Post by xeon on Nov 28, 2007 8:38:21 GMT -5
Soul
This is probably the most important section of the template. This is considered to be the background or biography of your character. You must answer each question with a paragraph (no longer than that, 3 sentences at least) as this is basically forming the backbone to whether or not your character really belongs in this type of role playing environment.
I. "Where does your journey begin?"- Xeon’s journey began after he received Shugotenshi and left his home world. Casting aside his old life, he’d lost his purpose, and didn’t know what to do with his life. Learning about the heartless, as well as making new friends, has given him a purpose in life.
II. "What is your goal to accomplish?"- Xeon wants to annihilate the heartless, but that’s not actually a goal that he has any way of making a reality. If he discovers a way to do this, then he will without hesitation. For now however, his only realistic goals are to protect and help his friends in any way he can, and do protect other people any time it’s possible. He wants to keep peoples lives from being ruined by creatures that shouldn’t rightly exist. As long as such things appear, Xeon will have a purpose.
III. "What happens if your fail your goal?"- If Xeon fails in his goal, then he’ll be miserable for whatever is left of his life, or he’ll be dead. Protecting people is all he has at the moment, and if he repeatedly fails at that, he won’t know what to do with his life. As for his other goal-destroying the heartless-he really doesn’t expect to succeed with that in the first place and nothing will really change if that fails.
IV. "What happens if you succeed in your goal?"- If Xeon keeps succeeding with his main goal, he’ll be happy, and the people around him will be safe. He might even be able to find a place where he fits in and become happy. If he succeeds in destroying the heartless, then the worlds should become safer, and a better place to be born into.
V. "What was one of the hardest decisions you had to make?"- So far in his life, the hardest decision he’s ever had to make was leaving the world he was born into. He hated what had happened to him there, and certainly had no intention of returning to the same place in the world, but he’d only recently learned about new worlds, and so he didn’t know what to expect. He wasn’t sure if the world he might be going to was better or worse than this one, though at that time he didn’t believe it was possible. In the end, he decided to leave, but not without a lot of difficulty.
VI. "What was the biggest change in your life?"- The biggest change in Xeon’s life occurred around the same time as the darkest moment in his life. When he killed the house guard and decided to leave the world he had been born into. After he became able to summon Shugotenshi, he went from being an unusually skilled bodyguard, to a powerful wanderer, protector, and hunter of heartless.
VII. "What was the happiest time/moment in your life?"- There haven’t been many happy moments in Xeon’s life. The happiest moment in his life to date is probably when he and his new friend Kylon had discovered the furies in a temple. Zanibus was a good friend, and that day will be engraved in Xeon’s memory forever.
VIII. "What was the most shocking moment in your life?"- The most shocking moment of his life was when Xeon returned home after training with a Knight to become a swordsman. When he returned, he discovered that his parents had been killed, and his best friend was being married to the daughter of the family who did it. It took him quite a while to get over the shock, and he could never look at the people of Karissa’s family without feeling resentment well up inside of him.
IX. "What was the darkest event in your life?"- The Darkest moment in Xeon’s life was the night that he left the service of the noble family he’d worked for all his life. He’d become blinded with rage when he learned that Karissa’s father had had his family killed, and planned to kill more people in order to rise to power, including Matthew and his own daughter, Karissa. Xeon killed Karissa’s father and the assassin, but an advisor had made it to Matthew before he could tell him what had occurred, and lied to him. Instead of trying to talk it out, he slaughtered every member of the house guard, and put himself into exile. After this event, Xeon is now afraid to spar with a bladed weapon due to his aversion to killing.
X. "What angers you the most in your life?"- The Heartless. Xeon hates the heartless. He knows that they shouldn’t rightfully exist in the first place, and every time he sees them he’s filled with a burning rage and a renewed desire to wipe them from existence. Humanoid heartless anger him even more than the regular kind, because no one can tell that they’re different until it’s too late. Nothing angers Xeon more than the heartless.
XI. "Where does your strength or determination come from?"- Xeon’s drive comes from two places. The first is the wish to keep the heartless and other abominations, from ruining people’s lives; his life was ruined, and he wants to keep others from experiencing that pain. His second driving force is the hope that he can build a new, and in some ways better life, with his friends.
