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shibrogane

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:22 pm


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Mount Teide, or Pico de Teide, is the highest elevation on the Atlantic and the third-largest volcano in the world.
It is a Spanish principality, being placed in the Canary Islands. I have chosen to place it under the heading of a
Cosmos knight because it is the best stargazing location in the world, allowing a spectacular view of the
stars. Parts of the Milky Way galaxy are clearly visible from the summit of Teide.

This video accurately sums up my reasoning for placing Teide as a Cosmos Page,
whose themes and inspirations include the stars.
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:26 pm


Honey Petrichor is an approved civilian, as seen here. Her profile is reproduced here with minor changes from that thread.

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Name: Honor Petrichor

Nickname: Honey

Age: 18

Birthday: 20 July

Sign: Cancer

Gemstone: Ruby

Blood Type: A+

Fav. Food: Every single flavor of Mountain Dew that was ever discontinued, ever. Peanut M&Ms. Cherry Limeade Sunkist.

Hated Food: Cotton candy, fried twinkies, twinkies, kitkat bars, spicy food.

School:  DCU (computer science major)
Honor dreams of being an astronomer, but in reality is a poor college kid who gets by on work-study, odd jobs, and scholarships. She can't pay for her own tuition if her parents won't support her, and she really wants a college degree. They won't support her if she pursues astronomy as a career field, so she settles for computer science, which she's passably good at and does enjoy, just not as much as she would astronomy.

Hobbies: 
Reading Science Fiction-- Honor has an almost slavish worship of the Science Fiction Greats. L. Ron Hubbard, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Scott Card--she's read at least one of their books each, usually the most popular, and has picked a favorite from each of them. Her bookshelf at home is remarkable simply because it is so goddamn full of this genre of books. Her nightstand is entirely consumed by novels. While she has no real interest in writing science fiction, she may or may not have occasional fantasies of being the characters. She tries to live her life as she imagines Gurney Halleck or Duncan Idaho would, but often ends up more along the lines of Leto II--at least, as far as her DnD group is concerned!

She also watches Star Trek and loves it like her firstborn child, particularly The Next Generation. Picard is her God. She also likes Spock. The reboot she thinks is pretty cool. She would give her virginity to Reboot!Spock, and also aspires to be like him. Ideally she would be smart like him, know all kinds of inane facts like him, and never be caught off guard, like him. Impossible, really, since she has a reactive personality rather than one that plans ahead. Her hair is cut the way it did from a flawed attempt at a Vulcan haircut, but if anyone asks she was inspired by Emma Watson.

Astronomy-- Honor wants to go to Space. She wants to be an astronaut really, really bad. So bad, she's expressed that she would cut off her legs if it meant she could go to space.

Since that's not going to happen any time soon, she makes do by reading about astronomy, learning about astronomy, wishing she was majoring in astrobiology or astronomy or astrophysics and just learning everything she can about space in the meantime. Want to know why you can't get pregnant in space? She knows. The temperature of the sun? It's about 30,000 degrees Kelvin. Did you know that a pinhole sized fragment of the sun can incinerate the average adult male at 160km?

Honor actually does not own one single telescope, besides one a little cousin jumped on and broke before she headed off to school. She DOES go out at obscene hours to watch meteor showers--any time the ISS does a pass over Destiny City she's outside at least an hour early, all bundled up and ready to watch them. Because of dormitory rules, she just has glow-in-the-dark stars on her walls in the shape of her particular favorite constellation (Cassiopeia and environs!) and also a few posters--a log scale chart of the universe, a subway map of the Milky Way, and also some legit pictures of space dust.

Dungeons and Dragons-- The year she moved to Destiny City, Honor wanted to make friends. The easiest way to do this, she thought, would be to take something she knew she was good at and turn it into a socializing activity. So she posted up bulletins around town to collect herself a group of adventurers. Not all of them panned out, but the others play with her to this day.

She is the DM of their happy little band; her favored guide character is the Lady of the Green Kirtle, a character name not so secretly yanked from the Chronicles of Narnia. Honor is much happier being out of the action and directing it herself, though she can be as much a PC-killer as anyone. She has a disturbing fondness for siccing flatbears on the party.

