[Tragedy]

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Name: Inaba Usagi
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Species: Lapine
Fur/feather/scale/skin: White with Black Tips on the ends of each Ear
Eyes: Blue
Height: 3'1
Build: Thin and Muscular
Attire: Black short-sleeved Kunoichi robe, black ribbon around the middle, cross-hatch chain mail, black fingerless gloves, black shorts, dark brown boots, dark brown arm guards, black and white striped socks, black ribbon around neck.

Theme Words
First: Samurai
Ability/item 1: Weaponry Usage Enthusiast
Can use and understands most weaponry (non mechanical weaponry only).
Ability/item 2: Stealth-Speed
She can keep her silence up to 61 MPH, after that, her silence is broken and cannot be maintained. She can only reach up to 73 MPH. Anything above 50 MPH, however, will tire her out quickly.
Second: Brawler
Ability/item 1 & 2: Martial Artist
Full Mastery of Piqua Quan (Chop-Hang Fist) and Drunken Fist. Inaba can alternate between the two styles, sometimes even borrowing single moves or movesets from one another while using one. This can become unpredictable when the opponent is in combat with her. If her combo is broken, however, she can lose focus and will stick to piqua quan only as it takes her far more concentration and focus to perform her drunken fist attacks. At the same time, if Inaba is drunk or dizzy, she will stick with drunken fist only. Drunken Fist can cause dizziness in itself towards Inaba if she uses it too much.

Drunken Fist: Consists of erratic and strange movements to confuse and taunt the opponent while dodging most of their attacks. The strangeness of this style causes the user to appear drunk and obnoxious. Style is easily countered by an offensive version of Drunken Fist.

Piqua Quan: Chop Hang Fist, one hand in front for chopping actions while the other hand hangs behind for defensive and backwards attacks. The user cycles through attacks like a windmill to knock their opponent back while keeping a graceful stance. This style is easily countered by Baiji Quan. The user has a hard time with projectiles.
Third: Ninja
Ability/item 1: Extensive Hearing
Her ears can allow her to hear long distances (up to a quarter of a mile away) when her ears are perked up, however, if they are behind her, she has short ranged hearing. While her ears are up, she can also be directly affected by loud noises and can cause her to have a headache, and cause her hearing to only be able to pick up close ranged sounds.
Ability/item 2: Mind-Game Artist
Can pretend she feels no pain, coming off as masochistic at times to trick and horrify her opponent. (Just a tactic, the effect is entirely based on how the opponent reacts towards it.)

Role Playing
Back-story: Inaba Usagi was born and raised in a small unnamed settlement. The settlement was burned down the night of a raid while she was three years old. While the settlement burned, she was captured, and her parents were slaughtered. Her fate was to be raised as a sex-slave, however, she was found early on before the sexual training had begun by a farmer and expert ninja known as Ryoji. Ryoji raised her himself and trained her in the ways of martial arts and stealth training, teaching her his best to make her a ninja.

As she grew older, her understanding of the way of the shinobi increased, and so did her sense of justice. At the age of 19, Ryoji was murdered in cold blood, leaving her to wander through the rest of her training with vengeance. At the age of 21, she slaughtered the rogue that had murdered her Master and tasted her fill of blood for the first time. She now travels the world entering martial art tournaments, seeking stronger and more powerful opponents than herself to make her stronger. Her ultimate goal is to become powerful enough and eventually take on a student to pass her knowledge of combat onto.

Example Post:

Inaba walked casually disguised under the cloak of a simple traveler, her ears seeping out from under the brown robe. With every step she took, her shoes softly pelted the dirt-ridden ground below, causing the cloak to accumulate dirt around the bottom, and kicking up dirt that blustered behind her into a cloud of foggy dust. She lifted the front of the robe slightly with her left hand, giving her eyes better coverage of the area around her. It was old and engulfed in sandy grit.

