[Espy]

Oh, I need to finish up Dante's, too.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Salone, that song is awesomeness.

And I think I have where we're going more or less figured out, so just waiting for Ari's post. Starting off a bit bigger than last time, wasn't really feeling another zombie apocalypse.

[Espy]

Sounds good to me. Nice to start out with a fight -- we can probably figure out skills and stuff.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Point to where I said we were fighting. :P

Oh, we'll get to the violence, but I have other things planned too. ^_^

[Espy]

That sounds good as well. Gives Dante time to get on Lev's bad side.

[Arikana]

Okay, here's my character profile thing before I forget to post. I'll work on a post tomorrow and hopefully get it done soon.

Name: Ei’lycia
Age: Seventeen
Height: 5’4” / 162.5cm
Weight: 119lbs / 54kg
Hair: Short; naturally black, but has been bleached and dyed a deep blue
Eyes: Crystal blue eyes
Build: Lithe and somewhat athletic

[each rated either Deficient, Poor, Average, High, or Extreme, followed by a description of relevant abilities in each category]

Spiritual Presence: Average. Grew up in a devout Christian family and has strong values instilled in her by her parents. However, due to her schizophrenia and the voices she often hears, she’s run away from home at a very young age and some of the reins of her spiritual values have since fallen off due to a lack of spiritual guidance despite retaining all of her prior knowledge on the matter.

Psychic Presence: Average-High. Was born with strong psychic powers but has never been trained to utilize them and as such are very much linked to her emotions. She can mainly become thoroughly invisible to the naked eye, temporarily blind/paralyze others, or utilize a detailed x-ray-like vision. Hopes to get training to increase her the psychic prowess.

Combat Ability: Poor. Knows basic defence skills from lessons she took when she was young and has mastered them. However, such skills in this area are limited as she often runs from trouble rather than fight.

Arcane Knowledge: Deficient. Has never spent time learning of such things and barely hears of it when eavesdropping on random conversations to pick up on news and chatter from people surrounding her.

Mechanical Aptitude: Extreme. Has always taken to building things, taking them apart and rebuilding them as a means of therapeutic relief to cope with the voices and hallucinations she hears and sees. She often sells what she makes for profits to carry her through life. Through psychic abilities she utilizes her x-ray-like vision to both help forage the rare materials and put her creations together.

Other: Has incredible foot speed and stamina from running everywhere on foot all the time. Has an eidetic memory. Has great street smarts such as pilfering whatever she needs, be it food or things to turn into gadgets, sly stealth to stay in the shadows and out of trouble (or at least as much as she can), and a very keen observation.

Possessions: An extremely durable and lightweight sword which although appears to be simple, she has put together on her own. Made of tungsten and titanium she has stolen over time, she has created it to have the potential to possibly one day be imbued with the strong psychic powers she was born with but has never tapped into.

Sunglasses which she built to hyper-analyze everything at minute degrees and angles; they have since been altered to accommodate her x-ray-like vision.

Metal claws she created that can be infused with psychic powers, despite her lack of need to do so. Half of a two-part last line of defence. They can be worn as finger gloves or on her fingers depending on which is better for the situation at hand; when there is no situation the former is used.

A razor thin dagger she keeps on herself as a other half of a two-part last line of defence; is rarely used and mostly has for show.

Biography: Ei’lycia was born into a strong, devout Christian family and grew up with the strong values her parents have instilled in her. Early on, her parents discovered she had both schizophrenia and an eidetic memory and coddled her, to an excessive point, in order to protect her from the “evils” of the world based on their point of view; she became home schooled, which eventually came in handy in order to develop ways on her own to adapt to her mental disorder. Due to the voices and hallucinations she hears and sees, she often questions what she truly believes in, wondering what is real and what is not. Upon discovering her psychic abilities, she has kept quiet about them for fear of being locked up in a mental institution as she knew her family would not look well upon her gifts. She’s also noted that the more she uses her psychic abilities, each specific power/skill in varying amounts, the stronger the voices and hallucinations she receives.

