Her, uh...internet is down, and she PMed me, no, not that....called me, yeah, and said to give you that answer.

Lies and SLANDER!

LOL oh goodness me.

I might go with Phoenix >.> But, Ifrit has always been my favorite summon - ugh

I need it fit with the character

i dont know
blah

meh
arh

Phoenix is currently taken by an NPC (Professor Banon) so it should make the decision simpler ;D

[Faeli]

LOL oh goodness me.

I might go with Phoenix >.> But, Ifrit has always been my favorite summon - ugh

I am fairly sure that Phoenix is taken by one of the NPCs.  Additionally, we all like you having Ifrit due to possible conflagration-based wardrobe malfunction possibilities

[la dame en noir]

I just gotten word. So I will just scrap my character for now until I can come up with something.

[Fenrir]

I just gotten word. So I will just scrap my character for now until I can come up with something.

I would not completely scrap your character just because Phoenix itself is taken - I see nothing on your sheet to warrant that: but it is your call to do as you will!  Perhaps you had more bubbling about personality and history with phoenix that did not go onto the sheet and you merely meant that... if so feel free to ignore meh!

[Inari]

Hidden all pictures in spoilers. Sorry about that!

[la dame en noir]

I'm not scrapping it because of that. I just want to make sure my muse is happy.

[Fenrir]

Hidden all pictures in spoilers. Sorry about that!

I did notice that thank you: I don't want you to think it was directed at you personally- however your sheet did remind me of it ;D

I'm not scrapping it because of that. I just want to make sure my muse is happy.

Alrighty, then fair enough.  We can all relate to that, so no worries.


I'll be back later guys!  Feel free to continue posting and working on sheets, I'll still be popping in but will refrain from posting unless it's a question that needs answering (though also keep in mind Rev or TheHangedMan for questions as well)!

*scurries away to get some posts out*

[PhantomPistoleer]

I just gotten word. So I will just scrap my character for now until I can come up with something.

Maybe you can use an alternative to Phoenix?

Maybe:  Ouroboros (Greek Resurrection symbol):

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

Or Ganesha:

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

Or Osiris:

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[Inari]

I'm not scrapping it because of that. I just want to make sure my muse is happy.

Give your muse a kick up the bum. It's what I had to do with mine. The only reason I went with twins is because it wouldn't decide between male and female! Then I spent something like 3 hours looking for good pictures and I have only just finished what I have done now. I feel your pain. <3

I did notice that thank you: I don't want you to think it was directed at you personally- however your sheet did remind me of it ;D

I know it wasn't a personal thing and it was just a GM general poke. ;)

[TheBlackThrone]

I'm not scrapping it because of that. I just want to make sure my muse is happy.

When I saw that Bahamut was taken when I was making my Dragoon, I just made my own dragon. I'm sure you can do the same for your own phoenix. Have a different name, be a phoenix, just not be the exact same type of Phoenix that the NPC has.  :-)

Also, I think the compliments they were giving your first character idea were understatements. I thought that she was hot.  ::)

[la dame en noir]

Well after prepping dinner and making a snack, I was able to figure out a little bit of her personality. So I should have a character before long.

[Crash]

Updated Later post....

[kckolbe]

Adorable picture, looking forward to reading the rest.

[Crash]

Yeah, I picture her as spunky and a bit hyper.  The opposite of her GF who is slow and thoughtful.

[PhantomPistoleer]

Yeah, I picture her as spunky and a bit hyper.  The opposite of her GF who is slow and thoughtful.

That's actually a really cool contrast, Crash.

[Crash]

Thanks. It should be fun and funny to RP out their relationship. 

[la dame en noir]

So are people just making up their weapon names?

[kckolbe]

That we are

[la dame en noir]

*slams head on desk*

kay

[Crash]

Yeah I couldn't figure anything out for Gidg, so I thought a machete would be a useful survival tool and being that her specialization works well with an outdoors character I just went that way.

