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DUES EX MACHINA PERSONNEL FORM

The Hunter
Name: Scott Thompson
Nicknames: Uhm, no.
Gender: Male
Age: 24

Category: Moon

The Weapon
Name: Niut
Nicknames: Newt
Type of Weapon: Spear
Unsummoned Form: A golden ribbon meant to fit around the wrist, but Niut is usually too careless to transform into the correct size. Scott usually has to twist the ribbon and slip it over his index finger to make sure it doesn’t fall off.
Former species of weapon: Mummy
Gender: Female


Personalities:

Scott is not a robot, but he sometimes thinks life would be easier if he was. Crunching numbers, making decisions on only the most empirical of data, an immunity to human emotions. The thought relaxes him during times of stress, but knowing his luck, he’d probably become self-aware, and then where would he be? Right back where he started, with an existential crisis and a metallic death grip.

Hm. Maybe being a robot wouldn’t be so bad.

Scott is obsessed with logic and reason and simplicity in life, but has never been good at cutting out the excess. He tries desperately to boil everything down to their most basic, easily digestible elements, but can never do so without endlessly agonizing over every niggling detail. He’s a worrier, a thinker, a raw bundle of nerves firing every synapse at the slightest provocation. For him, a trip to the grocery store is a fully realized nightmare, ages spent pondering the benefits of two ply toilet paper over single ply.

But anyone as obsessed with facts has to have a certain degree of intelligence, and anyone who can go through their entire life ignoring their own secret power has to have a little determination. Scott’s got both of those things in spades, and while such a cerebral philosophy may make him seem a little cold to the outside world, he has been trying his hardest to marry heart and mind a little more in his everyday life. Failing, but trying.


Niut is a sixteen-year-old girl at heart, but that heart just so happens to be more sawdust than vessels and blood at this point. She remembers fragments of a royal life and a firecracker of a personality, but thousands of years spent in a dusty crypt waiting to amble slowly after grave robbers and crime solving teenagers has left her aloof, detached, and just a touch melancholy. She’s prone to spending long periods in a daze, thoughts drifting lazily inside her own imagination, pondering such topics as what life would be like if she were a butterfly and what makes sparkly things so fascinating. For Scott, it helps to have someone who isn’t going to spend five minutes fretting over a single move in the heat of battle, but Niut is hardly ever invested in fighting. Scott usually has to beg or bribe her to be of any use to him, or in most cases threaten to take her with him if she gets him killed. Outside of missions, Niut usually keeps quiet and to herself, and any attempt to coax her into a conversation is a struggle. Except, of course, when a spontaneous whimsical thought catches her fancy, after which there is no force in the universe that will shut her up. While Niut’s lackadaisical attitude is constantly at odds with Scott’s overly analytical nature, the two share a mutual bond of not knowing what the hell they’ve gotten themselves into with the Hunters.

Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter? Scott has spent most of his life consciously ignoring the existence of something significant beneath the veneer of the world as he knew it. The thought of the unknown has always terrified him, which has led him to a life spent quietly pursuing only the tangible and quantifiable. It was only after a very bad day at work and an encounter with a convincing stranger that he tentatively came to terms with the fact that one could only hide amongst single truths for so long. Though, his decision to become a Hunter was more of an impulse than a calculated choice, a distinction he won’t be forgetting anytime soon.

Weapon Ability : Sekhmet’s Breath
As a princess, Niut’s family was heavily involved with the cult of Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of warfare whose breath was said to have created the desert. When charged, Niut’s blade is veiled by a layer of scorching hot sand. The sand not only increases the blade’s attack radius by several inches, but also causes fire damage to anything it touches. Initially, Niut is only able to maintain the sand veil around herself, but with experience will be able to send short blast of scorching sand at opponents.