XII. "Who or what inspires you to succeed?"- Xeon’s friends are generally what inspire him to succeed, but not in the same way as most people’s friends do. It’s not the encouragement that they offer that inspires him to succeed, but instead the thought of their lives being ruined by something beyond their control. This thought inspires him to get rid of as many heartless as he can, and do whatever it takes to protect people when they need help.
XIII. "Where does your story end?"- Xeon’s journey won’t end until somebody kills him. There are many people to protect, and many heartless left to destroy. He’ll keep fighting them as long as he possibly can, and even if he destroys the heartless, there will undoubtedly be a new threat that presents itself. His journey will end with his Death.
General History
Xeon was born in a medieval world where wars were common. His family served a Noble family, just as many others did. The conditions that he lived under for the first few years of his life weren’t unbearable, but they weren’t overly pleasant either. He did whatever work he possibly could, and spent the rest of his time learning how to do more. At the age of 5, his family switched houses, and now served a different one. Xeon’s workload lessoned significantly, and the new family had a son the same age as he was that he played with all the time. The next two years of his life he lived happily, and the bonds of friendship between he and the Noble’s son Matthew grew stronger. The Noble family had other servants to do everything, so they allowed Xeon to play with Matthew. They didn’t see a reason to have him do something else at that young age. That, however, was all about to change.
The next year, on Matthew’s 9th birthday, he and the 8 year old Xeon went into town with Xeon’s father. Forgetting an errand he had to run, his father went off with a promise to return quickly, leaving Xeon and Matthew alone in the market. Matthew suddenly saw something he liked and ran off, so Xeon followed him. After looking at the stores for a little bit after that, they decided to return, but were intercepted by a pair of thugs who had been hired to kill the Noble’s son. When they went to attack however, Xeon’s anger awakened an inner power and the 8 year old boy was able to defeat the two grown men. A nearby servant saw this display, and reported it to Matthew’s father. As soon as they returned, Xeon was sent off with a renowned knight to train, and eventually become Matthew’s bodyguard. At first, he was excited, but the hellish training quickly drove that out of him. The knight wasn’t pulling any punches just because Xeon was a boy. He was giving him a full out training regime reserve for the elite.
After 4 years of the training, Xeon retuned, eager to meet his family, and his friend Matthew. Unfortunately, his parents had been killed in a battle with another noble family 3 years before. Revenge, his first instinct, was denied him because Matthew was arranged to be married to the daughter of that family to put an end to the conflict. After getting over the shock of losing his parents, he began to protect his friend, training both his skills and his newfound powers in his free-time. As the years went by, Matthew married Karissa, and thus united the two families. However the resentment Xeon harbored toward Karissa’s family for the loss of his parents caused him to avoid contact with her; and a side effect of this was less time spent near Matthew. He and Matthew slowly grew apart and eventually stopped talking altogether.
When he was 15, Xeon had become just one of many bodyguards as opposed to Matthew’s best friend. Matthew had forgotten their friendship, although Xeon didn’t blame him for it…for it was partially his fault. One night, on a late patrol, Xeon saw a dark figure enter the room belonging to Karissa’s father. He went and stood by the door, listening to the conversation. The man inside was the one who had killed his parents, and Karissa’s father had paid him to do it. In addition, the man was to now assassinate Matthew, Matthew’s Father, and Karissa to enable him to take the head of the combined house. Enraged beyond reason, Xeon killed them both, along with every bodyguard present.
After he clamed down, he went immediately to tell Matthew what had occurred, however the advisor of Karissa’s father had beaten him to the punch. The Advisor had told a false tale, and by the time Xeon had arrived, the entire house guard was waiting there to arrest him. Shocked that someone he’d once considered a friend would believe such a tale, he killed every person present, and marched straight to his former friend’s bedroom. Once there, he tore off the sleeve that held the insignia for service to Matthew, and drove the house guard captain’s sword into it, pinning it to the ground. Announcing that he would never return to Matthew’s service, he drove a second sword through the stone wall right next to the head of his once-friend. He didn’t have any place to go after that, his powers invoking fear and hatred in most people, so he set off to find the knight that trained him. The knight told Xeon to find a man who was famous for being able to use magic, and gave him a silver sword pendent on a chain.
