Post by Aysel on Dec 1, 2010 18:35:52 GMT -5
AYSEL
Stats
Nicknames: Ays
Age: Twenty One
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, male preference
Alignment: Nobody
World: Otium (Originally)
In Battle
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Weapon:
Urumi: A whip-like weapon, which has four bands of flexible steel, attaching at a handle, reaching up to a dangerous four and a half feet, and can be coiled at one’s waist. It is also considered a flexible sword.
Fighting Style: Aysel utilizes speed and grace in her movements. Being a Urumi handler, it is a necessity to do so. As her weapon poses a danger to not only an enemy, but herself, it is necessary for her to tread with caution when using it. To watch her, one could consider it a dance of sorts, often requiring spinning and fluid movements. The wrong movement could cause the weapon to turn and hit its wielder, and leave painful cuts and slices, requiring caution by anyone, even those that have used the weapon for years. Without her weapon, her strength is lacking, and can only rely on the fluidity of her moves, in hopes of avoiding getting too close.
Abilities:
Cure: A simple spell that allows small wounds to be healed, and can lessen the extent, slightly, of larger wounds.
Darkness Corridor: Used by many nobodies, this is the simple ability of creating a portal of darkness to travel through, in means of moving locations, be it world-to-world, or places within one world.
Wall Creeping: Aysel is capable of crawling across vertical surfaces. This, of course, doesn’t work perfectly, as her skin must be touching the surface, giving part of the reason why she doesn’t wear gloves or shoes. She also cannot walk across the surface and must crawl. As long as three of four limbs are touching the surface, she is capable of keeping hold. Very smooth substances are extremely difficult to ‘hold’ onto, and, although she will not fall from the object, if already some height from the bottom, she may simply… slip down the structure and find it hard to climb. She also cannot carry people, or heavy objects, when climbing, as the weight would drag her down, making it impossible to make progress.
Shifting (Form One): This is actually a relatively foreign form to Aysel. It’s an in-between of her normal state and second, yet is not necessary to maintain for over a few seconds when shifting between the two. Ears form and a long, fluffy tail, along with claws. Her skin begins to take the markings of a red panda, and she decreases in size slightly, making her clothes seem a little bigger on her. This form can be held for an extended time, but tires her as it’s not natural. It’s the result of stopping her shifting to her second form, and is actually quite draining. Though, the perks of this form are claws, increased speed, and balance.
This form can only be held for two pages per thread
Shifting (Form Two): Thought to be Aysel’s ‘original’ form, she is capable of turning into a small red panda. It’s pretty useless, and, due to its size, is only capable of still wearing her scarf. Usually, this means that she has to unfold the sash around her waist, shove her usual clothing into it, and carry it around in it, or tuck the clothing into a safe place to return to, later. At this size, she’s incapable of using her weapon, and her only real defense could be her claws, but at the size of a red panda, she’s not much use, fighting-wise. This form is relatively effortless, and can be used for abnormally long periods of time, and shifting is often masked by a strange gust of wind, full of autumn colored leaves. A downfall to this is that she cannot use her mask, which often results in her becoming ill over time, as most worlds are tainted by human contact.
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Weakness:
Defense: Especially when fighting with her weapon, it’s almost impossible to hold a defense. The movements used to prevent one’s self from being injured by wielding a urumi keeps their arms further away from their body, making it hard to block anything daring to get close.
Vomit: If someone else does this, and Aysel sees it, hears it, or smells it, she begins to wretch. Minding that she can’t smell the foul stench through her mask, if she has any combination of these senses, there is an almost definite chance of her needing to remove her mask to vomit, as well.
Poor Immune System: Aysel’s gas mask isn’t only for decoration. The woman is highly susceptible to illness, and can become sick quite easily.
Inside Their Mind
Personality: Aysel is calm, and seemingly quite friendly. Being a nobody, she doesn’t seem to have a proper grasp on emotions quite yet, and can come off as uncertain about ways that some things are displayed on others. Due to this, she may come off as blunt or rude, but she really is quite harmless in the aspect. Although she seems to make sarcastic remarks on occasion, the woman doesn’t seem to understand when receiving them, implying that, perhaps, she doesn’t actually know when she uses it. With her lack of understanding, she often seems quite naïve, and shows little understanding toward multiple things. Either that, or one could simply consider her weird.
