This is a bready nice characterOriginally Posted by Adonis
This is a bready nice character
It's a great character and all, but rye did you make it?
Watch Magical Girl Raising Project. Just do it.
Tao of Blue
Who cares rye he made it. At least the OC is not crumby.
Juiz: You can quote me on this: Klonoa is my favorite son.
Mofo did you just reuse my pun?
Watch Magical Girl Raising Project. Just do it.
Tao of Blue
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Juiz: You can quote me on this: Klonoa is my favorite son.
The yeast you could have done is come up with something a little less half-baked.
Watch Magical Girl Raising Project. Just do it.
... I'm very tempted to set up a pumpernickel shop, that way we could contain the puns.
Spoiler:
Name: Jericho Louis-Arnaud
Appearance: A fair skinned man of somewhat short stature (5'7"), but, with his arms toned like no other, he has more than enough skill to make up for it. He has grey eyes, somewhat "girly" eyelashes, and ear-length, dirty blonde hair, which is always hanging free when Jericho isn't on duty, where he pulls it into a ponytail to avoid it becoming a nuisance. He looks to be somewhere in his mid 30's to early 40's, but looks can be deceiving.
Why your character is/became the role he is: Enlisted in the Village Guard on recommendation of his boss while he did mercenary work along the French-German border, a man who's real name nobody knows. This recommendation, however, cited his prowess with a wide range of weaponry, particularly some of his favorites: A Scottish claymore he acquired during his time in the Highlands, a Norman broadsword he was given while fighting for William the Conqueror's army in the Norman Conquest of England, his trusty Misericorde dagger, used to finish off injured foes, taken, ironically, off of a dying French knight circa 1270, and a ~75-pound draw, one-handed crossbow he built himself sometime in the 1390's while learning to forge his own weapons from a blacksmith in Prussia.
Personality: Jericho keeps to himself mostly, he lives outside the village's walls in a location unknown to all but him, even. He's quick to shut down attempts to probe at his past, and focusing on the task at hand above all else. If he's guarding a door, he's going to keep anyone from getting in that door, regardless of how much it hurts them for him to do it. He's very eloquent when he does speak to anyone, however brief his chats with the are. He's normally pretty chill, but if the question of his past or his family/parents will rile him up, at which point the eloquence will often be overtaken by the rage in Jericho.
Backstory: Illegitimately born to a Welsh peasant woman circa 1100 AD, Jericho had no surname, as it was traditional that babies took their name from their father. He got to be around 60 or 70 by time William the Conqueror had to involve Wales in the Norman Conquest of Rome. Thing was, despite being elderly in age, he looked to have not even stretched the surface of puberty. He and his mother (Who was herself very elderly, having given birth to Jericho young but still having had over 50 years of life go by since.) were taken from their home during the attacks on Wales, and his mother, feeble little lady she was, didn't make it. The seemingly ~10 year old boy, (With not much maturation of his mind from that age.) Jericho, in a fit of rage when this happened, subdued or killed two dozen of he and his mother's captors in the immediate aftermath. He fled, and ran for a long, LONG time to do it. Eventually, he was near the Coast of Wales, and hid in a Norman ship headed for Normandy, hoping there'd be food or something to help him survive, not knowing the ship was due for there. He eventually ended up in France, and, narrowly avoided capture by then-aware of him Normans. While in France, which was for hundreds of years, he eventually grew up (Very slowly), took up mercenary work to pay the bills, and, like, learned to fight with his gift, and his weapons, helping him. Now, in whatever the fuck time it is, he merely has the appearance of a man in his mid-late 30's, and one in tip top physical shape at that, despite being hundreds of years old. As he spent much of his time in France, (Though he went on ship rides with Normans to Wales to attempt sabotaging their operations Wales and the English Kingdom quite often prior to the 100 Years' War, and spent a great deal of time Europe-trotting during and after that.) he took the very French surname Louis-Arnaud, after some acquaintances in the Norman army who seemed less sympathetic than most to William's cause, at least until they fought Jericho upon discovering his motives for joining the Normans.
Qualities: -Ages slowly by virtue of a mutated stand of his paternal DNA, which makes his cells replace the dead ones really fast. Basically, he can not only regenerate from most lesser wounds if left to heal for long enough, he can also actively control his cell reproduction, having honed the skill for centuries. This can be used to boost the regeneration to be even faster, (Though Jericho has to be conscious for this regeneration boost to work.) or even to make weapons by consciously making his bones grow into various shapes protruding, though Jericho's reluctant to use this ability, preferring his real steal weapons and to not be lynched for witchcraft or something.