Once he found the Wizard, he learned that there were many worlds other than this one, and that there might be a better on out there for Xeon to find. When Xeon finally made the decision to leave, he immediately started to prepare Xeon for what might await him. The man warned that a normal sword could not defeat the creatures that plagued the other worlds, the heartless and nobodies. So, for a few weeks, the wizard helped Xeon to develop his powers, as well as teaching him to summon his “Soul Weapon” a massive sword that only he could wield effectively known as Shugotenshi. By the time Xeon was ready to leave the world, he’d mastered using the heavy sword, as well as the rest of his powers. Shortly after leaving the world, he discovered that the events that had taken place in his world were caused indirectly by the heartless. With this knowledge, he promised three things to himself: that he would do everything he could to rid the worlds of the heartless; that he would fight any unnatural threats to the worlds in order to keep them from ruining people’s lives unfairly as his had been; and to protect people whenever he saw them in trouble.
After leaving the world he ran into a boy 2 years older than himself by the name of Kylon. They talked for awhile before he had to leave, ad Xeon decided that he got along well with him. He then met Kylon for the second time while he was in the Deep Jungle trying to find the “Furies” mentioned in the book. Kylon accompanied him to the temple, and they both discovered that they were compatible with a Fury. The one Xeon found that he was compatible with was a powerful wolf by the name of Zanibus, and Kylon found an eagle called Telnaeru. After that, the two parted ways once again.
After wandering from world to world for awhile Zanibus suddenly disappeared after a strange light and a burst of pain cause Xeon to black out. Not knowing what had happened, or what to do next, he decided to relax on the Destiny Islands. When he arrived, he found that there was a party going on, and since he was not much for parties, he walked off to find a place where he could train in peace. After deflecting a strange arrow, he sprinted back to the party grounds, only to find that Sora had been defeated by a strange man. Picking up the sheet of paper left behind, he learned about strange beings known as Antiforms. Worried about the turn of events that had taken place, he went to Hollow Bastion, the world that was most like a home to him, in hopes that he could think of something to do.
This is probably the most important section of the template. This is considered to be the background or biography of your character. You must answer each question with a paragraph (no longer than that, 3 sentences at least) as this is basically forming the backbone to whether or not your character really belongs in this type of role playing environment.
I. "Where does your journey begin?"- Xeon’s journey began after he received Shugotenshi and left his home world. Casting aside his old life, he’d lost his purpose, and didn’t know what to do with his life. Learning about the heartless, as well as making new friends, has given him a purpose in life.
II. "What is your goal to accomplish?"- Xeon wants to annihilate the heartless, but that’s not actually a goal that he has any way of making a reality. If he discovers a way to do this, then he will without hesitation. For now however, his only realistic goals are to protect and help his friends in any way he can, and do protect other people any time it’s possible. He wants to keep peoples lives from being ruined by creatures that shouldn’t rightly exist. As long as such things appear, Xeon will have a purpose.
III. "What happens if your fail your goal?"- If Xeon fails in his goal, then he’ll be miserable for whatever is left of his life, or he’ll be dead. Protecting people is all he has at the moment, and if he repeatedly fails at that, he won’t know what to do with his life. As for his other goal-destroying the heartless-he really doesn’t expect to succeed with that in the first place and nothing will really change if that fails.
IV. "What happens if you succeed in your goal?"- If Xeon keeps succeeding with his main goal, he’ll be happy, and the people around him will be safe. He might even be able to find a place where he fits in and become happy. If he succeeds in destroying the heartless, then the worlds should become safer, and a better place to be born into.
V. "What was one of the hardest decisions you had to make?"- So far in his life, the hardest decision he’s ever had to make was leaving the world he was born into. He hated what had happened to him there, and certainly had no intention of returning to the same place in the world, but he’d only recently learned about new worlds, and so he didn’t know what to expect. He wasn’t sure if the world he might be going to was better or worse than this one, though at that time he didn’t believe it was possible. In the end, he decided to leave, but not without a lot of difficulty.
