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Bend of Time - Inactive Projects => Darkness Beyond Time - Dead Project Discussion => Project ZEAL => Topic started by: Symmetry on September 27, 2004, 12:31:03 am

Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on September 27, 2004, 12:31:03 am
This thread can serve a number of purposes.

First of all, I think it would be very helpful if everyone posted a basic description of their character(s) here. Although everyone will be writing primarily from the viewpoint of their own character, you're not going to be able to say much without mentioning other characters and their actions. In order to keep our characters as "in character" as possible, please give a brief description here including basic things such as personality, appearance, weapons they use, occupation, whateverelse you deem necessary.

Secondly, you can use this thread for whatever brainstorming you may want to do. Feel free to toss out ideas for your character(s) here and get some feedback.

And finally, some general character information/guidelines.

1. While there's no limit on how many characters you can create, let's try not to each spawn a CC-sized cast. Focus on a couple of characters instead of creating a new one every paragraph - or else Spekkio might have to drop by and massacre a couple in a rather grusome subplot....  :D (Night of the living Spekkio! Oh my!)

2. Try and diversify the cast. It would be pretty dull if everyone wrote about a spikey-haired kid with a katana who was a lightning innate. We don't need an entire cast who pops in and out of nowhere and mumbles a few lines about cosmic zen and then vanishes mysteriously. Also, remember that we're all writing this together. Your character probably shouldn't be able to take on an entire army all by his or herself.

3. By all means, take your characters wherever you like. Don't feel as if your character always has to embark on every subplot - most of the cast hung out at the End of Time in CT, right? Maybe he/she needs to relax and spend some time out fishing off an Arni pier. Develop your characters in any way you see fit.

If anyone else has anything helpful to mention or questions, don't hesitate to post.

EDIT: It has been pointed out that at various points throughout the story, some of you may want to write as pre-established characters. If you're interested in doing this extensively, please say something here so that we can all make sure its not going to interfere with a subplot or what have you. Also, try not to use the MAJOR heroes from CT/CC. (Crono, Magus, Serge, etc...) We've already seen their stories and we're aiming for a more original cast. Sorry if this offends your creative impulses.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on September 27, 2004, 01:17:13 am
1. Roget Parrion

Roget Parrion will be a general overseer of the dimensional project in ZEAL. Initially, he will mostly serve the purpose of providing technical information and viewing the departure of the ZEAL agents; he may make observations and notations on Gaspar's efforts later in the project. He represents the mass of ZEALians in the project whose scientific curiosity and zealous interest overtake moral issues dealing with ruining other dimensions and timelines. He is somewhat a member of the gentry, though he isn't as aristocratic as he thinks himself to be. Over the course of the project, he will become disillusioned with the project, and may lose his family's status in the gentry due to resignation.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on September 28, 2004, 12:20:56 am
2. Juan Z. Gerard (A hero of time)

Juan Gerard is the son of a Porrean official, meaning his life was destined for comfort and cavorting in the social circles of the aristocratic circles of Porre. However, Juan, who always had an interest in combat, made several painful decisions and dropped out of this life altogether, wanting to devote himself to the art of combat and go soulsearching. Juan believes in several tenets of Bruce Lee's theory; that rigid styles only impose upon the natural fluidity and flow of human beings, and that they ignore the totality of combat. Juan nonetheless is haunted every second by his decision, and this has affected his training; his lifestyle has become poor, and he has currently come to El Nido to sponge off a relative in Termina and walk the beaches pondering his decisions in life -- always fearing regret. He still has far to go in studying combat and adopting what works for him to shape his own expression in combat as a human being, and his physical fitness has suffered due to some malnutrition. Regardless, Juan continues to harbor a dream that he will come to term with his actions, and truly prove that they mean something to him. Above him like a spectre is love -- for he believes that love is something starcrossed, and cannot begin to fantasize about it in his current situation, in which physiological needs are a worry each week. Gaspar will recognize the potential for a magnanimous character and excellent fighter, and will recruit him in the fight against ZEAL to give his life direction and empower him to realize his dreams.

Yeah, this is copying off something, but here's his appearance:

(http://www.samuraichamploo.com/character/images/mugen03.jpg)
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on September 28, 2004, 04:27:08 am
edit: expect this post to be edited a lot...as it already has been...

