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A character I developed for the BMI (Black Mage Inc.) forums ORPG (since closed)
NAME: Ayre Jade-Elizabeth Rowens
GENDER: Female
AGE: 23
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5'5"/62Kg
ALIGNMENT: Lawful Evil
RACE: Human
CLASS: Ninja/Samurai
APPERANCE: Ayre has dark brown hair that most often appears black, but when it catches the light, shines a coppery colour. Her eyes are grey and often deceive her when she is trying to hide her emotions, and her skin is more a cream colour than it is a tanned one. Due to her training, she's relatively bulky in build with a large hand span but evidently feminine non-the-less. She usually ties her hair back into a French plat (ignoring the fact that France doesn't exist in the RPG) with a single tie at the end just below her shoulders in the middle of her back. She's not beautiful or sensuous in appearance, but pretty, making her look younger than she is despite her bulky build.
Although she has been training as a Ninja for twelve years she isn't particularly experienced or exceptional in her ability thus she has a collection of scars on her body, none particularly individual or unique. Two of these are on her face, one under her chin and one near her hairline. Ayre usually wears skin-tight clothing, to enhance her stealth, leaving her collection of blades very visible in their various sheaths, however she also has a long coat that travels down to her ankles for the colder days and occasionally when she needs to conceal her weapons. She has a favourite pair of boots, which she almost always wears, that protects her feet from the varying terrain of the world, and are still practical in a fight.
Ayre neither bothers with jewellery or make up, but does have her moments, although they are usually limited to the requirements of a mission.
PERSONALITY: Ayre is relatively friendly although because of an overly active imagination, favouring the worst case scenario, she is usually also cautious over anyone who she decides to befriend. She struggles with staying put and being quiet because of this active imagination of hers, which in silence and stillness also over-dramatises potential situations.
She can be very stubborn when she has decided that a certain outcome is inevitable and will refuse to back down from an argument or a fight even if the odds are against her. Even if she is beaten in the argument she will still hold to the scenario she has come up with, after all being overly sceptical is more likely to keep you and your friends alive. Unfortunately she's not very good with emotions, she barely understands her own, and can act very volatile in response to someone else's due to this lack of comprehension.
As she over thinks situations which can be completely irrelevant to the one she is in, her intelligence falters and her strategy with regards to battles are often fragmented, which can offer confusion for the enemies, but also allies. Her fighting ability is fairly average but she often responds slower when she fights along side others because of her tendency to over-think everything.
Ayre is a strong believer in 'the rules' so much so that she will do anything to uphold them, and this really does mean 'anything'. This is the one area in which she doesn't over think or exaggerate, her mind is clear cut, obey the rules or suffer. She also believes in a fight to the end, to never give up, no matter how tempting it may be.
With reguard to relationships Ayre is a bit of a romantic, although she is cautious about who she becomes a friend to, she can be overly trusting once someone has achieved that criteria 'friend'.
She is afraid of horses and other large or similar animals.
BACKGROUND: Her father was a mercenary, hence him being so stern on his children. After his service was over he set up a ranch outside Ivalice where Ayre and her brother Orkenanas were raised. Ayre's mother is an archer who trained as a White Mage before her training as an archer. Ayre's mother can't cast any magic but has an interest and knowledge of herbs and medicines. As all parents they didn't want their children to have to learn how to fight, but accepted that it was necessary; her father wanted both Ayre and Orkenanas to become mercenaries, but both defied his wishes, much to his disapproval.
Both parents are still alive, however due to the numerous monsters being produced by the cradle they sought refuge nearer to the populated areas of the city, leaving their livestock behind. This took a heavy toll on Ayre's mother, who is now suffering from an illness that announced itself shortly after the moval.
When Ayre was younger her father tried to force her to learn how to ride. The horse bucked Ayre off and ran over her to the other side of the pasture. Due to their father's strict grasp when Ayre was nine and her brother thirteen, Orkenanas left to become a Lancer, which he had fantasised about training for since he was very young.
Ayre started her own training as a Ninja at the age of eleven.
This is my current character for the Midnight Bay RPG I've joined:
This is a secondary character I developed also for BMI Forums, but to fit into a more mischievous of character clan. I went with the original (Ayre) anyway though.
