[E X A L T E D] Pseudo-Modern Action Fantasy; Recruiting One Unique Role

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Rashol

@shengami 
"Oh, still noodling the Hollow sense? It is a neat one. The fear variant or the minimap?"

Either/both. I find if difficult to give up an idea I like. But it feels so detached from the arcanite transporter guy/girl.

Aethyrium

Quote from: shengami on April 27, 2024, 06:52:42 AMI just know one NPC in the game has a pair of pistols that he can sort of rearrange into an assault rifle.
Had. HAD a pair of pistols he could combine into an assault rifle. Until YOU dropped it down a bottomless pit!

Juggtacular

Quote from: Aethyrium on April 27, 2024, 09:38:16 AMHad. HAD a pair of pistols he could combine into an assault rifle. Until YOU dropped it down a bottomless pit!


FyreFoxx

Quote from: Rashol on April 27, 2024, 08:58:01 AM@shengami
"Oh, still noodling the Hollow sense? It is a neat one. The fear variant or the minimap?"

Either/both. I find if difficult to give up an idea I like. But it feels so detached from the arcanite transporter guy/girl.

If you think about it, Hollow Sense would make perfect sense on a transporter, helping to make the way ahead clear. Just perhaps work on dialing in its range and efficiency?

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Juggtacular

Hollow Sense is cool. They could get a cold shiver down their spine and the world around them goes quiet in their own perception.

CurvyKitten

Strength ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Stamina  ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Speed    ●● |    
Shimmer  ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○
Soul    ●● |   ○ ○ ○
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Melee    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Ranged  ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Elemental Affinity | Weakness

Lightning, sonic | Water
Terrain Specialty | Weakness
urban | Mountain, forest
Aurora"Roar"Torvoe


curvykitten

Ancestry: Human
Gender | Pronouns: Female | She / They
Sexuality: Pansexual
Age: 19
Height: 5'8"
Body Build:  leanly muscular, lithe, and well tone
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Blue

Weapon
Two bands(bracers?) , one on each of Roar's ankle and lower shins. They were keenly developed to work with their quick kickboxing style. These bands have places held within them that can have different Arcanite placed within it to have different effects take place. The tech developers at the academy are working on figuring out what Arcanite to use and what effects it has. 
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Shimmer
Roar's shimmer comes with the roll of thunder but its the flash of lighting that is the real power. She moves through it with speeds nearly unseen before now. And then strikes with the force and energy of a lighting strike. This ability takes time to build up over the course of a encounter.(think having to build up energy or static to fill a battery)
Special Trait  
Roar has studied opponent after opponent for the past three years straight. Roar has learned to study an opponent for a short period of time during a battle and become able to figure out their weak points.

Where were you born? Whom, if anyone, do you consider family? Where are they, and what is your relationship with them like?
Even with the city of Johtan there are those that are less than fortunate. Those that get walked on and live in the area that are "bad" neighborhoods. Her family being of low worker social standing. She has five six younger siblings all of which she has been taking care of since her parents' passing. She has been taking care of them, acting as the adult even before she was one herself.
What sort of life did you have before you decided to attend a Battle Academy? How did people react to your decision?
Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears? 
It was a rough life despite living in such a grand city like Johtan. Aroura and her family were the working class that supported that city. After her parents died she became the breadwinner for the household. When the opportunity came up to join the academy it seemed too good to resist. Yes it meant time away from her family, but it meant she could support them better. She could send them money and support them in ways that wouldn't be possible if she stayed with them. And honestly Roar knew it was just a matter of time before she died in those pits under the city.


Aurora found herself becoming a champion in the pits, taking on the show name Roar. And fighting with these boots augmented to be weapons that worked perfectly with her enhanced speed and kick boxing style. With these weapons and the need to support her family she faced bout after bout and took endless punishment to support them. So when Brice Aldrin watched one of her fights and approached her about possibly joining the battle academy, Roar jumped at the possibility.   
Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears? Roar's main reason for becoming a champion is her family. They are her main driving force, she would face the world for them. Her only fear is letting them down, and not being enough to protect them. Failing them, and having them face the darkness of the world ill prepared.






How did you acquire your skills before coming to Hammer? Who taught you?
What is your greatest accomplishment or thing you are most proud of? What is your greatest failure or thing you regret the most?
Roar gained her skills from her father and her lifestyle. Her father was her couch of course. It started as learning to defend herself. But then as her skills and love for the sport of kickboxing grew he leaned into it and began teaching her on how to really compete in the fighting sport. With her family being her biggest cheering squad and her father her main trainer she was thought to become a champ! But after her parents died everything fell apart. Everything fell onto her shoulders, and she failed so badly it hurt. Her family had to move outside the city to survive. Roar began traveling into the city every night and battling in the underground bouts to make the money she needed to support her six siblings.


Briefly talk about your character's initial reaction to being partnered and then teamed. Were they excited? Hard to work with? Distant? Friendly and engaging?
Open, easy to get to know, but clearly determined. Roar would want to get to know their team. Knowing all too well it takes a village. And more than anything missing her village. It's probably way too quiet for her here. Especially in the dorms. As tough as Aurora seems...cuddles they need cuddles.

List three (or more!) notably truths about you that your teammates have learned over the last month together.
Roar has six younger siblings that they love dearly, pics and letters roll in and out all the time. Most of the money she gets goes to the family. So Arcanite isn't something she gets really often. So Roar's trains to fight without it while having to fight who knows what is coming her way. She'd ask to spar against you or any other students whenever she had a chance.


They would eventually see countless scars on her body from the pit fights. She'd dance around the subject for a long while. Saying she'd do what needed to be done to help her family survive. But if probed a bit more later on, she'd open up eventually about getting into some fights. And how some were paid for, the cash helped when the money was really tight.

She has never been outside of the larger cities, so in all honesty survival in the outdoors is not her thing. Bugs, dirt, no indoor plumbing, weird animals. Give her the concrete jungle any day and Roar will survive anything you throw at them. But through them in the middle of the woods they would be lost for days.

She pinches every penny! But not because she wants to be cheap, but because she has a lot of responsibilities to pay for. 

List one or more (different!) things that people outside of your team might have noticed about you while attending Hammer
Roar is protective of her teammates, and she is a little quick to anger when it comes to do so.

Roar is a hard worker, constantly challenging others to spar and is known for learning what makes you tick.

Roar is a bit of a player and a flirt, but doesn't seem to be committed to anyone. And doesn't seem eager to change that.

List two or more things that you have done in the last month, beyond going to classes and learning?
Roar knew she needed to send as much money as possible home, but she also needed money for school, arcanite, and food...yeah food would be nice. Thankfully Roar had a source of income that she could always fall back on. And it was one that she could easily find her way into. After a few phone calls Roar had the location of the underground fights within the area. Not wanting to get kicked out of school. She wears a hoodie and mask, most think of it as a gimmick, but Roar it's a way to keep the two worlds separate. Roar has quickly been working their way up the ranks till finally just recently taking on and taking out the champ! The bulk of the winning she sent home of course.


Hanging out, kicking back (secretly healing) and hanging out with her teammates whenever they were just around to do so. Roar wouldn't have the funds to just go about and paint the town red. So she is very much a homebody, not used to being able to go. Having a family to look after, six siblings to wrangle, and finances to worry about. This is all so strange and going to take a lot of getting used to. She still sleeps with several pillows around her.

List a few (3-5) things that you values and seems to play a role in how you interact with the world.

Family and friendship - It's easy to see that family and friendship means the most to Aurora. It kills her to be away from hers, but with regular check-ins, the fact that she has a team by her side helps.

loyalty - Roar admits that once you are part of her unit or family that she is utterly loyal. But she also admits that it goes both ways.

effort/work ethic - Roar is no stranger to work. Working hard was something her family always instilled in her of course. But after her parents passed she had to take on everything just to keep her family together. And she did it, Roar fought, figuratively and literally, she worked and fought for them all. And still does. So she hates lazy people or people who won't even try. 

FOOD! Aurora has a hell of an appetite due to the strain her powers and her training has on her body. So she can pack away the food. So gives her the yummy food and she will be your friend forever. 

Finally, come up with one plot hook that you would like to explore with your teammates. Something about your character / their story that you're very eager to showcase or have play an early role in their experience.
Anything with her family, or the fact that she feels lonely now. Sleeps with six pillows, and writes letters home all the time, calls or gets calls, even late at night when the youngest can't sleep, sort of deal. Or the fact that the team may be becoming a sort of family itself. <,<...>.> this is totally not an excuse for cuddles...totally.


 As her ankle bracers are still under development.

That fact that she still participates in the underground fights to send extra money to her family. Though she gets a stipend from the city. That was for her gear, and even if she was to send it all to her family. It wasn't enough to support seven people. So Roar turns back to the best and fastest way she knows how to make money. And with a few phone calls she is back into the underground fighting ring. 





Yukina

Quote from: Aethyrium on April 25, 2024, 10:38:45 PMLet's see here...!

New image is workable, thank you for that. Do you mind if we do some cropping so it fits the 225x300 framework typically used? I can take care of edits and hosting for you, if that's easier. I just really prefer more or less uniformity from player headers.