She let the cloak loose back over her face once more, continuing to pass through before smelling a familiar scent; a delicious apple-cherry pie, the specialty of the area. She felt her stomach grumble slightly as she followed the scrumptious smell to it's location. As she grew ever closer to the area, she noticed the delicacy perched high upon a rickety-old window sill, taunting her with it's crispy, flaky, golden-brown crust rising slowly from the outside to the center from it's metallic encasing. She reached her hand slowly towards the pastry, feeling her hunger painfully, however, upon touching the pan, she quickly retracted as it the pan was still too hot even for thieving.

This post has been edited by NiGHTS Noob: 25 June 2009 - 01:43 AM

[NiGHTS Noob]

Well, you're not allowed to use hyphenated words for the three theme words at all. But you're thinking too literally on the the theme words when you're making them hyphenated. Just saying Samurai instead of Samurai-Arms would be perfectly fine.

Also, we're going to need some details on the skills. I'd assume the drunken fist, with it's unpredictability, would make her more difficult to hit and more likely to connect. Does it cost an extra post per turn to maintain the wacky movements? What about Pi Qua Quan? It's a very powerful palm style, right? Is that what she uses when she's not using the Drunken Fist? Like she can style swap between the two to trip up opponents like Gen in Street Fighter?

Does the Stealth Speed cost two actions to move (one considered moving quickly, the other being maintaining the stealth)?

What does Sadist do exactly? I understand what it means, but does it give her any boost in special situations? Like a lower dodge chance to do more damage or something? What about her Mind Games, I get them, but do they increase her hit chance at all? Also, does faking the masochism cost her anything? Or is it just an otherwise normal action?

It's just detail, detail, detail, no expense can really be spared on the detail as long as it's not needlessly complex. I like the character though! The back story makes me think of Kenshin for some reason. I think it's the slave to being rescued by a master kind of thing.

This post has been edited by NiGHTS Noob: 24 June 2009 - 01:08 AM

[Tragedy]

How is that?

[NiGHTS Noob]

Anything you can think to change Field-Demon to so it isn't hyphenated? I understand it's not meant to give you dual properties or anything, but a no tolerance policy would be easier for new guys to understand.

This post has been edited by NiGHTS Noob: 24 June 2009 - 02:02 AM

[Tragedy]

Best I can come up with.

[NiGHTS Noob]

Hm, I guess that or Demonic would work well enough. Otherwise I don't see a problem with this character. The only thing I'm worried about Pyro approving is maybe the two martial arts styles in one skill. I can see it working fine because I've seen both those styles (mostly through anime and games, but still) and I can see them blending into each other. Both of them take the flow of the styles from one movement into another, taking a defensive move all the way around into an offensive one in one solid motion. Also, unless I'm mistaken, whenever a Piqua Quan attack motion ends it would leave a perfect opportunity to go into either another Piqua Quan move or straight into the Drunken Fist.

I know I already used the Gen comparison, but much like he can switch between the Mantis and Crane mid juggle seamlessly, I can see Piqua Quan and Drunken Fist switching off in that moment of space between an enemy's hit stun, block, or dodge and their next action.

[Tragedy]

Changed it up a bit, does that work?

[Tragedy]

Ignore this post.

This post has been edited by Tragedy: 24 June 2009 - 11:29 PM

[Tragedy]

Tragedy, on Jun 24 2009, 12:37 AM, said:

Basic Information
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Name: Inaba Usagi
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Species: Lapine
Fur/feather/scale/skin: White with Black Tips on the ends of each Ear
Eyes: Blue
Height: 3'1
Build: Thin and Muscular
Attire: Black short-sleeved Kunoichi robe, black ribbon around the middle, cross-hatch chain mail, black fingerless gloves, black shorts, dark brown boots, dark brown arm guards, black and white striped socks, black ribbon around neck.

