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STATISTICS:
STAGE: Adept PATH: Battler LVL: 30 EXP: 12/30
LP: 295 ENG: 295
INT: 28 ATK: 59 DEF: 32 LUK: 37 LUK EXP: 0/3
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INVENTORY:
- Ayrala Dragon Orb x 8
- Kiandri Dragon Orb x 5
- Peisio Dragon Orb x 14
- Fire Feather x 6
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:05 am
Custom: Full Character Name: Malikai Dorran Race: Orderite Gender: Male ♂ Class: Warrior Appearance:
Physical
- As an apprentice, Malikai is a stout boy: full, and round. Though not quite "fat," he definitely carries around a good saddling of excess pounds. This is mostly thanks to his mother running a bakery and his family fretting about letting him out and about to be as active as he might like, given the character of his leg. He has a smooth, round face to go with his figure, a bright, puffy carrot top of orange hair, shaved beneath the ears save for a rat tail in the back, and a seafoam green complexion save for a dotting of bright orange freckles in a line across the bridge of his nose and upper rise of his cheeks.
His wings, as an apprentice, are small and puffy - giving the impression of being slightly underdeveloped for his age - many of the feathers more like the soft, fuzzy down of a baby bird as opposed to fully fledged, "proper" feathers. He receives a healthy amount of teasing for this and as such, tends to keep his wings in their tattoos most of the time, unless he's in familiar company. His apprentice wings are useless for flight.
- As an adept Malikai, through hard work and persistence, begins to work off his childhood chub and replace it with a layer of muscle. In his teenage years, his parents begin to relax their control, his father consents to giving him some swordplay lessons, and Malik dedicates himself to them wholeheartedly. He is passionate about wanting to be a soldier, not a civilian as his parents would have preferred, and is determined to make up for his deficiencies for working twice as hard as everyone else if he has to in order to catch up. He is never 'lean,' but he trims down to a healthy weight for a teenage boy and continues to add strength to his repertoire throughout his teen years and into young adulthood.
His wings also experience unprecedented growth in his teenage years, rapidly sprouting until they look unnaturally large and overbearing, dwarfing his teen body and making him look comical — again — in the opposite fashion. He tends to keep them tucked away, again, at this stage, for the same reason, but reversed: they still make him look silly. At least, however, they're fairly competent at flight, but being larger and unweildly, grossly out of proportion to what he's used to, he's still a clumsy flier.
- As an expert Malikai's drinking problem has begun to manifest into more than a youthful divergence and cements him as a genuine alcoholic. It shows in his body type. Though he maintains - and even continues to build on - his younger muscle, the alcohol weight builds up around his waist, in his arms and cheeks, 'smoothing over' a fitter figure, erasing definition, and making him heavier all around again.
Malikai has finally grown into his wings. They're large, and strong, and he's fairly proud of them, for all the issues they've put him through in the past.
Dress
- Malikai is a practical boy from a poor/lower-middleclass family. Other than his mechanical leg, which is absolutely required, he doesn't have a set dress set-up other than 'poor boy steampunk'. Later, he will carry his sword on him.
Personality:
Simple
honest, genuine, hard-working (when motivated) slow on the uptake (not terribly bright), slow in general (likes to take life as it comes) good-natured, friendly, self-conscious adventurous, gullible, hopeful optimistic, diligent, (can be) cowardly (but may rise to the challenge, depending) big hearted, romantic, lacks confidence squeamish (bad trait, for a wanna be soldier), empathetic, self-pitying
Detailed
As a child, Malikai tends towards being about as soft as his belly, and it's a personality trait that — though it becomes burdened and buried by other things over time — sticks with him to a degree for most of his life. Raised by a well-meaning but grossly alcoholic father, drunk as much off of his nostalgia for the past as his liquor in the present, Malikai is destined for, eventually, a similar path, feeling the need for 'help' with the hurdles in his life which seem to high to pass. Despite being a driven and earnest worker when he's set to a task, Malikai has a tendency for ambling towards escapism, easier paths, and minimal conflict when he can.
Malikai is not especially intelligent, but neither is he stupid. His mind can be slow on the uptake, but he works things through in his own time. The accent he retains from the poorer areas of town in which he grew up does nothing to improve base assumptions, though, that he might be lacking upstairs. Despite all, however, Malik is generally good-natured, positive, and outgoing — at least to the extent that he can get over his uncertainties. His self-consciousness is born not of natural instinct, but something learned over time, thanks in greater part to the teasing of various sorts he received as a child, and on up through much of his teen years, though it slacked off then.
