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| DirkShiv | Apr 1 2015, 06:08 PM Post #1 |
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Character Name: Dirk Shiv Age: 13 Gender: Male Type: Meister/Weapon Partnered? No Image: If applicable. Clothing and description: Normally wears solid black uniform resembling a SWAT uniform (without body armor). Lower half of face is covered by hard respirator type chemical protection mask mostly as a fashion choice, though he bought it because it came in handy often enough on his aquatic home (cleaning a boat involves some harsh chemical you wouldn't want to inhale, though raw fish stench doesn't bother him). Tall for his age, about 5'6”. Slim, with a swimmer build normally concealed by the bagginess of his clothes. His hair is naturally coppery red, though dyed black regularly and is worn tied back tucked into his collar. He has a sharp face that almost looks gaunt. Eyes are an oceanic blue-green. The cuffs and collar of his outfits are uniformly neon orange and supplemented by a belt in the same color. Sometimes trades out the orange for yellows or pale greens, all in neon shades. He also carries a dozen throwing knives. If he has more or less the exact amount to be noted in the first post of a thread. In weapon form he resembles a full-tang saw-back dive knife 12 inches long with black winding around the grip and a neon orange ring between the blade and grip. The blade is mostly black, like a titanium knife, with bare steel only on the cutting edges. History: Grew up mostly at sea on a fishing ship, and is unfamiliar with groups of people larger than a couple dozen. The result of his shipboard childhood is that he has never seen a desert before going to Shibusen. While his parents were his primary caregivers, he was raised collectively by the crew of the ship. He was taught how to be safe around the ship around the same time he started crawling, with more safety rules as he learned to walk and talk. His childhood was spent learning the ins and outs of the fishing business, how to catch, clean, and prepare fish for market. Additionally he received homeschooling, mostly revolving around the fishing business. He is educated to the same level as the average child his age in reading, writing, and math, though he lacks much of the social education inherent in public school (like most homeschooled kids). Dirk got his first knife for his 3rd birthday, a boning knife that remains the pride of his collection. As with everything else on the ship it came with rules and someone teaching him how to use it safely. Each year he received a new knife for his collection on his birthday. He also purchased throwing knives when he could afford them from harbor markets, which he practiced with when he had spare time as a hobby. Because of limited space on board the ship, Dirk carried most of his collection on his person, a trait which he will carry with him for the rest of his life. Dirk purchased a respirator after falling overboard and nearly drowning during his 5th year. The respirator is ostensibly for emergencies, though he wears it constantly, even when there is no risk of drowning. His weapon form first manifested on his 12th birthday when he cut a tossed fish apart with his bare hand. While initially terrified he calmed down after his parents explained what he was. They were both weapons^ and former Shibusen students, though they never achieved death-scythe status, and had always suspected that he would be like them. After a year of simplified training mostly focused on making both his full and partial transformations instinctive and rapid, he was given his ticket and a sendoff to Shibusen. ^Both of Dirk's parents were at Shibusen at the same time. They are both blade type weapons. His father Zwei is a two handed sword, and the middle of three brothers (all two handed swords). His mother Clara "Claymore" is a hand and a half claymore blade, the only weapon in generations to come from her family. They both left the academy after their meisters were killed in a freak accident on the way to a mission. Personality: Dirk is unfamiliar with groups larger than the crew of 20 he grew up with, and is more likely to avoid large crowds or go on the defensive than join them. He enjoys fish in all forms, so long as they are on his plate. In potentially dangerous situations he is the first to draw a blade (one of his collection usually, rather than transforming), though only as a precaution. He refuses to start fights, in part because of his background among fishermen, always aware that fights will boil over dangerously in the confined spaces of a ship. He has no real opinions on land dwelling culture, simply because he has no experience with it, though he is eager to learn everything he can. He normally suppresses his emotional response in public, a way of avoiding worry from others, however when he is overwhelmed by his emotions the come out exaggerated. Example: When he shows anger it is by lashing out at the current object of his ire. Example: When depressed or sad he withdraws to a private space and hides away. Example: When demonstrating joy he tries to share his own happiness with everyone. The strongest trigger for Dirk is the Fight-or-Flight response, to which he typically responds Fight. When stressed he can often be found sharpening something on his whetstone. Additionally if faced with inhuman evils (Kishin Eggs or worse) he enters a fugue state where he keeps attacking until the evil flees or is vanquished. Abilities: Turning into a dive knife, throwing knives of various shapes and sizes. Technique Name: Throwing Knives Effects/Description: Dirk can throw any of his dozen or so carried knives, but only in his human form. He is generally accurate with the knives. Technique Name: Full Weapon Transformation Effects/Description:Turns completely into his weapon form. The change happens imperceptibly fast without the puff of smoke or flash of light common to other blade type weapons. Usually used in combination with the Throwing Shin Technique to get the maximum range out of his momentum. In weapon form he resembles a full-tang saw-back dive knife 12 inches long with black winding around the 4 inch grip and a neon orange ring between the blade and grip. The blade is mostly black, like a titanium knife, with bare steel only on the cutting edges.