Wait, does that "try not to use the MAJOR heroes from CT/CC" rule also apply to alternate dimension versions of those heroes? Or are you mainly talking about those taken directly from the CT & CC timelines?

If so...then I guess I won't use my Gil from my fic...BUT...if I can, I'd love to use a character I'm going to introduce via an alternate dimension in my fanfic...

*scratched Glenn*

If I can't use a dimensional split of a "MAJOR heroe(s) from CT/CC"...Then...I'll have to look at the Ideal History info and get back to you, because any secondary CC characters I'd like to use from my fanfic are based on my own perceptions of the Ideal Timeline...so...I dunno...

edit: alright, scratch Glenn...I don't know if I find him interesting enough...And I also have doubts about whether or not I'd be able to use him...

I was wondering, what are the restraints on the characters we're creating? Do they have to come from a certain timeline (the Ideal Timeline, or probably the new Toma+Rainbow Shell Timeline?)? Who are the heroes Gasper is going to obtain? Are they the heroes we make here? Or are they the major heroes? Are they from other timelines? Will we choose to write one of them as well? Or will they team up with the character(s) we create?

I suppose I'll create my own hero for now though...

Hunter Deschain

edit: didn't like 'Vex Variant', especially after seeing the outstanding names everyone else has made. I've also come to realize that calling someone by the latter letters in the alphabet does not inheriently make them cool. So, I guess instead of coming up with something original, I took two names from two of my favorite heroes of all time Hunter Rose (aka Grendel) & Roland Deschain (aka the Gunslinger).

Living the life of a Demi-Human is hard, but he tries his damnest. He's a drinker and a lover. He enjoys the company of a good woman, but will hardly growl off a bad one. Hunter is a ladies man whom a few have been able to see through. On a bad day (which aren't as few and far between as he'd like), he's a drunken louse who hits on anything that moves.

He works for money, but isn't unable to work for charity, as long as he gets something for it. His favorite prizes include alcohol & sex, but he has never turned down a shiny something-or-other. His pack regularly reflects these things. He has picked up various charms and amulets through his journey as a hired blade. Most recently, he has been forced to work more manual labor jobs including lifting, hauling, and breaking things.

Strong build, long blond hair that he keeps tied back with a black bandanna. He's feral-like, slightly larger incisors, short claws on fingers (he trims his toe-nails to fit into regular boots w/o tearing them), fur around his chin, and a light coating of fur on most of his body (exempting his lower chest region, his palms, bottoms of his feet, most of his face below the brow). The fur is a light yellow color with stripes of brown.

He carries a dagger and a hatchet. He is trained ambidextrous, but naturally a south paw. He normally wears an open cut-off shirt and/or vest, which accents his chest and his arms (tribal markings he made himself mar his biceps). His pants are normally heavy workers material or jeans with brown leather boots on his feet.

Magical Inherency: Fire
Elemental Innate: Red

He'll be my BoF3 Rei (not completely of course), mostly just in appearence (but even then...). I don't think I'll make him say "doesn't this just beat all"...but I just might.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on September 28, 2004, 11:20:21 pm
1. Naomi Maruyama, Charm School Reject

Shy, introspective, reserved, and well-mannered; descriptions ill-suited for most enchantresses, yet traits that describe Naomi Maruyama down to the letter. (Although when she does make her feelings clear, she often does so with blistering sarcasm!) Due to her passive personality, she is frequently ridiculed by her peers and would most certainly have chosen another art to study had she realistically been given the chance. (Going to the extent of finding it morally problematic at times.) Naomi's family have long been established as premier enchantresses and enchanters, meaning that she too must continue the proud lineage of her family. Sadly, her mother disappeared shortly after she was born, so Naomi now lives with her aunt - who happens to be the current Provostia of the School of Enchantment, which only serves to bind her further to her current studies. Whenever Naomi has the chance, she secretly escapes her misery by studying the ways of summoning, the school to which her heart belongs.

Age - 21

Appearance - Compared to other Zealians, Naomi doesn't seem quite so attractive, a point her peers frequently and incessantly point out. Still, she's far from being an eyesore. She's short for a Zealian - 5'6'', thin, has a fairly peachy skin colour, (Which does nothing to mask the freckles on her face - another point of ridicule.) and well-kept maroonish-red coloured hair that runs midway down her back.

