Clovis Mikain

[seraph]

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~Basic info~

"Everyone wears a mask, just have to tear it off" [/center][/i]

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Username ~ : seraph

Other characters ~ : N/A

Is this character canon? ~ : Nope

Link to audition thread ~ : N/A

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~Character Info~

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Name ~ : Clovis Mikain

Age ~ : 20

Birthplace ~ : Country; Holy Kingdom of Harmonia, World; Lorimar

Lorimar is a world that is quite diverse in its cultures as well as its races. The world itself is mostly under control of the Holy Kingdom of Harmonia, where Clovis is from with the remaining countries being smaller. The infra-structure of Harmonia is quite formal ranging from the leaders of the state at the top with the 1st class citizens ( which Clovis is a part of ) the nobles coming next. The 2nd class citizens are the middle class allowing them to have their own businesses along with freedom to buy houses. At the bottom of the hierarchy is the 3rd class citizens. This is the nice way of saying slaves to the upper classes. They aren't allowed to have they're own homes or businesses and have the heaviest taxes.

Gender ~ : Male

Race ~ : Human; Somebody

Special Class ~ : N/A

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~Appearance~

"I look so good in a mirror"

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Physical appearance ~ : Clovis has quite a slim physique for starters. He is of average height about 5'9 with long dirty blonde hair that is swept to the right. Piercing blue orbs for eyes with a peachy glow about his skin, he is quite an attractive individual. Although he is quite slim, his muscles are quite toned but they aren't exactly big. He has a few scars and scrapes on his arms legs and torso but no major disfigurations to his body are present.

Clothing/Accessories ~ : Clovis has a colour theme about him. He seems to like green which is the most prominent colour in his attire. From the top he wears a plain brown shirt made of some kind of animal hide that is in essence a t-shirt. On top of this he wears a jacket that is comprised of green, dark green and white. Across his shoulders and chest is the lighter of the green. On his forearms and abdomen the colour changes to the darker of the green. Across his chest their are white lines which indicate where his pockets are although they are hardly visible due to his scarf he wears.

At the end of his arms he has cuffs which are the shame colour as the lighter green with dark green buttons down the side 3 in total on each arm. In the middle of the jacket there is a white streak that marks the edge all the way down. There is no zip or buttons to close this jacket instead there is a light brown leather belt which also holds his dagger Sierra with a brown pouch to match its shape perfectly. The dagger is kept on his left side. On his hands he wears dark brown leather gloves mainly to protect him from any parried blows of the Grosserfluss.

On his bottom half he wears another plain set of clothes with fairly tight beige coloured trousers. On the back of them are two pockets where he rarely keeps items stashed. As for footwear he wears an intricate design of hiking boots made for both comfort and weight. They are mainly a tan colour with dark brown mixed into a mosaic design with cross laces to fasten them tight.

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~Personality~

"With the ladies, it's all about the charm"

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Alignment ~ : Neutral

Behavior ~ : Clovis can be quite the charmer. Depending on his mood he can woo the women or simply annoy the hell out of them. Often one to break the ice, he can come across as very arrogant and over confident which is quite true. He is a good looking individual and what’s worse is that he knows it. At times he is quite friendly and easy going. His appearance lures people into a false sense of security thinking that he is not dangerous at all but he is a very crafty individual indeed. In the past he has known to use his charms and looks to get what he wants, whatever that happens to be at the time. When it comes to times of crisis he puts a more serious and logical face on. This can often lead to him making purely logical decisions conveying a cold side of his personality. This isn't entirely true though for he does have genuine feelings for others but he knows that when it comes down to it he has to save himself. All in all he is quite a friendly guy but no one can really tell what he's thinking, other than his 'missus'

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~Weapons~

"I may not look it, but I'm pretty good with a sword"

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Primary Weapon(s)

ID: Grosserfluss
Quality: Average

Grosserfluss is a complex weapon that requires skill in many aspects of the sword. In its normal form, it is a dual ended sword that is surprisingly light with about thirty centimetres for a handle. The blades themselves are about eighty centimetres each which a silvery finish that glistens in the sun. They are quite sturdy and thin. There are two thing that make this weapon unique. The first is the fact they can detach in the middle of the handle to form two blades to be used in a dual wield style. Now the other is the fact that the blades are snake swords that are attached to each segment of the blade by a very thin and sharp wire. They can reach up to five meters each when fully extended with the tip of the blade having the ability to pierce hard objects as well as other people enabling some variations in combat and methods of causing damage. The downside to this weapon is that when the blades are attached at the hilt the blades cannot be segmented into their whip like states. In order to separate them there is a small slide trigger on the side of the blades which when pushed down separate the blades into the whip and when they are released the whip snaps back into the blades but this takes a while leaving Clovis vulnerable if they are countered efficiently.

