Freedom's updates

[freedom]

Spending a Magic Upgrade I bought ages ago on THIS ABILITY (an upgrade of Forbidden):

Unknowable – Any sort of magic is, essentially, an exchange with reality, an attempt to parlay one’s magical power, from wherever that power may stem, into tangible change in the real world. Freedom’s mind has long been able to resist any of the more direct attacks on itself, but as he has grown, his sheer force of will and absolute commitment to his reductivist philosophy has grown into an ability to shrug off any and all magical forces at will.

However, he cannot simply do this all the time. No, he needs to be focusing in on an opponent, or group of opponents, in order for his ability to reject magic, in theory, so wholly. When he has achieved proper concentration, and is engaged with the enemies he finds before him in full, he can actively shrug off magical assaults, and even worse, cause them to backfire.

Mechanically, this ability is linked to his Predator ability. While Predator is inactive, Unknowable is also inactive; from that point on, Unknowable scales upwards in power according to the level of concentration (i.e. “stacked” turns) he has achieved. When he has only a single turn “stacked,” any magical damage he receives is halved. When he has two turns “stacked,” he can simply ignore any attacks which are magical in origin or form, dismissing them as though they never existed (this is, in fact, what he’s technically doing; denying the very existence of their magic in such hardcore fashion that it actually works). Note that all these buffs vanish the moment he exits Predator mode, i.e, attacks.

However, when he has three turns “stacked,” or in other words is fully focused on a foe, Unknowable is able to not only defend, but counterattack. With three turns stacked, Freedom may choose to respond to any magical attack by instantly launching a mental retaliation, that stuns the target, causing them to stagger and completely drop their guard, while inflicting a fair degree of pain (but no actual damage). If he activates this counter-attack, he must immediately proceed into “unleashing” his stacked attacks, or they will dissipate as though he had broken Predator’s stalking mode.


Here's the code for the CS with the ability inside (there are the customary *s in the code blocks for the FC bit, so those'll need to be ganked):


[blockquote][center][IMG]http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/5046/freedomeye.png[/IMG] x [IMG]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3840/freedom1.png[/IMG] x [IMG]http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/695/freedomscary.png[/IMG]

[font=arial black][size=6]FREEDOM[/size][/font]
[font=segoe script][size=3][i][color=black][color=CC1100]UN[/color]bound[/color][/i][/size][/font][/center]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]RACE,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Minish[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]GENDER,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Male[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]BATTLE ROLE,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Melee DPS[/size][/blockquote]

[color=CC1100][size=5][font=Georgia]SEXUALITY,[/font][/size][/color]
[blockquote][size=1]In theory, heterosexual.  In practice, asexual.[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]AGE,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]26.[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]ALLIANCE,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Literally no one but himself.  You could say he’s loyal to his family, and he is; but it is in his own way, which is decidedly different from your usual sense of the word “loyal.”[/size][/blockquote]

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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]PERSONALITY,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Positive
[ul][li]Fierce
[/li][li]Independent
[/li][li]Intelligent
[/li][li]Unbending
[/li][li]Free.  Freedom has no inhibitions, no doubts.  He is never conflicted.  This should sound freaky, because it is.[/li][/ul]

Negative
[ul][li]Cruel
[/li][li]Callous
[/li][li]Vicious
[/li][li]Insane, insofar as “sane” means acceptance of popular worldview.
[/li][li]Remorseless.[/li][/ul][/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]APPEARANCE,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1][center][url=http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/188/1/e/this_is_what_i_am_by_jlonewolf-d3l9gin.jpg]Human(ish)[/url][/center][right][i]Artist: http://jlonewolf.deviantart.com[/i][/right]
On the line between beast and human, Freedom is sort of waving at the line from deep on the beast side, as though entertained by it.  Even in his human form, his hair is pitch black, long, wild, and truthfully like fur, with patches on his forearms.  His teeth are long and deadly (as are his nails, which are less like nails and more like a wolf’s claws), his eyes are the frightening yellow of a wolf’s and while he usually does wear a pair of black pants, that’s it; his chest, and its attendant scars, are freely visible to any who would look upon him.  Truthfully, Freedom spends very little time in this form, only when he feels interested in interacting with a biped or something.  That does not tend to be often.  His build is lean and muscular, and he is neither tall nor short, standing at around 5’10”.