Malikai's heart is, metaphorically speaking, twice the size of his brain. When inspired (which is often, in regards to chasing passions regarding other people) he can be a hopeless romantic, going to exhausting lengths to please others (namely: girls) in all the traditional ways — bad attempts at poetry, flowers he thinks they might think are pretty, pastries — and whatever other excess and less-traditional ways they might specifically ask for. In this way (as well as others) he can be terribly gullible and is easy to lead on, and does tend to get lead on. Often.
Malikai is also, unfortunately for him, squeamish. Not terribly so — he manages not to faint at the sight of blood, thankfully — but enough that wounds do tend to make him more sick to his stomach and dizzy than most, and he prefers not to deal with pain, blood, or gore hands on. He is especially sensitive to witnessing the suffering of just about anything and doesn't tend to cope very well.
Thoughts on the Great Engagement:
His father was a soldier in the great war; his two older brothers both served in Aevah's army, one giving his life to it. Malikai grew up watching his father deteriorate around a bottle as he reminisced about the grandeur of days past, the 'heroism' of what it 'used' to be like, and Malikai is conflicted. As a young boy, fighting for the orderites, for the glory and honor they deserve as people is a golden standard. A supreme goal for which he will work tirelessly toward. It's worth pushing his leg, fighting his weight, struggling to prove himself and make himself strong so that he can be more than a baker in his mother's wake or a part-time mechanic in the sooty, lower streets of Ashen city.
When he grows older, however, primarily in his mid-twenties, he will see more of the world for himself, as it actually is, not as it is in the stories his father tells of it. It's messy, and complicated, with hurt people everywhere. Death isn't glorious. War isn't heroic. Bloodshed, disease, hurt, and complexity all just begin to look like life, and he isn't sure any longer how he feels about anything. It's part of what turns him ever-more to rely on the bottle himself. Drinking makes it easier to look at how hurt everyone is and not feel sick to his stomach. It makes it easier to let boundaries blur and shift into a warm nothingness as opposed to the brittle, messy reality around him.
Thoughts on the Magescian Races:
Orderites, the children of Seren, are just and good. Oblivionites, the shadows of Soudana, are the enemy: heartless, soulless monsters who sully the name of what it means to be a Magescian. Dovaa are a wild, strange people, full of themselves thinking they can bring 'peace' to a world not built for them, to a war they don't understand that has nothing to do with them; they are foreigners and, while some might be useful on the field of battle if they are intelligent enough to realize which side is right, most are foolish and blind. Hybrids are a disgrace.
These are the opinions Malikai grew up with. These are the words he heard, over, and over, and over from his father's mouth, so loud and so frequent he could recite them in his sleep. He believes them. Until he can't, anymore.
Malikai will be very steadfast in his opinions for as long as he has no information to challenge them. When he grows older and experiences the world himself, lines will blur messily. He has a very difficult time hating much of anything, and watching the 'enemy' suffer just as much genuine pain as his 'allies' doesn't help to make him any more vengeful. Quite the opposite. Malikai will learn gradually over time, the hard way, that he was not cut out to hurt people, and war is not his ideal playing field.
Eventually, his natural inclination will still be to be wary of oblivionites — many would happily kill him, after all, even if he isn't set out to kill them — and to be somewhat disappointed in his own people. They are not the glorious heroes of righteousness he once thought, but instead just as messy and flawed as everyone else. He will grow more curious about the dovaa, wondering if perhaps, despite being from a different world and a different god, they don't actually have the right idea about things. Wouldn't peace just be…easier? Hybrids will always be somewhat of an anomaly to Malikai, but he feels that he, too, is part broken, so perhaps he is not so much better than them, in the end.
Thoughts on the Dragons and Khehora:
Dragons are scary, but one day, he'll be brave and strong enough to take them on! Hopefully. (He will, though he will likely only fight them when necessary and not go out of his way to find trouble. Dragon slaying is so much work, and painful, to boot.) Khehora make great bondeds. That's what they were designed for, after all. He's not entirely sure what this business of 'feral' khehora is all about. They were created to be bondeds, and bondeds are amazing, helpful, and powerful. Don't khehora just die if they don't have a bonded…? (These questions will eventually be cleared up in time, but Malik will always consider feral khehora, particularly Khehorians, to be especially…odd.)