Weapons, Combat Skills - If you have Naomi a weapon, she'd be more of a threat to herself than an enemy. She's not clumsy, but she's not exactly graceful either. Nor is she physically fit enough to possess natural aptitude toward martial arts. Naomi is a subpar enchantress, but given her Zealian arcane capabilities, she could make life difficult for a mere human. She also has secretly obtained a book or two on summoning and studied it extensively, although this does little to foster the skills needed to be a competent summoner.


2. Sessimine Chisato Maruyama, Eccentric with a Capital E

If Naomi lacks the traits to be a successful enchantress, then Sessimine possesses them in spades. As Provostia of the School of Enchantment in Najrun, she teaches a number of classes (Naomi being one of her students) while serving as the principal administrator of the academy. Sessimine took Naomi under her wing after the child's mother vanish and loves her dearly, although she frequently expresses her frustration with Naomi's dislike of her studies and constantly pushes the young girl to shine with the intelligence she knows Naomi hides deep down.

Age - Appears to be in her late thirties. Given Sessimine's talents, she is probably far older.

Appearance - Calling Sessimine beautiful would be a bit of an understatement. Although she is capable of changing her appearance at any given moment, (And frequently does) she is naturally black-haired, although wisps of silver-coloured strands are to be found throughout. (Making her look sophisticated, not elderly! Telling Sessimine she looks old should only be done if one has a deathwish they seek to be fulfilled rather quickly!) Other noteable features include naturally long eyelashes, pale-cream-coloured skin, and a figure that naturally looks as if she's wearing a corset.

Weapons, Combat Skills - Sessimine is pretty much in the same boat as Naomi when it comes to physical combat, although she does have an interest in gymnastics and is quite nimble on her toes - however, the chances of ever needing to utilize them in a life-threatening situation are slim, for only the most mentally-resilliant opponent could stand against her spellpower very long. Who needs to fight when you could turn your enemies into friends?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on September 28, 2004, 11:36:37 pm
And to answer your question, Translanka...

Generally speaking, the heroes should come from the Keystone Timeline (+ Toma Shell Alteration, assume effects are relatively minimal) but if you think you can work a hero in through other means - say, through being captured by Zeal and escaping to Keystone, that's plausible as well.

Do can do whatever you like with your character - although joining Gaspar's crew is the intended course of action, you can make your character a nuisance instead. The plan is to work mostly with author-penned characters as much as possible, so it would be nice to see people create their own heroes instead of recycling old ones. (After all, they've had their chance to shine.) If you've got a smashing idea for a pre-established character though, don't hesitate to give it a whirl.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on September 29, 2004, 05:55:42 pm
Ok, I've only got some vague ideas, so expect edits to this post. I'm thinking of a a former student of the time school in ZEAL, who had some falling out. He's exceptionally powerful, but most of his power cannot be used. He has tattoo's of the Mammon Seal (see my avatar) on both his hands that prevent him from using his full powers without Dreamstone. He has escaped to the Keystone dimension, and is quite prepared to act against whatever it is ZEAL is doing. I know, it's vague, and I would apreciate any suggestions.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on September 29, 2004, 06:08:01 pm
I was wondering if anyone backed up the Compendium or something with my 'sketch' of Glenn...I only just realized I should have kept that stuff for possible use.

:S
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on September 29, 2004, 07:00:49 pm
Quote from: V_Translanka
I was wondering if anyone backed up the Compendium or something with my 'sketch' of Glenn...I only just realized I should have kept that stuff for possible use.

:S


Sorry. I plan on backing up a number of these threads once we've gotten a little more in place, though.

Quote from: Radical Dreamer
Ok, I've only got some vague ideas, so expect edits to this post. I'm thinking of a a former student of the time school in ZEAL, who had some falling out. He's exceptionally powerful, but most of his power cannot be used. He has tattoo's of the Mammon Seal (see my avatar) on both his hands that prevent him from using his full powers without Dreamstone. He has escaped to the Keystone dimension, and is quite prepared to act against whatever it is ZEAL is doing. I know, it's vague, and I would apreciate any suggestions.


