Post by Frog on Jul 31, 2008 15:15:30 GMT -5
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Username: thebilbyguy
Gender: Male
Other Character(s): Character Chain
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Only applicable to canons.
Audition Thread: Kuja
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Name: Kuja
Alias: N/A
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Race: Humanoid
Alignment: Villain
Origin: Terra
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Appearance: Kuja
Personality:
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Class: Mage
Weapons:
Abilities:
Items:
Equips:
Reflect
Attacks made toward the user are reflected back at the opponent. Three time use per battle and only lasts 1 post.
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History:
Kuja was created on a world with a dying heart. For countless centuries Terra had been weak, a heart too small to properly give life to a world. Because of this the people who lived there, the Genomes, were all born without hearts of their own. They weren't really Nobodies, as they had no “memories” of hearts nor Heartless counterparts, they were simply born unable to feel. When this epidemic was realized and before all men were born that way older man who still had a heart created a link with the world's dying one. Together they would live and if it died then so would he, but if it lived on then so too would he be an immortal overseer of his people. This powerful wizard sought out a way to keep his world alive by merging it with other worlds, which he discovered by using darkness to navigate through the realm of Nothingness during his search for a cure. Though the walls still separated all worlds from each other, this man cerated a “link” that could bind their hearts across the Sea of Space: A life form known as the Iifa Tree. This tree cycled the souls of those who died on the healthy world into Terra, and their hearts along with them. Over time the healthy world's heart was also slowly siphoned into Terra through the Iifa tree until the other world ceased to exist altogether. Terra would be reborn as a merging of itself and the other while the heartless Genomes inherited the hearts of those lost in the fusion. This would keep the world alive for generations until decay started and another world had to be assimilated to keep it alive.
The process of assimilating a world was slow and Terra was almost lost before the first absorption could be complete. In order to speed up the process on that first world the old wizard, known as Garland, used his influence and power to magically put together a powerful heart and soul out of the many sent to him by the Iifa Tree so far. These would be implanted into a powerful new Genome body the the overseer himself designed. This Genome was named Kuja and he was to be Garland's Angel of Death. Unlike the others of his kind Kuja had a heart and feelings his entire life. Kuja aged to maturity while being taught the ways of magic and strong intellectual development until he was ready to be deployed. By this point the Angel of Death saw himself as a superior to all other Genomes but still looked over them as if through a caring ruler's eyes even if that role was actually Garland's to play. Kuja entered the other world using the power of darkness to bypass the walls and instigated great wars, causing the people to die more often and in greater numbers. This increase in souls and their hearts flowing into the Iifa Tree to Terra also sped up the assimilation of the world's own heart. A process that should have taken another hundred years was completed in just a couple of decades and Terra was saved. Kuja, having stopped aging in his twenties, was appointed as the Angel of Death for future world assimilations whenever Terra began to wane again and this process went on for countless years while Kuja himself grew in power, intelligence, and arrogance over his ability to bend entire civilizations to his will. While visiting other worlds Kuja encountered humans without tails and so hid his own in order to disguise himself. He eventually continued this even on worlds where it wouldn't have been odd and also back home on Terra, simply because he did not see himself like the lower Genomes. The white-haired Genome began to dream of forging his own eternal kingdom unmarred by deterioration with himself as the perfect ruler, of course doing so would involve overthrowing Garland who still held power over his heart.
In time the Heartless eventually appeared and the walls that separated all worlds were destroyed. In the wake of this meteor shower Garland gathered together every Gummi Block he could find and eventually built a huge Gummi battleship he dubbed “The Invincible”. This ship was a huge step forward for them, a snow they no longer needed to rely on the dangerous heart-deteriorating corridors of darkness and Realm of Nothingness to reach other worlds, and on top of that the Invincible was built to house a heart syphon that replaced the Iifa Tree, allowing a much more direct and faster approach to the process. Though Terra was still dying, its prolonged future seemed assured. Unfortunately, it had not come soon enough; Kuja had been using the corridors to reach new worlds and then return to Terra for years and the corruption of his own heart to darkness was already well underway, fed by his own egomania and resulting in a full-blown god complex.