"Everybody starts th' same: naked, bloody, an' screamin' f'r their mothers." | History and Early Life |
Born in a lower district of Ashen city, where the smoke and grit of the grinding machinery gathers in a semi-permanent, dusky smog on their windows and on bad days smears the streets half-black with soot, Malikai was raised well loved, but not well off. His parents, an ex-soldier of relatively low rank and a baker and part-time seamstress, always did their best for Malik — their third child — but still often struggled to put pennies together, sometimes even for more basic necessities. Malikai's oldest brother died in a skirmish on Eowyn's southern edge fighting off oblivionites around the Maralan project before Malikai was old enough to walk. His second brother, also a soldier, is rarely home, but makes a point to encourage Malikai when he does visit, and Malik looks up to him with all the wonder little brothers do.
When he was six years old, playing in the streets outside his home with a group of slightly older children, a game of dares came up where each of the others would dare another to leap from the highest thing they could while still catching themselves and landing safely with their wings. Malikai — young at the time, and with especially underdeveloped wings even for his age — wanted desperately to keep up with the others and earn their approval, always being the roundest and slowest of the bunch anyway, and after too much belittling, resolved to prove that he could keep up, with disastrous results. After climbing too high, up onto the roof of a neighboring shop, he jumped, fell too fast for his wings to do much of anything but embarrass himself, and landed poorly, breaking his left leg in a messy, ripping fashion that shattered multiple bones.
His parents afforded him the best healer that their coin could purchase, but between the poor break, the mud and soot of the street working their way early into the wound, and the limited capabilities of the healer assigned to him, Malikai soon fell ill. His leg developed a spreading disease, and by the time they could scrape the coin together for another healing session, half of his leg was beyond saving. It was severed just below the knee to stop the spread of disease, and after several years of crutches, on his tenth birthday, Malikai was gifted a prosthetic leg. Though unweildly, bare, and openly mechanical, the prosthetic is a combination of both steampunk mechanics and a splash of orderite spellwork, designed to at least roughly mimic the responses of a real leg. It is highly imperfect, but moves and responds to his body motions far more than a simple peg leg would.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:07 am
"I got a legacy, believe it or not." | Family and Relationships |
FAMILY
| Parents |
Rondin - father - Warrior
Rondin, in his day, was a warrior. A proud 'proponent of light', defender of the people, and soldier under Seren. After aging, taking many falls on the battlefield, and fathering four children, his 'heroism' has become little more than his own recantation - usually loudly and drunkenly - atop tabletops to his fellow-soldier friends. By day, he is also, sometimes, a blacksmith. The older he gets, however, the more difficult Rondin finds it to enjoy anything other than his liquor.
After his wife's death, this becomes even more the case, and he begins living - by no desire of his own - under the watchful eye of his second son, Tomlan, and his family when Tomlan is unavailable.
Myella (Ella) - mother - Seamstress, Baker(Note: Deceased as of his age twenty-three, expert stage.)
Myella was a hefty woman, but carried her weight plus some in more areas than one. As a baker, she cooked from home, preparing specialty sweets as well as the 'usual' for common sale and for particular customers. Malikai remembers her kitchen as the closest place to heaven when it was filled with her life and all the colors and scents that came with the business.
As a seamstress, she worked primarily for noble families, doing primarily repair work that required a skilled hand, quick on the job. Occasionally, her work brought her directly to the noble houses, and when Malikai was too young to be left alone all day, this meant that on some instances, he traveled with her to these fine abodes. It was how he met Laesara, the catalyst to a great many of his 'adventures' later in life.
| Siblings |
♂ Tomlan - eight years older than Malikai - Warrior
Tomlan, like his father and older brother before him, joined the army when he came of age. Because of it, Malikai saw him rarely when he was young, but such visits were always prized, and in his mind's eye, Tomlan was a hero. At the time, not wanting to spoil the limited visitations he got with his family, Tomlan let this image of glory persist, encouraging Malikai to take whatever path he felt inspired to. When Malikai grew older and joined the forces himself, things were not everything he once imagined, and Tomlan would confess he regretted on some level not being more honest about the less glamorous side of things.
Malikai, though, considers Tomlan close family, a beloved brother, and in some ways more of a father to him than his father was. Tomlan is mated and has children of his own.
