Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2012 14:23:51 GMT
Kalas
My apologies about the picture being so big, I've been stuggling to try and make it smaller >_<
Basic Information
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Assumed Heterosexual
Rank:Rogue
Canon/OC:Canon
Canon World/Face Claim: Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Cbox Name: Tiger
Other Characters: Tiger
Powers And Abilities
Strengths:
Flight: Like most people of the Nine Skies, Kalas was born with wings of the heart. Or at least, he was born with a singular white wing, and his grandfather, a skilled engineer, developed a mechanical one to serve in place of Kalas’ missing wing. As such, Kalas is able to fly. He is, however, limited to flight for a rather short duration of time, before his non-artificial wing ‘breaks’. If pushed to this limit, it will take longer for him to be able to fly again, and so he tries to avoid pushing himself too far.
Magnus: The people of the nine skies use cards known as magnus to convert objects into a more manageable form. This makes them much easier to carry and is useful for things which humans would usually be wise not to touch. They can also be used to trap the ‘magna essence’ of more abstract things like a conversation, or bad luck. Along with a deck full of such objects, Kalas carries ten blank magnus for ‘just in case’ items and things which will only be needed temporarily.
Sword skills: Being an adventurer of sorts, Kalas has encountered more than his fair share of monsters over time, and so has become quite well practised with his favoured weapon; the sword. This said, experience doesn’t make up for a lack of training, and so although he is pretty good at what he does, he’d be little match for a veteran warrior.
Spiriter: Kalas is one of the rare folk in the nine skies known as a ‘Spiriter’. This is because his soul in bonded to a Guardian Spirit; a being from another realm or dimension about which little is known. This bond, when trust is mutual, allows Kalas to perform grand magical acts commonly referred to as Spirit Powers, which for Kalas take the form of techniques in battle. These powers are:Shining Seraph: A powerful light-based attack
Demons of Darkness: A powerful dark-based attack
Hellfire: A powerful fire-based attack
Sacred Spring: A powerful water-based attack
Lingering Time: A powerful chromos, or time, based attack
Distorting Wind: A powerful air based attack
These powers are used at the Spirit’s discretion rather than Kalas’.
Weaknesses:
Untrustworthy: Kalas is far from a trustworthy person, and although this is more often than not a problem for the people around him, rather than himself, it has its fair share of personal drawbacks too. For a start, those who would consider themselves Kalas’ friends, or even recurring acquaintances, will quickly come to know that he is a liar and a compulsive thief, and so regard him as such. There is also the issue that much of his strength relies upon his bond with his Guardian Spirit, who is also by now learning that he cannot be trusted.
Selfish Goals: More than anything, Kalas wishes to become whole, and he is willing to bargain with and double-cross anyone or anything that might help him to achieve that. Even his own other goals are quickly put aside when the chance of fulfilling this dream draws near. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends and Kalas cares little about any of it, but the wise will quickly realise that this make him horribly ( hilariously..?) easy to manipulate.
Human form: For all that Kalas isn’t human, he is physically as alike to them as any normal person, and so can be fatigued, injured, and killed, just as easily as anyone else.
Stupid card-based weapons: Although transforming all of your possessions into cards has it’s uses, it can also be a pain in the neck when one has to sort through all 582, or another such large number, of them in order to find the one they need. Though planning can reduce this to some extent, it cannot also prevent the fact that they are easily lost, damaged or stolen, and that fighting on a blustery day is the most infuriating thing one shall ever have to deal within daily life.
Weapons And Equipment:
Most of Kalas’ possessions are condensed down into magnus form and carried as a deck, whether they be weapons, armour or random things that he’s picked up along the way. As weapons go, he favours a combination of a sword and a dagger, though the dagger isn’t really relied on. The only other thing Kalas carries that’s worthy of note, partly because it’s one of the few things not in magnus form, is the mechanical winglet that replaces his missing wing. Though usually strapped to his back, as it should be, this is detachable and capable of being removed rather easily, but we don’t recommend trying to get it off of him unless he’s unconscious; he might get mad.[/size]
Personal Information
Personality:
Kalas can be rather accurately summed up as a jerk with a heart of gold, though it might take close inspection and a pair of rose-tinted glasses in order to see the gold. He's self-centred and cares little about anything, and he’s hardly worthy of trust, but he does have his good points. He’ll help you out if you can give a good enough reason to, or convince him that he might get something out of it, and although he might mock you about it relentlessly afterwards, he’d help you out if you were in trouble. That said, these things are hardly enough to make up for the fact that he’s disrespectful, abrasive and will steal your valuables the minute he sees the opportunity to. Even if you’ve managed to put up with each other for long enough to be considered friends, you’re still not off the hook for that last part. In fact, you’re probably worse off for it, as his ready smile and deceptive nature will probably have you thinking you lost it on your own. He’ll even offer to help you find it...