Theme Words
First: Kunoichi
Ability/item 1: Weaponry Usage Enthusiast
Can use and understands most weaponry (non mechanical weaponry only).
Ability/item 2: Stealth-Speed
She can keep her silence up to 61 MPH, after that, her silence is broken and cannot be maintained.  She can only reach up to 73 MPH.  Anything above 50 MPH, however, will tire her out quickly.
Second: Brawler
Ability/item 1 & 2: Martial Artist
Full Mastery of Piqua Quan (Chop-Hang Fist) and Drunken Fist.  Inaba can alternate between the two styles, sometimes even borrowing single moves or movesets from one another while using one.  This can become unpredictable when the opponent is in combat with her.  If her combo is broken, however, she can lose focus and will stick to piqua quan only as it takes her far more concentration and focus to perform her drunken fist attacks.  At the same time, if Inaba is drunk or dizzy, she will stick with drunken fist only.  Drunken Fist can cause dizziness in itself towards Inaba if she uses it too much. 

Drunken Fist: Consists of erratic and strange movements to confuse and taunt the opponent while dodging most of their attacks.  The strangeness of this style causes the user to appear drunk and obnoxious.  Style is easily countered by an offensive version of Drunken Fist. 

Piqua Quan: Chop Hang Fist, one hand in front for chopping actions while the other hand hangs behind for defensive and backwards attacks.  The user cycles through attacks like a windmill to knock their opponent back while keeping a graceful stance.  This style is easily countered by Baiji Quan.  The user has a hard time with projectiles.
Third: Ninja
Ability/item 1: Extensive Hearing
Her ears can allow her to hear long distances (up to a quarter of a mile away) when her ears are perked up, however, if they are behind her, she has short ranged hearing.  While her ears are up, she can also be directly affected by loud noises and can cause her to have a headache, and cause her hearing to only be able to pick up close ranged sounds. 
Ability/item 2: Mind-Game Artist
Can pretend she feels no pain, coming off as masochistic at times to trick and horrify her opponent.  (Just a tactic, the effect is entirely based on how the opponent reacts towards it.)

Role Playing
Back-story: Inaba Usagi was born and raised in a small unnamed settlement.  The settlement was burned down the night of a raid while she was three years old.  While the settlement burned, she was captured, and her parents were slaughtered.  Her fate was to be raised as a sex-slave, however, she was found early on before the sexual training had begun by a farmer and expert ninja known as Ryoji.  Ryoji raised her himself and trained her in the ways of martial arts and stealth training, teaching her his best to make her a ninja. 

As she grew older, her understanding of the way of the shinobi increased, and so did her sense of justice.  At the age of 19, Ryoji was murdered in cold blood, leaving her to wander through the rest of her training with vengeance.  At the age of 21, she slaughtered the rogue that had murdered her Master and tasted her fill of blood for the first time.  She now travels the world entering martial art tournaments, seeking stronger and more powerful opponents than herself to make her stronger.  Her ultimate goal is to become powerful enough and eventually take on a student to pass her knowledge of combat onto.

Example Post:

Inaba walked casually disguised under the cloak of a simple traveler, her ears seeping out from under the brown robe.  With every step she took, her shoes softly pelted the dirt-ridden ground below, causing the cloak to accumulate dirt around the bottom, and kicking up dirt that blustered behind her into a cloud of foggy dust.  She lifted the front of the robe slightly with her left hand, giving her eyes better coverage of the area around her.  It was old and engulfed in sandy grit.

She let the cloak loose back over her face once more, continuing to pass through before smelling a familiar scent; a delicious apple-cherry pie, the specialty of the area.  She felt her stomach grumble slightly as she followed the scrumptious smell to it's location. As she grew ever closer to the area, she noticed the delicacy perched high upon a rickety-old window sill, taunting her with it's crispy, flaky, golden-brown crust rising slowly from the outside to the center from it's metallic encasing.  She reached her hand slowly towards the pastry, feeling her hunger painfully, however, upon touching the pan, she quickly retracted as it the pan was still too hot even for thieving.

[NiGHTS Noob]

Yeah, I think the hearing would probably work out as a better ability with her Sadistic side just being a personality trait.

[Tragedy]

Good then, I think I'm done.

[Pyroman]

Approved.