This woman may seem to latch onto people that are kind to her, as she’s really uncertain of what to do on her own. It’s unintentional, when she does, but more of a security blanket. Unable to feel awkward for this, she tends to roam around with someone until either she tires of it, or the person tells her to leave. Though, commonly unknown by many that feel bad trying to shoo her off, she doesn’t feel upset by it. She doesn’t really understand upset, along with the many emotions that she’s unable to understand. Really, she only knows what she’s encountered as a nobody, and, at this point, that isn’t much.
History: Originally, Otium was a world left mostly alone by people. Very few humans inhabited it, and took only a small fraction of the world as their own. With such clean air, and lack of human destruction, the world was full of various kinds of creatures, from small, fuzzy critters, to large, scary ones, with abnormally long life spans.
Over time, however, the human population grew, and began to steal, and destroy, the homes of many animals. Many, unable to fight such a large creature, and threatened from the beings hunting them, tried to blend into society. With years of adapting, many of the world’s smaller animals learned to walk on two legs, speak in human tongue, and eventually, looked convincingly like the beings that they feared. Generations passing, many of the offspring of such beings were completely unaware of the animal portion of them, born in the form their parents had taken on. Though some towns were warm to the idea of being open about their animal-based friends and family, and allow them to wander however they please, provided they abide the rules.
Perhaps, it was lucky for Aysel to have been born in one of the more open-minded towns. She learned about changing forms, and, alongside her twin brother, had been taught how to defend herself. The towns that allowed animals to be open about themselves also seemed to be the ones with more skilled beings, able to defend and fight for themselves, and encouraging the practice. At the same time, however, they lacked the knowledge to be able to use vast amounts of technology, and tried to keep themselves away from it.
At a very young age, too young to remember it well, the beings in close-minded towns discovered technology, thanks to a visitor to the world, and began to work effectively, to use machines and various other air-polluting products. They learned devastatingly quickly, and, by the time Aysel was twelve, the air, in even towns that shunned technology, had become covered in thick smog.
Being unable to adapt, as many animals, Aysel was forced to wear a gas mask, to prevent her lungs from failing. Sadly, a few of her friends and family had been too late to the discovery of these purifying masks, and fell to the horrible fumes. Still, everyone continued on with their lives the best they could. Small towns still taught their young how to hold themselves in a physical situation, creating competitive siblings and friends, such as Ays and her brother had grown to be.
The girl excelled when it came to her weapon choice, following her mother’s footsteps in her decision. To her, the Urumi, and its wielders, moved in such beautiful ways that she couldn’t even consider another weapon. It was luck that she picked up the skill of the woman that she had been birthed from, as she managed to avoid becoming very injured by the dangerous object. Within a few years, she was capable of dancing about in fluid, dizzying motions, and had surpassed her brother’s defense, overtaking him in their play-fights.
Still, the world deteriorated around them. Plants struggled to thrive, and clean air was impossible to find, let alone water and food. Fighting became common, and it became a danger to leave one’s house in case the neighbor turned out to be a cannibal, crazed from hunger. Fed up with this kind of life, Aysel and her brother dreamed of finding a way to purify their world to what the stories said it had once been, before the pollution, or even before humanity had taken over much of the world. But that was all a dream, and both of them knew it. While Aysel worked more toward becoming better with the weapon that she had chosen long before, her brother worked foolishly toward the dream that they lightly babbled about. While he tampered with technology on the outskirts of town, Aysel attempted to persuade him to stop, in fear of the town’s paranoia-swept minds realizing the young man’s affiliation with machinery. For many, machinery was like witchcraft, and was something horrible to use, after what it had done to the world.
Maybe, it should have been expected when he decided to leave for a far off city, offering for Aysel to come with him. He told her that he felt the only way to stop the misery would be to enter the heart of it, and destroy the machines that created the problems. Being one of many that felt the city only held bleak futures and impending doom; she refused, and stayed at her home with her mother, watching sadly as he wandered off. To her dismay, Aysel never heard from him again. To many, her brother had died, but for Aysel, he was still alive, and she knew it. The bond between the two had been too strong, in her opinion, for her not to know if he had passed.