NAME: Kasandra (Kas) Leesa Russels
GENDER: Female
AGE: 18
AFFILIATION: Neutral, well more non-committal
RACE: Human
CLASS: Thief/Bounty Hunter
APPERANCE: 5'0", the easier to dodge and weave through crowded streets, with dirty blonde hair and green eyes, fairly standard so she doesn't stand out in a crowd and more on the thin and agile side in build. She's usually dressed in a large brown cloak, which falls down to her ankles and covers her arms up to her wrists and the base of her neck. Underneath though she wears a darker shade of brown leggings, a fairly tight red T-shirt and a jacket belonging to her Dad that was issued to mercenaries over that. She has a scar on her shoulder where her father shot her in a drunken rage and the bullet grazed her skin fairly deep.
PERSONALITY: She's easily intimidated by anyone bigger than her especially those who are in charge and is afraid of guns and often those who wield them. She has a good eye for valuable things and thinks as fast as she is on her feet as she is with her hands. As both her parents are mercenaries she has a tendency to simply do as she is told without question, rarely looking at the diplomatic side of things. She hates being given rules to live by though, and will often act rash and impulsively in a sheer act of defiance on occasion.
BACKGROUND: With both her parents mercenaries Kas often found herself alone, at home, bored and frequently hungry to boost. On many an occasion she'd wander outside onto the streets trying to find something to entertain herself with. One day some kid stole a bracelet she had on her wrist. She ran after him and eventually caught him, tacking him to the floor and beating him up until he handed over her bracelet, among other things. After gathering up her bracelet, a few coins and other valuables she found herself surrounded and outnumbered by the group of thieves the kid belonged to. After receiving a bit of a beating herself, a bit of discussion involving throwing insults and a bit more of a beating the group's leader took her under his wing and taught her how to survive on the streets in the group.
DEVELOPMENT OF BACKGROUND: Kas felt something, like a tap on her wrist and brought it up into her line of sight. 'Bracelet' she thought and whirling around rose her eyes to the street before her, then following a small boy trying to get through the crowds in a fast escape.
Snarling to herself in a trademark way similar to her father. Kas did a hop and a skip then bounded into a run, in hot pursuit of the boy who had taken her bracelet. Dodging the people in the crowded street fairly successfully she followed the kid to one of the quite and dark back streets of the city and crept up on him while he was scanning the area to see if he had managed to escape from her. She tackled him to the floor and punched him several times hard in the face, splashing small amounts of blood onto the cobbled paving until his tears mixed in with the red. He was turned into a quivering mass on the floor fumbling with a pouch and emptying its contents.
This is my charcter for the Holy Gyro RPG I'm active in:
This was my character for a Harvest Moon based ORPG called Final Moon. I think this too has closed down though, it was originally hosted at the Icky Forums O'Doom.
NAME: Keanu Albert
AGE: 29
OCCUPATION: Farmer
IF FARMER, NAME OF FARM: Hay Green
APPEARANCE:
Taken from http://www.driftingheart.net/yuna/site/menu.html
But er, wearing a bit more clothing, of the flattering kind of course, long flowing skirts and low cut tops.
PERSONALITY: Most upstanding villagers would probably describe Keanu in one word: �Troublemaker�.
Keanu craves attention, mystery and drama and will do almost anything to liven up things in the dinky little Koiji. She outright lies to get what she wants, and if that doesn�t work she�s not ashamed to flash a bit of skin. If you were to trace back a rumour to its source you�d most likely find Keanu there.
Keanu knows very little about farming, or village life. She is very much a �city� girl and is always buzzing around doing something, even if �something� only appears to be testing the quality of a sheepskin rug.
She�s also a little fixated on money, well not so much the money, just the ability to have anything she wants. For this she is not afraid to flaunt her assets though her standards are pretty high: 1,000,000g + though she�ll work with what she�s got, there has to be a potential millionaire farmer somewhere, right? She manages to whittle away what she�s got though at an incredible rate, but only on herself or those she can see she will benefit from a greater windfall from in the foreseeable future.
Keanu�s a little bit of a control freak when it comes to flirting though. She loves to see people squirm, or blush uncontrollably, but if someone were to turn the tables on her, she�d probably make some excuse and a quick exit suddenly feeling awkward being the one under that spotlight. Not being too bright she�s fairly gullible too, as in...
MERCHANT: �This is a rare tiger sheep rug said to have once belonged to the great Sultan, Sultana.�
KEANU: �Oh really! I�ll take it!�
Unfortunately/fortunately, depending on how you see it Keanu is trying to make herself money and establish herself in the village (failing miserably).