[center][url=http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/335/7/8/beast_by_koutanagamori-d33ziz7.jpg]Beast[/url][/center][right][i]Artist: http://koutanagamori.deviantart.com[/i][/right]
In his beast form, Freedom is actually less wild-looking, in a bizarre sense: his mane actually shortens, and takes on a bluish hue, while the black swirls on his humanoid form transition into white patterns along his beast form’s shoulders.  His form is roughly somewhere between a wolf and a tiger, though larger than both; while he is lithe like a cat, and has the jaw structure of a large, tiger-like animal, his musculature is more heavy and powerful, like a wolf’s that has been blown up twice the normal size.  In his beast form, Freedom is about eleven feet long, from head to his rear, and his tail adds on another four feet of length.  However you measure him, there’s no denying that in Freedom’s “true” form, he is a massive beast, of compact, powerful muscles and bristling with long, black claws and shockingly white fangs.

Worst of all, though, are his eyes.  They are the red of blood, and absolutely unfeeling, inhuman.  To look into them is to realize that Freedom is far more beast than man, to realize that he is nothing more or less than a brutally efficient predator, who is very likely sizing up his next meal.[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]WEAPONS,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Claws, teeth.  That’s it.  Nothing else for this guy.
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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]ITEMS,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Nope nothin’.[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]ABILITIES,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][u][i][font=matrix][color=CC1100][size=3]Forbidden[/size][/color][/font][/i][/u][ul] [size=1]Freedom’s mind has to be one of the least pleasant places in all Hyrule to be, if your name doesn’t happen to be “Freedom” and your hobbies don’t include “being a goddamn psychopath.”

What this basically translates to is DON’T GO MESSIN’ AROUND IN IT.  Any attempts to upset or attack Freedom’s mind just will not work.  If anyone was actually bright enough to find some way to get into his mind they would find it a uniquely stark hellscape populated only by a big ol’ wolf that wants to kill you.

The actual applications of this are slim(ish).  It doesn’t affect his physical being at all: Freedom’s mind is essentially just so unnaturally clear that it’s a super-power.  If he was in a desert, dying of heat exhaustion, he’d still sweat and dehydrate and whatnot, but he sure as hell wouldn’t see no mirages or some bull like it.  Similarly, anyone trying to induce hallucinations, illusions, or in any way trying to get his mind to do anything that it doesn’t want to, can’t do it.

This basic, passive stage of the ability doesn’t apply to magic in general, as long as it isn’t targeting his [i]mind[/i].  ‘CAUSE Y’AIN’T GETTIN’ IN (this is a good thing).

[ul][i][color=3232CD]Unknowable –[/color][/i] Any sort of magic is, essentially, an exchange with reality, an attempt to parlay one’s magical power, from wherever that power may stem, into tangible change in the real world.  Freedom’s mind has long been able to resist any of the more direct attacks on itself, but as he has grown, his sheer force of will and absolute commitment to his reductivist philosophy has grown into an ability to shrug off any and all magical forces at will.

However, he cannot simply do this all the time.  No, he needs to be focusing in on an opponent, or group of opponents, in order for his ability to reject magic, [i]in theory[/i], so wholly.  When he has achieved proper concentration, and is engaged with the enemies he finds before him in full, he can actively shrug off magical assaults, and even worse, cause them to backfire.

Mechanically, this ability is linked to his [color=CC1100]Predator[/color] ability.  While [color=CC1100]Predator[/color] is inactive, [color=3232CD]Unknowable[/color] is also inactive; from that point on, [color=3232CD]Unknowable[/color] scales upwards in power according to the level of concentration (i.e. “stacked” turns) he has achieved.  When he has only a single turn “stacked,” any magical damage he receives is halved.  When he has two turns “stacked,” he can simply ignore any attacks which are magical in origin or form, dismissing them as though they never existed (this is, in fact, what he’s technically doing; denying the very existence of their magic in such hardcore fashion that it actually works).  Note that all these buffs vanish the moment he exits [color=CC1100]Predator[/color] mode, i.e, attacks.

However, when he has three turns “stacked,” or in other words is fully focused on a foe, [color=3232CD]Unknowable[/color] is able to not only defend, but counterattack.  With three turns stacked, Freedom may choose to respond to any magical attack by instantly launching a mental retaliation, that stuns the target, causing them to stagger and completely drop their guard, while inflicting a fair degree of pain (but no actual damage).  If he activates this counter-attack, he must immediately proceed into “unleashing” his stacked attacks, or they will dissipate as though he had broken [color=CC1100]Predator’s[/color] stalking mode.[/size][/ul][/ul]

[u][i][font=matrix][color=CC1100][size=3]Predator[/size][/color][/font][/i][/u][ul][size=1]Freedom’s motto might as well be “never rush to the kill.”  He’s an observer.  A planner.  Also a hugeass feral beast, but that’s sort of incidental.