Secondary Weapon(s)

ID: Sierra

A small dagger that bears the same name as his fiance, simply because she gave it to him for his birthday. It is a small dagger that is a long and thin triangular shape that rests on his left hip. Mainly used at close quarters or when he finds himself disarmed but he prefers not to use it due to its personal sentimental value. The handle is green in colour with a very small hilt guard whilst the blade is made of a dull silver colour.

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~Abilities~

"How did I do that? That would be telling"

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AP left: 0
Flash Judgment
Thrusting the blade into the ground beneath him ( or shoving it into the air when airborne ) Clovis can create a small flash of light that shoots up from beneath the opponent. Simply put it is a high energy beam that forms from a crest symbolizing that of the element of light. Although this crest isn't really visible due to the speed of the spell. The spell effects only a meter diameter from where it was cast. If the target isn't moving when the spell is used then they most likely won't avoid it due to the speed of 50 mph shooting into the air. There is no homing effect once the spell is fired. Clovis also has to be within 10 meters of the target in order to trigger the spell.

Strength: Weak
Uses: Infinite; 2 post cool down

Twinkling Blade
Grosserfluss begins radiating a warm neon blue light from both the blades and the handle. Clovis then throws it towards the opponent. Whether it is blocked, dodged or even hits the target, the blade splits into two objects of what appears to be spheres no larger than a football ( a soccerball for you American folk ). They have odd movements that are similar to the Heartless boss in KHII when it fires those energy spheres. However this ability causes these glowing neon spheres to leave a small trail of light behind them with juttering movements. They look like streams of pearl coloured light. They move at 50 mph but then stop for two seconds then charge in again. This hits up to three times each time splitting off again into two separate spheres. With each splitting of the spheres, damage progresively decreases until the final stage of the attack. So for the first hit there will be two, then the second with be four and the final hit will have eight spheres. Each sphere when it splits off divides equally from each other trying to keep the optimum distance it can reach away from the splitting point and one another. Think a three piece pie shape. Once the third strike has occurred, the spheres all slam into each other for a final strike. However a blast of light elemental energy having a meter radius damage zone occurs like a perfect sphere of pearl white light. In the next post after this ability is used, Grosserfluss reappears in Clovis' hand leaving him disarmed for the post he used the ability in.

Strength: Strong
Uses: Infinite, 5 post cool down.

Piercing One
With a snap of the fingers, a familiar neon blue light surrounds Clovis. Then a second later it leaves his body and forms 7 same coloured swords that surround him. These swords are exactly the same shape as Grosserfluss ( when split apart ) except they float of course. Clovis can then launch these blades one after another consecutively with half a second between each one. They aim for the target in a linear fashion until all seven blades have been fired at the target. They travel at 30 mph and when blocked, or dodged in which they hit a solid object, they shatter like glass.

Strength: Weak
Uses: Infinite, 2 post cool down
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~History~

"Nothing but trouble since I came into the world"

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Clovis early life was a rather brutal but well nurtured. Being born into a 1st class aristocratic family, it was pre-determined before birth that he would have everything he ever desired. Amongst the nobles of Harmonia the Mikains were well renowned and often thought of as being powerful people and none to be trifled with. Although his mother and father were always 'busy' Clovis struck up a close relationship with his carer and maid Sialeeds, from an early age. She became more like his mother over the years which only fuelled the increasing distance between himself and his biological parents. Life in the Mikain household was easy for him but things were about to take a turn for the worse.