[la dame en noir]

[This is what I have, I'd say its finished, but I would like opinions first]

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Juliette Everdeen
Age: 17
Enrollment Age: Six years of age
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiB98Wbsdlo

Weapon: Tranquil & Serene Weapon Description: Long double daggers with ornate carvings, which were passed on to her from her mother at the age of 6. They were named after her transition from a hyper active child to an attentive and mature young woman. They remind her of the discipline and hard work she went through to be who she is now.
Specialization: Dancer (I might need some help with this)
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto: "Had to be me, someone else would've done it wrong."
Limit Break: Danseur mortelle Limit Break Description: Juliette calmly walks to the opponent, eyes shut and regaining a sense of balance and integrity. With eyes open, she twirls in a frantic, but graceful, movement stabbing the enemy multiple times. The final attack ends with her flipping into the air and landing on the ground as she slices through the enemy.

Personality: Juliette is a very hardworking individual. Sometimes people think she is a bit stuck up, arrogant, and disconnected from her peers - but Juliette knows her better than most people. Coming into Seed at such a young age had prompted her to be who she is now. She does not like spending a lot of free time with parties, leaving the garden, and other things the students would try to invite her to. For the most part, she is a very good student and lives up to that reputation, literally. She is attentive, but very caring of others and will always lend a helping hand. Now that she is a Candidate for SeeD, failure is not an option. With her quick witted attitude, logical thinking, and fantastic fighting skills, Juliette want's nothing more than to become a SeeD and maybe an instructor one day.

Tense and frigid, Juliette hardly makes time for relationships and for good reason. She was never the type to fall for anyone, especially the playboy and flirty types, but she did and her heart ended up in shambles. This has made Juliette very unapproachable, for the most part, but she tries to keep civil, but prefers the company of books over men. Despite what seems to be a very closed off girl, she is quite out-going and loves to dance in public and in private. Dancing has been one of her biggest stress-reducing outlets since she was a child.

Backstory: Juliette was enrolled into Balamb Garden at the tender age of six years old. There was no real reason for the enrollment other than her natural ability to wield daggers gracefully. Her parents wanted her to properly learn how to manage weapons, as well as discipline. At first, Juliette was a problem child within the garden, never wanting to listen to her instructors and constantly running off to do her own thing. After several complaints and disciplinary action, Juliette was taught the art of dance by her mother in order to get her more involved and to use her energy in a positive manner.

Soon, this new talent gave her the push she needed to succeed in not only her studies, but as a person as well. When Juliette fights, it is elegant, graceful, and deadly. Dancing is at the forefront for everything that she does and could not do without it. She studies harder than most peers she comes in contact with and has very few friends because of it.

In the face of everything she has gone through, Juliette is determined to reach her goal. Now that her mother is terminally ill, she has more reason to achieve her standards and to help her family the best that she can.

Even if her pleasure and happiness are at risk.

Appearance:

Juliette

GF APPLICATION
Name: Ifrit
Established Connection: Juliette has had Ifrit in her possession for nearly 3 years now. At first it was strange, having something connected to her at this intense, but she has grown very fond of the creature. He tends to be rather arrogant, especially when summoned, but because of this Juliette has become a very confident student and soldier.
Element: Fire
Description:

Ifrit

Bonus:  These bonuses *must be passive* can be a stat boost or other passive ability within reason
Special Attack: HellFire Special Attack Description: Ifrit rises in a flurry of fire and lands on the ground with presence. He is then lifted from the ground as a great and massive fireball emerges under him, sending him several feet in the air. With his hands in a tight fist, he arches back and presses his fists forward, pounding the ball of fire into the ground in a massive explosion. Also see here

Character Journal

- 3 years ago she got her summon Ifrit through the Fire Cavern. Because of him, she has loosened up her personality just a tad.
- Recently broke up with a long-term boyfriend and now she has sworn of relationships all together.
- Her mother is very ill and becoming a SeeD would mean that she could send home money to help her father care for her.

[Crash]

I just need a theme song and a motto!

[Green Goo Theory]

I just need a theme song and a motto!