I forget if anything about "The Council" has been posted yet. In short, they're the people responsible for the dimensional experiments being conducted by Zeal, and they're rumoured to be the real power in the kingdom at this time - although no one dares to admit it. The Council is a really shady bunch; no one knows precisely how many people serve in it, much less what their identities are. The Council communicates its will to the project leaders through a single represenative - yet even he/she does not know any more about the Council itself than the rest of Zeal.

Chosen are selected carefully by the Council for a specific purpose - to oversee temporal/dimensional research. Because their studies have a single aim, chosen pretty much have a set curriculum they follow, meaning that there is virtually no difference between them other than how far they have progressed in their studies. On top of this, compared to other students of magic, chosen as a whole are pretty weak - only a very, very, very select few in their already small order ever achieve the kind of power necessary to create a timegate.

Still, having the potential to alter time is very dangerous indeed. You'd better believe that the Council keeps a very close eye on the temporal school. Should a chosen step out of line.... the Council would stop at nothing to have their wayward student silenced.

I'm certain Gaspar would be interested in meeting such a renegade... having seen what Zeal is doing, your (RD) character would definately want to take the Guru up on his inquiry and attempt to stop them from further maligning other timelines. I suppose he would have developed moral problems with the kingdom's research, prompting his refusal to comply with his orders.

Hope that helps.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on September 29, 2004, 11:00:59 pm
3. Nasreen Ferdows

Nasreen, on the exterior, is the posterchild of a proper aristocratic lady in ZEAL. Entered upon the completion of her normal education into the School of Enchantment for her classic beauty, she nonetheless dropped out and received harsh criticism for her family -- composed of parents who numbered among the first to receive the benefits of immortality in 132 A.D. -- and now is nearly an aimless drifter. Viewed by her peers as overly quiet, but acqueising to social demand, few know her true nature -- that of a restful, quiet dreamer, yearning more to sleep upon an Enhasian bed forever than bear the burden of the waking world. She feels that in the grand, supposedly enlightened world of ZEAL, the honest expressions of art and human beings has been stifled by the schools of magic and the class rivalries; that one can hardly be an individual without meeting resistance and being forced to submit. She did not arrive at her current position of sulking and dropping out of society by an active rebellion of the spirit, but rather by sleeping away the days and doing nothing. She regularly can be seen within sunlit parlors, or upon the edges of cliffs in rainy days, gleaning rich poetry from her imaginative mind.

The School of Temporal Magic has beckoned for her through her family in recent weeks; though she feels she has no choice but to heed the call of this elite society, she knows not why she has been chosen, or the life in store for her. Indeed -- if she were not immortal, or kept under a watchful eye by her peers, she may have already plunged to the icy world below, separating herself from this world entirely.

I'm thinking she might be a love interest for my hero, Juan Gerard. She might eventually get dragged into the project somehow or another due to an aberrant, out-of-control gene that enormously boosts her ability in Shadow magic -- a fact hidden by years of passive life.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on September 30, 2004, 12:01:23 am
Currently 5 ZEALians and 2 non-ZEALians. Heh.

Symmetry, thank you for your help. I would think that temporal wizards having great power would be something to fear, thus the tattoos. Actually, they were the starting point. I thought it would be cool if a character had Mammon tattoos to seal his power unless he had Dreamstone. I sort of built from there. Well, if he has these seals, then there are two consequences: He's uncommonly powerful and someone doesn't want him using that power. The seals don't completely prevent him from using magic, but as spells get more powerful, the seals limit their actual power, or even outright prevents the most powerful spells he knows from being cast.

I was unsure about the nature of his falling out, but it seemed to be the way to get those seals on him, and have him fit with the overall plot of the story. I was thinking that he got too powerful, and started doing his own (smaller) experiments, or, having seen the results of ZEALs meddling, defected and tried to stop their dimensional experimentation programs. That's how I get outlaw who escapes to Keystone. I'll refine the idea more as time goes on, thanks for the help.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on September 30, 2004, 08:04:18 pm
Perhaps, if we have some characters who are captured by ZEALians, like the previous idea for introducing a alternate dimension character (or two?) of mine, your tattooed character could escape while these alternate dimensional prisoners were being transfered in. Or perhaps Mr. Tattoo, could plan an escape w/the alt. dimensioners...