Events reached their climax when Kuja discovered Garland had just formed a new heart from the ones stored within the Invincible after its last trip, much like he had done for Kuja's so long ago. A new Angel of Death was being created by implanting this heart into a specially bred Genome body which was still in its youth. Enraged by this act the powerful Genome kidnapped his new “baby brother” and sent him into the sea of stars. When Garland found out he confronted Kuja, who told the old man that no one could be a better Angel of Death and that he would give Terra life enough to last for all eternity. Kuja, empowered by the darkness that had filled his heart and freed from his creator's influence by that same force, defeated Garland in a magical battle and tossed his body into the abyss. Still, Garland had made a bond with Terra; as long as it lived, he lived. Kuja heard his creator's disembodied voice speaking from beyond the grave with morbid amusement as he revealed the Angel of Death's greatest flaw: He was not immortal. Kuja's strong heart had extended his lifespan greatly, but eventually he would die. There could be no eternal kingdom for him, who had been made “in haste” in order to save Terra from imminent destruction and buy time until the “true” immortal Angel of Death could be created. With that child gone and Garland's body destroyed Terra was now, eventually, doomed to rot away from the inside out.
Unable to reconcile this information with his obsessions, Kuja's brilliant mind finally crossed the line into true insanity. He used all his power and the invincible to lay waste to Terra, not wanting his precious kingdom to bear the pain of outliving him. With the Invincible at his command the Angel of Death rode into the Sea of Stars; his only goal to eliminate all life in the universe before his time ran out, lest any of them have to suffer through an existence that he was not a part of. In all his intelligence of course Kuja knew this all-encompassing task was above his ability and limited time. The only way to ensure the oblivion of all was to reach and destroy the origin of all:
Kingdom Hearts.
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Surprisingly enough, Kuja actually has a deep masculine voice.
Go figure.
.user.information.
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Username: thebilbyguy
Gender: Male
Other Character(s): Character Chain
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.canon.character.
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Only applicable to canons.
Audition Thread: Kuja
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.general.character.information.
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Name: Kuja
Alias: N/A
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Race: Humanoid
Alignment: Villain
Origin: Terra
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Appearance: Kuja
Physical Features: Kuja is a fairly tall man with a very feminine look about him. His body isn't clearly muscular like many males, despite the amount of skin he shows. Kuja's hair is white and long, traveling all the way down his back in a large, puffy mass. At the top of his head a lone line of hair comes straight up and curves off to the side from gravity' weight, the distinguishing feature of which being that it looks more like a fuzzy feather than hair. Kuja's hands are not calloused or marred despite his line of work due to his way of going about it, and his nails have an almost sharp quality to them. They too seem longer than the average male would keep them. Kuja also has a monkey-like prehensile tail proportioned for an adult human body, but he keeps it hidden under his clothes and out of sight.
Facial Features: Kuja's facial features are very smoothed out. With his face seeming to appear within a gap in his large amount of hair the magical being has a a small round nose and narrow, slanted eyes. Kuja's eyebrows are black and also quite thin.
Clothing: From the bottom going up, Kuja wears two black boots with pointed toes and brass buckles over the bridge of the foot, the tongue of each coming up in a multi-pointed quartet. The man's leggings go up from there in the same dark colour with three overlaying flaps sewed on. The leggings do not reach up all the way as pants would and cease about half-way past his knees. Above a double-belted article of purple material protects his modesty as well as lending its straps to holding up the white, gold-lined flowing robe that drapes all the way down behind him and opens in the front. Going higher up the man wears no conventional shirt either but has a purple half-top with yellow lining, a large collar and rounded out shoulder space. The shoulders bear metallic guards over the top and underneath this a thinner piece of light purple clothing can be seen along with a grey strap of sorts going at a downward angle from his right side to his left, disappearing underneath the outer garment. Out of the arm holes int eh shoulder areas are long flowing white sleeves, not unlike his dress robe below. When not covered by these long piece his hands are wearing purple coverings like gloves with several openings in them.
Miscellaneous Items/Articles: Kuja also wears two different types of bracelets on each arm.
Personality:
Resolve: To end all life.
Fears: Death. Kuja believed he was immortal and now fears his own mortality. The fear of his own death has driven the narcissist to the point of a calm insanity, wherein not only has his life lost all meaning but the lives of all others as well. Its not a matter of “If I can't live then neither should anyone else”, but rather the idea that not being able to join his eternal kingdom is a fate worse than life or death for all other people to endure. He refuses to let the world, any worlds, exist without him. If asked, he would say it is because of his perfect, unconditional love for all beings.