At the age of 7 he was sent to the most notoriously challenging schools in all of Harmonia. It was located at the Crystal Palace where only the high officials and nobility had access to. The school was named the Howling Voice Guild. This school was more of a training facility for the elite soldiers of the Harmonian force, the Paladins. Such brutal training regimes that tested both the body and mind were enforced upon Clovis for the next 11 years. This kind of training gave him the impressive skills he holds in both swordplay along with magic. However it twisted him, turned him bitter and began to hate combat itself. Such emotions only served to increase his growing disdain for his parents for putting him there. Clovis was very popular among the other students particularly the girls as he fancied himself a ladies man but had a close group of friends. Upon graduating the school at the age of 18 ( with flying colours ) he was sent on his first assignment to the southern frontier of Harmonia. An insurrection had occurred there and him and a few other Paladins were sent there in order to quell this rebellion.

Having a good 500 troops at his disposal, Clovis' training allowed them a swift victory in many battles and upon doing so his assignment had been completed in less than 2 months. Upon returning back to the Crystal Palace, he was promoted to a 7th class Paladin ( graduates are a 10th class ) completely missing a few classes due to his impressive accomplishments. Afterward all the formalities were concluded, he was dismissed for leave for a few weeks. Upon returning to his house he had found that some family feuds had been taking place between his parents and some uncles. Unfortunately for Clovis he was dragged into this feud which after a few days got violent.

Both sides had members of the Howling Voice Guild [HVG] on their side and reluctantly Clovis did agree to fight, only due to the fact he believed his Sialeeds was at risk of being harmed in this process. He couldn't have cared less for his parents whom he had grown a fierce hatred for them. The fighting was over in a week. However this was not due to one side being defeated. They came. Shadow made real given bodies of darkness to prey upon the hearts of the living. A state of emergency was declared within the kingdom meaning all members of the HVG were recalled to Crystal Palace and put on standby. Not adhering to this order would mean death by runic expulsion ( the fancy term by the Kingdom meaning magic ).

As the Heartless grew in numbers and varying forms of the creatures began to appear, the people were losing faith. Members of the HVG were put on guard patrol like some lowly army grunt due to the power behind the Heartless. After several days of this new threat the news reached Clovis that had brought disaster to his life. His parents along with all their staff had been murdered by the Heartless. This included his beloved Sialeeds. Blaming himself for her death drove him to the pits of despair and in this confusing state of mind he deserted the ranks of the HGV and left for the western outlands which Harmonia had the weakest grasp upon.

Several days later the heartless lay their final siege in which the world he had known was lost. During this he too had stood his ground simply to save his own life but after being swallowed by the darkness, he was saved by the light. Although he couldn't care less whether he lived or died this light came in the form of a woman, one who was rather beautiful. Awakening in Traverse Town, he felt an odd compulsion to travel to the First District. Dazzed and confused about the whole situation he found himself in, he couldn't help but wonder that he was actually dead.

However upon investigating the newly opened moogle shop, he learned about this world and the creatures that had attacked his home world. Upon finding out that his world no longer existed, he was a little shocked at first but mainly due to the fact he had never heard of such power to devour a whole world. It wasn't a particulary nice place for him anyway, or so he thought. Since opening only a few weeks ago, the moogles made a proposition for Clovis. If he collected certain materials for their synthesis shop then he could use their Gummi Ship to travel to other worlds to search for a new place to live. At the time Traverse Town was near bursting limit. Almost instantly he agreed and they offered to pay him munny for the materials he brought back.

Soon after he was put with a partner, the beautiful and intelligent Sierra Rene. She was the same age as Clovis but what was even more attractive for him was that she was a spitting image of the girl he had seen in the light when he had travelled the corridors of darkness after Lorimar was destroyed. At first she didn't particulary like him and found him a sleeze but she did confess to one of the moogles she found him attractive till he opened his mouth. As the months went on and Clovis and Sierra went around the worlds collecting materials for the moogles they eventually got closer and started a relationship.