The Guardian Spirit: Kalas’ constant, invisible companion, the Guardian Spirit is a being from another world that has bonded to Kalas’ soul. Not everyone can sense it, and even less people can hear its voice unless it chooses for them too, but Kalas will talk to it anyway whether you think him mad for it or not. It lacks a name pronounceable with a human tongue, and it’s impossible to tell if it’s a boy or girl. In fact the only thing we can be sure of is that it’s a good dealer nicer than Kalas. If you think you’ve managed to get on Kalas’ good side, it’s probably just because the spirit likes you.
History:
Kalas grew up in Mira, living with his grandfather, Georg, and his little brother, Fee. For all intents and purposes, he had a normal childhood, though the fact that Kalas was born with only one wing meant that he was distrusted and disliked by most of the townsfolk. In a world where one’s wings represent their heart, having only one wing can mean only one thing; having only half a heart. Though Kalas never let on that this idea bothered him, it tore him apart inside, and even now he would do anything, and we’re talking literally anything, to be whole.
While the details of his childhood are vague, even to him, Kalas never had cause to question what he thought was a perfectly normal life, until the day that the Empire came to kill him and his family. Their house was burned down, and Georg was killed, but Kalas managed to rescue the badly injured Fee, and fled to the Shrine of Spirits, perhaps hoping that the forest’s magic might keep him and his brother safe from the pursuing Imperials. What Kalas doesn’t know, is that he also died that night, and that Fee gave up what remained of his life to revive Kalas. Fee, known as the Divine Child, now dwells within Kalas’s soul, perhaps filling the place left empty by Kalas’ lack of a heart.
From that night on, Kalas dedicated himself to vengeance, desperate to find and kill the Imperial soldiers, Giacomo and Amy, that had taken the only thing’s he’d ever cared about from him. This goal, and his own selfish need to feel whole, led him to meet Melodia, a young noblewoman with grand and terrifying ambitions. Melodia embroiled Kalas in her plot, at the promise of giving him a second wing should they succeed. She then led Kalas once more to the Shrine of Spirits, there to bond with one of the wandering spirits and make it his Guardian. The bond was successful, and Kalas and the Guardian Spirit have been inseparable ever since.
But Kalas’ history is far more complex than even he is aware of, holding the answers as to why the Imperial soldiers came that day, who Georg really was, the importance of Fee as the Divine Child, and why Kalas can never be whole. But until the day that he finds the answers to such mysteries, he won’t even think so far as to ask the questions. To him, the false explanations that he had been given as a child are all the truth he needs.
Sample Post
An angered and irritated groan was the only sound capable of expression Kalas’ frustration, as he threw up his arms in a gesture of admitted defeat. “Where the heck are we!? I swear, if you’re somehow behind all this there’s going to be hell to pay!” The young man threatened half-heartedly to the invisible figure floating somewhere above him. He looked back at the empty space, guessing his Guardian Spirit’s location but lacking any means of certifying it.[/size]
“It’s not my doing, I swear. I’m every bit as confused as you are.” The spirit assured him, though the words fell on deaf ears. Even if the spirit didn’t know what had happened, it could still very well have had a hand in causing it. Weird things happened around Guardian Spirits. Funny how no one mentioned that back at the shrine...
“Yeah, whatever. Look, we’ve been through the desert three times now, and there’s no sign of Mintaka or Azha! A town can’t just disappear overnight! Well, Azha probably could if the Empire wanted it to, but Mintaka? There’s not even the slightest sign of it!” Kalas’ words were more a matter of venting anger than anything else, it wasn’t as if the spirit had any answers to give. It was as though the entire desert had been removed from Alfard, and placed in some new land. Which was impossible, so what in Malpercio’s name had happened to them?
“I thought you’d have learnt by now that pretty much anything is possible? We were fighting a god only a few days ago...” The Guardian Spirit replied to Kalas’ unsaid words, earning it a glare of sorts from the young man.
“Yeah, well, maybe, but there’s got to be a limit, right? You’d thinking moving a huge chunk of land in the blink of an eye would be it. And stop reading my mind!” The fact that they had come from a land where islands floated was conveniently ignored for Kalas’ point; he disliked the idea that this crazy conclusion of moving lands could actually by the right one. “Let’s just...see what’s beyond the desert. Maybe someone can give us some answers...” He didn’t wait for the spirit’s reply. With a sigh, he continued on to where the sands began to thin, searching for the world he knew to be beyond them, and expecting to be sorely mistaken.