In almost any fight, rather than rushing headlong into a confrontation, Freedom will begin to stalk his opponent (usually in his beast form, though not necessarily).  Rather than attacking, or even physically engaging his opponent in any way, he’ll usually circle them, baiting them with false snaps, and watching them carefully.  If they attack, his calm mind and careful stance—not to mention the fact that he’s not even deigning to actually strike them—enable him to respond with heightened readiness, letting him slip away from many attacks completely unharmed.  Furthermore, his movements are masked in silence and stealth, making it very possible for him to slip out of an opponent's view, using the environment to all but disappear (this is situational; obviously he's much more at home in a jungle than a rocky plateau).  Such is the strength of his concentration that in this mode, it’s nearly impossible to break; to do it, you’d probably need to break into his mind or something (OH WHOOPS LOOKS LIKE THAT’S HARD TO DO).

For each turn that Freedom is stalking, he essentially “stacks” that turn, in a technical sense.  When he comes out of predator mode, finally making his attack, he can attack as much in that one turn as that turn, plus his previous “stalking” turns combined.  If he has stacked three turns, his attacks are additionally armor-piercing, slipping past defences and armour, thanks to his careful consideration of his foe’s weak points and patterns.  However, the “maximum” for this stacking is the three turn limit.  So if you were a metagaming dork you’d be able to predict that real easy, since that’s generally when he comes out of his stalking “mode” to engage his target and unleash a furious assault.

‘Course there’s still a big ol’ tigerwolf running up and slashing your face off four times but hey that’s life.[/size][/ul][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]RACIAL ABILITIES,[/font][/size][/color]
[blockquote][size=1][ul][li][i]Animal Form I[/i]
[/li][li][i]Invisibility III[/i][/li][/ul] [/size][/blockquote]

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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]HISTORY,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]If anyone cares about his own history, Freedom certainly doesn’t.  He has a habit of telling contradictory or impossible stories about his childhood, to amuse himself.

However, there are a few verifiable aspects of his history, that most people can easily become aware of.  Freedom was one of a set of triplets born to a fairly affluent couple living in Castle Town.  He was the second born to them, and expected to be the youngest; but the expected twins became triplets when his sister, Amelia, was born.

From a young age, two of the children were extremely unusual.  From the moment he left the womb, Freedom—whose name, long ago, was Aure—assumed his animal form, an unnaturally large and powerful tiger-like creature, and never left it, rarely speaking to anyone.  Extremely perceptive and fierce, he alone was able to observe what, exactly, made his young sister different for a young age; he kept his thoughts to himself, however, and would only protect his sister in silence.  While his eldest sister, Ahri, was always a social creature, from a young age Freedom scorned the place he lived in, and was almost impossible to raise.  By the time he was fifteen years old, and roughly the size of an average tiger, he had become nearly impossible to handle.

At this point, the stories diverge, largely thanks to Freedom’s own cunning and the secrecy which shrouded his young life.  The most only verifiable fact is that the son of that affluent Minish family suddenly went missing, and would only reappear years later through a series of rumours, of a monstrous beast attacking people and creatures in dark forests, down old paths that few would use in modern times.

Wherever he came from, whatever the cause for his return, Freedom won’t say.  And neither, curiously, will his father.  Funny, that.[/size][/blockquote]

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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]EXTRAS,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Freedom isn’t really his name, as such.  He will usually introduce himself to any stranger by some word that means “freedom,” either a direct translation in another language, or simply through a synonym. As far as Freedom is concerned, something like a name is useless.[/size][/blockquote]

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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]FACE CLAIM,[/color][/font][/size]

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Original art by jlonewolf and koutanagamori of deviantart
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[size=5][font=Georgia][color=CC1100]OTHER CHARACTERS,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]None.[/size][/blockquote]

[size=5][font=Georgia][color=3232CD]HOW DID YOU FIND US,[/color][/font][/size]
[blockquote][size=1]Vio.[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[Zenethil]

For the 'stun' effect, will this prohibit action, or simply make it uncoordinated and sluggish, as well as breaking their guard/combat focus? Could also detail how long this effect lasts, I assume one post, but details and all. You know me and those pesky details.

[alicia]

For the record, in private convos, Night approved this already.

And it doesn't even last a post. It just makes them unable to block/dodge the next thing Freedom does, which 999 times out of 1000, will be unleash the Predator combo.

[Zenethil]

Approved and modified~