Hopes: To save the universe from having to go on existing without him by making sure it all ends when he does. Any means to achieve this are viable so long as they are not beneath someone of his high caliber. Having lost his grip on sanity to the revelation of his mortality, Kuja no longer hopes for his own personal eternal kingdom or anything else at all.
Hobbies: Kuja plots ways to manipulate entire nations and worlds into destroying themselves, though it isn't out of enjoyment. Still that doesn't mean that he isn't fond of watching the worthless drones wipe each other out for him. He's been doing it for a long time now and it fits his purpose quite well until he has the strength to render it obsolete. As far as personal amusement goes, Kuja loves to talk about himself to others and share his genius plans with them, doing so freely and without any necessary goading. A strange hobby indeed, especially when his other one is to play puppet-master and see how far he can manipulate individuals against each other. The Genome has no fear of repercussions however, as it is all a game to him anyway.
Public Personality/Private Personality: Kuja's extreme ego and sense of superiority are never gone, regardless of whether or not he has an audience. The Angel of Death loves the sound of his own voice and isn't above having an outer monologue to remind himself of his own brilliant schemes. Though the threat of death looms heaviest on this genome's corrupted heart Kuja is afraid of only his eventual death from natural processes, and his god complex refuses to let him believe in actually dying in battle or at the hands of another, so on the battlefield he is calm and collected while using his magic to fight and never having to dirty his physical hands. Kuja's fighting style is 100% mage and he never relies on physical ability to achieve any means, only his intellect and his magic. This carries over into his interactions with others as well. Though mostly he only interacts with those he is trying to manipulate, Kuja never tries to physically intimidate anyone; at most he would intimidate through the people he is already using and their strength, but far more often Kuja will simply forgo intimidation altogether and not even try to make himself seem stronger than others. He believes his superiority a given with no need for having to prove it or to make others accept it. The Genome finds the lives and personalities of others amusing to a certain degree and often smiles condescendingly towards others or patronizes their intelligence. Even in the face of failure Kuja never believes himself the lesser of anyone. While alone the Angel of death has more time to focus on his inner thoughts and plans, but he is certainly capable of completely ignoring other people who are trying to talk to him if he deems his thoughts as more important than their personal affairs, which he often does by default. Those who get in Kuja's way are often simply dismissed as insects in his grand plan, but if anyone were to present themselves as an actual obstruction in the Angel of Death's path are targeted with his full, dangerous attention.
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Class: Mage
Weapons:
Weapon Name: The Invincible
Weapon Description: A massive Gummi Ship; both the largest and most powerful of all in existence. It is mainly blue with a streamlined swordfish-like shape. So many Gummies have been used and tailored to its design that the vessel no longer looks like it was made from the blocks at all. The underbelly of the ship has a large red glass-like circle with an eye-shaped frame around it, giving it the fanciful appearance of a giant cyclops watching from above when only this glowing feature can be seen at high altitudes.
Unique Notes: Aside form being armed with a vast number of the usual missiles and lasers one would expect of a Gummi Ship in the Sea of Stars, the Invincible is also equipped with a one-of-a-kind Gummi known as the Flare Star. This weapon can fire downwards out of the ship's eye onto worlds themselves. Given enough time to charge up it is capable to destroying entire villages and laying ruin into cities with a single shot, firing down a red beam of destruction to instigate massive explosions. Of course, Kuja himself wouldn't want to be in the blast area when that happens.
Abilities:
Base Ability: Flight
Sub Abilities:
Float
Using his magic Kuja can move through the air at will. Floating and flying above the ground and into the air can be done at leisure in any way he wills.
Base Ability: Ultima
Sub Abilities:
Comet
Kuja creates a maximum of twelve glowing white orbs around him at any given time, each roughly the size of a large man's fist. These orbs contain incredibly condensed non-elemental magic and will explode over an area with a three meter radius each when they collide with a target. Each Ultima orb can fly around according to Kuja's will and change course in the air at his mental command, allowing him to target his enemies much more effectively. The orbs leave an ethereal tail of white behind them, marking their flight path and giving them the appearance of comets. The flight speed of the comets can be compared to the immediate speed of arrows fired from a powerful bow.