A suggestion:

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfr64zoBTAQ


But no, seriously.  This one works for a survivalist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNVCD1dsnJI

[Idej]

Halberd been used yet?

[TheBlackThrone]

Halberd been used yet?

Yep. By my character. :) We have too many polearm users.

We have four and maybe five if you consider a staff a polearm. I do.

You guys also forgot that lockepick's character has duel daggers too lol.

[Revenent]

You guys also forgot that lockepick's character has duel daggers too lol.

I didn't consider it an issue. We can't have unique weapons for every single character, after all.

[Lockepick]

I think it's worth noting for the new person, regardless. I know there are only so many weapon choices in the world, but the player might still prefer something unique if possible!

Bastian's daggers are more of an arcane focus than an actual stabby-stabby. Plus, they're hardly that unique of a concept -- I've got no problem with somebody else having them for the record.

[Crash]

Okay I have my theme music as long as no one has taken Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.  Now all I need is a Victory motto and I will be able to post a finished character when I get home from work.

[Revenent]

I think it's worth noting for the new person, regardless. I know there are only so many weapon choices in the world, but the player might still prefer something unique if possible!

Bastian's daggers are more of an arcane focus than an actual stabby-stabby. Plus, they're hardly that unique of a concept -- I've got no problem with somebody else having them for the record.

True, I didn't think about it that way. My apologies.

Okay I have my theme music as long as no one has taken Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.  Now all I need is a Victory motto and I will be able to post a finished character when I get home from work.

Looking forward to it. ;D

By the way, anybody who's submitted a finished character application, whether through this thread or through PM to me, if you haven't yet received a PM from me, or a reply to a PM conversation we were having, let me know. I think I've either approved or at least responded to every application currently up, but I just want to make sure.

[la dame en noir]

Do I need to change my concept?

[Crash]

Submitted Character

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name: Gidget O’Shae
Age: 19
Enrollment Age: 10
Gender:  Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDnJ0vXUgw

Weapon: Twin Machetes

Weapon Description

Specialization: Environment-Target Magic/Survival Tactics

Magic

Level 1
Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Slow
Level 2
Fira, Blizzara, Thundara, Aero, Stop

Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: “Well that was interesting…”
“GRUND SMASH!”
“Any day you’re alive is a good day.”

Limit Break: Battlefield Supremacy Limit Break Description: The terrain Gidget is in revolts against her enemies.  Rivers rise to drown and wash her enemies away, the plants and trees tangle and grasp, sinkholes open up underneath them and avalanches swallow them whole.

Personality: Gidget is spunky and outgoing.  You would not guess that she spent a years in the Grandidi forest her only companion her guardian force Grund.  It is rare not to find Gidget lazing around (other than when she is in the pool).  She is always active and loves sports and competitions of all kinds whether she is good at them or not.  For her it isn’t her against her competition it is her against herself as she is supremely confident.  Her confidence is more irrepressible than annoying, though her pension for playfulness can get her in trouble with her higher ups.  Part of her hyperactivity is she dislikes feeling confined and indoors.  Even after all these years at the Garden she is more comfortable in nature than in the Garden’s artificial halls.

Gidgets demeanor takes a noticeable change when she gets out of the city and into the country side.  She is more relaxed and much more alert to her surroundings.    Her survival skills are impressive and she has been assigned to take candidates out into the wilderness for survival training from time to time.  These survival exercises are the only time anyone has heard Gidget reprimand or yell at one of her peers.  Wilderness survival is no joke, not even for Gidget.

Backstory:  Gidget’s parents were famous researchers who had braved a number of expeditions into the wilder places of the continent.  For Gidget these expeditions were nothing more that great adventures.  She grew up in tents and hunting lodges and had seen more of the world at the age of eight than most adults had seen in their lives.  Despite her parents responsibilities they made sure she was educated and looked after.  The world was her playground until a research expedition into the Grandidi Forest changed her life forever. 