Okay so this updated weapon with the air power enough to glide but not attack. This seems a reasonable property for it to have. I want to kind of get a feel for what you're thinking about her everyday use. I assume your intent is to tie this to her combat style, and have it be semi-aerial and mobile. But on the daily, I wanna make sure that we're clear that... People flying around is not really a thing that happens. If she like, tries to go gliding through town there are liable to be issues (remember that Silenus discrimination is a real thing, and this is a surefire way to draw very negative attention)... I guess the thing I want to make sure here is that the tone doesn't suffer a hit - her using her wings as a combat trick, and generally in the course of her role as a champion is one thing. But what I don't want is the weapon being used as this omni-present wind generator that has her may-as-well-be-flying all the time. Wings are a decidedly rare Silenus trait that weren't really intended for player use... So I wanna balance letting you do your fun thing with also having told other Silenus concepts that they had to stick to the script.

Alright, so her origins, looks like you edited back to the Mirat bit. So if I'm understanding, she was trained by Bojack, and then her friends finally convinced her to go join the Red Fang, and then... That would have been when the Red Fang assigned her to go travel with some of their people to Onyx. And Bojack approved of this, and used his connections at that point to help her get into Hammer? Which implies Bojack is a member of the Red Fang (which is fine by me). Am I tracking this right?

If so, then I think we're good. If Torina ends up being selected, you and I will need to do a little plotting about the Red Fang and figuring out some timing and stuff.
I'll gladly accept your cropping expertise, Aethy. :)

Perfectly understood with the wings. Her combat still is a mix of gliding and super good parkour, so no need to worry about flight being too constant or attracting to much bad attention :)

You're on point about Bojack.

I'm looking forward to hopefully talking about the Red Fang with you if that occurs then. :)



OT: There are so many familiar faces I've seen from game old and new I've been in and it fills me with joy!


Rashol

@FyreFoxx 
Oh the original was never efficient. That was sort of the point. It could never be relied on in a pinch.

I'll think more. But I guess I just need to cast up what I have. And leave out what I haven't. And see if I can come up with anything at all...

shengami

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Amarlo

Mugi Stone 2.1 == refining stuff on hooks. Well, the last two inquiries, actually.



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Stamina  ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Speed    ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Shimmer  ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Soul    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Brawl    ●● | ● ● ○ ○ ○
Melee    ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Ranged  ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Elemental Affinity | Weakness
Sound, air | Fire, Water

Terrain Specialty | Weakness
Urban, Forest | Desert

Mugi Stone


Amarlo

Ancestry: Silenus (Crow)
Gender | Pronouns: Cis-female | She/her
Sexuality: Hetero

Age: 19 soon 20
Height: 5’1”
Body Build: Curvaceous
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Heterochromatic Silver & Purple


Weapon




Upon first glance it just looks like some old rusted Kanabo, almost like a five and a half foot long spiky baseball bat, but this is a thing of beauty. When gripped, the device reads the details of her hands before activating, causing the border of every spike to light up with a malevolent purple. With every impact it absorbs the energy, taking her strength and multiplying it until her opponent is turned into ground beef. On the flip side it can also provide a much needed safe haven. Pulsing to life from the very tippy top, hard light flares out in a large circle like a big translucent umbrella.

Shimmer
Freeze Frame - An ability which allows her to freeze people and/or things within 20 feet range of sight for a single second at a time. This is not a time based ability so much as telekinetic, making people aware they were frozen.

Special Trait - ?
Suggestion: Mugi has True Grit which allows her to grit through the pain when receiving wounds and emotional trauma. It’s not that she doesn’t feel it but she can shove it into the back of her mind until it's safer to open that hellhole box later.

Silenus Advantage

Uncanny Equilibrium
Represents a crow's ability to adapt and adjust to competing extremes of motion and sometimes even pressure. Thus a crow with this ability can balance all of these external factors so as to always maintain a regulated sense of pressure and balance. Such as during flight. Thus, Mugi is capable of adjusting her position by instinct, enabling her to balance herself on surfaces as narrow as a pencil.



Where were you born? Whom, if anyone, do you consider family? Where are they, and what is your relationship with them like?

It’s assumed that Mugi was born somewhere in Onyx city. She was found wandering somewhere in the eastern quarter when she was turned into the state. She was never claimed, assumed the surname of the city’s abandoned and spent the majority of her childhood between orphanages and foster homes. As such she doesn’t actually know her genetic lineage. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t have people she considers important to her like family, however. She has many ‘siblings’. Note: Stone is the last name the city gives children who have been surrendered to them but not adopted out.

Medina Guerrero - 72  – Dead – Foster Guardian
Virginia Mason - 24 – Eastern Quarter PD - Bunk Sister
Arata Stone - 18 – Black Lotus, Western Quarter - Bunk Brother, Mongrel Brother
Missy Zynthean - 19 – Dead - Bunk Sister, Mongrel Sister
Aine Stone – 17 – Foster care, Eastern Quarter – Bunk sister
Emmette Stone – 15 – MIA, Eastern Quarter – Bunk Brother, Mongrel brother

Emmanuel Jorsen – 31 – Black Lotus, Central – Mongrel Sponsor
Whitney Ashida – 29 – Black Lotus, Western – Mongrel Sponsor
Xyxel Dane – 21 – MIA – Mongrel Brother
Keira Drake – 20 – Black Lotus, Eastern Quarter – Mongrel Sister
Jorge Gaines –  20 – Black Lotus, Southern Quarter – Mongrel Brother
Lance Kuso – 19 – Black Lotus, Southern Quarter – Mongrel Brother
Seiza Loveless – 18 – Dead – Mongrel sister
Jackson Imperial – 17 – Dead – Mongrel brother

What sort of life did you have before you decided to attend a Battle Academy? How did people react to your decision?
…That is one long complicated story. As far as what’s on paper? Mugi was abandoned as a toddler and taken in as a ward of the city. She spent much of her childhood dealing with rotten children and rotten adults while moving in and out of foster homes, orphanages and state funded group homes they used to toss their older wards into.

At one point she was almost convinced she was born from a hollow. After all, if you grow up hearing it enough you start to believe it. Her Silenus resemblance to one of Toil’s most well known hollows had many dumb kids, and even some dumb adults, taking out their fear, grief and anger on her. She was eventually tired of being bullied and started fighting back with a vengeance, getting her into all sorts of trouble throughout her teen years. Then even more so when she and some friends were sucked into gang activity. Maybe that was why everyone was so shocked, and in some cases felt betrayed, when she decided to break away and become a champion. But after what happened? After everything blew up in her face? Who could blame her for trying to claw her way out?

Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears?
Guilt and duty. Guilt is a constant companion pushing her towards her goals, which are best served as a champion. There are people she failed and lost. That she helped lead into disaster in the first place that she feels she owes a debt, and this seems like the best way to repay it. Additionally, she grew tired of feeling sorry for herself. She was ashamed that she allowed herself to feel so victimized she let it turn her into a monster. A monster every bit as similar to the hollow they accused her of being.

As such it is her goal to prove otherwise, both to herself and those idiots. She wants to help create a world where less children have to grow up like her and her fellow deserted.She wants to figure out a source for the hollow. She wants to study their reproductive habits, and perhaps help find a way to stunt their population to more manageable sizes. She wants to lead by example, so those friends she once fought beside know that they can make something more of themselves. That they can leave that life they thought they had to live. She also wants to personally have a hand in the Black Lotus's destruction.

That said, she’s afraid she’ll never know where she came from. That she’ll never know why she was wandering the East quarter alone, or who her family was. She’s afraid she’ll get sucked back into her old world. That she will forever feel like an imposter among heroes. More than that, she’s afraid of making another mistake.


How did you acquire your skills before coming to Hammer? Who taught you?
It started in her early childhood. As you can imagine many of the kids trapped living together under one roof had some behavioral issues, considering they were either abandoned or grieving the death of their parents. Bullying ran rampant. Children were little shits. The facility’s rules were unproductive. Cliques became a thing early on – more like packs. They protected their own. She learned to fight through experience either defending herself or those of her little pack. She grew very close to her bunk siblings.

However, her skills didn’t truly start blooming until she was in her mid teens. A year older than her, one of their pack was tempted into a honey trap that became a domino effect for the rest of their bunk. Each year new orphans were recruited into the Mongrels – a gang name definitely created by dumb teenagers. It was a junior cell meant to eventually graduate into full fledged Black Lotus. They had two sponsors, mentors of sorts, from the Lotus’ that were given the task of raising these pups into beasts.

Meanwhile, she was being fostered by her third wanna-be guardian. Except this woman was…special. Instead of chaining Mugi down with attempts at discipline and punishment, she gave her something else to focus her energy on. She kept Mugi on her toes, helping her harness the relentless tension gripping her for something more productive. Guerrero was a retired Champion, you see. She had Mugi under her belt for two and a half years before she passed.

What is your greatest accomplishment or thing you are most proud of? What is your greatest failure or thing you regret the most?
The first mixed martial arts competition Mugi ever won was as the student of Guerrero, Jorsen and Ashida. The thrill. The rush of excitement. The proud knowing the old woman seemed to have in her eyes. It wasn’t even a major competition! But it was the first time anyone looked at her like she could make something of herself.

