Post by Heroic Bilby on Aug 7, 2007 20:18:06 GMT -5
Character Profile: Somebody
I would like to add an ability slot to my unnamed Heartless character. If the new ability is accepted I also have a few edits to other sections of the profile to request. Nothing major, they are just updates to the character in response to reaching this stage. They are described below.
New Ability:
Steel Skin
This ability brings out the true form of the Heartless and is automatically activated whenever it's Heartless Seal ability is not in effect. The darkness that makes up the Heartless' body shifts it's density to the outermost layer and also begins absorbing ambient darkness energy from the environment to supplement it's change. As a result the entire surface area of the creature takes on a high level of physical density to match what was formerly only in it's emblem or the blades it could summon.
Needless to say this ability increases the Heartless' physical defences substantially, but not in any way too different than wearing a suit of armour would. The high level of solid darkness that now comprises it's skin can easily prevent instant death from attacks that would have otherwise skewered or decapitated it. It is still vulnerable to harm from powerful magic and even simply from the force of strong physical blows vibrating down through to it's core. Just as wearing a suit of actual diamond armour would not make one invulnerable to damage neither does this ability, though it does have the benefit of being relatively seamless. Steel Skin also has the side-effect of sharpening the tips of the creature's fingers and toes, as well as making it's hair akin to a nest of metallic thorns.
The darkness of this protective layer possesses the ability to alter it's density at specific areas from high to low and back again quickly as needed, specifically the joints. This prevents the ability from causing the Heartless to be unable to move. It also allows it to speak and use it's Dark Breath ability by altering the density of it's mouth area to allow sound or gas to pass through. This also means that joints in use are slightly more vulnerable than stationary ones.
Consequential Edits(4):
These are edits to other sections that come in response to the Steel Skin ability. Appearance is the most obvious, as it now details what the Heartless' unsealed form looks like with Steel Skin in effect. The Heartless Seal ability is not changed or upgraded, just re-worded to include the existence of the new ability. Mind Capacity in the “Other” section is updated to include a slightly higher level of thought than it had before, which is a result of this new ability's impact on it's overall character development. The fourth edit is the removal of what will become an obsolete section.
1)
Character's Appearance: The nameless Heartless has two possible forms of appearance depending on whether it's Heartless Seal ability is active or not.
While the seal is in effect it appears to be a human male of six feet tall with narrow shoulders and a fairly athletic body. It's hair is black and short, but completely messed up as if it just spent a whole day in bed and hasn't combed yet. The only feature that truly gives it away as anything but a human being are his eyes, which are empty pools of eerie yellow. This false human form is clothed in a pair of ordinary black pants and a cape-like cloak draped over his shoulders. The cloak is tied at his neck, revealing that he wears no shirt underneath by the opening where the two ends meet at his front.
When the seal is released the heartless' true form emerges. It's frame retains the basic shape of a human being, but it's appearance is clearly inhuman. The human clothes disappear and the Heartless' body turns pitch black all across. The only exception to this colouring is the red lines that make up the design of the Heartless Emblem on it's chest. It's fingers and toes end in sharp points and where human hair would normally rest is a nest of small spikes with a vague resemblance to the former. The Heartless' face retains the profile of a man's but has no ears, nostrils or mouth. The only actual feature the face has are it's haunting yellow eyes.
2)
Abilities:
Heartless Seal
The creature's true form as a Heartless is considerably stronger and faster than the average human being, as well as having access to a few special powers. Unlike other Heartless, however, this one has a special ability that exists as a by-product of it's accidental existence. It has the power to dispel all of it's dark powers, draining it of all enhanced abilities that go beyond an ordinary mortal man. In doing so it's form changes from that of a pitch-black monster and it gains the appearance of a human being instead. Only it's yellow eyes remain as a physical clue to it's true nature.
Besides those eyes the Heartless becomes indistinguishable from a human being, and it's lack of a heart makes it almost identical to a Nobody. Only those with an especially keen sense for the type of darkness that Heartless are made of would be able to detect it's powers while in this form.
In addition to losing all of it's Heartless powers and weapons the creature also severely dampens it's natural instincts. This allows it's thoughts to play a stronger role over what actions it takes and makes it able to operate on a slightly higher level in the struggle between good and evil than others of it's kind. Obviously this power is not an ability for battle, but rather it is the exact opposite and allows the Heartless to exist amongst people with hearts for extended periods of time.
3)
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Other
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Mind Capacity
Heartless weren't meant to have the gift of free thought, and this freak of darkness still has trouble thinking at the same level as ordinary sentient beings. It has the ability to understand languages and speak for itself, but tends to have the vocabulary of a young child unless it speaks at a slower pace in order to think more about what words to use. The more words it has to think of to speak with the longer it takes the Heartless to finish a sentence.