Technique Name: Partial Weapon Transformation Effects/Description:Can partially become either his blade or saw-back on his limbs, typically replacing his forearms with the blade or replacing his lower legs with the saw-back blade. Combat Style: Fights defensively when possible, blocking with transformed arms, and uses guerrilla hit-and-run tactics when defending is nonviable, such as an overwhelming enemy. He uses his Throwing Shin Technique to jump around while throwing other carried knives at his opponent. Against the average thug, he is prone to simply wearing then out by defending. They are probably innocent and should be given a chance to atone. Against groups he tends towards similar nonlethal tactics, but will attack non-lethally in order to reduce the number of active attackers. Kishin Eggs are irrevocably evil and he tends to attack relentlessly from as many angles, with as many knives as possible until they can be taken down permanently, regardless of how long this takes. Does not like being wielded, but if it becomes necessary he takes up a watcher role, observing the battle in order to spot potential threats. Miscellaneous Information: Loves to swim, and will take any opportunity to dive. Enjoys preparing any and all fish based foods, except puffer fish, he hates puffer fish more than Kishin. Strengths:
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Role play Sample: Dirk approached the gates of Shibusen no longer sweating from the oppressive heat. He gazed up at the towering entrance. “So this is where mom and dad went to school?” he gaped. After a brief search Dirk located the enrollment office and filed his paperwork. He made his way to his newly assigned quarters eager to get away from the crowds of the city. He hoped there would be a pool attached to the dorm he had been assigned, because he needed a good soak in salt water. Upon arrival his pupils finally opened up in the darker environment. His subsequent exploration of the facilities and the quiet within were destroyed when his roommate arrived cheering loudly. “HEY ROOMIE!! ARE YOU READY TO PAR-TAY!!” Dirk sighed, “No. I really hope, for both our sake's that you are not so loud constantly.” “ONLY WHEN I'M AWAKE, ROOMIE!” The newcomer shouted. “Joy,” Dirk responded, “If you refuse to lower your voice to a reasonable volume I will be forced to seek other accommodation, or simply gag you indefinitely.” Dirk's new roommate raised an eyebrow, “YOU CAN'T DO THAT. STUDENTS AREN'T ALLOWED TO CHANGE HOUSING OR HARM OTHER STUDENTS.” Dirk's growled back, “If you do not reduce your volume I will find a way. Every system has loopholes.” Edited by DirkShiv, Apr 15 2015, 03:54 PM.