She let Guerrero die alone while she was busy being rebellious, destructive and angsty with her fellow Mongrels. It still haunts Mugi to this day.




Briefly talk about your character's initial reaction to being partnered and then teamed. Were they excited? Hard to work with? Distant? Friendly and engaging?
Mugi was very nervous, and although her voice was quiet and she wasn't the most chatty, she tried her best to be amiable.

List three (or more!) notably truths about you that your teammates have learned over the last month together.

Mugi claims to have 11 siblings, but also has the last name Stone.

Mugi brought a blanket with her that she is very protective of and sleeps with every night. She once thought it went missing and looked ready to slaughter everyone in the entire building. Including her team. After finding the blanket she mumbled an apology and wouldn’t look anyone in the eye again for the rest of the night. She did, however, crawl straight into bed with her blanket and a book.

Mugi can be bought with good food…but can’t cook worth a damn. Her favorite meal to cook in the dorms is what she calls “fancy ramen”, a doctored up version of instant ramen.

Mugi reacts more dramatically to loud noises or being snuck up on than your typical pretty princess.

Her hair isn’t actually hair, but is made of the same downy barb fibers as on feathers. 

She gets distracted by cool toys, both for kids and gaming.

Don’t talk to her in the morning until she gets her first cup of coffee.

List one or more (different!) things that people outside of your team might have noticed about you while attending Hammer

Mugi will drink you under the table.

Mugi will try to turn any sort of studying into some kind of game or a stupid song. She hates normal book studying. On that note, she also likes to make terrible puns when the opportunity presents itself.

Did I mention Mugi can be bought with food?

Threatened to gut another student in the first week of classes, for apparently touching her earwings.

Thinks obstacle courses are playgrounds.

List two or more things that you have done in the last month, beyond going to classes and learning?
Mugi took some of the stipends each student is allowed during attendance, left the island and went to the Eastern Quarter. There she went grocery shopping, bought a bunch of groceries but didn’t return with any of them.

Mugi took some of the stipends each student is allowed during attendance, left the island and went to the Eastern Quarter. There she went supply shopping, but didn’t return with any of them.
Mugi largely stays up on the island as much as she can, not that she hides from people. She will go out in groups, but she tries to busy herself with fun thing in the safety of the academy grounds.
List a few (3-5) things that you values and seems to play a role in how you interact with the world.
Mugi is very interested in gathering money itself.

Mugi has an instinctive urge to perch in high places…

She really loves to play.

She wants to make friends, but she’s terrified of how they’ll react if they find out about how much of a wretch she is.

Mugi has an intense protective streak when it comes to females. This isn’t a sexual thing.

She is protective of her fellow "siblings". Even if she is disappointed and disagrees with some.

Finally, come up with one plot hook that you would like to explore with your teammates. Something about your character / their story that you're very eager to showcase or have play an early role in their experience.

Mugi knows some pretty bad people. She's trying to stay out of sight and out of mind. What if someone recognized her?

Hey Mugi, what are you spending all your money on? You are just eating ramen at home and you're not buying anything else. So what gives?


Got some dramatic adventure? General drama you wanna suck people into? Sign me up!

Medina Guerrero was once an accomplished Champion who actually managed to survive long enough to retire. It would be nice to have her remembered, if only at Hammer, to some semblance. Have little signs of her presence throughout the school.

Mugi has a terrible relationship with Black Lotus and their subsidiaries. Though limited, she has some inside knowledge to their inner workings. She also has an avid disgust for their leadership. Something happened between them and her Mongrels over the last year to change the nature of their relationship altogether.






Seduce my mind and my body will follow.
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Aethyrium

Tossing out that final countdown warning. I'll be making decisions the morning of the 30th; ~11am CST. Your sheet does not have to have gone through a feedback round to be considered, but it does need to be mostly complete so we can do last minute touch ups.

If you've been looking at the game and considering tossing out a submission, now is the time! No decisions have been made yet, so even though there are a handful of sheets already out there, you could still end up playing with a strong submission!

And I wanna just thank everyone who has taken the time to write a sheet. It's going to be tough to make decisions, there are a lot of great characters here. I really appreciate everyone's time, and am hyped to write with you ^^

Rainbae

Strength ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Stamina  ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Speed    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Shimmer  ●● | ● ● ● ● ●
Soul    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Brawl    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Melee    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Ranged  ●● | ● ● ● ● ●

Elemental Affinity | Weakness
Lightning | Fire

Terrain Specialty | Weakness
Urban | Artic

Koko Gero

Rainbae
Ancestry: Human
Gender | Pronouns: Trans Woman | She/Her
Sexuality: Pansexual

Age: 18
Height: 5’8”
Body Build: Hourglass but curvy. She definitely isn't muscular and has a good bit of chub to her even though she maintains her waistline through training.
Hair Color: Blonde/Blue
Eye Color: Green

Weapon
Power Gloves - Koko’s power gloves are inventions of her own making. These elbow length gloves are part tool and part weapon. They have as many functions as Koko can think to add to them and the list grows practically daily. She uses them to arc weld, for torque when driving in bolts and screws, as well as tools to cut any number of materials. Their other primary use is as medium ranged weapons that shoot high energy blasts of lightning to defeat enemies. When doing so she aims by pointing her hand into a finger gun and then “pulling the trigger”. They also contain various other weapons like mini rockets and lasers as well as rudimentary melee weapons, although she rarely uses them. They basically never leave her hands and even have integrated comms functions as well as a cupholder!

Shimmer
Gravity Manipulation - Koko has the ability to manipulate gravity in a short radius around her. She can make objects as well as herself heavier or lighter at will. This ability requires a decent amount of concentration and is very difficult for her to use during combat as such. However it is exceptionally useful to her for engineering things as well as use for moving through difficult terrains or doing something like clearing debris.

Special Trait - ?
?


Where were you born? Whom, if anyone, do you consider family? Where are they, and what is your relationship with them like?

Koko was born in Johtan. Specifically in Onyx to Dr. Mahandi Gero and his wife Dara. Their relationship was always a tumultuous one to say the least. Dara’s father worked for the Onyx military and desperately wanted Mahandi’s knowledge and inventions for his cause and as such he made his daughter marry him. Mahandi was kind to his wife but always distant. He never gave her much love or affection but he was respectful and caring still. His primary focus however was always his work. Even after Koko was born he still focused primarily on his work. Left without much love and with a child who wasn’t even expected to live through its first year of life Dara left Mahandi and Koko and hasn’t been back since. Koko will occasionally receive a postcard or a trinket from random places however. They never have a return address and they never say more than simply, love Mom.

She has no siblings or other major family ties however Mahandi did hire a maid to deal with home chores after his wife left him. Chandra was Koko’s only friend as a child even though she is mute. She was a warm, caring person to her and someone she loves deeply. She goes to visit Chandra more often than her father even on her days off from the Academy and always comes back bearing gifts for her teammates, usually in the form of baked goods or a casserole.

What sort of life did you have before you decided to attend a Battle Academy? How did people react to your decision?

Koko’s life before the Battle Academy was quite random and tumultuous. She was certainly someone who took whatever path she felt suited her at the time and strode boldly down it without fear. She followed many different routes before eventually landing at the Academy. Random jobs and careers that tickled her fancy at the time. She was a clockmaker, an architect, a dentist, a firefighter and briefly a seamstress as well as many other random and odd jobs. Nothing ever grabbed her fancy quite like working with her father in his lab however. Working with arcanite and building tech seemed to be where her talents lay. And although she was incredibly bummed out that she would be so boring as to follow in her father’s footsteps like everyone in her life had expected of her she reconciled that she wouldn’t prevent herself from doing something just because of the negative expectations of other people so why should she allow herself to be bogged down by positive reaction as well, even if it irked her slightly.

Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears?

Koko decided to become a champion for the simple reason that she wants to be allowed to travel more. Her goal in life is to make herself the best version of her she can be. She’s always working towards self improvement and betterment of her mind, body and soul and so she constantly looks to those around her for ways she can be better. If and when she finds someone who’s better than her at something or has a quality or trait that she deems to be superior Koko’s immediate goal becomes discovering a way to either augment herself to achieve the same results or better, or to surpass those results by circumventing them altogether. Her method of achieving this most often comes down to using her creativity to invent something that allows her to bypass physical limitations. With all of that said Koko wants to travel the world as a champion because she believes that without seeing all the people of the world she’ll never be able to reach the pinnacle of her existence. Without being able to see what great feats others around the world have achieved she won’t be able to know where the bar is to continue to surpass them. 

How did you acquire your skills before coming to Hammer? Who taught you?

Although it is quite commonly thought that Koko was taught by her father, her smarts and technical know-how are mostly self taught. Although it is not entirely true that her father had no role to play in her development. Her mind is an analytical one and without her mother around to guide her learning as a child and with her father so focussed on his work Koko ended up learning by studying the things her father created. Even the junk he threw out and discarded became something for Koko to learn from. She learned how things went together and what processes created what results not through being taught directly but by simply analyzing her father’s work and coming to conclusions on her own with her own logic. This method of learning has allowed her to be a very out of the box thinker and thus create strange inventions and tech that most people would not think up within common conventions.