In a rather dramatic event, the pair of them found themselves caught up in a scandal to assassinate the Emperor in the Land of Dragons. In the gruelling battle between the palace guards as well as the rioters, Clovis used his body as a shield to protect Sierra from an arrow. After things had died down and the two of them were back on the ship, Sierra was fixing Clovis up as tears streamed down her face thinking of losing him. Eventually he made a full recovery upon getting back to Traverse Town and after he awoke he propsed to her after realizing he didn't die because he couldn't leave her. After which she tearfully accepted and the pair now are to be wed sometime in the near future. However now that the buisness the moogles have blossomed they have bought another ship meaning the pair of them can go on seperate hunts so they don't spend alot of time together. For the moment, Clovis is trying to forget about his world after being informed of its resurrection thanks to a mysterious boy and concentrate on his new life with the moogles and most importantly Sierra.

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~Class~

"Thats just not my style..."

~ A sword of terrible destruction - The power of the warrior: Invincible courage.

~ A shield to repel all - The power of the guardian: Kindness to aid friends.

~ A staff of wonder and ruin - The power of the mystic: Inner strength.

You know that one of them must be chosen. What power will you seek?

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"Swords are my thing so the Path of the Warrior I guess"

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~Other~

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[lysander]

This is a great profile, your history is really strong.

Fire Bolt
A consequetive stream of five fireballs are sent from the symbol formed in front of Clovis. These fireballs are about the size of soccer balls and travel to the maximum speed of 30 mph. Upon impact they explode with a meter radius. All five can be fired in 1.5 seconds one after another with equal time before they are fired. They can also all be fired at the same time to attack an opponent from multiple angles although they are restricted to a certain side such as the front in a star formation for example. They also have a slight homing effect in the form of thought tracking. This means whatever Clovis target is they will aim for that. This can be used both in the air and on the ground.

Strength: Weak
Uses: Infinite. Requires a two post cool down.

You're trying to do too many things with a weak ability here. I would pick 1. A single explosive fireball shot in a straight line, 2. One fireball with homing abilities, or 3. Five fireballs shot in a straight line. If you picked one of those three options, you could keep it at weak level. If you want to keep it as is, you'd definitely need to give it only up to 4 uses.

Permafrost
A large 'chunk' of ice forms from beneath the opponent. There is a random assortment of thick icicles that form beneath them. They are no longer in diameter than 8 meters. Bursting forth from the ground this spell can cause either impalement or encasement in a block of ice. There is a single second that occurs when this spells symbol appears on the floor and when it will burst forth from the ground.

Strength: Moderate
Uses: 7 times per thread. 3 Post cool down.

There are several things I need to verify here. Is it one icicle or many? In your first sentence you refer it to being a single "chunk", while in your second, you say several. How large is the area of effect? You say that one icicle is 8 meters, which seems rather large (this ties back to needing to know how many icicles). What does it take to destroy the ice, and are there any unique ways to escape from it before/during/after it is cast?

Escutcheon
A bowl shape shield appears in one direction made of translucent hexagons. There is a white outline marking the outside of the shapes that form this shield. It protects against both physical and magical attacks. This shield acts like a solid wall. Only lasts for one post. Can be used in both the air and on the ground. Can only protect in one direction.

Strength: Moderate
Uses: Infinite. Cool down post of 4

What does it take to destroy the shield, and how many attacks can it block before being broken?

[seraph]

Thank you very much. I should think its a good profile since it took me long enough to finish it xD

And abilties are edited now.

[lysander]

Hey, you're just about done. *nod*

@permafrost: I noticed you added a sentence in at the end that says it has a long casting time. Could you just tell me what that entails (a few extra seconds of arm-waving, or some bright and flashy lights, an incantation of sorts? And does this take a few seconds or a few minutes)?
The reason I ask is this: I see two directions you could take this. One, you have a relatively short casting time (a few seconds) that makes it very obvious the spell you're going to cast, or Two, you have a more subtle approach that's less lights and shouting, and more just focusing energy (but has a slightly longer casting time). Why does it matter you ask? Well if it's the former, you don't really need to change anything. If you want to you could throw in a sentence about the visual descriptors, but it's not really necessary. If it's the latter, I'd ask that, in the uses section, you add a "1 post charge", which would let you make the entire spell more subtle, but you'd have to have a post telling that you were charging, and then your next post you could cast.

I know, I'm being a little nitpicky here, but if we get this last bit resolved you're good to go.

[seraph]

I decided to go for the one post cast, the first one you mentioned.

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[lysander]

Alright, alright, alright!

Accepted. Locked. Moved.