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| Tatsuken | Apr 7 2015, 08:30 AM Post #2 |
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Hello Dirk, I’m Tatsuken, and I’ll be the mod in charge of your character. I like your character so far, I think most of the mods will just be adding details. Clothing and Description: How does the uniform resemble BDUs? I’m not particularly sure what they are, and researching them lead to a couple of slightly different (though admittedly very similar) styles. I’m fine with them being just a solid black BDU if that is what you meant. I’d like you to add a picture of a BDU as well, otherwise I’d ask you to just describe them as if you telling someone outside of the military about them. I’d like the dimensions of the weapon form as well. (like if it has a 5 foot blade and a foot long handle for an extremely exaggerated example). History: Remove the Armageddon comment, not everyone will have seen that, and unfortunately I tend to do research when modding characters, but I don’t have the time to figure out what you mean at the moment, so please try give us more details on that. Give us a rough estimate of how many people is on a fishing ship, or how many people is too many people for him to deal with. For the raising of Dirk, maybe name a few people and what their role was to him. I’m a little iffy on him learning how to be safe on a boat before learning how to walk and talk, I mean I assume you mean for this to be an expression, and that’s fine, but I’d like some examples of things he learned. Giving Dirk a knife on his third birthday just makes me more curious about his upbringing. Since you wouldn’t normally give a three year old a knife, s/he might kill him/herself. How would Dirk go about collecting these knives? Like did he just get a new knife to add to his collection every year, or would he do favors to gain new ones? I am interested in his education till his 12th birthday, though that can be covered with introducing the people in his life prior to shibusen. Why does Dirk wear the mask? Why do his eyes turn black when angry? These are extremely unusual pieces to the character, so I think it should be explained, and I believe the best place to do so would be in this section. Personality: How does his emotions come out exaggerated when overwhelmed? Besides this question, I’ll leave this section be for now, may come back to it in a later mod round though if more rounds are needed. Abilities: Owning mundane weaponry requires an ability slot, normally it’d be one for one, but I’ll let it slide a bit since it’s a knife collection and it seems to be an important part of your character. The knife collection will still take up an ability slot. Please state roughly how many knives he has on him at all times and describe some, I assume there will be groups of similar knives, so no need to describe every single one of them. If you skip this step then at the start of every mission (basically any time before transportation to the location) you will have to post exactly how many you’re bringing to the mission and describe each one (assuming there aren’t exact copy repeats). This makes them prone to breaking or being lost. Throwing Shin Technique: Not entirely sure what you mean by travel aid, and I feel like I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “at the angle he wishes to fly”. Does the angle of the blade change his direction? Or is it merely the difference between flying horizontally to get into a smaller gap, flying vertically to reduce risk of stabbing into something, and just flat out spinning while flying through jump arc? Or is it something entirely different? Full Weapon Transformation: please place a description here too, it’s fine if you just copypaste it from above. Some people skip around profiles depending on what they’re looking for. So someone looking for a partner might look at abilities first. Partial Weapon Transformation: I’m not too clear what you mean since it seems to be described correctly in history section. To clarify where my confusion stems from, the ability here states that parts of the weapon sprout from the body (rather than replaces part of the body), this is actually a death scythe ability. Every weapon who has exhibited the ability to sprout parts of their weapon from their body either was a death scythe or at the cusp of becoming a death scythe before screwing up. The manga clarifies this as well. On top of this, I’d like for you to pick one or two ways to utilize partial transformation. Most demon weapons don’t have fine control over their transformations. Combat Style: How does Dirk fight defensively? We get an idea of his combat style when he isn’t fighting defensively, but it is stated that this fighting style only occurs when defending is unviable. How often would Dirk utilize the Throwing Shin Technique in a fight? How much minimal time between uses? Does Dirk use his partial transformation in fights? If he is wielded by a meister, what kinds of things would he be doing? For example, some demon weapons maintain resonance rate (though I doubt Dirk would be doing this), some keep an eye on opponents and warn meister when about to be attacked from an angle the meister can’t see from, some offer advice on the fight in general or teach the proper usage of their weapon form. You may even give some explanation on how your weapon form can be used for potential partners in this section. Strengths and Weaknesses: Looks like part of the coding was messed up, please take a look at it. Or if you’d like I could fix it for you later. Roleplay Sample: Technically there is no rule against the harming of another student, in fact it is usually encouraged because that is the kind of school Shibusen is. Though, normally a teacher is to spectate/judge. Well Dirk, here is the first round of modding. Let me know if there are any issues or misunderstandings. |