Gidget had wandered away from camp.  She could not have been gone for more than an hour and she thought it was strange than no one had come looking for her.  When she returned to the camp to find out why everyone in the camp was gone.  She thought they had left her, but everything was still there.  All of her things and her parents and the rest of the expedition’s equipment and supplies were there.  She waited and waited and cried and cried, but no one came…no one until Grund.

Gidget and Grund looked for her parents and the rest for a long, long time.  She had no idea how long, but at least she had a friend in the giant elemental spirit to keep her company.  She liked talking and Grund was a good listener and she learned much about the forest and the swamps and the plains from Grund when she was quiet enough to listen to the forever patient boulder.  Two years of wandering ended when the companions happened upon the outskirts of a town and Gidget was brought to Balamb Garden for training.

The skills Gidget had acquired in the wilds and from Grund helped her excel in her training as had the teachings of her parents which she had not forgotten.  Gidget’s rise through the ranks might have been faster if it wasn’t for her hyperactive nature and trouble maintaining the discipline necessary for becoming a full SeeD member.  As it is she has recently been promoted from Candidate to Cadet in hopes that the additional responsibility would mellow out some of her personality quirks.  In a way it has been a success.  When on assignment, away from the Garden, Gidget’s manic personality fades some in the dangerous wild.

Appearance

In Uniform

GF APPLICATION
Name: Grund
Established Connection:  Grund heard Gidget crying in the forest when she was 8 years old.  Something about the girl peaked the elemental spirit’s interest so he went to see what was wrong.  The girl showed no fear at the sight of massive spirit, only curiosity.  Despite the girl’s seeming impatience and constant questions Grund agreed to help her find her parents, however how Grund perceives time and how Gidget does are very different, so started their journey and friendship together.  Grund’s patience and thoughtfulness have a calming effect on Gidget and her inquisitiveness and energy fascinate Grund.
Element: Earth

Description

Bonus:  +Stamina, +Defense, +Magic Power, +Survival Skills
Special Attack: Earthquake Special Attack Description: Grund can shake the ground with a pounding of his giant fists that sends out a giant shockwave.  This shockwave knocks foes off of their feet and out of the air, leaving them temporarily dazed and open for attack.

Character Journal

Gidget has a habit of ambushing her friends (and aquaintances), often pounce hugging them when they least expect it.

[Idej]

Alright I have a few ideas then.

For a weapon that is.

Kusari-gama

Hook swords

Urumi

or

Shadow manipulation

[Revenent]

Alright I have a few ideas then.

For a weapon that is.

Kusari-gama

Hook swords

Urumi

or

Shadow manipulation

The first three, to my knowledge, are available. :-) The last one would be kind of hard to explain in this particular universe, except as maybe an LB...

[la dame en noir]

Hey! Revenent, I sent you a PM.

[Idej]

I assume someone has already taken Bahamut?

[Mossberg]

Yes, one of the NPC's have him.

[Inari]

Profile all edited and finished. Let me know how it is!

[Inari]

I just realised that I totally messed up on the application with the specialisation. All corrected now! >.<

[Idej]

Profile will be established sometime this week.

[Inari]

CHARACTER APPLICATION

Leto

Name: Leto Visburn
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Male

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_8SjoDcku4

Weapon: Oathkeeper
Weapon Description:

weapon

Specialization: Partisan Accolade/Martial Artist
Extra Skills: Wielder of Qi - In an effort to calm his inner storm and keep his mental strength up Leto has gotten into the routine of performing martial arts techniques in a controlled manner. While it may look like he is slowly dancing to an invisible tune you are mistaken. With the proper speed, reflex and force those very moves will disable anyone.
Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: "It's ok, you can cry if you want to."
Limit Break: Celestial Wind
Limit Break Description: Leto will spin his partisan around to create a cyclone around and he will then slash the target multiple times for 10 seconds. (estimated total of 8-9 hits)
Personality: When he was younger he was naive about the world and was quite trusting, however as he has grown older he has learned the hard way not to trust everyone and how to hide his honest thoughts and feelings, even around his sister. These days he puts the mask of being a charming, flirtatious, gentleman that can be a very perverted, wicked and mischievous simply when he feels like it. On the inside, he is always assessing people for their intentions and worthiness to see his real self.
What shows that he is the older twin is the fact that he is quite mature for his age, refuses to rely on anyone for help and considering how he appears on the outside he is more insightful than one would think.