What is your greatest accomplishment or thing you are most proud of? What is your greatest failure or thing you regret the most?

Koko’s greatest accomplishment is creating the body which she wished to live in. Her form as well as its internals are an ever expanding, ever evolving project and although some of the work she’s had done has been purely aesthetic she still considers it a triumph. When Koko was born her heart was incredibly weak and as such her body did not develop properly at all. Her father saved her life as an infant by replacing her weak heart with a mechanical one but the rest of her body was left damaged as well. She was barely able to walk as a child and her body was very weak and scarred. Koko has slowly requested her father work on and augment her ever since, with occasional aid from herself. She has mostly had him work to replace weak interior pieces like her lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach etc. with synthetic mechanical parts as well as using chemistry and Arcanite she’s been able to be augmented into the body she’s always wanted. As such a large portion of her body is synthetic. During training or even in the changing rooms others would be able to see easily that she has a patchwork of metal plates and wirings and such across her body. Most notably across her back are metal links in place of her spine. However with these improvements she was able to eventually turn a frail boy who didn’t have much potential in life into a woman who was able to be strong enough to make it into Hammer Academy.

Koko’s biggest regret is not living a proper childhood. Because of how she was born and the fact that her father had a reputation around town Koko never spent any time with other children as a kid. Not only could she not go out and play but many parents warned their kids not to go anywhere near Dr. Gero’s lab. As such her life was mostly spent indoors, with books and projects that her father had created. Because of this she never had much chance to be social or to have fun. She never really developed socially as well causing her to often miss quite obvious social cues and beats that might be obvious to others. She did have her maid Chandra but with her being mute Koko got very used to silence. She’s trying her best to make up for lost time now that she has a team to rely on and friends surrounding her which is cause for her goofy and silly personality. However her regrets still lay as they are, buried in her mind as distant memories that she wishes she could do something about. However not even Koko and Dr. Gero have found a way to experiment on the human mind just yet.


Briefly talk about your character's initial reaction to being partnered and then teamed. Were they excited? Hard to work with? Distant? Friendly and engaging?

Koko was exceptionally happy and excited to be paired with her team and probably quite a handful for her other team members. She was energetic and super friendly. Although she probably overdid it like crazy she should have been generally endearing and likeable. There might have been some feelings hurt and some toes stepped on when first meeting however as Koko’s immediate thought would be to try and upgrade everyone in her team. Although helpful, there’s a chance she might have insulted someone by not being gentle enough with her comments about what they lacked and how she could help them circumnavigate those deficiencies.

List three (or more!) notably truths about you that your teammates have learned over the last month together.

Koko would be very forthcoming with the fact that not only was she born a boy but a very frail and weak one. It’s not something she goes around announcing to people but she wouldn’t be worried about telling her teammates. It might come as a shock to others but she herself wouldn’t think much about it. As far as she’s concerned she simply achieved the form she wished to have without thinking about the social barriers and conventions that surround that.

Something people would have learned about Koko is that she is incredibly reliable and loyal. She says what she thinks and when she says something she makes it happen. Her single mindedness towards achieving her goals can be very admirable although sometimes worrisome as her ability to take care of herself when attempting to complete a task can become worryingly low. However it is one hundred percent a truth that when Koko says something you can take her at her word. She never adds subtext or asks you to read between the lines. She simply states facts always. This can sometimes run her into trouble especially when talking to those above her in the food chain as her inability to mince words can get her into hot water.

Koko requires regular infusions of Arcanite to keep her synthetic parts functioning. The fastest and easiest way to achieve this that doesn’t end up with her having to have open heart surgery on the regular is to have her part charged through the use of black Arcanite and lightning. Unfortunately this is as painful as it sounds and so Koko definitely has a day on the regular where she just kind of gets bummed out because she knows it’s “get electrocuted day”. Even worse is that although Koko is decent with soul like any Academy student her ability to effectively channel it for her “charging purposes” is lack luster and as such probably ends up with her asking someone else to do it for her. If anyone in her team has lightning affinity and wishes to be her charging station I’d love to work that in. The amount she requires as well as how it all affects her isn’t something she’d really divulge readily. However, her teammates would be very right to be worried about the possibility of her organs shutting down if she was ever in a situation without Arcanite to charge up with for too long.

List one or more (different!) things that people outside of your team might have noticed about you while attending Hammer

Something that would be very easily seen and incredibly evident to everyone and anyone that saw Koko is that she is incredibly messy. Her tools and materials can be found strewn around her workspaces haphazardly and her room is like a display of modern art with how many jenga towers of random clutter are found inside it. She refuses to clean up and when she makes a mess by one of her creations exploding or malfunctioning she wants to analyze why and get to work fixing it much more than tidy up whatever just occurred.

Another very obvious trait that people would notice about Koko is her incredibly chaotic streak of pranks and goofs. She has a very mischievous mind and the ability to set elaborate traps. As such even in just a month spent in the Academy she would have already earned the title of prank Queen and probably also been reprimanded for it several times. If there are any other fun loving characters as a part of her team or otherwise who’d want to get in on causing havoc with her within the school she would almost certainly be willing to have accomplices to her shenanigans.

List two or more things that you have done in the last month, beyond going to classes and learning?

Koko recently entered into a Robot fighting tournament of sorts called the Steel League. She engineered and designed a machine to beat all the competition but she is not the kind of person to be the operator for it. She would have almost certainly asked one of her teammates to operate it for her, with the caveat that they are aware that as with most things she makes there’s always a chance it might explode. The fights are decently dangerous as interfering with other’s bots is not uncommon as the league is an illegal operation. Whomever the operator is, their skills as a fighter would be put to the test alongside the crazy contraption that Koko created. It would have many fun and ridiculous tools to help them win fights and she would design it with the operator's abilities in mind as well to try and augment their natural fighting style.

Koko has an incredibly strong sweet tooth and as such has been attempting to find the best desserts in town. She would have certainly gone to a bakery or a cafe with one or more of her teammates and tried every cake or parfait that they serve. Her ability to down food would have been impressive to her teammates and the question of how her anatomy works exactly in terms of food and rest and other things of that nature would have been raised as a question.


List a few (3-5) things that you values and seems to play a role in how you interact with the world.

Koko believes that if something isn't how you want it to be you can always and should always change it. She absolutely despises waiting around for things to change or hoping they get better. As far as she's concerned you should always strive to live the best possible life you can and being ambitious towards that goal is her driving force. No matter your limitations you should simply break right through them and ignore what others perceive as the status quo if you truly want something.

Koko has zero tolerance for social conventions and limitations getting in her way. If someone tells her she can’t do something because it's disrespectful or bad manners she would get incredibly angry. She does not care for people’s perception of her and she refuses to bend to peer pressure. She also conversely hates these traits in others. Someone who holds themself back or is very fake because of how they wish to be perceived by the social hierarchy of the world would really grate on Koko. She takes people at their word and she expects them to do the same to her so lying to her or even just not telling the full truth or simply trying to manipulate her with choice words is the easiest way to get on her bad side.

Koko values challenge. Someone who can best her in something is someone she wishes to be around. This is good for most all her teammates and fellow students as there is certainly something that each and everyone of them is better than her at and that is one of the reasons she’s so enamored with being in the Academy. She wants to be put to the test and lose. Losing to her is the greatest feeling in the world because it means she has something she can work towards improving. As such anyone with a similar mindset focussed on improvement would be fast and quick friends with Koko and she would be infatuated with them immediately. Vice versa anyone who refuses to try and improve and simply wishes to coast along would bother her slightly.

Finally, come up with one plot hook that you would like to explore with your teammates. Something about your character / their story that you're very eager to showcase or have play an early role in their experience.

Koko’s thirst for improvement is ravenous. She wants to become the best version of herself she can be. This can and will lead her to taking incredibly dangerous actions and pushing the limits quite hard. Her ability to put limiters on herself and worry about her own well being are incredibly poor and as such she will need wrangling probably quite often. Which leads me to the main point of this hook. All of her augmentation at this point has been done by her father and as such is very high quality and stable.  That being said it's almost certain that Koko is going to try and open herself up and put something new inside of herself and when she does the chances of that going well are not good. Lots of potential ways this hook could go



Already went over this with Aethy in PMs but I thought I would post this here just so everyone can see ^_^
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And a wild Rainbae appears with a whopper CS.

I cannot tell if her and Chee will get along. He's the type to challenge himself, yes. But I think they would disagree on how that is best achieved. He does have a lightning proficiency though. Haha.

But neat CS!

For techie PCs? Two left us. The closest is Lyra but she's more magic than tech.
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Quote from: Aethyrium on April 28, 2024, 01:40:18 AMTossing out that final countdown warning. I'll be making decisions the morning of the 30th; ~11am CST. Your sheet does not have to have gone through a feedback round to be considered, but it does need to be mostly complete so we can do last minute touch ups.

If you've been looking at the game and considering tossing out a submission, now is the time! No decisions have been made yet, so even though there are a handful of sheets already out there, you could still end up playing with a strong submission!