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Where she grew up Keanu wasn�t anything special and her life wasn�t particularly eventful - just like every other�s. That�s one of the reasons she moved to Koiji, no one in her family had a farm, so becoming a farmer she hoped to impress her family with her �unique� lifestyle. She married at 23 (before she moved) to a wealthy man only to get divorced at 27 with a fair share of his money. This, she decided, was how she was going to live, ensnaring lovesick fools and taking their fortune!
Of course, being the youngest and craving attention as she did, when some old relative, distant second uncle or something like that, died and left her the farm Keanu leapt at the chance of having an Estate to herself, not really thinking all that much about it.
As far as the villagers know Keanu one day sauntered into the village and claimed that old man Sommerset�s farm was her own. She had the right papers and all. Being not the most prominent of outsiders to the village, it was quickly established that she had poisoned her husband to get his money and had then fled to Koiji to live off his wealth in secret.
LIKES: Money, and er, expensive banquets, and gorgeous clothes, silk and satin, and oh!, velvet, and shoes, lots of shoes, and swimming pools and going to the races, and jewels and pearls and fur throws and driftwood furniture, �real� coffee, bubble bath, and red wine.
DISLIKES: Manure, horses, that little �Sprite� thing, poor people, beggars, homeless people, microwave food, straw, plastic, anything made out of imitation/fake material, too much hair other than on the head and smokers, herbal remedies, but how else is one to keep a body like this?
NPCS: Keanu�s Spite is a weedy little thing called Vao. Vao just turned up one day after Keanu inherited the farm, apparently she worked with old man Sommerset. She follows Keanu everywhere, or if not, Keanu�s every order. Obedient as Vao is she can�t really take on big jobs, which are of course the ones Keanu wants to avoid. The Harvest Sprite is hardly hygienic but beneath all the dirt and grime Vao picks up doing Keanu�s tasks is blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes. Her loyalty is entertaining to Keanu and she (Keanu) does harbour a small uncharacteristic and unmentioned affection for the little Sprite, you know the kind, �This is my Sprite and only I get to order it around�.
HOBBIES: Television and walking or riding (but that can take a fair bit of preparation � well, more than Keanu is used to doing). There isn�t much else you can do in the village in Keanu�s opinion, except gossip and eavesdrop.
FAVOURITE PARTS OF THE VILLAGE: The inn, listening for tit bits of gossip, and if she�s not there, you might have to search the entire village to see exactly who�s property she is trespassing on, she likes the hilly terrain most enjoyable to trespass on though, and that�s usually where she gets caught.
A character I created for 'The Forgotten Summoner' CORPG (Component ORPG) based on Final Fantasy X and originally hosted on BMI Forums
NAME:- Leyha
AGE:- 29
GENDER:- Female
WEAPON TYPE:- Fists
WEAPON:- Leather Gloves: Finger-less gloves made out of Skoll hide
ARMOR TYPE:- Plate
ARMOR:- Mythril Plate: A plate made of rare mythril. Increases physical defence without hindering speed.
MAIN ABILITY:- None
SECONDARY ABILITY:- None
CLASS:- Monk
STAMINA:- High
EVADE:- Above average
SPEED:- Average
ATTACK:- High
DEFENSE:- Below Average
M. ATTACK:- Below Average
M. DEFENSE:- Below Average
OVERDRIVES:
BUILD-UP:- Leyha unleashes an attack that is twice as strong as a normal attack
CHAKRA:- Restores everyones HP and cures poison and darkness status
COUNTER:- For the remainder of the battle Leyha counters any physical attack inflicted upon her
HP+20%:- Leyha's total HP is increased by 20% for the remainder of the battle.
DESCRIPTION:- Leyha has black hair just longer than reaching her shoulders, usually tied back into a tight bun. She's 5'7", with grey eyes.
HISTORY:- Leyha grew up in Kilika and craved attention since an early age, so became a summoner after five years as an apprentice. Unfortunately one of her guardians died protecting her in Macalania before obtaining Shiva and subsiquencially, her confidence shattered, ended her pilgramige in the Calm Lands. She became a lot more thoughfull and less attention seeking and returned to Kilika, where she trainned at the Temple with her hands. She forgot her lore as a Summoner and other than trainning, spent her time as an occasional substitute for the Kilika Beasts. She first met Kai when she travelled to Besaid for a Friendly match between the Besaid Aurochs and the Kilika Beats, and not wanting another Summoner to suffer the way she did, decided to become his guardian.
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