Just an idea...since it seems a tiny bit more plausible that they'd imprison someone of such power along with put them tattoos on him. As a Plus, if we DID use my characters (I wanted Gil & alt Flea to be prisoners), it would work splendidly, because Gil has a Pendent, which is Dreamstone! But whatever is decided is fine with me, I'm just throwin' out some idears.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 01, 2004, 04:27:35 am
Oh well, I guess I'll add some light descriptions of my characters, how I'd want them in the story, or how much they could be in or limited to the story, and stuff just for kicks...In case...although it should be noted that I've neither wrote about my alt Glenn or Flea yet...

Gil

Magus returned to 12000BC, searched the ruins of Zeal & the Ocean Palace for a year, managed a  makeshift Magical portal that sent him to a whakky future where he learned about a Time Egg...Upon traveling to get this Time Egg in 1020AD, part of his darker side was semi-split apart from him, mostly unbeknownst to Gil. He then rescued a slightly older Marcy, who followed him. After they got the Time Egg, they used it, but being unfinished and activated as it was (it was willy nilly up to the very end), it sent them to an alternate dimension year 1000 (winter).

I thought this dimension could easily be one of the ZEALian messed dimensions. A few of the changes include: Crono's premature death when he was very young, Lara's death, Magus's death on Denadoro, and Flea being not only just a female, but also her strong emotional bond to the alt Magus who died on Denadoro.

Gil also meets Elle, who is an alt. Lucca. He then obtains the alt. Nadia's Pendant and upon going to the alt. 600, they join Glenn to find Flea, who eventually helps Gil semi-create a Gate Key.

He's become fairly introspective through his new journeys (which can be attibuted to the darker half being split) and sees many things in dreams.

Instead of a Scythe, he now uses two sickles, and he no longer has his cape (he buried his mother in it, how sweet, right? har har).

Basically, if he's allowed, I'd want him locked up. If he were to plan an escape with Radical_Dreamer's character, then he would be recaptured, or simply wouldn't make it out...Or perhaps he would make it out, but play no larger part in the ZEAL story...But since he'd have a Pendant he would really no longer need, I thought it would be cool for him to be somehow connected to RD's character who needs Dreamstone...But then again, my Glenn would also have some Dreamstone from his Masamune...

Marcy

She was seperated from her brother when she was young. Marcy uses a pair of spiked Denadorite gloves. She is very passionate and would die fighting for her quest for her brother, which she has been on since she was very young. Her days of traveling have left her a little sour at the world, but very tough. She looks up to Gil because he saved her, he's powerful, and because their goals are so similar. She feels that by following him, she too will find what she's looking for. She also has come to be physically attracted to him, but she doesn't exactly know it until Elle comes along...

Elle Ashtear

From the alt 1000AD. She's very dark, especially compared to her Keystone half. She was actually in the process of slitting her wrists w/Taban's razor before Gil & Marcy showed up. This is all part of Crono's not being there for her (he died very young). Having no friends, she became very kind of introverted. Her mother died, and she blames her father Taban (who also blames himself) and is distrustful of many people. She is haunted by dreams of people, creatures, demons, and artifacts of things and a vast redness (many things from Chrono Trigger). She is an artist and a self-taught katana-wielder with a unique style of fluid power. She often awakes from dreams finishing a stroke on a painting. She follows Gil because he is one of the things she painted: maou. She also followed him because she was forced, and because she trusts him blindly because of her dreams. She also is physically attracted to him, and she butts heads with Marcy, although Marcy always masks it as something else about Elle she doesn't like. Elle knows better. Neither of them really has any real chance at Gil.

If Marcy & Elle came into the story, I don't think Gil would allow them to come with him to ZEAL. I think he'd make them wait in a timeline somewhere...Probably in where-ever exactly in post-CC Toma-Ideal Timeline people are coming from...Or something...Maybe they'd just stay in the End of Time...They wouldn't do anything against ZEAL unless he said so...If Gil came back, or they saw him in another timeline, they would go to him, and out of the ZEAL fanfic.

Glenn

From alt. 600AD. He not only survived the confrontation on Denadoro (and was not turned into a frog at all), but came away from it with not just a wicked blinding slash across his eyes, but also with the defeat of Magus & Ozzie. Although there were losses (aside from his sight): Cyrus is dead, and he blames himself, the Masamune was split in two at the blade. Now the Masamune is closer to dagger in size, with a diagonal blade. He sharpened the blade, and has strapped the broken off tip to his left wrist.