And I wanna just thank everyone who has taken the time to write a sheet. It's going to be tough to make decisions, there are a lot of great characters here. I really appreciate everyone's time, and am hyped to write with you ^^
so many amazing characters to choose from... hoping that Bri gets selected so she can start making connections

there seems to be a lot of intense team activities; does it make sense for cross team members to know each other well outside of competitions and classes?

I also noticed that some people list out their familiar relations, is that something that I should be adding to my CS? And/or also, should I be re-posting my sheet if I've made new edits to it?


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Quote from: Lyrical on April 28, 2024, 06:11:06 AMso many amazing characters to choose from... hoping that Bri gets selected so she can start making connections

there seems to be a lot of intense team activities; does it make sense for cross team members to know each other well outside of competitions and classes?

I also noticed that some people list out their familiar relations, is that something that I should be adding to my CS? And/or also, should I be re-posting my sheet if I've made new edits to it?



I can't speak to the rest of that, but all team attend classes together, live in dorms in the same area of the school, and are among a small group of people populating the Academy itself. There's lots of crossteam connections.
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Quote from: shengami on April 28, 2024, 06:16:45 AMI can't speak to the rest of that, but all team attend classes together, live in dorms in the same area of the school, and are among a small group of people populating the Academy itself. There's lots of crossteam connections.
thanks for the reply

i was a little unsure how the dorms worked. If I read it correctly the team shares a dorm or maybe it was just 2 sets of characters

your character is adorable by the way, he's too cute to be a badass pick pocketing former mercenary
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Quote from: Lyrical on April 28, 2024, 06:28:31 AMthanks for the reply

i was a little unsure how the dorms worked. If I read it correctly the team shares a dorm or maybe it was just 2 sets of characters

your character is adorable by the way, he's too cute to be a badass pick pocketing former mercenary

Each dorm is the full team. Within the dorms, in the standard setup, there are three sets of bunkbed for each squad. A team is three squads. However, most teams heavily personalize their dorms. There's a schematic of it in the discord.. haha.

Bri is also cute! Tiny girl, big sword. Chee might be cute, but he's a hyper-competitive, adrenaline junky. He can't help what genetics gave him being rat-born. Haha. And he tries not to pickpocket anymore. The 'former' in former mercenary is also somewhat debatable! haha.

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Quote from: Rainbae on April 28, 2024, 01:51:34 AM
Strength ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
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Speed    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Shimmer  ●● | ● ● ● ● ●
Soul    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Brawl    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
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Elemental Affinity | Weakness
Lightning | Fire

Terrain Specialty | Weakness
Urban | Artic

Koko Gero

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Ancestry: Johtan/Onyx
Gender | Pronouns: Trans Woman | She/Her
Sexuality: Pansexual

Age: 18
Height: 5’8”
Body Build: Hourglass but curvy. She definitely isn't muscular and has a good bit of chub to her even though she maintains her waistline through training.
Hair Color: Blonde/Blue
Eye Color: Green

Weapon
Power Gloves - Koko’s power gloves are inventions of her own making. These elbow length gloves are part tool and part weapon. They have as many functions as Koko can think to add to them and the list grows practically daily. She uses them to arc weld, for torque when driving in bolts and screws, as well as tools to cut any number of materials. Their other primary use is as medium ranged weapons that shoot high energy blasts of lightning to defeat enemies. When doing so she aims by pointing her hand into a finger gun and then “pulling the trigger”. They also contain various other weapons like mini rockets and lasers as well as rudimentary melee weapons, although she rarely uses them. They basically never leave her hands and even have integrated comms functions as well as a cupholder!

Shimmer
Gravity Manipulation - Koko has the ability to manipulate gravity in a short radius around her. She can make objects as well as herself heavier or lighter at will. This ability requires a decent amount of concentration and is very difficult for her to use during combat as such. However it is exceptionally useful to her for engineering things as well as use for moving through difficult terrains or doing something like clearing debris.

Special Trait - ?
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Where were you born? Whom, if anyone, do you consider family? Where are they, and what is your relationship with them like?

Koko was born in Johtan. Specifically in Onyx to Dr. Mahandi Gero and his wife Dara. Their relationship was always a tumultuous one to say the least. Dara’s father worked for the Onyx military and desperately wanted Mahandi’s knowledge and inventions for his cause and as such he made his daughter marry him. Mahandi was kind to his wife but always distant. He never gave her much love or affection but he was respectful and caring still. His primary focus however was always his work. Even after Koko was born he still focused primarily on his work. Left without much love and with a child who wasn’t even expected to live through its first year of life Dara left Mahandi and Koko and hasn’t been back since. Koko will occasionally receive a postcard or a trinket from random places however. They never have a return address and they never say more than simply, love Mom.

She has no siblings or other major family ties however Mahandi did hire a maid to deal with home chores after his wife left him. Chandra was Koko’s only friend as a child even though she is mute. She was a warm, caring person to her and someone she loves deeply. She goes to visit Chandra more often than her father even on her days off from the Academy and always comes back bearing gifts for her teammates, usually in the form of baked goods or a casserole.

What sort of life did you have before you decided to attend a Battle Academy? How did people react to your decision?

Koko’s life before the Battle Academy was quite random and tumultuous. She was certainly someone who took whatever path she felt suited her at the time and strode boldly down it without fear. She followed many different routes before eventually landing at the Academy. Random jobs and careers that tickled her fancy at the time. She was a clockmaker, an architect, a dentist, a firefighter and briefly a seamstress as well as many other random and odd jobs. Nothing ever grabbed her fancy quite like working with her father in his lab however. Working with arcanite and building tech seemed to be where her talents lay. And although she was incredibly bummed out that she would be so boring as to follow in her father’s footsteps like everyone in her life had expected of her she reconciled that she wouldn’t prevent herself from doing something just because of the negative expectations of other people so why should she allow herself to be bogged down by positive reaction as well, even if it irked her slightly.

Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears?

Koko decided to become a champion for the simple reason that she wants to be allowed to travel more. Her goal in life is to make herself the best version of her she can be. She’s always working towards self improvement and betterment of her mind, body and soul and so she constantly looks to those around her for ways she can be better. If and when she finds someone who’s better than her at something or has a quality or trait that she deems to be superior Koko’s immediate goal becomes discovering a way to either augment herself to achieve the same results or better, or to surpass those results by circumventing them altogether. Her method of achieving this most often comes down to using her creativity to invent something that allows her to bypass physical limitations. With all of that said Koko wants to travel the world as a champion because she believes that without seeing all the people of the world she’ll never be able to reach the pinnacle of her existence. Without being able to see what great feats others around the world have achieved she won’t be able to know where the bar is to continue to surpass them. 

How did you acquire your skills before coming to Hammer? Who taught you?

Although it is quite commonly thought that Koko was taught by her father, her smarts and technical know-how are mostly self taught. Although it is not entirely true that her father had no role to play in her development. Her mind is an analytical one and without her mother around to guide her learning as a child and with her father so focussed on his work Koko ended up learning by studying the things her father created. Even the junk he threw out and discarded became something for Koko to learn from. She learned how things went together and what processes created what results not through being taught directly but by simply analyzing her father’s work and coming to conclusions on her own with her own logic. This method of learning has allowed her to be a very out of the box thinker and thus create strange inventions and tech that most people would not think up within common conventions.

What is your greatest accomplishment or thing you are most proud of? What is your greatest failure or thing you regret the most?

Koko’s greatest accomplishment is creating the body which she wished to live in. Her form as well as its internals are an ever expanding, ever evolving project and although some of the work she’s had done has been purely aesthetic she still considers it a triumph. When Koko was born her heart was incredibly weak and as such her body did not develop properly at all. Her father saved her life as an infant by replacing her weak heart with a mechanical one but the rest of her body was left damaged as well. She was barely able to walk as a child and her body was very weak and scarred. Koko has slowly requested her father work on and augment her ever since, with occasional aid from herself. She has mostly had him work to replace weak interior pieces like her lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach etc. with synthetic mechanical parts as well as using chemistry and Arcanite she’s been able to be augmented into the body she’s always wanted. As such a large portion of her body is synthetic. During training or even in the changing rooms others would be able to see easily that she has a patchwork of metal plates and wirings and such across her body. Most notably across her back are metal links in place of her spine. However with these improvements she was able to eventually turn a frail boy who didn’t have much potential in life into a woman who was able to be strong enough to make it into Hammer Academy.

Koko’s biggest regret is not living a proper childhood. Because of how she was born and the fact that her father had a reputation around town Koko never spent any time with other children as a kid. Not only could she not go out and play but many parents warned their kids not to go anywhere near Dr. Gero’s lab. As such her life was mostly spent indoors, with books and projects that her father had created. Because of this she never had much chance to be social or to have fun. She never really developed socially as well causing her to often miss quite obvious social cues and beats that might be obvious to others. She did have her maid Chandra but with her being mute Koko got very used to silence. She’s trying her best to make up for lost time now that she has a team to rely on and friends surrounding her which is cause for her goofy and silly personality. However her regrets still lay as they are, buried in her mind as distant memories that she wishes she could do something about. However not even Koko and Dr. Gero have found a way to experiment on the human mind just yet.