VI. "What was the biggest change in your life?"- The biggest change in Xeon’s life occurred around the same time as the darkest moment in his life. When he killed the house guard and decided to leave the world he had been born into. After he became able to summon Shugotenshi, he went from being an unusually skilled bodyguard, to a powerful wanderer, protector, and hunter of heartless.
VII. "What was the happiest time/moment in your life?"- There haven’t been many happy moments in Xeon’s life. The happiest moment in his life to date is probably when he and his new friend Kylon had discovered the furies in a temple. Zanibus was a good friend, and that day will be engraved in Xeon’s memory forever.
VIII. "What was the most shocking moment in your life?"- The most shocking moment of his life was when Xeon returned home after training with a Knight to become a swordsman. When he returned, he discovered that his parents had been killed, and his best friend was being married to the daughter of the family who did it. It took him quite a while to get over the shock, and he could never look at the people of Karissa’s family without feeling resentment well up inside of him.
IX. "What was the darkest event in your life?"- The Darkest moment in Xeon’s life was the night that he left the service of the noble family he’d worked for all his life. He’d become blinded with rage when he learned that Karissa’s father had had his family killed, and planned to kill more people in order to rise to power, including Matthew and his own daughter, Karissa. Xeon killed Karissa’s father and the assassin, but an advisor had made it to Matthew before he could tell him what had occurred, and lied to him. Instead of trying to talk it out, he slaughtered every member of the house guard, and put himself into exile. After this event, Xeon is now afraid to spar with a bladed weapon due to his aversion to killing.
X. "What angers you the most in your life?"- The Heartless. Xeon hates the heartless. He knows that they shouldn’t rightfully exist in the first place, and every time he sees them he’s filled with a burning rage and a renewed desire to wipe them from existence. Humanoid heartless anger him even more than the regular kind, because no one can tell that they’re different until it’s too late. Nothing angers Xeon more than the heartless.
XI. "Where does your strength or determination come from?"- Xeon’s drive comes from two places. The first is the wish to keep the heartless and other abominations, from ruining people’s lives; his life was ruined, and he wants to keep others from experiencing that pain. His second driving force is the hope that he can build a new, and in some ways better life, with his friends.
XII. "Who or what inspires you to succeed?"- Xeon’s friends are generally what inspire him to succeed, but not in the same way as most people’s friends do. It’s not the encouragement that they offer that inspires him to succeed, but instead the thought of their lives being ruined by something beyond their control. This thought inspires him to get rid of as many heartless as he can, and do whatever it takes to protect people when they need help.
XIII. "Where does your story end?"- Xeon’s journey won’t end until somebody kills him. There are many people to protect, and many heartless left to destroy. He’ll keep fighting them as long as he possibly can, and even if he destroys the heartless, there will undoubtedly be a new threat that presents itself. His journey will end with his Death.
General History
Xeon was born in a medieval world where wars were common. His family served a Noble family, just as many others did. The conditions that he lived under for the first few years of his life weren’t unbearable, but they weren’t overly pleasant either. He did whatever work he possibly could, and spent the rest of his time learning how to do more. At the age of 5, his family switched houses, and now served a different one. Xeon’s workload lessoned significantly, and the new family had a son the same age as he was that he played with all the time. The next two years of his life he lived happily, and the bonds of friendship between he and the Noble’s son Matthew grew stronger. The Noble family had other servants to do everything, so they allowed Xeon to play with Matthew. They didn’t see a reason to have him do something else at that young age. That, however, was all about to change.
The next year, on Matthew’s 9th birthday, he and the 8 year old Xeon went into town with Xeon’s father. Forgetting an errand he had to run, his father went off with a promise to return quickly, leaving Xeon and Matthew alone in the market. Matthew suddenly saw something he liked and ran off, so Xeon followed him. After looking at the stores for a little bit after that, they decided to return, but were intercepted by a pair of thugs who had been hired to kill the Noble’s son. When they went to attack however, Xeon’s anger awakened an inner power and the 8 year old boy was able to defeat the two grown men. A nearby servant saw this display, and reported it to Matthew’s father. As soon as they returned, Xeon was sent off with a renowned knight to train, and eventually become Matthew’s bodyguard. At first, he was excited, but the hellish training quickly drove that out of him. The knight wasn’t pulling any punches just because Xeon was a boy. He was giving him a full out training regime reserve for the elite.