From the time she was around six-years-old, Ei’lycia has had a hard life due to the onset of her schizophrenia causing her to have gone into various bouts of depression, both of which, resulted in many scars and burns from her various attempts of suicide. (She would have been dead long ago if it weren’t for her healing abilities.) Unable to take medication for her schizophrenia, due to her body having violent reactions to the drugs, she deals with complete effects of the mental disorder on a daily basis. However, it’s also allowed her to become strong as she’s used it as a foundation to push herself to extreme levels of self-preservation. Despite being born with psychic abilities, at erratic times, she may often be misguided by the voices she hears, hallucinations she sees, and the inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, as a result, causing confusion and pain amongst her family and others whom are close to her so she has refused any formal training with her powers. When she was but fifteen-years-old, in an extremely rare moment of clarity, she decided to run away from home when she understood the pain she was causing her family as a result of her condition coupled with the realization that they were barely treating her as family and more like an outcast.

Personality: She carries no money on her and, since running away from home, has survived life thus far by doing whatever it takes to earn her daily provisions as each day comes. She is independent, adamant, and blunt in all she does and says, yet has a caring heart for those who sincerely need help. While young she may be, she is not naïve as living on her own has opened her eyes to how sheltered her old life was.

She likes staying organized with daily schedules mapped out ahead of time that are down to the last detail. Time management is important to her despite often struggling to stay on top of time when her hallucinations start. She can also get quite paranoid at times.

[Espy]

Hm...that's interesting. Besides the complete lack in arcane knowledge, she could probably be a really good fighting partner for all three of the guys. Though she doesn't seem like one to talk much...?

I'm kind of amused by how we don't have a softer support-type character like Fee and Jeanne from the first Esch.

[Arikana]

I…have no clue who those characters are. D:

And if she could get some training, she probably could be strong. She is pretty adamant about receiving training, so it'd probably have to somehow be done without her knowing. That, or someone just needs to force her to train. :P

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Glad you got it done, Ari. Couple things, though.

Spiritual presence isn't so much piety as it is the potency of the soul, faith doesn't play that big of a role since souls are tangible things here (i.e. Zaccheus has turned his back on religion but he's still a theurge of Extreme strength) and it's more can you look at a seraphim/survive a death spell from a wraith/and so on. If she's not particularly endowed in that department, I'd bump her down.

For psychic presence, potential will only get you so far. I have Dio listed as High, and if she can match or even out-psych him, that's fine, but he's auto-aiming, bullet-timing, running up walls, punching through concrete, and deflecting machine gun fire with his psykosis (and telekinetically animating Dante's chain whip if he'll let him :P) Every psychic's going to have different areas of expertise, but if she isn't on that level (multitasking several potent powers together while being able to still fight) I'd keep her at average, since the potential would at least cover *resistance* to some degree. (Extreme psych would be teleporting, tearing apart buildings, mass dominating entire cities, getting blown to pieces and holding one's constituent cells together, etc).

Finally, the only way someone'd have Extreme mech aptitude is if they're Artificer-trained. That's on the order of performing cybernetic surgery in the field, manufacturing stuff straight out of raw materials, borderline-miraculous hacking abilities, and so on. What you're describing is more in the High category -- i.e. can fix pretty much anything, given time and resources.

And am I reading it right that she doesn't know how to really use the weapons she carries? Having a Poor in combat ability just seems a little odd to me if she's carrying that kind of specialized melee-combat equipment, unless she honestly doesn't know how to use it. I'd think at least average, especially if her psykosis bleeds into her reflexive abilities and whatnot at all.

I should probably have mentioned that Average is not actually average in the sense that your common citizen likely has, at best, Poor across the board. :P

Edit: oh, and for the record, I don't care if she's powerful, I like powerful, I'm just striving for accuracy with all this. ;)

[Espy]

Psychosis*. Dammit, Suze XD

I think I'll write up something quick for Dante tonight, then fill it out later.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

No, *psychosis* is a mental condition. Psykosis is one's psychic potential. :P

Krazy kewl letterz!

Suppose we could go we Psukhosis if we wanted to *really* Greek about it. :P

[Espy]

-twitches slightly-

Just got out of AbPsych class @____@

[Arikana]

Ah, okay. I'll make and repost changes later. Have some other things I need to do first, but they shouldn't take too long. Hopefully. o3o

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I never did get to take abnormal psychology. How is it, Espy?

...there's so many classes I never got to take. Totally going for that medieval history and philosophy minor when I go back.

[Espy]

AbPsych is...interesting. Haven't gotten much into the details yet, but being a experimental guinea pig is mandatory. Joy. -never quite fits within one SD of the average-

...Then again, I can be cynical about lots of things.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Oh god, are there group experiments/activities? I literally walked out of my regular psych class at least five times during those. Forgot about those, now I'm glad I didn't take it. >_>