Briefly talk about your character's initial reaction to being partnered and then teamed. Were they excited? Hard to work with? Distant? Friendly and engaging?

Koko was exceptionally happy and excited to be paired with her team and probably quite a handful for her other team members. She was energetic and super friendly. Although she probably overdid it like crazy she should have been generally endearing and likeable. There might have been some feelings hurt and some toes stepped on when first meeting however as Koko’s immediate thought would be to try and upgrade everyone in her team. Although helpful, there’s a chance she might have insulted someone by not being gentle enough with her comments about what they lacked and how she could help them circumnavigate those deficiencies.

List three (or more!) notably truths about you that your teammates have learned over the last month together.

Koko would be very forthcoming with the fact that not only was she born a boy but a very frail and weak one. It’s not something she goes around announcing to people but she wouldn’t be worried about telling her teammates. It might come as a shock to others but she herself wouldn’t think much about it. As far as she’s concerned she simply achieved the form she wished to have without thinking about the social barriers and conventions that surround that.

Something people would have learned about Koko is that she is incredibly reliable and loyal. She says what she thinks and when she says something she makes it happen. Her single mindedness towards achieving her goals can be very admirable although sometimes worrisome as her ability to take care of herself when attempting to complete a task can become worryingly low. However it is one hundred percent a truth that when Koko says something you can take her at her word. She never adds subtext or asks you to read between the lines. She simply states facts always. This can sometimes run her into trouble especially when talking to those above her in the food chain as her inability to mince words can get her into hot water.

Koko requires regular infusions of Arcanite to keep her synthetic parts functioning. The fastest and easiest way to achieve this that doesn’t end up with her having to have open heart surgery on the regular is to have her part charged through the use of black Arcanite and lightning. Unfortunately this is as painful as it sounds and so Koko definitely has a day on the regular where she just kind of gets bummed out because she knows it’s “get electrocuted day”. Even worse is that although Koko is decent with soul like any Academy student her ability to effectively channel it for her “charging purposes” is lack luster and as such probably ends up with her asking someone else to do it for her. If anyone in her team has lightning affinity and wishes to be her charging station I’d love to work that in. The amount she requires as well as how it all affects her isn’t something she’d really divulge readily. However, her teammates would be very right to be worried about the possibility of her organs shutting down if she was ever in a situation without Arcanite to charge up with for too long.

List one or more (different!) things that people outside of your team might have noticed about you while attending Hammer

Something that would be very easily seen and incredibly evident to everyone and anyone that saw Koko is that she is incredibly messy. Her tools and materials can be found strewn around her workspaces haphazardly and her room is like a display of modern art with how many jenga towers of random clutter are found inside it. She refuses to clean up and when she makes a mess by one of her creations exploding or malfunctioning she wants to analyze why and get to work fixing it much more than tidy up whatever just occurred.

Another very obvious trait that people would notice about Koko is her incredibly chaotic streak of pranks and goofs. She has a very mischievous mind and the ability to set elaborate traps. As such even in just a month spent in the Academy she would have already earned the title of prank Queen and probably also been reprimanded for it several times. If there are any other fun loving characters as a part of her team or otherwise who’d want to get in on causing havoc with her within the school she would almost certainly be willing to have accomplices to her shenanigans.

List two or more things that you have done in the last month, beyond going to classes and learning?

Koko recently entered into a Robot fighting tournament of sorts called the Steel League. She engineered and designed a machine to beat all the competition but she is not the kind of person to be the operator for it. She would have almost certainly asked one of her teammates to operate it for her, with the caveat that they are aware that as with most things she makes there’s always a chance it might explode. The fights are decently dangerous as interfering with other’s bots is not uncommon as the league is an illegal operation. Whomever the operator is, their skills as a fighter would be put to the test alongside the crazy contraption that Koko created. It would have many fun and ridiculous tools to help them win fights and she would design it with the operator's abilities in mind as well to try and augment their natural fighting style.

Koko has an incredibly strong sweet tooth and as such has been attempting to find the best desserts in town. She would have certainly gone to a bakery or a cafe with one or more of her teammates and tried every cake or parfait that they serve. Her ability to down food would have been impressive to her teammates and the question of how her anatomy works exactly in terms of food and rest and other things of that nature would have been raised as a question.


List a few (3-5) things that you values and seems to play a role in how you interact with the world.

Koko believes that if something isn't how you want it to be you can always and should always change it. She absolutely despises waiting around for things to change or hoping they get better. As far as she's concerned you should always strive to live the best possible life you can and being ambitious towards that goal is her driving force. No matter your limitations you should simply break right through them and ignore what others perceive as the status quo if you truly want something.

Koko has zero tolerance for social conventions and limitations getting in her way. If someone tells her she can’t do something because it's disrespectful or bad manners she would get incredibly angry. She does not care for people’s perception of her and she refuses to bend to peer pressure. She also conversely hates these traits in others. Someone who holds themself back or is very fake because of how they wish to be perceived by the social hierarchy of the world would really grate on Koko. She takes people at their word and she expects them to do the same to her so lying to her or even just not telling the full truth or simply trying to manipulate her with choice words is the easiest way to get on her bad side.

Koko values challenge. Someone who can best her in something is someone she wishes to be around. This is good for most all her teammates and fellow students as there is certainly something that each and everyone of them is better than her at and that is one of the reasons she’s so enamored with being in the Academy. She wants to be put to the test and lose. Losing to her is the greatest feeling in the world because it means she has something she can work towards improving. As such anyone with a similar mindset focussed on improvement would be fast and quick friends with Koko and she would be infatuated with them immediately. Vice versa anyone who refuses to try and improve and simply wishes to coast along would bother her slightly.

Finally, come up with one plot hook that you would like to explore with your teammates. Something about your character / their story that you're very eager to showcase or have play an early role in their experience.

Koko’s thirst for improvement is ravenous. She wants to become the best version of herself she can be. This can and will lead her to taking incredibly dangerous actions and pushing the limits quite hard. Her ability to put limiters on herself and worry about her own well being are incredibly poor and as such she will need wrangling probably quite often. Which leads me to the main point of this hook. All of her augmentation at this point has been done by her father and as such is very high quality and stable.  That being said it's almost certain that Koko is going to try and open herself up and put something new inside of herself and when she does the chances of that going well are not good. Lots of potential ways this hook could go



Already went over this with Aethy in PMs but I thought I would post this here just so everyone can see ^_^
Such a lovely character! I honestly hope both Koko and Torina get picked so they can drive the more serious of their teammates ragged with their eccentric-ness. (My birb would gladly encourage a "bakery crawl"! :))


Miss Nyx

Fantastical flood of fresh characters, ohhh yes! Loving all the creativity and originality, and it's always awesome to see quite a few familiar faces.

Now... for the oh so patient wait for team selection.


Crash

Quote from: Lyrical on April 28, 2024, 06:28:31 AMthanks for the reply

i was a little unsure how the dorms worked. If I read it correctly the team shares a dorm or maybe it was just 2 sets of characters

your character is adorable by the way, he's too cute to be a badass pick pocketing former mercenary


In the main plot thread for your team there won’t be much interaction likely.

However, it is a school and side scenes are open for anyone and everyone to interact.  Meena from Team Gravity does charity work with Velvet from Team Mockery on the weekends.  So I imagine there will be lots of interactions outside the team plot thread.

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Quote from: Rainbae on April 28, 2024, 01:51:34 AM
Strength ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Stamina  ●● | ● ● ● ○ ○
Speed    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Shimmer  ●● | ● ● ● ● ●
Soul    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Brawl    ●● | ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Melee    ●● | ● ○ ○ ○ ○
Ranged  ●● | ● ● ● ● ●

Elemental Affinity | Weakness
Lightning | Fire

Terrain Specialty | Weakness
Urban | Artic

Koko Gero

Rainbae
Ancestry: Johtan/Onyx
Gender | Pronouns: Trans Woman | She/Her
Sexuality: Pansexual

Age: 18
Height: 5’8”
Body Build: Hourglass but curvy. She definitely isn't muscular and has a good bit of chub to her even though she maintains her waistline through training.
Hair Color: Blonde/Blue
Eye Color: Green

Weapon
Power Gloves - Koko’s power gloves are inventions of her own making. These elbow length gloves are part tool and part weapon. They have as many functions as Koko can think to add to them and the list grows practically daily. She uses them to arc weld, for torque when driving in bolts and screws, as well as tools to cut any number of materials. Their other primary use is as medium ranged weapons that shoot high energy blasts of lightning to defeat enemies. When doing so she aims by pointing her hand into a finger gun and then “pulling the trigger”. They also contain various other weapons like mini rockets and lasers as well as rudimentary melee weapons, although she rarely uses them. They basically never leave her hands and even have integrated comms functions as well as a cupholder!

Shimmer
Gravity Manipulation - Koko has the ability to manipulate gravity in a short radius around her. She can make objects as well as herself heavier or lighter at will. This ability requires a decent amount of concentration and is very difficult for her to use during combat as such. However it is exceptionally useful to her for engineering things as well as use for moving through difficult terrains or doing something like clearing debris.