After 4 years of the training, Xeon retuned, eager to meet his family, and his friend Matthew. Unfortunately, his parents had been killed in a battle with another noble family 3 years before. Revenge, his first instinct, was denied him because Matthew was arranged to be married to the daughter of that family to put an end to the conflict. After getting over the shock of losing his parents, he began to protect his friend, training both his skills and his newfound powers in his free-time. As the years went by, Matthew married Karissa, and thus united the two families. However the resentment Xeon harbored toward Karissa’s family for the loss of his parents caused him to avoid contact with her; and a side effect of this was less time spent near Matthew. He and Matthew slowly grew apart and eventually stopped talking altogether.
When he was 15, Xeon had become just one of many bodyguards as opposed to Matthew’s best friend. Matthew had forgotten their friendship, although Xeon didn’t blame him for it…for it was partially his fault. One night, on a late patrol, Xeon saw a dark figure enter the room belonging to Karissa’s father. He went and stood by the door, listening to the conversation. The man inside was the one who had killed his parents, and Karissa’s father had paid him to do it. In addition, the man was to now assassinate Matthew, Matthew’s Father, and Karissa to enable him to take the head of the combined house. Enraged beyond reason, Xeon killed them both, along with every bodyguard present.
After he clamed down, he went immediately to tell Matthew what had occurred, however the advisor of Karissa’s father had beaten him to the punch. The Advisor had told a false tale, and by the time Xeon had arrived, the entire house guard was waiting there to arrest him. Shocked that someone he’d once considered a friend would believe such a tale, he killed every person present, and marched straight to his former friend’s bedroom. Once there, he tore off the sleeve that held the insignia for service to Matthew, and drove the house guard captain’s sword into it, pinning it to the ground. Announcing that he would never return to Matthew’s service, he drove a second sword through the stone wall right next to the head of his once-friend. He didn’t have any place to go after that, his powers invoking fear and hatred in most people, so he set off to find the knight that trained him. The knight told Xeon to find a man who was famous for being able to use magic, and gave him a silver sword pendent on a chain.
Once he found the Wizard, he learned that there were many worlds other than this one, and that there might be a better on out there for Xeon to find. When Xeon finally made the decision to leave, he immediately started to prepare Xeon for what might await him. The man warned that a normal sword could not defeat the creatures that plagued the other worlds, the heartless and nobodies. So, for a few weeks, the wizard helped Xeon to develop his powers, as well as teaching him to summon his “Soul Weapon” a massive sword that only he could wield effectively known as Shugotenshi. By the time Xeon was ready to leave the world, he’d mastered using the heavy sword, as well as the rest of his powers. Shortly after leaving the world, he discovered that the events that had taken place in his world were caused indirectly by the heartless. With this knowledge, he promised three things to himself: that he would do everything he could to rid the worlds of the heartless; that he would fight any unnatural threats to the worlds in order to keep them from ruining people’s lives unfairly as his had been; and to protect people whenever he saw them in trouble.
After leaving the world he ran into a boy 2 years older than himself by the name of Kylon. They talked for awhile before he had to leave, ad Xeon decided that he got along well with him. He then met Kylon for the second time while he was in the Deep Jungle trying to find the “Furies” mentioned in the book. Kylon accompanied him to the temple, and they both discovered that they were compatible with a Fury. The one Xeon found that he was compatible with was a powerful wolf by the name of Zanibus, and Kylon found an eagle called Telnaeru. After that, the two parted ways once again.
After wandering from world to world for awhile Zanibus suddenly disappeared after a strange light and a burst of pain cause Xeon to black out. Not knowing what had happened, or what to do next, he decided to relax on the Destiny Islands. When he arrived, he found that there was a party going on, and since he was not much for parties, he walked off to find a place where he could train in peace. After deflecting a strange arrow, he sprinted back to the party grounds, only to find that Sora had been defeated by a strange man. Picking up the sheet of paper left behind, he learned about strange beings known as Antiforms. Worried about the turn of events that had taken place, he went to Hollow Bastion, the world that was most like a home to him, in hopes that he could think of something to do.