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| DirkShiv | Apr 7 2015, 03:40 PM Post #3 |
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I think I hit all the points you mentioned. I did the edits in the original post |
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| Tatsuken | Apr 11 2015, 10:14 AM Post #4 |
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Hello Dirk, here’s the next round of modding. Clothing and description: Changing the words used to describe or compare the clothing to isn’t exactly what I had in mind when I asked you to describe them, but I guess I’ll just let it go for now since people are probably familiar with how SWAT uniforms look. History: you mention being raised by crew, but not much in the way of specifics, but we have a better idea of his education. Is Dirk illiterate? Does he have home schooling equivalent to formal schooling or is it purely anything to do with fishing business only? Why was his training spent exclusively on instinctive and rapid transformations? Why is he able to use a partial transformation when his training wasn’t spent on that? I get the feeling that you’re under the assumption that shibusen students are treated normally, which admittedly could be the case since we never see that side of the adventures in the anime or manga, on 42r we rarely give thought to the issue of expenses, the only times it usually comes up is for comedic reasons (getting bad seats on transport or character has money tied to them in some way (being rich, poor, or an accountant to name a few)), this is because Shibusen as an institution has a lot of money (from taxing every country in the world, to possibly tuition fees from the normal Shibusen students who aren’t in it for the heroics/fighting but for some other reason (apparently Shibusen is a really good school for politicians, to the point that in SEverse one of the requirements to become the Japanese Prime Minister is that they must be an Alumni from Shibusen (more of a result of WW2 though)). On top of that, demon weapons are humans. While it is true that demon weapons may be discriminated against in many places of the world, part of the reason why Shibusen recruits demon weapons is to help protect them from that discrimination, which putting them in with the luggage feels like. There’s still no explanation for why Dirk wears the mask. In addition, why does he enter a fugue state just by encountering inhuman evils? Please note that the history section is meant to justify your character and make it more cohesive. Personality: you mention here that Dirk’s eyes darkening only happens when in fugue state, which only happens when fighting inhuman evils, but in the RP section and Clothing and description section states that just anger will cause this. How does Dirk determine what/who are inhuman evils (excluding kishin eggs)? Ability: Please clarify which method you’ll be using for knife collection. If you missed what I said about the knife collection (since I haven’t seen any indication), it’s in my previous post. Throwing Shin Technique: I’m not sure you understood my question. When Dirk transforms in a specific angle, does he fly in a different direction than he started or does it just change the orientation of the knife (for example, he jumps forward, but then transforms so knife is facing backward, does he fly back? or does he still fly forward but now the butt of knife is forward?) Full Weapon Transformation: Can’t find a better place to mention this, but how is his eyes darkening related to his weapon form? If it’s meant to be a secret from the board you may just pm me the reason. Partial Transformation: please replace the first half of the sentence. Sprouting parts of a weapon form from body parts is a Death Scythe ability. Please change description of the shin to saw-back transformation, it sounds like the saw-back of the knife appears on the shin rather than that part of his body transforming into the saw-back. Combat Style: what a demon weapon does while being wielded goes under combat style rather than misc information. Overall, Dirk has improved. A few things are missing still and a few things I'm having trouble understanding, but I think Dirk is pretty close to being finished. |
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| DirkShiv | Apr 12 2015, 03:30 PM Post #5 |
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Another round of edits completed. I hope I got everything this time. |
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| Tatsuken | Apr 12 2015, 07:11 PM Post #6 |