GF APPLICATION

GF

Name: Alexander
Established Connection:  Yet to meet him.
Element: Holy
Bonus: Revive,Vitality+, Mana+
Special Attack: Divine Judgement
Special Attack Description: Alexander will then open his wings to unleash holy missiles do holy damage to the enemy/s.

Backstory:

Leto and Senka were born with an hour between them to loving parents who doted on them. Everything seemed perfect and set out for the family to do well. Their father had a stable job as a news anchor now the network had been reactivated for so many years and their mother simply stayed at home. Their "perfect" life was thrown into chaos when they travelled to a sea town for a holiday.

While the twins were left with the hotel's child care service their parents went out for a spot of evening sighting only to not come back. Once it was midday the staff contacted the local police who began a search for the parents. It was late evening when their bodies were found at the bottom of a cliff a few hours drive away from the town. The duo didn't realise it, but a year before the incident that took their parent's life they had applied for the twins to go to Galbadia Garden once they were twelve, however, the garden was prepared to take them early considering the circumstances.

Life was very different and hard to adjust to in Galbadia, especially considering the circumstances of their enrollment and the strict and unloving environment they now had to endure. It was when they were thirteen that they discovered what had happened to their parents and that it only took a few days for their parent's death to be classed as a cold case. This gave them both a wake-up call that made them change from generally good children to the rebellious pranksters they are now.

They have been transferred to Balamb garden because the administrators of Galbadia cannot take their antics any much longer. While their talent in class and combat is recognised they felt that their behaviour outweighed their worth as students. Galbadia does not want their training to go to waste and hope that somehow Balamb can straighten out the twins.

Character Journal

To start:

They have transferred to Balamb and rumors from Galbadia of their mischievous nature and antics have travelled ahead of them.

[Inari]

CHARACTER APPLICATION

Senka

Name: Senka Visburn
Age: 18
Enrollment Age: 7
Gender: Female

Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWkhgm1gmc&list=PLSOJncUyg7nKfDHAt8iwUKnfulCUhgVFA&index=438

Weapon: Oathbreaker
Weapon Description:

Weapon

Talis: A fairly new piece of technology which the user can simply strap to their belt. When needed, the light machine simply needs to be taken from where it is holstered and will then eject photon cards, on command, which the user throws at their target to deal normal damage. The user can also cast spells onto such as fire, ice, blizzard, poison and silence to deal extra damage and or status effects. 
Specialization: Tri-Magic (uses status only magic from all three areas.)
Extra Skills: Something out of nothing - Senka's mischievous streak over the years has given her a little "talent" to create tools, and occasionally weapons out of seemingly everyday objects. Nothing is safe from her prankster antics.
Need a stink bomb but the garden science lab is locked up tight? Not a problem for lil' Senka! All you need is a boiled egg or two and a sock (stinky one would be an extra good idea!) Then carefully place it behind a radiator in the desired room and leave to brew. They'll never see it coming! Fufufufu~
Spell List:

White Magic

Level 1:

• Scan
• Haste

Grey Magic

Level 1:

• Sleep
• Blind

Current Ranking: Cadet
Victory Motto: "What's wrong? Did I ruin your hair?"
Limit Break: Toxic Tears
Limit Break Description: Senka will fire multiple talis cards (roughly10-20)into the air and will cast a random status effect on them which has a 25% fail rate depending on resistance check. If there is a mage in the party there is a 50% possibility of adding random elemental damage. To finish, she will cast Esuna to remove all status effects on the party.
Personality: When she was younger she was a bit of a crybaby and was prone to being a little more emotionally sensitive than most children. However, this has changed as she has grown up. These days she tends to be more confident, teasing and playful in nature, sometimes to the point of irritation. Her heart is an open book as she believes in hiding nothing about herself and expects the same from others. What truly shows she is the younger twin is the fact that she more immature and has a hot temper compared to her brother and is dependent on him for mental and emotional support, often to the point that it has ruined any possible relationships for either of them.