-When angered, sad, or fatally injured, or otherwise in enough need of it, Jericho will enter a state of "Primal Rage", going full force against everyone who's pissed him off. His regeneration gets so fast that he appears to just tank swords and other attacks without taking damage. While taking that damage hurts a lot otherwise, in Primal Rage mode, Jericho feels no pain. His entire mind and body dedicate themselves to making whatever made him mad nonexistent. It takes a very large deal of provocation to make him reach this point, however, and the last time he got to that point was when he would have otherwise been burned at the stake, upon the discovery of his ability near the end of the Hundred Years War, where he killed, like, a lot of English soldiers. When this goes down, his eyes purportedly change from normal looking to entirely a very hazy, but still somewhat luminescent white.He also can only express thoughts in terms of animal-like growls and grunts, not that there's usually anyone around he's up to talking to when it happens.
-Wields a vast array of weapons hailing from all over Middle Ages Europe to an expertly skillful degree, thanks to having a couple centuries to roam all over the continent and learn the various ways of combat. (While on particularly travel-heavy mercenary jobs or when just seeking work.) He's deadly quick with smaller weapons like daggers, supremely adept at parrying and riposting with one handed sword, amazing at cutting down everything in his way with big swords and axes that require two hands to hold.
-His armor while on guard duty is a smattering of the best armor pieces he's had the pleasure to use in his 250 or so years of military service in Medieval Europe. At this point, the armor set is: a set of steel vambraces, forged to have small but secure scallops on them to catch blades weapons and redirect them; a chest guard made of leather with plates of steel riveted onto it, making an articulated and thus flexible, while still very strong design; a set of leather greaves meant more to protect again projectiles cutting Jericho's legs from under him; a heavy leather spaulder for his left shoulder, which also keeps a black, quilted silk side-cape in place, which is resistant to being pierced by arrows and the like thanks to being soaked in salt water and left to dry with the salt crystallizing, making it very durable, and on the right shoulder, a steel pauldron designed to resemble the Welsh Dragon's head; and various leather pieces in various other places to protect his groin, armpits, upper legs, and knees. Rather than a helmet, Jericho can remove his side-cape from his, well, side in a pinch and quickly make of it a simple balaclava what-have you. While this leaves his head more vulnerable to slashing melee weapons than a steel helmet, it provides him far more peripheral vision, which is good for both a guard and a warrior.
-Jericho, thanks to his many years living in Europe as a mercenary, has picked up a lot of knowledge on Historical European Martial Arts. (HEMA, essentially the way Medieval warriors fought.) He fights dirty when he has to, no holds barred for him. If it's a way he can kill you, he'll do it. The only time he'll show an opponent enough respect to be at all fair is after this HEMA/Weapons knowledge means he needs to finish them off with his Misericorde dagger.
Defects/Faults:
-His cellular mutation's healing factor is usually only fast enough to enable, say, a big wound from a sword to heal, if properly dressed, overnight. If he's attacked to death in battle, (Which is rarely liable to happen given his prowess in combat.) he'll die like anyone else unless he consciously boosts the healing speed, which leaves him all-but entirely blacking out, and thus basically out of a fight, if he uses it on the aforementioned big sword wound.
-The primal rage thing is, again, his biological absolute last resort. He's probably really hurting by time it's about to kick in, which means it could possibly get killed while it "turns on". Also, if he gets pissed to the point that this happens, and there's anyone left alive in the village, you can bet they're gonna (Try to) lynch Jericho.
-Like fast healing, primal rage drains Jericho when he uses it, it gets him from point A (Killing people) to Point B (Fleeing) real quick, but then just sort of dumps Jericho's body wherever he runs out of juice, which, in his old age, is probably a bit sooner than when he was around 60.
-Jericho needs to be properly nourished (By Medieval standards at least.) to have much juice for his healing/primal rage to be viable. Not to mention that at some point, malnutrition and/or major diseases like the plague could if potentially snuff out the anti-aging fire long enough to make his age catch up with him.
Last edited by GonadTheNomad; 12-30-2015 at 03:31 AM.
Gonad has no nads pass it on!!!!11!Spoiler:
@Gunnt a bit on the strong side, but I'm really liking him
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