Although he lost his sight, he gained a kind of sixth sense which allows him to see spiritual projections of people and things. In or because of these projections, he has come to find a kind of god. He follows Gil because he believes it is his calling to do so as he has already killed the man, although he knows Gil is not the same, he senses the man he killed somewhere beyond Gil (the detached darker side).

If Glenn were to find out about ZEAL, he would stand up to them because he would think that is why he followed Gil, to stop ZEAL. But even under other circumstances (ie w/o Gil being used) he would also step up to the plate...

Flea

From alt. 600AD. This Flea was always a woman. She also had a very emotional relationship with the dead (in the alt. timeline) Magus. I haven't worked her character much, but I think she would be a very sarcastic character, very tricky though. She follows Gil because she sees it as her fault Magus died at Denadoro. Also because she thinks she can love Gil, which isn't necessarilly untrue, but I don't think Gil would be so easily distracted.

Flea would follow Gil to ZEAL even if he didn't want her/told her not to. I would also LOVE IT if she died in ZEAL, possibly to protect Gil even, would be great. Or perhaps just trying to escape...Flea dying would be good.

So, basically, I could see Gil, Marcy, Elle, & Flea taking really bit-parts in this, and Glenn could really be a hero. I wouldn't want the others to do much. I don't see my Gil (or any non alt. Magus) as being a hero out to do good, he's a very selfish creature in a way. He would care for ZEAL for his own ends only.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 01, 2004, 06:18:49 pm
Interesting, although a bit of spoiler for Magness, yeah? I haven't quite read that far along into it to be familiar with everyone. While mulling over ZEAL ideas in its preliminary stages, I too had kicked around incorporating characters from "Portrait", but ultimately decided that it would be more enjoyable to work on entirely new ones.

There are a couple of concerns that come to mind with your cast - certainly ones that can be worked around. Introducing five people from another timeline and getting them tangled up in our story seems to be a hell of a way to start. You've noted that you don't plan on dragging them all around, and I definately think that's for the best - managing six people in a scenario like this would become hectic. From what I can tell, your cast is pretty much here to drop off Glenn and then return to their prescheduled adventure. Detaining Gil can definately be arranged, although I believe RD and ZeaLitY have worked out the opening scene between two of their characters already. If you want Gil to be more active, I might have a use for him, and that can be discussed shortly.

My other concern is that if you're going to involve Glenn & Gil, we're going to need to push incoming writers to author characters FROM KEYSTONE. We have a number of people from elsewhere and this is fine - but we definately need more Keystonians. Everyone can't be from an alternate timeline and all, you know. (Prospective authors take notice!)

Anyway, interesting stuff, especially Elle. That only reinforces the notion that I need to get around to finishing Magness in the near future.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 01, 2004, 11:48:58 pm
Yes, I suppose it does spoil some things in Magness...although I see them as fairly minor. Mostly I tried to just put as much as would give a brief interpretation of the characters...With Glenn & Flea, I haven't even written their parts in Magness, so I hardly know how much I'm giving away there. In that way, it's kind of helpful to have them 'sketched out' a bit beforehand. I think there's still a lot left to find out in Magness though to keep anyone even moderately interested in these characters to still be surprised...

I don't really suppose that these characters have to show up right away at the beginning, some time later would work as well I suppose. I thought of Gil & Flea being captured more as a way to get them out of the main ZEAL story. But I'm totally open to any suggestion for possibly working Gil (or whoever) into it in a more active role.

Also, I still intend on probably making one or two other Keystone characters (aside from Hunter Deschain)...Probably a female as we've only seen female ZEALians so far I believe...

I need to finish updating Magness (much less finish writing it!)...I haven't even submitted the part with Elle yet (yikes!).
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 02, 2004, 05:57:42 pm
While ZeaLity and I have decided on an opening for my character (Argus Donovan), we never figured out how he got his hands on the Dreamstone, so V_T's idea could work.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: YbrikMetaknight on October 03, 2004, 01:13:08 am
I want to reiterate that I've claimed a version of the CC Glenn for use at some point in this project.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 05, 2004, 04:58:28 am
Well shit-on-a-stick if that wouldn't be just confusing as hell if I used a version of Frog/Glenn...DAMNATION!!! I...got nothin' then...