Meteor
This support ability boosts the magical attack power of Kuja's Ultima, making it even more potent and deadly to those it strikes. The energy increase causes each white orb to gain a distinctive red glow to their visible perimeter, making them seem to double in their natural size while also tinting the tails of the comets to a redder hue. The extra boost given by this ability makes each individual orb capable of breaking down enemy shields and barriers of any kind save for reflection spells with their explosions, though at least one must be “used up” in order to do so unless their power has been stacked together in some manner. Heavily armoured targets will have the magical energy of the explosions pulse down through their shielding far more effectively than the spell could without the Meteor effect as well. The diameter of the explosions caused by the Ultima comets is also increased two meters by the power boost, causing a four meter radius of attack(Though this area increase is not directly to scale with the attack power increase Meteor gives to Ultima).
Flare
Each Ultima orb gains the power to discharge a portion of its energy in the form of bright red concentrated beams, much akin to lasers. Each orb can individually fire beams at a four round count duration maximum. This means it can fire one beam over four rounds or four beams for one round. or the area in between these two extremes, before the orb in question disappears. The main difference between the beams and the impact explosions is their point concentration and the resulting high-level piercing ability that comes with it. With Meteor's boost Flare can cut right through most forms of supernatural defence. After four beams, in any order or set, the orb runs out of power. Flare maintains the attack-boosting power of Meteor in its energy output, allowing it to attack high defences more effectively, and an orb without all its Flares used up can still attack normally with its area of effect reduced by one quarter for each beam fired. Flare's laser beams are about a centimeter in diameter and burn into targets with non-elemental damage.
Demi
When two Ultima orbs touch in the air and spin around with each other in place they can generate a dark gravitational anomaly within a five meter radius of their presence. A spherical shade of darkness appears and seems to flow like water from its highest point to its lowest. Everything inside the Demi field experiences crushing downward force, pinning the weak and strong alike down or sending them crashing into the earth if caught by it in the air. Touching the field from the outside is enough to have one's hand snapped downwards unwillingly at a painful speed. Damage dealt per turn to those trapped in Demi is directly dependent on their personal mass and weight. The more body mass they have and weight they carry, such as heavily armoured knights, the more damage Demi deals to their endurance and stamina with each passing turn. Demi can be maintained for four rounds before both orbs disappear from use, but they still remain alive with lessened power if it is ended early. The area of effect for their detonation is reduced by one quarter for each round Demi stayed in effect and the number of Flares that each can fire is reduced by one for each as well. Flares used by orbs also reduce the number of rounds that orb can participate in generating Demi equivalently.
Holy
Ultima takes on a brilliant covering of shining white sparkles in addition to meteor's red aura. These sparkles are all concentrated white magic light and act as a protective aura for Ultima. With Holy active any attack that intercepts the orbs directly causes a counter-attack of damaging white magic to burst outwards in brilliant heavenly flares and colours. The Holy energy covers an area with a radius of four meters(With Meteor's magical energy power boost) and then sends that sphere of Holy magic shooting off in the direction the attack came from in order to push it away. Of course, it will fail if the enemy's attack is of a larger scale than the Ultima's Meteor-boosted Holy energy and the speed Holy travels depends upon how much resistance it is receiving. This allows each orb to survive one attempt by an enemy to shoot it down prematurely, as well as to counterattack back at the instigator. Each shot of Ultima can generate Holy only once during its “lifetime”, as shown by the sparkles no longer surrounding them afterwards. Unlike Ultima's main ability Holy has an elemental leaning towards the light affinity, thus has great repelling properties for a defensive counter ability. The affinity also makes Holy super effective against dark-based opponents and creatures of cursed origin like the undead.
Items:
Equips:
Reflect
Attacks made toward the user are reflected back at the opponent. Three time use per battle and only lasts 1 post.
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History:
Kuja was created on a world with a dying heart. For countless centuries Terra had been weak, a heart too small to properly give life to a world. Because of this the people who lived there, the Genomes, were all born without hearts of their own. They weren't really Nobodies, as they had no “memories” of hearts nor Heartless counterparts, they were simply born unable to feel. When this epidemic was realized and before all men were born that way older man who still had a heart created a link with the world's dying one. Together they would live and if it died then so would he, but if it lived on then so too would he be an immortal overseer of his people. This powerful wizard sought out a way to keep his world alive by merging it with other worlds, which he discovered by using darkness to navigate through the realm of Nothingness during his search for a cure. Though the walls still separated all worlds from each other, this man cerated a “link” that could bind their hearts across the Sea of Space: A life form known as the Iifa Tree. This tree cycled the souls of those who died on the healthy world into Terra, and their hearts along with them. Over time the healthy world's heart was also slowly siphoned into Terra through the Iifa tree until the other world ceased to exist altogether. Terra would be reborn as a merging of itself and the other while the heartless Genomes inherited the hearts of those lost in the fusion. This would keep the world alive for generations until decay started and another world had to be assimilated to keep it alive.