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I'm going to be busy for next couple of days so I'm going for rapid fire mod posts. clothing/description: done, doesn't need more. history: this section justifies your character, if something isn't here it's not accepted anywhere else on your profile. How did he get mask (why seems to be the wrong question for this character)? Does Dirk know his eyes blacken? if so how and when did he find out? I forgot to mention earlier, but where did he learn to throw knives? Also just cut out how his parents' meisters died, it's not important to Dirk and just makes me extremely nitpicky, so it'd be best if you left it at death in freak accident. I recall that it was originally like that and i don't see anywhere where i asked for that to be expanded upon. If I did, I apologize. optional Personality: done, no more to add. Abilities: Will Dirk arrive at Shibusen with no throwing knives? Throwing Shin Technique: please don't mix time units and post counts for limits, post time is fluid because you could have a post that lasts an hour or one that lasts for less than a minute. However, time units are rigid, if you have an ability that needs 5 minutes to activate, but mission partners somehow only take 3 minutes in their posts in fight after you start activating your ability, you'll need to address 2 minutes before activating. Please remove direction from the parenthesis so i don't get confused next time i check your profile. Full Weapon Transformation: Darkening eyes doesn't seem to have some sort of secret special significance, or at least i didn't receive the pm that tells me it is. So please, please, please explain the mechanic behind it, it can be as simple as his soul wavelength causes it. Saying it's related to weapon form doesn't explain anything important about it. Partial Transformation: Please remove the section where parts of the weapon form sprout from his limbs. To me there is a very distinct difference between sprouting and replacing/transforming. Yes i understand what you're getting at. Sure I'm willing to trust that you'll use this ability properly in threads. But, what i don't trust is any of your mission partners who will read your profile, this ability specifically, they might mention Dirk in their post growing a blade out of his elbow or something like that because they think of the word sprout the same way as i do. Combat style: sure this is fine. Misc: also fine Strengths and Weaknesses: weird coding thing but fine, I'll just fix it at end of modding RP Sample: yes this can be modded, in this case eyes darkening doesn't fit here anymore. Please remove that bit, or in your next post clarify if it's just written form of anime eye area darkening thing. |
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| DirkShiv | Apr 13 2015, 12:34 PM Post #7 |
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I think I got it this time |
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| Tatsuken | Apr 14 2015, 08:30 PM Post #8 |
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Please don't add to sections I tell you not to add to. It lengthens the modding process because I have to go back and remod the sections that I already OK'd. I really want Dirk to get into the RP, and i really think we could've been done by now, so please work within the sections i give you to work on. Let me know if you don't understand something i put in the mod or if you disagree with something. Here is next round of mods, some are copypasted because i didn't see them addressed. clothing/description: No longer done. When I asked if his eyes darkened anime style in the RP section I meant the visual effects used in anime to emphasis emotion but is understood as not actually being there (like the purple/blue lines, the depressed black/blue mist, the sweat drop, etc. Do Dirk's eyes literally turn black? If not then just remove it. history: this section justifies your character, if something isn't here it's not accepted anywhere else on your profile. How did he get mask (i don't care why anymore)? Does Dirk know his eyes blacken? if so how and when did he find out? Where did he learn to throw knives? Personality: When overwhelmed by other kinds of emotion other than anger, how does he react? primarily interested in sadness/despair and joy. Abilities: Mundane weaponry takes up a slot, use the format provided for abilities to explain it, you may copy paste it from the appearance section and name it Throwing Knives. Throwing Shin Technique: So apparently this doesn't actually have any special purpose, you may remove and add to Full weapon Transformation if this is the case, alternatively move this so that it is under Full Weapon Transformation in list of abilities and put a - in front of the Technique Name: Full Weapon Transformation. Full Weapon Transformation: Darkening eyes doesn't seem to have some sort of secret special significance, or at least i didn't receive the pm that tells me it is. So please, please, please explain the mechanic behind it, it can be as simple as his soul wavelength causes it. Saying it's related to weapon form doesn't explain anything important about it. Partial Transformation: Please remove the section where parts of the weapon form sprout from his limbs. To me there is a very distinct difference between sprouting and replacing/transforming. Yes i understand what you're getting at. Sure I'm willing to trust that you'll use this ability properly in threads. But, what i don't trust is any of your mission partners who will read your profile, this ability specifically, they might mention Dirk in their post growing a blade out of his elbow or something like that because they think of the word sprout the same way as i do. |
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| DirkShiv | Apr 14 2015, 09:20 PM Post #9 |
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crossing my fingers this time. I underlined where I mentioned how many knives he has, to make it easier to spot. |
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| Tatsuken | Apr 15 2015, 08:11 AM Post #10 |
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add a line somewhere in history about throwing knife training and Dirk should be ready to go |
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