GF APPLICATION

GF

Name: Dark Falz
Established Connection:  Yet to meet him.
Element: Time/Space/Dark
Bonus: Recover,Vitality+, Mana+
Special Attack: Corruption of Time
Special Attack Description: Falz will call upon lances of time to hold and stop time for all enemies for approximately two turns after he has vanished and cast haste on all party members.

Backstory:

Leto and Senka were born with an hour between them to loving parents who doted on them. Everything seemed perfect and set out for the family to do well. Their father had a stable job as a news anchor now the network had been reactivated for so many years and their mother simply stayed at home. Their "perfect" life was thrown into chaos when they travelled to a sea town for a holiday.

While the twins were left with the hotel's child care service their parents went out for a spot of evening sighting only to not come back. Once it was midday the staff contacted the local police who began a search for the parents. It was late evening when their bodies were found at the bottom of a cliff a few hours drive away from the town. The duo didn't realise it, but a year before the incident that took their parent's life they had applied for the twins to go to Galbadia Garden once they were twelve, however, the garden was prepared to take them early considering the circumstances.

Life was very different and hard to adjust to in Galbadia, especially considering the circumstances of their enrollment and the strict and unloving environment they now had to endure. It was when they were thirteen that they discovered what had happened to their parents and that it only took a few days for their parent's death to be classed as a cold case. This gave them both a wake-up call that made them change from generally good children to the rebellious pranksters they are now.

They have been transferred to Balamb garden because the administrators of Galbadia cannot take their antics any much longer. While their talent in class and combat is recognised they felt that their behaviour outweighed their worth as students. Galbadia does not want their training to go to waste and hope that somehow Balamb can straighten out the twins.

Character Journal

To start:

They have transferred to Balamb and rumors from Galbadia of their mischievous nature and antics have travelled ahead of them.

[PhantomPistoleer]

WIP.

CHARACTER APPLICATION
Name:  Victor Merryweather
Age: 17
Enrollment Age: 5
Gender:  Male

Theme Song

https://youtu.be/2rSw4Xl5qfs

Weapon: By Right or By Might Weapon Description: By Right or by Might is an 8' ranseur pole-arm with a jagged blade.  The weapon belonged to his mother, Adeen, who died while giving birth to him.  The weapon is magical:  it empowers Victor's leaping ability and breaks his long-distance falls, is nigh-unbreakable, and maintains itself free of blood.

Specialization:  Advanced Military Operations {Dragoon}
Extra Skills: Close-Combat, Calvary Charge;
Current Ranking: Candidate
Victory Motto:  "Typical."
Limit Break: A Dragoon's Response Limit Break Description:  Victor Merryweather pauses for a moment, and then coils his steel limbs, crouching low.  Then, he leaps high into the air, clearing nearly 100 yards.  He then descends down upon his enemy, and pounces them with a devastating blow from his ranseur.  With his ranseur interred, Victor snarls as he tears it out and hops off of his enemy.

Personality:  Victor Merryweather is a brooding, violent sort.  He is generally taciturn, and he dislikes almost everything.  He is not academic, and hates to study.  He likes to fight, drink, and chase skirts.  Victor likes his older brother, Abel, but the two are very different people.  The two are regularly seen around town or at the quad, hanging out.

Victor isn't romantic and is bored of women his age.  He can be sarcastic or an aggressive brute.  The young man enjoys to bleed.

Backstory:  Victor is the youngest of the Merryweather children, who were orphaned when their father fell in the line of duty.  Victor is close to his older brother, Abel, despite differences in character.

Appearance:  Victor is a very large caucasian male that participates in intense daily exercise.  He has many tattoos and a few scars.  He is very muscular.