Obviously, without a heart the creature has no emotions to affect it's thoughts. Unlike sentient Nobodies, however, it also has no memories of personality to affect it's thoughts either. This leaves the Heartless in a strange state of mind where instinct is the key factor that tries to influence it's ideas beyond whatever logic it is capable of.
In combat the Heartless' survival instinct seems to release a hidden potential within it's own mind, allowing it to fight more intelligently when it's life is in danger. This can be an advantageous element of surprise, but only by luck as it has no means of manipulating this by it's own will. The Heartless' only other combat advantages that comes from this cosmic mistake is it's ability to learn. It is not set to the limited attacking patterns that it knows by instinct based on it's form, but can adjust and gain new techniques as any thinking being can. Though it has a relatively poor memory new fighting tactics can be imprinted on to it's Heartless instincts, allowing it to grow in skill.
4)
This part of the current "Other" section will no longer be required after the addition of Steel Skin and can therefore be deleted.
Armour Properties: The black and red Heartless emblem that covers Somebody's chest in it's unsealed state is the same type of densely concentrated darkness that it's sword is made of. Although it is simply a part of the creature's body, this quality allows the emblem to act as a protective armour against many kinds of enemy attacks. The rest of this heartless' skin is left no more durable than a human's.
Requested Update:
I would also like to request an update on the character's weapon as a result of it reaching the next phase of it's development. The update would be having access to two swords instead of just one.
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Battle Information
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Weapon Name: N/A
Weapon Appearance: The Heartless makes use of swords as it's weaponry. After awakening certain dormant abilities it has gained the ability to summon a second sword, allowing it to wield two at once when desired.
The weapon design makes them look more like a tall, sharply edged triangles with hilts than they do swords. They have absolutely no decoration or design imprinted upon them, and are coloured pitch black all around. The swords are about one hundred and thirty centimeters each in total length, with thirty centimeter handles and meter-long blades.
The material that makes up the weapons is actually pure darkness, tightly concentrated into a dense physical form. Because of it's density the weapons are heavier than an average sword their size and can only be wielded properly because of Somebody's Heartless strength being greater than an ordinary human's. The swords can be formed or dispelled at any time by Somebody's will, like many dark weapons.
I have already paid the required 250 Munny for my new Ability Slot, so no further deduction will be required. Thank you.
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I would like to add an ability slot to my unnamed Heartless character. If the new ability is accepted I also have a few edits to other sections of the profile to request. Nothing major, they are just updates to the character in response to reaching this stage. They are described below.
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New Ability:
Steel Skin
This ability brings out the true form of the Heartless and is automatically activated whenever it's Heartless Seal ability is not in effect. The darkness that makes up the Heartless' body shifts it's density to the outermost layer and also begins absorbing ambient darkness energy from the environment to supplement it's change. As a result the entire surface area of the creature takes on a high level of physical density to match what was formerly only in it's emblem or the blades it could summon.
Needless to say this ability increases the Heartless' physical defences substantially, but not in any way too different than wearing a suit of armour would. The high level of solid darkness that now comprises it's skin can easily prevent instant death from attacks that would have otherwise skewered or decapitated it. It is still vulnerable to harm from powerful magic and even simply from the force of strong physical blows vibrating down through to it's core. Just as wearing a suit of actual diamond armour would not make one invulnerable to damage neither does this ability, though it does have the benefit of being relatively seamless. Steel Skin also has the side-effect of sharpening the tips of the creature's fingers and toes, as well as making it's hair akin to a nest of metallic thorns.
The darkness of this protective layer possesses the ability to alter it's density at specific areas from high to low and back again quickly as needed, specifically the joints. This prevents the ability from causing the Heartless to be unable to move. It also allows it to speak and use it's Dark Breath ability by altering the density of it's mouth area to allow sound or gas to pass through. This also means that joints in use are slightly more vulnerable than stationary ones.
***
Consequential Edits(4):
These are edits to other sections that come in response to the Steel Skin ability. Appearance is the most obvious, as it now details what the Heartless' unsealed form looks like with Steel Skin in effect. The Heartless Seal ability is not changed or upgraded, just re-worded to include the existence of the new ability. Mind Capacity in the “Other” section is updated to include a slightly higher level of thought than it had before, which is a result of this new ability's impact on it's overall character development. The fourth edit is the removal of what will become an obsolete section.
1)
Character's Appearance: The nameless Heartless has two possible forms of appearance depending on whether it's Heartless Seal ability is active or not.