Special Trait - ?
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Where were you born? Whom, if anyone, do you consider family? Where are they, and what is your relationship with them like?

Koko was born in Johtan. Specifically in Onyx to Dr. Mahandi Gero and his wife Dara. Their relationship was always a tumultuous one to say the least. Dara’s father worked for the Onyx military and desperately wanted Mahandi’s knowledge and inventions for his cause and as such he made his daughter marry him. Mahandi was kind to his wife but always distant. He never gave her much love or affection but he was respectful and caring still. His primary focus however was always his work. Even after Koko was born he still focused primarily on his work. Left without much love and with a child who wasn’t even expected to live through its first year of life Dara left Mahandi and Koko and hasn’t been back since. Koko will occasionally receive a postcard or a trinket from random places however. They never have a return address and they never say more than simply, love Mom.

She has no siblings or other major family ties however Mahandi did hire a maid to deal with home chores after his wife left him. Chandra was Koko’s only friend as a child even though she is mute. She was a warm, caring person to her and someone she loves deeply. She goes to visit Chandra more often than her father even on her days off from the Academy and always comes back bearing gifts for her teammates, usually in the form of baked goods or a casserole.

What sort of life did you have before you decided to attend a Battle Academy? How did people react to your decision?

Koko’s life before the Battle Academy was quite random and tumultuous. She was certainly someone who took whatever path she felt suited her at the time and strode boldly down it without fear. She followed many different routes before eventually landing at the Academy. Random jobs and careers that tickled her fancy at the time. She was a clockmaker, an architect, a dentist, a firefighter and briefly a seamstress as well as many other random and odd jobs. Nothing ever grabbed her fancy quite like working with her father in his lab however. Working with arcanite and building tech seemed to be where her talents lay. And although she was incredibly bummed out that she would be so boring as to follow in her father’s footsteps like everyone in her life had expected of her she reconciled that she wouldn’t prevent herself from doing something just because of the negative expectations of other people so why should she allow herself to be bogged down by positive reaction as well, even if it irked her slightly.

Why have you decided to become a Champion? What are your goals, your reasons, and your fears?

Koko decided to become a champion for the simple reason that she wants to be allowed to travel more. Her goal in life is to make herself the best version of her she can be. She’s always working towards self improvement and betterment of her mind, body and soul and so she constantly looks to those around her for ways she can be better. If and when she finds someone who’s better than her at something or has a quality or trait that she deems to be superior Koko’s immediate goal becomes discovering a way to either augment herself to achieve the same results or better, or to surpass those results by circumventing them altogether. Her method of achieving this most often comes down to using her creativity to invent something that allows her to bypass physical limitations. With all of that said Koko wants to travel the world as a champion because she believes that without seeing all the people of the world she’ll never be able to reach the pinnacle of her existence. Without being able to see what great feats others around the world have achieved she won’t be able to know where the bar is to continue to surpass them. 

How did you acquire your skills before coming to Hammer? Who taught you?

Although it is quite commonly thought that Koko was taught by her father, her smarts and technical know-how are mostly self taught. Although it is not entirely true that her father had no role to play in her development. Her mind is an analytical one and without her mother around to guide her learning as a child and with her father so focussed on his work Koko ended up learning by studying the things her father created. Even the junk he threw out and discarded became something for Koko to learn from. She learned how things went together and what processes created what results not through being taught directly but by simply analyzing her father’s work and coming to conclusions on her own with her own logic. This method of learning has allowed her to be a very out of the box thinker and thus create strange inventions and tech that most people would not think up within common conventions.

What is your greatest accomplishment or thing you are most proud of? What is your greatest failure or thing you regret the most?

Koko’s greatest accomplishment is creating the body which she wished to live in. Her form as well as its internals are an ever expanding, ever evolving project and although some of the work she’s had done has been purely aesthetic she still considers it a triumph. When Koko was born her heart was incredibly weak and as such her body did not develop properly at all. Her father saved her life as an infant by replacing her weak heart with a mechanical one but the rest of her body was left damaged as well. She was barely able to walk as a child and her body was very weak and scarred. Koko has slowly requested her father work on and augment her ever since, with occasional aid from herself. She has mostly had him work to replace weak interior pieces like her lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach etc. with synthetic mechanical parts as well as using chemistry and Arcanite she’s been able to be augmented into the body she’s always wanted. As such a large portion of her body is synthetic. During training or even in the changing rooms others would be able to see easily that she has a patchwork of metal plates and wirings and such across her body. Most notably across her back are metal links in place of her spine. However with these improvements she was able to eventually turn a frail boy who didn’t have much potential in life into a woman who was able to be strong enough to make it into Hammer Academy.

Koko’s biggest regret is not living a proper childhood. Because of how she was born and the fact that her father had a reputation around town Koko never spent any time with other children as a kid. Not only could she not go out and play but many parents warned their kids not to go anywhere near Dr. Gero’s lab. As such her life was mostly spent indoors, with books and projects that her father had created. Because of this she never had much chance to be social or to have fun. She never really developed socially as well causing her to often miss quite obvious social cues and beats that might be obvious to others. She did have her maid Chandra but with her being mute Koko got very used to silence. She’s trying her best to make up for lost time now that she has a team to rely on and friends surrounding her which is cause for her goofy and silly personality. However her regrets still lay as they are, buried in her mind as distant memories that she wishes she could do something about. However not even Koko and Dr. Gero have found a way to experiment on the human mind just yet.


Briefly talk about your character's initial reaction to being partnered and then teamed. Were they excited? Hard to work with? Distant? Friendly and engaging?

Koko was exceptionally happy and excited to be paired with her team and probably quite a handful for her other team members. She was energetic and super friendly. Although she probably overdid it like crazy she should have been generally endearing and likeable. There might have been some feelings hurt and some toes stepped on when first meeting however as Koko’s immediate thought would be to try and upgrade everyone in her team. Although helpful, there’s a chance she might have insulted someone by not being gentle enough with her comments about what they lacked and how she could help them circumnavigate those deficiencies.

List three (or more!) notably truths about you that your teammates have learned over the last month together.

Koko would be very forthcoming with the fact that not only was she born a boy but a very frail and weak one. It’s not something she goes around announcing to people but she wouldn’t be worried about telling her teammates. It might come as a shock to others but she herself wouldn’t think much about it. As far as she’s concerned she simply achieved the form she wished to have without thinking about the social barriers and conventions that surround that.

Something people would have learned about Koko is that she is incredibly reliable and loyal. She says what she thinks and when she says something she makes it happen. Her single mindedness towards achieving her goals can be very admirable although sometimes worrisome as her ability to take care of herself when attempting to complete a task can become worryingly low. However it is one hundred percent a truth that when Koko says something you can take her at her word. She never adds subtext or asks you to read between the lines. She simply states facts always. This can sometimes run her into trouble especially when talking to those above her in the food chain as her inability to mince words can get her into hot water.

Koko requires regular infusions of Arcanite to keep her synthetic parts functioning. The fastest and easiest way to achieve this that doesn’t end up with her having to have open heart surgery on the regular is to have her part charged through the use of black Arcanite and lightning. Unfortunately this is as painful as it sounds and so Koko definitely has a day on the regular where she just kind of gets bummed out because she knows it’s “get electrocuted day”. Even worse is that although Koko is decent with soul like any Academy student her ability to effectively channel it for her “charging purposes” is lack luster and as such probably ends up with her asking someone else to do it for her. If anyone in her team has lightning affinity and wishes to be her charging station I’d love to work that in. The amount she requires as well as how it all affects her isn’t something she’d really divulge readily. However, her teammates would be very right to be worried about the possibility of her organs shutting down if she was ever in a situation without Arcanite to charge up with for too long.

List one or more (different!) things that people outside of your team might have noticed about you while attending Hammer

Something that would be very easily seen and incredibly evident to everyone and anyone that saw Koko is that she is incredibly messy. Her tools and materials can be found strewn around her workspaces haphazardly and her room is like a display of modern art with how many jenga towers of random clutter are found inside it. She refuses to clean up and when she makes a mess by one of her creations exploding or malfunctioning she wants to analyze why and get to work fixing it much more than tidy up whatever just occurred.

Another very obvious trait that people would notice about Koko is her incredibly chaotic streak of pranks and goofs. She has a very mischievous mind and the ability to set elaborate traps. As such even in just a month spent in the Academy she would have already earned the title of prank Queen and probably also been reprimanded for it several times. If there are any other fun loving characters as a part of her team or otherwise who’d want to get in on causing havoc with her within the school she would almost certainly be willing to have accomplices to her shenanigans.

List two or more things that you have done in the last month, beyond going to classes and learning?

Koko recently entered into a Robot fighting tournament of sorts called the Steel League. She engineered and designed a machine to beat all the competition but she is not the kind of person to be the operator for it. She would have almost certainly asked one of her teammates to operate it for her, with the caveat that they are aware that as with most things she makes there’s always a chance it might explode. The fights are decently dangerous as interfering with other’s bots is not uncommon as the league is an illegal operation. Whomever the operator is, their skills as a fighter would be put to the test alongside the crazy contraption that Koko created. It would have many fun and ridiculous tools to help them win fights and she would design it with the operator's abilities in mind as well to try and augment their natural fighting style.