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

GF APPLICATION
Name:  Huitzilopochtli
Established Connection:  When Victor finally inherited his ranseur at the age of 10, Huitzilopochtli sought him out and conquered him.
Element:  Fire
Description: Huitzilopochtli is a frail man upon a mound of flesh and earth -- his appearance belies his might, and makes him altogether more dangerous.
Bonus:  STR-J+, DEF-J, Scan
Special Attack: Turn of the Century Special Attack Description:  The cries of wounded men bellow from below, and a frail man appears sitting upon a mound of dirt above.  He opens his burning eyes and stares at the enemy.  Vegetation grows.  Rocks erode.  And a century passes by.  The enemy becomes bone and then dust, and is interspersed into the horizon.  Then, the century unwinds, returning the enemy to the status quo -- but he is injured mentally and spiritually by his ultimate fate regardless of what happens today.

Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide

Character Journal

[Inari]

That stomach staple... ouch...

[Fenrir]

That stomach staple... ouch...

I went through the trouble of looking specifically for the picture- instead of just reading just because of your comment.  I agree ouch... but then again I also have other thoughts about the picture... dem tats and abs :3

[Inari]

I agree that he is nom indeed... but still. Ouch. D:

[PhantomPistoleer]

He gets injured a lot.  Maybe he just likes to get stitched by the pretty nurses.

[Inari]

I think Senka would like to stitch him up but not in "healing" way and more in the "you just got punked" way. <.<

[Fenrir]

He definitely seems like a Nurse Tung kind of guy *smirks*

[Inari]

He'd be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-UftBHk9A

[PhantomPistoleer]

I think Senka would like to stitch him up but not in "healing" way and more in the "you just got punked" way. <.<

Describe to me this "you just got punked" way?

[Inari]

She would likely sign him up to be a nude model for art class and then get someone to tell him that a nurse or someone wanted to talk to him about something private in the art room. I think you'd see where that would end up...fufufufufu~

[PhantomPistoleer]

She would likely sign him up to be a nude model for art class and then get someone to tell him that a nurse or someone wanted to talk to him about something private in the art room. I think you'd see where that would end up...fufufufufu~

Ah.  Well, he's ...  sort of mean.  He would probably respond with, "How would you like me to break your jaw?  With my fist or with my dick?"  But some girls dig that.

[Inari]

After he finds out? She'd play all innocent and pretend not to know what he is talking about, theeeeeen would likely grab the attention of everyone to the meanie who is bullying her. <.< The troll is strong with this one...

[Astrofig]

holy fuck is this still open?

[Fenrir]

holy fuck is this still open?

Thanks for that 'holy fuck.'  I like to pretend it's cuz we're so awesome ;D  Anyway yes, it is currently still open!  Also all those that have state interest but have not submitted characters please, still feel free to do so.  I have also just updated the initial posting to include correct links (mainly for the Information Guide which is in the process of being revamped)


We currently have 44 active characters (39 which are posting regularly and 5 yet to make an introduction post) - as a note of interest, we have plenty of long pole arms/spears/halberd or I'm sure there's some sort of name for that general category but it escapes me at the moment.  So I would stay away from that type of weapon.  Revenent is handling new characters so you can post it here (and he will get a hold of you) or PM it to him.

[Idej]

sorry for the delays.  6 day work week killed me.  Still very interested.

[Fenrir]

sorry for the delays.  6 day work week killed me.  Still very interested.

Glad to see your still interested Idej.  I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with and I hope that work let's you relax some, it can be very trying sometimes!

[Idej]

Yeah it can be. I should be ready soon..hopefully.

FFVIII was the game that got me into FF to begin with.  Was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played which got me into the other ones.  So it kind of has a special place in my heart regardless of what people say. :)

[la dame en noir]

Yeah it can be. I should be ready soon..hopefully.

FFVIII was the game that got me into FF to begin with.  Was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played which got me into the other ones.  So it kind of has a special place in my heart regardless of what people say. :)

Don't worry - I'm the same way! :3