Virtues:
Reliable-- If Honor says she'll do something, she'll do it, just as promised. Ask her for a ride? She'll be there. Need snacks for the DnD game? She'll bring them. Need help with an essay? Honor's your girl. Though she will always, always, always pull through for you, it probably won't be exactly what you expected. She won't blow you off. She probably doesn't even know how to. And she will get her s**t done. It will happen, but it probably won't be impressive or amazing in any way.

Organized-- She isn't determinedly, purposefully organized, but she is still organized. It's sort of a passive trait in that she habitually puts things back where they belong, and has become used to things being where they should be. It's not a sweep-through-clean-the-house-it-must-be-where-I-put-it sort of thing, she's not exactly a vigilant neat freak who will eat your face if you move a snowglobe eight inches to the left, it's just a ho-hum-look-that's-out-of-place-let-me-put-it-away thing. Or a "well we're assigning parts of this project to get done, let's make a chart so everyone knows their part" thing.

This is because at heart she is pretty lazy, and likes having things be smooth and easy. It's easier to expend a little more effort at the beginning and not have to go through and clean up everything later--especially when she often doesn't have time to go through things twice!

Protective-- And how! Honor is not just protective of her friends, but of random people she sees on the street. Because she views the natural human state as happiness, she absolutely abhors seeing people in pain or afraid and does her best to alleviate anything she views as suffering. Honor cannot bear seeing people being disrespected, even if it's just a classroom debate. She gives five dollar bills to homeless people and helps peers with homework. When she comes across people being teased, she will get up in the bully's face and probably stomp on their feet and generally b***h at them, regardless of the consequences to herself.

This extends to physical objects, too, but only hers, and only certain of them. The list is: Laptop, books, iPod, wallet. You touch them without her permission, and she will try to eat your face. She's reasonable about it--if she dropped it and you're giving it back she won't accuse you of stealing. But she views messing with her personal possessions as immensely disrespectful, and thusly very do-not-want.

Flaws:
Unmotivated-- She just doesn't care all that much about classes. She can't achieve her dream--she's never, ever gonna go to space, because she's in the wrong career path--and she doesn't particularly care about computer science or programming, so why should she apply herself? Why should being a B/C student bother her? She's getting it done, she'll get a degree. Isn't that the important thing to everyone else?

Because she's unmotivated, everything she does is rushed. Papers are always done the night before, three-month projects bullshitted in two days before the due-date, journals meant to be written over a semester completed overnight. This makes her an expert at bringing ideas to fruition fast, but it also means she works way below her ability level. Those overnight papers, projects, and journals are B+ quality at tops, and C quality at worst; she squeaks by, when if she applied herself she could pull high As. She is actually really not bothered by those low grades. She got it done, didn't she?

Anxious-- Her last-minute attempts to get things done are motivated intensely by her own feelings of guilt and anxiety. The anxiety happens because she naturally likes to see people happy and feels like they depend on her to stay that way. She's naturally kind of lazy, though, and is pretty happy to stay on the internet until the clock starts winding down. This is why things that don't have grades, parental approval, or a paycheck riding on them happen at all. It gets to the point where she cannot think of anything but the things she is supposed to be doing, and then she will dash out and get things done.

Impulsive-- Honor doesn't really look ahead to the future. She tends to go with what sounds like the best idea right then, and go on with that. This happens with just about everything she does; something occurs, she goes with the first idea she has without stopping to think about it. The charts she makes to work out her time are mostly ignored because of this; if she gave things a little more thought, doubtless she'd be a lot better grades- and responsibility-wise. Her Dungeons and Dragons group has also had a disproportionate amount of unwinnable encounters with flatbears and the Borg because of this. It's entirely likely they cannot count the number of times they've been assimilated.

Self-righteous-- Remember how she's incredibly protective of everyone? This extends even to times when it's nowhere near appropriate. Honor will take a critique given to another student personally and disagree with it just because she thinks you're being mean. In her Dungeons and Dragons group, she will scold a player whose character is antagonistic to another's--even if it's completely IC because those two characters hate each other. She thinks because she is so reliable and nice, everyone should be just like her. And if they're not… it's entirely within her rights to b***h them out!

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: A striking sapphire blue.

Hair: Cornsilk-colored, pretty much; a white-blonde, worn cropped very, very close to her head--think Emma Watson's pixy cut for length.

Face: Heart-shaped, thin face. Her nose is Romanesque, she has full lips.

Clothes: Heavy sweaters and jeans, very college kid couture. Almost always has a scarf. Her ears are pierced.

shibrogane

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shibrogane

Stellar Lightbringer

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:11 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Knight Title: Teide Page of Cosmos

Challenge: Be at peace.

Uniform: stupid sketchy chibi thing
Weapon:
Page: An orb, about the size of Jareth the Goblin King's from Labyrinth. It is small and translucent, fitting into the palm of her hand easily, and in the right light you can catch golden, unrecognizable writing in the light's reflection.
Squire: The orb has become slightly larger, and it is now clear what it is: a small armillary sphere (which have been used since antiquity) contained within unbreakable glass/crystal. It ticks along to reflect the positions of the stars in the sky.
-----Magic: Teide concentrates, and the wheels of the armillary sphere spin and then lock into place. By concentrating on a senshi, she can increase the duration on their first- or second-stage attack, whichever they are currently casting, to about two times its previous length, at maximum. For instance, if Sailor Water Vapor's attack lasts for thirty seconds, it'll last a minute while Teide focuses on him. Another example would be a shield that lasts through two hits; while under Teide's spell, it would last four hits. Teide must concentrate upon the senshi in question in order to hold the armillary sphere's wheels in place, otherwise the spell will cease to function, and she can do this for thirty seconds cumulative per battle. If her concentration is broken, the effects of her spell end immediately.
-----------TL,DR: Empowered Spell
-----------Reasoning: Eternity is something without beginning or end, whose duration is unending. Probably that's a bit overpowered, you know to make the duration of an attack unending, but that's why the duration is just doubled.
Knight: A larger orb, not beach ball sized but like a fortune-teller's orb, probably. Similar to before, it contains an armillary sphere that tracks the stars overhead when not in use.
-----Magic: By concentrating on a senshi using the same mechanic as before, she can increase the duration on any of their attacks, whichever they are currently using, to about (at maximum) two times its previous length. For instance, if Sailor Water Vapor's attack lasts for thirty seconds, it'll last a minute while Teide focuses upon him. Another example would be a shield that lasts through two hits; while under Teide's spell, it would last four hits. Now that she's a full Knight, she can do this for a full minute per battle. If her concentration is broken, the duration effect is broken as well.
-----------TL,DR: Empowered Spell
-----------Reasoning: Eternity is something without beginning or end, whose duration is unending.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:50 am


Okay, ready for crit!...

I think.

shibrogane

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shibrogane

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:04 am


Now with stupid sketchy doodle thing for uniform design.

HAVE AT ME.
PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:51 pm


You're a colorist, so you know all about knight designs do's/don'ts, and all that. I suck at uniform design, so let's move on to the attacks.

Okay, so, what we need to do is make Teide's attacks fit the power requirements for the Knight faction.

The concept is great.

Knight magic is drawn from a pool, so you need to establish the total amount of time she can focus at each stage. I recommend a total of 30 seconds for her squire, and a minute for knight. Additionally, knights, unlike senshi, should, at their third stage, present a completed concept, so, their power would fully develop, rather than gaining another, unrelated attack. So, rather than getting the star-heat effect, the duration pool would increase, fully realized. Otherwise, we allow two separate, small magics, but I think you should stick with her current concept, because, well, it's inspired.

My understanding of the limits/details of her power is this:
- She can only increase a senshi's magic up to 2x it's base effect.
- She can only increase their magic while she's actively concentrating on them [which means the channeling can be broken, and/or she can switch targets]
- She has a pool of magic, and when her pool is depleted, the effect stops.

This would mean, for instance, that if she increased a shield from two hits to four, and she was interrupted during hit three, said shield would fail after the third hit.

If you can make all that clear in her attacks, she'll be ready for a stamp!

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shibrogane

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:09 pm


Got it all cleared up, will go post her in the queue again = u=
PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:14 pm


No need.

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