Malikai's wife, Vanariah Olera, gave him her last name in their union, and for some time, it was all he got from her. Two years his senior, she had other plans for her life than being arranged to marry 'down' to the son of a baker and a soldier. She was in love, had dreams of her own, and treated him with chilly, stubborn disinterest, generally blaming him for the plight put upon her by their parents. Over time, however, and their years together, Vanariah's attitude slowly thaws towards him. Despite losing their first child to miscarriage - and the damage this does - she eventually admits, while heavy with their second attempt at a first child, that she has grown to love him. These moments are among the best to date in Malikai's life - until he is taken from her again, by the obligations of his duty to Seren's army.
Eventually, it is this obligation, combined with a slew of internal factors, that drives a wedge progressively deeper between them.
◆✚✚Naarhiji - Oblivionite - Prostitute
A young oblivionite prostitute who works the halls of his uncle's brothel. At first, Naarhiji is a backdrop - a fussy, petulant, and never-pleased youth whom Malikai initially mistakes for being even younger than he is. Over the course of time, however, and numerous repeat visits to the same brothel, Malikai encounters the young man more than once and develops, if nothing else, a familiarity with him - until one evening, more thickly under the influence than even his usual, Malik initiates taking their 'familiarity' with each other a step further.
Unfortunately for himself, he retains no memory of that come morning, and waking next to a male is quite the shock. He does, however, grapple with the incident in its aftermath, and eventually determines that it wasn't, perhaps, quite so shocking as it initially came off as. In the weeks and months that follow, he slips into a habit of returning to the brothel not for the women he visited for at first, but for Naarhiji's company specifically, and comes, bit by bit, to know the man better.
◇✚Sytherina - Oblivionite - Prostitute / Assassin
Beautiful, clever, and on top of her game, Sytherina is the first prostitute Malikai encountered upon stepping into the brothel that Naarhiji works at. She is also, for quite some time, the reason Malikai returns and is his favorite company to keep there. Eventually, however, as his relationship with Naarhiji shifts from one of amused indifference to curiosity, and beyond, Sytherina continues to play a pivotal role in protecting not only Naarhiji and his happiness, but Malikai, and the relationship they build together, contrary to the wishes of those around them who foster a building disgust and adversarial attitude towards what it is they are doing. In this way, Sytherina proves in time to be not only a beautiful temptress, but someone Malikai is deeply grateful for and respects on multiple levels.
◆♥Laesara - Orderite - Archer
After encountering her first at a young age under unfortunate circumstance - he being the chosen victim-of-the-day for a small group of her bored, noble cousins in the back gardens of their estate - Laesara maintained the tradition that she did that day as their relationship grew into one of friendship, and then of something more than that: ever there to aid, protect, and encourage him forward. Laesara grew into a powerful young noble woman in her own right, and even in her younger years always had a good head on her shoulders and a quick attention for a blade - and anything else put before her.
Malikai followed alongside her first as her 'squire' and then more loosely as an attendee and aid. When they became of mating age, however, the building complexity in their relationship did not go unnoticed, and the two were severed from each other, Laesara's father exercising 'mercy' by way of seeing to it that Malikai's chosen profession - that of a soldier - took him far, far away from the man's daughter for the following decades.
◆■Alionse - Orderite - Warrior
A young man who Malikai was assigned, through his own training program as a soldier, to help tutor in his swordsmanship. A new warrior, Alionse has much to learn, but he seems attentive, serious, and quick on his feet, and being that Malikai isn't a great deal older than him to begin with, he feels a little abashed to be put in the 'mentor' role to begin with. Still, they manage to work well enough together.
◆□Roseryn - Dovaa - Ysali
Malikai first encountered Roseryn at a young age, while 'squiring' for the young lady Laesara. Roseryn Vayne's family, though dovaa, apparently had connections through nobility with the Wymriths, making the two noble children - Rose and Lae - at least acquaintances. Beyond this, Malikai isn't sure of much, other than that Rose tends to look generally displeased with and disinterested in most things other than his immediate family. Still, if the boy were to converse with him, Malik would extend his best attempts at being friendly.
◆✖Akara - Hybrid - Peisio Archer
A hybrid woman who attacked Malikai outside the gates of Tukyere over a prisoner of the orderite army. There was no convincing her that she ought best turn back and there was nothing left she could do about it. Hybrids are an innately stubborn race, so far as Malikai can tell, and unpredictable, not realizing when they are in over their head.