The process of assimilating a world was slow and Terra was almost lost before the first absorption could be complete. In order to speed up the process on that first world the old wizard, known as Garland, used his influence and power to magically put together a powerful heart and soul out of the many sent to him by the Iifa Tree so far. These would be implanted into a powerful new Genome body the the overseer himself designed. This Genome was named Kuja and he was to be Garland's Angel of Death. Unlike the others of his kind Kuja had a heart and feelings his entire life. Kuja aged to maturity while being taught the ways of magic and strong intellectual development until he was ready to be deployed. By this point the Angel of Death saw himself as a superior to all other Genomes but still looked over them as if through a caring ruler's eyes even if that role was actually Garland's to play. Kuja entered the other world using the power of darkness to bypass the walls and instigated great wars, causing the people to die more often and in greater numbers. This increase in souls and their hearts flowing into the Iifa Tree to Terra also sped up the assimilation of the world's own heart. A process that should have taken another hundred years was completed in just a couple of decades and Terra was saved. Kuja, having stopped aging in his twenties, was appointed as the Angel of Death for future world assimilations whenever Terra began to wane again and this process went on for countless years while Kuja himself grew in power, intelligence, and arrogance over his ability to bend entire civilizations to his will. While visiting other worlds Kuja encountered humans without tails and so hid his own in order to disguise himself. He eventually continued this even on worlds where it wouldn't have been odd and also back home on Terra, simply because he did not see himself like the lower Genomes. The white-haired Genome began to dream of forging his own eternal kingdom unmarred by deterioration with himself as the perfect ruler, of course doing so would involve overthrowing Garland who still held power over his heart.
In time the Heartless eventually appeared and the walls that separated all worlds were destroyed. In the wake of this meteor shower Garland gathered together every Gummi Block he could find and eventually built a huge Gummi battleship he dubbed “The Invincible”. This ship was a huge step forward for them, a snow they no longer needed to rely on the dangerous heart-deteriorating corridors of darkness and Realm of Nothingness to reach other worlds, and on top of that the Invincible was built to house a heart syphon that replaced the Iifa Tree, allowing a much more direct and faster approach to the process. Though Terra was still dying, its prolonged future seemed assured. Unfortunately, it had not come soon enough; Kuja had been using the corridors to reach new worlds and then return to Terra for years and the corruption of his own heart to darkness was already well underway, fed by his own egomania and resulting in a full-blown god complex.
Events reached their climax when Kuja discovered Garland had just formed a new heart from the ones stored within the Invincible after its last trip, much like he had done for Kuja's so long ago. A new Angel of Death was being created by implanting this heart into a specially bred Genome body which was still in its youth. Enraged by this act the powerful Genome kidnapped his new “baby brother” and sent him into the sea of stars. When Garland found out he confronted Kuja, who told the old man that no one could be a better Angel of Death and that he would give Terra life enough to last for all eternity. Kuja, empowered by the darkness that had filled his heart and freed from his creator's influence by that same force, defeated Garland in a magical battle and tossed his body into the abyss. Still, Garland had made a bond with Terra; as long as it lived, he lived. Kuja heard his creator's disembodied voice speaking from beyond the grave with morbid amusement as he revealed the Angel of Death's greatest flaw: He was not immortal. Kuja's strong heart had extended his lifespan greatly, but eventually he would die. There could be no eternal kingdom for him, who had been made “in haste” in order to save Terra from imminent destruction and buy time until the “true” immortal Angel of Death could be created. With that child gone and Garland's body destroyed Terra was now, eventually, doomed to rot away from the inside out.
Unable to reconcile this information with his obsessions, Kuja's brilliant mind finally crossed the line into true insanity. He used all his power and the invincible to lay waste to Terra, not wanting his precious kingdom to bear the pain of outliving him. With the Invincible at his command the Angel of Death rode into the Sea of Stars; his only goal to eliminate all life in the universe before his time ran out, lest any of them have to suffer through an existence that he was not a part of. In all his intelligence of course Kuja knew this all-encompassing task was above his ability and limited time. The only way to ensure the oblivion of all was to reach and destroy the origin of all:
Kingdom Hearts.
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.other.info.
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Surprisingly enough, Kuja actually has a deep masculine voice.
Go figure.