Koko has an incredibly strong sweet tooth and as such has been attempting to find the best desserts in town. She would have certainly gone to a bakery or a cafe with one or more of her teammates and tried every cake or parfait that they serve. Her ability to down food would have been impressive to her teammates and the question of how her anatomy works exactly in terms of food and rest and other things of that nature would have been raised as a question.


List a few (3-5) things that you values and seems to play a role in how you interact with the world.

Koko believes that if something isn't how you want it to be you can always and should always change it. She absolutely despises waiting around for things to change or hoping they get better. As far as she's concerned you should always strive to live the best possible life you can and being ambitious towards that goal is her driving force. No matter your limitations you should simply break right through them and ignore what others perceive as the status quo if you truly want something.

Koko has zero tolerance for social conventions and limitations getting in her way. If someone tells her she can’t do something because it's disrespectful or bad manners she would get incredibly angry. She does not care for people’s perception of her and she refuses to bend to peer pressure. She also conversely hates these traits in others. Someone who holds themself back or is very fake because of how they wish to be perceived by the social hierarchy of the world would really grate on Koko. She takes people at their word and she expects them to do the same to her so lying to her or even just not telling the full truth or simply trying to manipulate her with choice words is the easiest way to get on her bad side.

Koko values challenge. Someone who can best her in something is someone she wishes to be around. This is good for most all her teammates and fellow students as there is certainly something that each and everyone of them is better than her at and that is one of the reasons she’s so enamored with being in the Academy. She wants to be put to the test and lose. Losing to her is the greatest feeling in the world because it means she has something she can work towards improving. As such anyone with a similar mindset focussed on improvement would be fast and quick friends with Koko and she would be infatuated with them immediately. Vice versa anyone who refuses to try and improve and simply wishes to coast along would bother her slightly.

Finally, come up with one plot hook that you would like to explore with your teammates. Something about your character / their story that you're very eager to showcase or have play an early role in their experience.

Koko’s thirst for improvement is ravenous. She wants to become the best version of herself she can be. This can and will lead her to taking incredibly dangerous actions and pushing the limits quite hard. Her ability to put limiters on herself and worry about her own well being are incredibly poor and as such she will need wrangling probably quite often. Which leads me to the main point of this hook. All of her augmentation at this point has been done by her father and as such is very high quality and stable.  That being said it's almost certain that Koko is going to try and open herself up and put something new inside of herself and when she does the chances of that going well are not good. Lots of potential ways this hook could go



Already went over this with Aethy in PMs but I thought I would post this here just so everyone can see ^_^

I have a little bit of concern with the shimmer.  Difficult to use in combat in this game could easily mean it happens all the time in combat. I would not be surprised if on the final pass it is changed to not used in combat.

Her weapon also seems to be highly transformable where there is usually two forms at most for a weapon.

All that said, I do really like Koko. Her story looks fun and her image is adorable.

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Rashol

;_;

Just as I think I've got my character worked out.  I guess I just submit anyway.  Has to be later though ^_^

Aethyrium

Quote from: Lyrical on April 28, 2024, 06:11:06 AMthere seems to be a lot of intense team activities; does it make sense for cross team members to know each other well outside of competitions and classes?

I also noticed that some people list out their familiar relations, is that something that I should be adding to my CS? And/or also, should I be re-posting my sheet if I've made new edits to it?
If by intense team activities you mean the "things people have gotten up to in the last months", I think that makes sense! If everyone had been recruited in the first wave, those all would have been scenes that gotten written out. So yeah, it's exciting to see that people have done stuff, and I think it's super fitting.

As Shen said, yes, cross team members super duper can know one another fairly easily. There are 48 students per year, and 4 years. So there's only around 200 students. Plenty that, with only a month past, it's very easy that you haven't met/interacted with everyone, but also easy enough that you can have.

All students of the same year share the same class schedule (which is listed in the World of Toil thread, in the Hammer Academy article). So they've been witnessing one another for about a month. Though most activities are "team locked" in that you're going to be assigned to do stuff with your partner, or with someone on your team. But in a lot of cases, you'd get to witness other teams, too.

In terms of actual writing. Chapters (the "main story" threads) will usually be team locked (or some division thereof), but all the sandbox time during a timespan is entirely open to be played with anyone you want - that's open time and you're welcome to run scenes with anyone. Other teams. Storyteller characters. The sky's the limit.

There is a map of the general dorm layout (the rooms). They're not super spacious, but have enough that everyone can kind of add something to them. And the dorms are all near one another. With each year having a hallway - so all the squires are on one strip.

As for familiar connections... I will need a list of those / the important people that matter to a character from all characters chosen. But you don't necessarily need to do that preemptively - though if you wanna, you're just ahead of the game. There's an article in the World of Toil thread called Background Characters. These are the names and relations / importance of people. Mostly this is for me so I can randomly hurt you with them easily reference and make use of stuff when there's an appropriate moment.

Also, no, you don't need to repost your sheet. If you've been editing the one here, that's well enough. But I don't mind newer posts with updates if that's comfy for you.

Quote from: Rashol on April 28, 2024, 10:46:46 AM;_;

Just as I think I've got my character worked out.  I guess I just submit anyway.  Has to be later though ^_^
Looking forward to seeing it! You got this.

Aethyrium

@Rainbae We already did the first passes over this, so you know things are in line!

Stats are in line.

Weapon has neat stuff - finally seeing an elemental based weapon. I do wanna talk about the various things it can do real quick. So long as the tinker stuff is flavor, not intended to be combat bits, I think that's fine. The "lightning gun" is a mode, and it looks like a second mode would be "rockets", and the laser is something that she uses for her work? So it's a weapon with two modes and no property, if I'm reading that correctly? If so, cool.

Shimmer question about concentration in combat. How difficult are you imagining? This is one of those nebulous player facing descriptors that could be one thing one place and another in another. I'm fine with the restriction existing (far be it from me to stop self limiting, and I think it's neat to do). Her high shimmer accounts for making things very heavy, or very light, so I'm not so much worried about that. But since the hard concentration limit is there, I wanna know what you envision that looking like / being played. Is this like, if she does it, that's the only thing she could do on that round?

Also, regarding shimmer. It's listed as a radius around her. Just to confirm this is... She can make a radius around her lighter or heavier, not manipulate individual things within that radius. She creates a zone where whatever effect she's doing is in place, am I following that correctly?

Everything else seems to be in order! I think you've got a lot of good stuff here, and Koko is an awesome submission.

Rainbae

Quote from: Aethyrium on April 28, 2024, 11:37:19 AM@Rainbae We already did the first passes over this, so you know things are in line!

Stats are in line.

Weapon has neat stuff - finally seeing an elemental based weapon. I do wanna talk about the various things it can do real quick. So long as the tinker stuff is flavor, not intended to be combat bits, I think that's fine. The "lightning gun" is a mode, and it looks like a second mode would be "rockets", and the laser is something that she uses for her work? So it's a weapon with two modes and no property, if I'm reading that correctly? If so, cool.

Shimmer question about concentration in combat. How difficult are you imagining? This is one of those nebulous player facing descriptors that could be one thing one place and another in another. I'm fine with the restriction existing (far be it from me to stop self limiting, and I think it's neat to do). Her high shimmer accounts for making things very heavy, or very light, so I'm not so much worried about that. But since the hard concentration limit is there, I wanna know what you envision that looking like / being played. Is this like, if she does it, that's the only thing she could do on that round?

Also, regarding shimmer. It's listed as a radius around her. Just to confirm this is... She can make a radius around her lighter or heavier, not manipulate individual things within that radius. She creates a zone where whatever effect she's doing is in place, am I following that correctly?

Everything else seems to be in order! I think you've got a lot of good stuff here, and Koko is an awesome submission.
Yea her weapon having a bunch of forms was primarily intended to be more goofy than actually explicitly useful. I wanted her to almost have an inspector gadget set of silly things popped out of it during downtime moments hence the cupholder comment. But in actual mechanical form. It shoots lightning, it has a anime rocket type thing where a bunch of rocket silos all fire at once Gundam style. That was all.

As far as her shimmer goes I really intended not to use it in combat that much at all. The idea was more that she used it often in her work. You know having to install an engine block in a vehicle and she just makes it float. Or maybe she needs to work on the under side of some massive robot and so just makes herself float instead of rigging up a harness with tools just floating around ready to be grabbed from the air at any moment. That was really more of the intended result than any combat utility. I was also hoping it could be useful in kind of like missiom scenarios that aren't exactly combat based. Something like we're transporting a caravan and there's a giant tree down on the road that she ends up able to float out of the way. Or perhaps there's a bunch of rubble from a building collapse and there's people trapped inside. Maybe she needs to save a kid from the top floor of a burning building and just floats up there. Once again its all utility based stuff. I don't intend to squish anyone into the ground with it in combat. I just wanted it to be a really strong problem solving tool. Also no, I did intend for her to be able to manipulate individual things within the radius around her not just the whole radius. I assumed with her having so many pips in it that was ok.
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