While the seal is in effect it appears to be a human male of six feet tall with narrow shoulders and a fairly athletic body. It's hair is black and short, but completely messed up as if it just spent a whole day in bed and hasn't combed yet. The only feature that truly gives it away as anything but a human being are his eyes, which are empty pools of eerie yellow. This false human form is clothed in a pair of ordinary black pants and a cape-like cloak draped over his shoulders. The cloak is tied at his neck, revealing that he wears no shirt underneath by the opening where the two ends meet at his front.
When the seal is released the heartless' true form emerges. It's frame retains the basic shape of a human being, but it's appearance is clearly inhuman. The human clothes disappear and the Heartless' body turns pitch black all across. The only exception to this colouring is the red lines that make up the design of the Heartless Emblem on it's chest. It's fingers and toes end in sharp points and where human hair would normally rest is a nest of small spikes with a vague resemblance to the former. The Heartless' face retains the profile of a man's but has no ears, nostrils or mouth. The only actual feature the face has are it's haunting yellow eyes.
2)
Abilities:
Heartless Seal
The creature's true form as a Heartless is considerably stronger and faster than the average human being, as well as having access to a few special powers. Unlike other Heartless, however, this one has a special ability that exists as a by-product of it's accidental existence. It has the power to dispel all of it's dark powers, draining it of all enhanced abilities that go beyond an ordinary mortal man. In doing so it's form changes from that of a pitch-black monster and it gains the appearance of a human being instead. Only it's yellow eyes remain as a physical clue to it's true nature.
Besides those eyes the Heartless becomes indistinguishable from a human being, and it's lack of a heart makes it almost identical to a Nobody. Only those with an especially keen sense for the type of darkness that Heartless are made of would be able to detect it's powers while in this form.
In addition to losing all of it's Heartless powers and weapons the creature also severely dampens it's natural instincts. This allows it's thoughts to play a stronger role over what actions it takes and makes it able to operate on a slightly higher level in the struggle between good and evil than others of it's kind. Obviously this power is not an ability for battle, but rather it is the exact opposite and allows the Heartless to exist amongst people with hearts for extended periods of time.
3)
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Other
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Mind Capacity
Heartless weren't meant to have the gift of free thought, and this freak of darkness still has trouble thinking at the same level as ordinary sentient beings. It has the ability to understand languages and speak for itself, but tends to have the vocabulary of a young child unless it speaks at a slower pace in order to think more about what words to use. The more words it has to think of to speak with the longer it takes the Heartless to finish a sentence.
Obviously, without a heart the creature has no emotions to affect it's thoughts. Unlike sentient Nobodies, however, it also has no memories of personality to affect it's thoughts either. This leaves the Heartless in a strange state of mind where instinct is the key factor that tries to influence it's ideas beyond whatever logic it is capable of.
In combat the Heartless' survival instinct seems to release a hidden potential within it's own mind, allowing it to fight more intelligently when it's life is in danger. This can be an advantageous element of surprise, but only by luck as it has no means of manipulating this by it's own will. The Heartless' only other combat advantages that comes from this cosmic mistake is it's ability to learn. It is not set to the limited attacking patterns that it knows by instinct based on it's form, but can adjust and gain new techniques as any thinking being can. Though it has a relatively poor memory new fighting tactics can be imprinted on to it's Heartless instincts, allowing it to grow in skill.
4)
This part of the current "Other" section will no longer be required after the addition of Steel Skin and can therefore be deleted.
Armour Properties: The black and red Heartless emblem that covers Somebody's chest in it's unsealed state is the same type of densely concentrated darkness that it's sword is made of. Although it is simply a part of the creature's body, this quality allows the emblem to act as a protective armour against many kinds of enemy attacks. The rest of this heartless' skin is left no more durable than a human's.
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Requested Update:
I would also like to request an update on the character's weapon as a result of it reaching the next phase of it's development. The update would be having access to two swords instead of just one.
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Battle Information
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Weapon Name: N/A
Weapon Appearance: The Heartless makes use of swords as it's weaponry. After awakening certain dormant abilities it has gained the ability to summon a second sword, allowing it to wield two at once when desired.
The weapon design makes them look more like a tall, sharply edged triangles with hilts than they do swords. They have absolutely no decoration or design imprinted upon them, and are coloured pitch black all around. The swords are about one hundred and thirty centimeters each in total length, with thirty centimeter handles and meter-long blades.
The material that makes up the weapons is actually pure darkness, tightly concentrated into a dense physical form. Because of it's density the weapons are heavier than an average sword their size and can only be wielded properly because of Somebody's Heartless strength being greater than an ordinary human's. The swords can be formed or dispelled at any time by Somebody's will, like many dark weapons.
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I have already paid the required 250 Munny for my new Ability Slot, so no further deduction will be required. Thank you.
I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao