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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:43 am


DEUS EX MACHINA PERSONNEL FORM

The Hunter
Name: Gertrude Cadeaun
Nicknames: Trudy
Gender: Female
Age: 21

Category: Sun

The Weapon
Name: Myxy
Nicknames: Blob, Blobby, Blobert MacBlobberton XXIV
Type of Weapon: Canne (A straight cane/walking stick without a crook.)
Former species of weapon: Slime
Gender: Male

Personalities: Gertrude Cadeaun.
She's plucky. When she sets a goal for herself, she is determined to do her best to accomplish it, even if she has to muster the courage to go through terrifying ordeals to do so. She's also generally cheerful and spirited.

She's a polite, caring person. She rarely addresses people without using titles and she usually says please and thank you. She has a tenacious memory and she makes a point of remembering the names of everyone she associates with, their birthdays, and the like.

She feels the need to defend herself against everything, even things that aren't meant to be attacks. For example, if someone critiques her or disagrees with her, then she'll argue with him/her, because she feels like his/her statements are personal attacks against her. She also reacts violently to pranks for the same reason. Bucket to the head? How about a stick to the head? It's like that.

She suffers from a princess complex. She feels like a victim who needs to be rescued by a knight in shining armor. She's insecure and vain. She feels like she is surrounded by people who are better than her and who she'll never surpass. On the one hand, it drives her to want her to better herself and become even stronger. On the other, it makes her respond melodramatically to her mistakes and failures.

She has poor communication skills. She speaks cryptically and dislikes having to repeat herself or explain things, because she thinks just because she knows something inside and out that the person she tells should as well.

Myxy.
He is curious. He tends to ask a lot of questions and he likes anyone who can answer them. He dislikes being ignored or being lied to. He'd rather have no answer or a wrong answer to a lie.

What he wants most is to become stronger. He's self-disciplined and a bit of a perfectionist. He constantly criticizes both himself and Gertrude.

He's laid back and patient. He believes haste makes waste and he wants to do things right the first time, not multiple times quickly.

When he's mad, he behaves in a passive-aggressive way.

Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter? In a nutshell, Gertrude loves the world and she sees the shadows as its enemies, so she wants to fight tooth and nail against them.

To elaborate, she was born into a well-to-do family. Her parents were both politicians and her older brother was a detective with the local police department. As a child, Gertrude would see shadows. When she told her parents about them, they didn't disbelieve her outright, because they thought she was talking about her imaginary friends. It was one of her many quirks, along with giving people nicknames longer than their real names, sticking bugs that bit her into cobwebs to feed the spiders that lived there, and watching CSPAN instead of whatever shows little girls are supposed to like. Since they had always encouraged their children to march to the beats of their drums, they accepted these "shadows" with the expectation that she'd eventually grow out of it.

When she got older, she still saw shadows. She just didn't talk about them as much, because after she was enrolled in school, they were no longer in the forefront of her mind. There were far more interesting things talk about then, like her classmates, teachers, the classes themselves, and her new found love of extracurricular activities, like canne de combat.

Unfortunately, after she went away to college, the shadows became much worse. She would see them constantly and when she warned people about them, no one would believe her. She felt like they were a taint on this world. She had a genuine love of all living things, so if things had happened differently, she could've easily become a veterinarian, like she wanted, or even something less esteemed, like a pet sitter. Instead, she was so tormented by the shadows, that she dropped out.

Weapon Ability Stick.
Gertrude can make Myxy drip sticky slime that targets can get stuck in.

Physical Description:

Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour/Style: Blonde/Curly pigtails
Skin Colour: Fair. Her skin skips freckles and goes straight to sunburns.
Clothing Style/Colours: Summer dress, stockings, rubber boots./Warm colors and whites.
Extra:-
References: Hair, nose
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:06 am


To elaborate, she was born into a well-to-do family. Her parents were both politicians and her older brother was a detective with the local police department. As a child, Gertrude would see shadows. When she told her parents about them, they didn't disbelieve her outright, because they thought she was talking about her imaginary friends. It was one of her many quirks, along with giving people nicknames longer than their real names, sticking bugs that bit her into cobwebs to feed the spiders that lived there, and watching CSPAN instead of whatever shows little girls are supposed to like. Since they had always encouraged their children to march to the beats of their drums, they accepted these "shadows" with the expectation that she'd eventually grow out of it.

When she got older, she still saw shadows. She just didn't talk about them as much, because after she was enrolled in school, they were no longer in the forefront of her mind. There were far more interesting things talk about then, like her classmates, teachers, the classes themselves, and her new found love of extracurricular activities, like canne de combat.

Unfortunately, after she went away to college, the shadows became much worse. She would see them constantly and when she warned people about them, no one would believe her. She felt like they were a taint on this world. She had a genuine love of all living things, so if things had happened differently, she could've easily become a veterinarian, like she wanted, or even something less esteemed, like a pet sitter. Instead, she was so tormented by the shadows, that she dropped out.

When her parents heard about this, they were upset. They weren't buying her explanation for why she dropped out. They just thought she was making excuses. They wouldn't allow her to move back in and they also cut her off from their money, until she got a career.

With a resume that consisted entirely of volunteer work "hitting people with sticks" and "saving animals", she had a feeling it'd be a while until she was able to get something her parents would call a career. She accepted this as an opportunity. A chance to do something different with her life. Soon afterward, she found out about the hunters, joined them, and never looked back.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:03 am


/lands from crit space

supsup

Okay hunter lets get startedddd

First, she's too old to have been recruited at 27. Age recruitment for hunters is 18-24, exceptions only made for 'Damn good Reasons' and you gain admin approval. Sho you'll need to de-age her a bit.

Personality-
I always nag people with this but, avoid using personality absolutes like 'she always says please and thank you'. No person will always, 100% of the time, do a certain action. Humans make mistakes and we don't act the same to everything. There are always exceptions. A very simple phrase change to something like 'she almost always says please and thank you', makes a trait a lot more realistic and believable.

'She's insecure and narcissistic' are actually very contradicting traits. If she's insecure and thinks other are better than her it's okay. However narcissism is the exact opposite. These traits basically cancel each other out. UNLESS from narcissistic you men she's vain. I can see her insecurity in the other trait, but nothing really that falls into narcissism

weapon- What exactly is a canne? I googled and only came up with canes. Like. For old people.

wep personality looks good. ouob

reason: Flesh out a little more if you can. What age did she see them? Why does she dislike them?

wep attack: Just pick a fear mechanic!

And just in case you weren't aware, (cuz its not the most obv thing), Hunters live on a tropical island. Having her dress for the yukon might be... a bad idea given that 90% of her time until she reaches hunter rank will be on the island.
PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:30 pm


iStoleYurVamps
/lands from crit space

supsup

Okay hunter lets get startedddd

First, she's too old to have been recruited at 27. Age recruitment for hunters is 18-24, exceptions only made for 'Damn good Reasons' and you gain admin approval. Sho you'll need to de-age her a bit.

Personality-
I always nag people with this but, avoid using personality absolutes like 'she always says please and thank you'. No person will always, 100% of the time, do a certain action. Humans make mistakes and we don't act the same to everything. There are always exceptions. A very simple phrase change to something like 'she almost always says please and thank you', makes a trait a lot more realistic and believable.

'She's insecure and narcissistic' are actually very contradicting traits. If she's insecure and thinks other are better than her it's okay. However narcissism is the exact opposite. These traits basically cancel each other out. UNLESS from narcissistic you men she's vain. I can see her insecurity in the other trait, but nothing really that falls into narcissism

weapon- What exactly is a canne? I googled and only came up with canes. Like. For old people.

wep personality looks good. ouob

reason: Flesh out a little more if you can. What age did she see them? Why does she dislike them?

wep attack: Just pick a fear mechanic!

And just in case you weren't aware, (cuz its not the most obv thing), Hunters live on a tropical island. Having her dress for the yukon might be... a bad idea given that 90% of her time until she reaches hunter rank will be on the island.
Thanks much for the critique!

I changed her age to 21. Her age isn't important to her characterization, so that's fine.

Ooh, you have a point there. I changed "always" to "usually".

That makes sense. I was going for the idea of her trying to hide her insecurity by acting like she's the best. I think vain sounds way better than what I put, so I wrote that down and took out narcissistic.

I laughed so much when I read what you found when you searched for it. Those results are right. You usually use the ones without the crook, though. I'll go edit that to make it clearer. I put canne down, because it's jargon from canne de combat. I think the idea was supposed to be that you can be armed without looking armed. Like, you're walking on the street and if someone comes up on you, you beat him with the canne.

Yay.

Is a Fear Mechanic like Headlights or something else?

I fleshed it out some more.

I didn't know about that. I'll go change that now.

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