The Hunter
Name: Crispin Alexander Ceineros
Nicknames: Will be earned in RP~
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Category: Moon
The Weapon
Name: Shaiming
Nicknames: None.
Type of Weapon: Guan Dao; unsummoned form is a hand-size glass gem with a dragon wrapped around it.
Former species of weapon: Tien Lung (celestial dragon)
Gender: Male
Personalities:
Crispin: An earnest young man who self-identifies as a geek, Crispin is shy but cheerful. He has no sense of guile or mysterious motives, and tends to think the best of people automatically. He wears his heart on his sleeve, and possesses a huge helping of naivete that will probably get him into big trouble.
Video games were his first great nerdy love, and his apartment had a fairly ridiculous console setup. He loves RPGs of all types (including those fused with other genres) and certain FPS titles. JRPGs are a particular favorite of his, and he grew up on older adventure games. If it exists, chances are Crispin either has played it or at least knows about it. He may even have a 100+ hour save of it.
Crispin's other favorite escapist hobby is simply being someone else. He's in three or four online roleplays, text-based, dice-based, you name it. He tends to always play the same character type, skewing towards Lawful Good with a particular fondness for paladins. There's a reason for that: Crispin finds honor and chivalry to be of utmost importance, and tries to put those ancient moral creeds into action in his everyday life. He values being trustworthy, accountable, and forthright.
After a life spent largely in escapism, getting to literally escape and be a hero is pretty much Crispin's dream come true. His default initial reaction to adventures is "cool!"... without a concept of what danger he may be in. He has yet to think about the nitty-gritty untold stories behind every glorious tale, and that will likely be a rude awakening for him. Still, he is very likely to develop a sort of hero complex.
He wants very badly to succeed and to be accepted by those around him, and sometimes struggles with low self-esteem and self-doubt. Also, Crispin's earnest interest in things can easily flip to become obsessive; sometimes he'll fixate on something and be nigh-impossible to distract. For example, if he gets obsessed with a video game? He won't be happy unless he's playing it, talking about it, etc. So he might talk about it endlessly even while doing other things, thereby annoying everyone. The possibilities are, unfortunately, endless.
Still, Crispin is loyal and determined, both to protect humanity and to be gallant and knightly while doing so. It's hard to bring him down - when he crashes, he crashes hard, but getting him there will be quite the challenge!
Shaiming: As a child, Shaiming had always dreamed of adventures; however, life itself didn't really measure up to what he had hoped for. His life was particularly difficult, as his family had fallen somewhat out of favor due to a decline in FEAR of his clan. They had to scrimp just to get by, and prospects were grim indeed. For Shaiming, life was an exhausting cycle of drudgery, and the books he'd loved as a child soon fell unread. Still, the dreams continued to live in his heart, not quite squashed by reality. Almost, but not quite.
When the Hunters came, Shaiming chose to become a weapon freely, knowing what it would mean, because he was so tired of life the way it had been. He sought true adventure, a new life beyond what he had known before - something easier, something less destructive to the soul. Deus promised this, in spades, along with the most wonderful gift: that of wiping all that tarnish away from his memory, leaving him 'clean' again.
As such, Shaiming - while he does not remember his past - has a more mature personality than your average weapon. He is pragmatic and thoughtful, honorable and dignified. Shaiming takes great delight in Crispin, his first wielder, and the many new experiences he hopes to share with the boy. He provides strength where Crispin has weakness, serving as a stabilizing influence and a wise mentor.
Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter?
Like every Hunter candidate, Crispin has seen shadows all his life, not knowing what they truly were but feeling anxious and uneasy whenever he saw them. They were wrong, but he could never actually do anything about them, no matter how hard he tried. His parents put his stories down to the ramblings of an imaginative and fantasy-loving child.
By college, he had pretty much convinced himself that the shadows didn't exist, that he was hallucinating them - and every time he saw one, it summoned another twist of self-doubt, and fear that perhaps there was something wrong with him. The validation that the shadows were both real AND a threat gave Crispin an immense sense of relief - and given his delight in escapist stories of heroes and dragonslayers, how could he not sign on the dotted line when offered the chance to be a hero?
Weapon Ability
Shield of Scales - Barrier-type FEAR, manifests itself as a wall of translucent dragon scales made out of FEAR that blocks attacks. Yay.
Physical Description:
Eye Colour: Medium gray
Hair Colour/Style: Ruddy auburn, on the short side, but slightly disordered and just a touch overlong - as if he perpetually needs a haircut. His bangs are almost, but not quite, in his eyes. See reference~
Skin Colour: Caucasian geek-pale skin (spends more time in front of a computer than outside). Blushes rather easily.
Clothing Style/Colours: Simple but tidy: blue jeans (not tight jeans, just average fit), white sneakers (slightly grubby, he wears the same shoes with everything), and a turtleneck shirt. No accessories other than his glasses. As far as colors, use something based on this general scheme please: reference for COLOR ONLY thank you! Maybe that 'inner robe' purple for his turtleneck and the 'outer robe trim' light blue for his scarf?
I'd like his coat design to be like the blue top in this art: here - that type of sleeve only longsleeved, and a longer, um, coat part. Like down to his knees maybe? And worn open, with similar straps to hold it shut. If that makes sense.
Extra: Crispin has a skinny build - he's a geekboy. Not buff at all. Also, he always wears wire-rimmed, round framed glasses. See reference.
For the weapon: pretty much like this - see how the base of the blade is held in an open dragon mouth? please continue that with an Asian dragon shape in SILVER curling down the shaft as if holding it. I would like the blade itself to be black metal, please~ and the shaft to be purple, with all non-blade metal accents being silver as well. Decorative tassels should be blue: purple like the dragon's skin, blue like the dragon's mane. With the dragon like the one in the image plz only silver~
References: over there -> and linked throughout!