A few years passed, and the traveler from years before returned to find the state of the world. Unknown to the small towns, which had little communication with those much larger, the man offered to assist the health of the world, first bringing his offer to one of the heads of one of the largest cities. The offer required taking in the darkness, and using it to purify the world. Of course, this was only trickery, as those that had agreed were not strong enough to bear the darkness consuming them, slowly fading into nothing but Heartless. In the heart of the city, the darkness began to spread out, devouring everything in its path, eventually making its way out of it and into nearby towns and the small amounts of vegetation nearby.
Panicked by the sight, as Heartless finally began to reach her town, Aysel worked hard along the younger beings in the town to keep them at bay. Realizing that the best way to destroy the bad would be to head to the source, Aysel set out to stop them at the center of the city that her brother had gone off to long before. In the back of her mind, perhaps, she also hoped to find him someplace, still relatively healthy, and clearly alive.
Once there, she found it almost completely lifeless. Few people moved on the streets, and those that did were running for their lives. Heartless swarmed buildings, and lunged at anything that moved, including her. Fighting many away, she sought the beginning of the monsters, while trying to get to the center of the city, in hopes of knowing from there. Instead, the heartless seemed to suddenly fade away from her, and a man appeared. He told her that he had known a way to clean the world of such destruction that had put it in its current state, and she only listened, until he posed his offer.
To cleanse their world, he wished to use her heart.
This statement confused the young woman, but she agreed, unknowingly handing it to him for the swarms of Heartless, which promptly attacked her. Tired, she attempted to push them away, only to become consumed by the creatures.
Soon, she found herself awakening on a strange world, a shell of her former self. Without the knowledge of her home, and needing to find the necessities to exist, she moved on. Still, she kept herself away from civilization for quite a while, unable to understand her situation. After boxing herself away in alleys and various locations for such a long time, she finally decided to venture out into the world. Doing so, she came to realize that humanity was far different than she was, and found it strangely difficult to understand the feelings of those around her. They would seem insulted by the things that she said, and occasionally storm off, leading to further isolation.
Instead of going back to alleys to hide, the woman had found a means of travel. It had come about suddenly, and she hadn’t been quite sure of what had happened, but a blackened corridor opened, allowing her to step it. When she did, she found herself wandering until another opened, allowing freedom to another world. It seemed so natural, she learned more on its usage, to be able to draw on the portals and open them freely. Learning this had opened her mind further, and she began wandering, maybe in hopes to find something exciting.
Sample Post
Slowly, dragging fingers across an icy railing, the woman’s eyes kept ahead. Children ran past her, dancing about and almost bumping her, not even uttering an apology before continuing their play. For some reason, it didn’t bother the young woman. Nothing. She felt nothing toward them. For some reason, she just couldn’t. Something in her mind told her that she wanted to be happy about it, and soothed by the sound of children laughing. But nothing arrived.
Dryly, Aysel swallowed. Where was she now? Really, she had no idea of what world she was even in. She had merely wandered vacantly until having decided to stop someplace. It was necessary for her to go into civilization at least on occasion. It wasn’t as though she despised it. She didn’t feel that. It just seemed as though people gave her strange looks, or tried to shoo her away when she wandered too close. She just didn’t understand them.
Maybe it was the vacant expression that seemed to always be cast on her face. Did they think she was stupid? She supposed it was a possibility. Something told her that she wanted to feel upset about that, but she didn’t. Still, there was nothing. The woman wanted to ask someone about it, but knew it wasn’t something that the average person could answer. To walk up to a random person and question why they seemed so different than her would come off as odd. Even to her. It just wouldn’t flow from her mouth properly. There were many ways to interpret that question, but most of them would not be understood quite properly.
Soon, one of the children ran past her again, only to twirl around and latch onto her leg, peering around it to their pursuing friend. The child looked up to her, after a second, giving her a wide grin. Was that was she was to do back? Almost cautiously, the woman cracked a small smile, before the child darted off, running away and screaming with their friend close behind.
Oh, how strange people were.
This Character Belongs To: Aciddwolf
This application was created by Aciddwolf from i felt heartless. Do not redistribute or alter.
