Character Building

[Seeker of Retribution]

You know what's fun? Building characters.

First and foremost, I like making characters. Sometimes they're kind of simple for simple ends or they have more development built in for different reasons, but that's only one part of Mirage Hearts. The other side is our competitive component.

This is weird, but I actually hate getting into fights. I've said this before and I'll probably never stop saying it.

But I love building characters. Not just personality-wise or story wise, but competitively. Yes, I hate fighting, but I love coming up with methods to fights. Mirage Hearts has a high and open power scale compared with most other competitive sites, which while our statistics are limited to only six we wind up with tons of different spells, items, and skill trees to shift the balance and create different types of characters. We've had a topic like this before, and I would like to have another one since I think they're fun.

What kind of character are you making? How do they fight? What do they use? What do you want your character to grow into? I would like to know things like that about you guys. I'm going to talk about my character on this account below to show what he's like, and why he's built the way he is.

Hayden's stuff and fluff:

[Efeu]

Alright My turn what you don't think I have a plan and or fighting style or nothing planed for Z over the few month that's changed but originaly yes that was the case but not anymore I'm going to do this a little differently but I don't think that will mind

                     

my thingies and plans and other things:

Origin (That's what this is suppost to be called right?):

attack style batlle style I don't know Just this is battle things k:

Growing into:

so yeah That's all bye

[Capricorn]

Capricorn is a 1v1 PvPer currently, with stuns as his primary method of bringing the hurt down. I plan on having his strength a T5 eventually along with synthesis (for extra fun things to mess with). I figure if I can stun, and then slap someone around with peak strength; they won't be able to last long and even with T5 endurance-- an armor penetration spell that ignored defense or even a punishment for blocking my strikes would play off nicely.

I don't want him to be the generic speed demon swordsmaster, so I've decided to keep speed a T1 (possibly T2) permanently. However, agility needs to be high of course. My spells won't be much, just things like mentioned-- expensive defense shattering magic. I also want to use magic as a way to circumvent controller magic. The last thing I want to happen is being slowed or stopped! That would be bad for my agility entirely.

Now-- drives forms and summons are going to always align with my primal elements. That way I have a use in them, what I wanted to try was the overwhelming aspects of repeated strikes. But that was a little harder than I thought, so instead my summons are going to be magical gadgets with effects similar to synth items, but with added twists and more enjoyable do-hickies.

The last part of the current Capricorn is his skill tree. He is able to keep spamming his swords back into existence- and them getting rid of it via Richard or himself for more power. This helps against rust users or weapon punishers. However, the real twist to this skill tree are the things to come in the future. I intend to do my own little punishing effect with it. Like-- for ever py one of my weapons banished or summoned my opponent is drained 5 MP multiplied by my character tier. Idk, Punishing is kinda cool. Of course-- I'm not nearly as smart with it as others. Kudos to them though!

I just decided to throw in my stuffs.:3 Even if I don't have much.

[Zyvonia]

I like creating blank slates so that I may naturally develop them through their interactions through people. In addition, I'm never quite sure where I want to take a character exactly, so giving them a vague personality allows me to develop them the way I want to down the road. Zyv is set up like this. Iscor is set up like this. This is because I believe RPing is a collaborative piece of work. It's not just me writing this story, it's all of us. So my characters shouldn't just be laid out and set in stone before they even start.

Shirou is...different. While he is not my first RP character, he is one that was made when I was young and when I liked to self-insert myself. He was originally based off of who I wanted to be, like a typical weeaboo teenager. Because of this, he is, in a few ways, still similar to me. On a previous site, I had him leave the universe because I wasn't motivated to RP with him anymore. It was up until that point that his voice was more my voice and he did things that I would have done. However, since I brought him here, I have been giving him an independent voice from my own, having him develop in his own way.

So, basically, I don't really build my characters before having them start on a site. They are blank slates, chiseled by the environment they are dropped in.

[Harlow]

I would like a building of my character.

[Changeling]

I've always been fascinated by cyborgs, which was where Ghost (Zulu)'s concept came from. His original history was inspired by Starcraft's Ghost unit, from his items to his history, however, after his first rework, his history became slightly more original, and was inspired by Haven's expanded map (Originally made by another member, but then expanded by yours truly.) There was a region where the boundaries were so small, it made sense that those areas were highly contested, so I placed him there.

On Haven he was already chiseled out, from being an unstable, sadistic, masochistic and generally insane soldier for hire, he slowly regained his sanity by accepting his situation and using the body forced on him. This... unfortunately made him a little softer, especially to the younger generations. In fact, when he became the leader of Alteria, a country where all the criminals of the other countries go to seek refuge, he created android sentinels--which are fully armed to take on armies--and made them child friendly when there aren't any threats.

As for what I have planned for him, he was supposed to be only synth-based, but I've decided to use more Darkness, which would be reflected on his second skill tree. Nyx' ST should give a little hint to what it will be about, but it will mostly augment his Synth-based skill tree, as well as give him more immunities. You see, I am gearing him towards survival and adaptability, and this will be shown on his updated skill tree, which will hopefully be posted soon.

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Zienna was conceived basically through a "this character might be fun" moment, which I pitched to Don, who said "Go for it", and voilà, Zienna was made. Who can resist a succubus? xD

I'm going to make her stuff be focused on kinky stuff *cough*. What? It makes sense for her character. Don't worry, I won't be making her violate everyone on a whim. (Hehehe) Her skills and abilities, I'll likely gear towards siphoning things from people, while she gets rewarded for any punishment she suffers from enemy abilities and skills. I'll also have her and her allies leach off of people's cooldown reductions, bonuses, and the like. Keeps the field even, no? Maybe a little tipped to her side. I'll also make her focus a little more on indirect combat, putting people in status effects like root or stun, and of course, destroying people's MP/DP pools. A certain white-haired mage is in trouble.

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Val is as close to a blank slate as she can get at this point. True, she showed a bit of compassion for Sen when he saw the young lad, but that was more the work of memories. I'm a little iffy if I really want to make her into a Somebody, since I'd quite possibly lose her Nothingness skill tree, and the free abilities.

I think I'll have her wander around aimlessly a bit until she gets enough story going for her, then I'll have the building collapse all around her~ I do have party members in line for her, although I'm still working out the lore. I just can't have them join her just like that. Gotta keep things going smooth.

She's definitely going to exploit what is made available to her. Combat wise, she'll use Obsidian in all applications, whether it's support, offense, or crowd control. Her Nothingness will focus on keeping people from actually harming her, or hitting her with crowd control. Might even use a few things to keep people from using certain elements, or undoing their ability effects.

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Felicity, well, I'm still figuring it out. I'll definitely do more with her brawling preference, with a few extras to cover some ranged situations. Her time manipulation will be put into play quite often to get those extra punches in without people saying it missed. After which, I'll set the world on fire. :3

The way I have her fighting now is mostly offensive styled with little defense. For her stats, I'll definitely be upgrading her strength and endurance to full, her Agility being either T3 or T4, and her synth will most likely be set to 5. Her magic would be slightly limited, but will be focused on enhancing her physical attacks and maneuverability. Most of her skills will be trained on Wildfire, with Time acting as support. I'll also make sure she's never caught with her pants down, giving her abilities to make sure she's not left without ammunition. Definitely going to banish/warp/teleport proof her synths.

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