◆■Liasi - Orderite - Seamstriss
A young seamstress Malikai encountered as a boy, shortly after become a squire to the lady Laesara Wymrith. His encounter with her was brief and due in part to him still helping his mother with certain tasks when he had the time. She seemed, though, to be a good sort despite her touchiness about anything being touched within the shop, and young to be alone in it, but capable. She also, as might be expected, knew her fabrics well. Malikai wouldn't have minded to have met with her again.
◆✖Minerva - Hybrid - Kiandri Mage
A young, kiandri hybrid whom Malikai encountered whilst she was patrolling Eowyn's desert and he was on guard at an outpost some ways from the nearest city. She, like the other hybrid woman Malikai would later encounter, was stubborn to her core, and indeed - dangerous. Malikai feels he doesn't understand the obscure mix of races and that, often as not, the genetics seem to affect the mind in a less than favorable way. Hybrids are unpredictable and impossible to trust.
◆■Odette - Orderite - Warrior
A beautiful young orderite girl Malikai encountered while tutoring Alionse in use of a warrior's blade as part of his own training for Lady Avi's army. Though he doesn't know her well, she seems to be spirited, opinionated, and forthright, all admirable and engaging traits so far as he can tell. Her charm did have the unfortunate side effect of leaving him rather at a blundering loss for words, but that did little to spoil the overall pleasure of meeting her. At the time, he would have enjoyed opportunities to meet with her in the future and get to know her better.
◆■Whan - Orderite - Barbarian
A young village boy who Malikai met for the first time when station just outside of Ashen City in a neighboring fishing town. Though very shy at first, prone to stammering, he seemed determined to get out into the midst of a dragon attack when one occurred. Next Malik met with him, he had chosen his weapon - and axe which looked almost as large as he was - and at his request, Malik gave him some basic tutelage in weapon use before referring him to someone more specifically versed in the barbarian path.
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"More happened than I expected, t' be honest..." | Comprehensive Roleplay Log |
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:16 am
"Just 'cause I don' have a fancy name f'r everythin' doesn' mean it ain't effective." | Stats and Battle Info |
»» STATS
LVL: 1 EXP: 0/1
LP: - ENG: -
INT: ATK: DEF: LUK: LUK EXP:
» physical attacks Punch - 5 ENG xxxxxAvailable when ATK > 0 xxxxxDMG per ATK point: 5
Slash - 15 ENG xxxxxAvailable when ATK > 20 xxxxxDMG per ATK Point: 10 xxxxxxxxxxBarbarian/Ranged/Warrior classes need to have their Weapon obtaining Solo to access this xxxxxxxxxxDovaa and Mages need to write up an RP obtaining a Non-Imprinted weapon to access this. xxxxxxxxxxKhehora have natural weapons (teeth, tail, claws, etc), so they just need to meet the ATK stat requirement.
Dual Slash - 20 ENG xxxxxAvailable when ATK > 30, INT > 30 xxxxxDMG 10pt per ATK + 2pt per INT xxxxxxxxxxAvailable only to Barbarian/Ranged/Warrior Classes.
Eviscerate - 50 ENG xxxxxAvailable when ATK > 60, INT> 60 xxxxxDMG 20pt per ATK + 5pt per INT xxxxxxxxxxAvailable only to Barbarian/Ranged/Warrior Classes.
» physical defenses Block xxxxxAvailable when DEF > 0 xxxxxDMG warded per DEF Point: 5
Moderate Defense xxxxxAvailable when DEF > 20 xxxxxDMG warded per DEF Point: 10
Advanced Defense xxxxxAvailable when DEF > 40 xxxxxDMG warded per DEF Point: 15
Master Defense xxxxxAvailable when DEF > 60 xxxxxDMG warded per DEF Point: 20
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:36 am
"Times come where I think 'progress' is a bit of a matter o' perspective..." | Growth and Progression Reqs |
Apprentice »»» Adept ::
-One Month Time [ ✔ ] -Completed Journal Setup [ ✔ ] -At Least Level 15 [ ✔ ] -Determined Stats [ ✔ ] -Determined Abilities and Skills [ ✔ ] -Choose Your Weapon - Iron and Soul[ ✔ ] -5 RPs (can be Solo, ORP or PRP)
- Ayrala Dragon Orb x 8
- Kiandri Dragon Orb x 5
- Peisio Dragon Orb x 14