OR WAIT! I think...I think I could change Glenn to Cyrus. Yep, that'd work just as well (since I haven't worked out the character anyways)...Unless we're cool with two different people being called Glenn...

:S
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 05, 2004, 12:20:50 pm
Ah, well, I can't resist. Here you go with a female Keystonian:

Prisoner 33-T-Sigma (Sigma for short)

During the Toma Operation, the Zealian agents came across a strange girl wandering around Giant's Claw. She appeared plain, with dirty brown hair in a pony-tail, and in her late teens. One of the agents freaked out, believing she was an agent of some force operating against Zeal's wishes (Note that no such force actually existed at that point. This agent was just overly paranoid). He subsequently attacked her, being sure to knock her out rather than kill her. At the end of the mission, she was captured and brought back to Zeal for interrogation.

Unfortunately for both parties, her brutal capture had caused her to suffer amnesia, so she couldn't remember whether or not she actually was working against Zeal. As the interrogator worked on her, he interpreted her resistance as proof she had been trained by a highly capable organization. Consequently, he increased the intensity of her torture/interrogation. Magic users were brought in to use their specialized talents to get her to speak.

It was at this point that things started to go wrong. At first, it was minor an intermittent. A Fireball failed to find its target and circled around Sigma endlessly; an Ice spell fizzled out with no effect. Then, spells started backfiring. Casters would find themselves at the mercy of their own magic. It eventually reached the point where no spellcasters were willing to even be in the same room as her. Eventually, the interrogator gave up and arranged for her to be put in stasis. The stasis chamber was set up, and the she was placed into it. The spell seemed to work, at least at first. Later, when no one was around, it failed for seemingly no reason, and Sigma was freed. It is here that her story starts.

Note: Unlike most characters with amnesia, Sigma holds an uninteresting past. She was just at Giant's Claw out of archaeological curiosity.

Edit: Just a couple of things I thought I should add.

Note: Her ability to resist magic has nothing to do with her being special or anything. It's just a self-defense mechanism that arose from her ordeal.

Combat: Aside from her unique ability, Sigma is quite unspectacular in combat. With her experience spelunking (which she doesn't even remember), she developed a small proficiency with the pick (a short instrument usable for powerful piercing strikes), along with the muscles in her left arm to support it. Her ability, on the other hand, will turn out to be quite useful. At first, many spells and magical abilities will miss her or fail randomly. As she gains experience, she will be able to turn magic back on its caster, or allow certain spells (healing ones) through her guard.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 05, 2004, 05:47:30 pm
Fantastic. Good to see you aboard, Leebot.

I don't think you need to worry about getting too stretched out between various projects. There's still a good deal of formulation we need to do before this all gets started in earnest. On top of that, we're not expecting people to write novels for each entry.

I suspect this will play out in two different ways.

1. Some people's characters will be in close proximity to others. This will be those who are fighting to repair Zeal's changes to Keystone. Ideally, participants will stay on top of what's going on and post relatively short entries (~ couple of paragraphs, some dialogue) in quick succession. Something to the effect of being able to log on once a day and see a new entry.

If people take too long to post, everyone has to wait on them, and it kills interest in the project. No one wants to wait a week or two just to read a short entry.

2. Other people's characters will be working behind the scenes, only coming into close proximity to Gaspar's chosen every once in awhile. These people's posts will probably be longer and slightly less frequent. Characters who might be "sitting out" an adventure fall into this category as well.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Aitrus on October 06, 2004, 02:28:01 am
One char from Keystone

Name: Leyton
Gender: Male
Species: Human (Guardian) – Keystone Timeline
Date of Birth: 996 AD
Eye Color: Blue
Siblings: None
Parents: Unknown
Age: 25
Height: 6 foot
Weight: 120 lbs
Hair Color/Length: black, long but tied back in a queue
Marital Status: Single
Short Term Goals: None
Long Term Goals: Become a singularly focused individual
Likes: Peace, quiet
Dislikes: Anyone who would disturb his meditation, Porreans
Strengths: Speed and agility, force of will
Weaknesses: Quick to anger, especially if he has been unable to meditate
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, pondering the nature of time
Distinguishing Marks: Scar down right cheek from the eye down to the chin
Achievements:  None
Disappointments: That he was unable to aid the royal family in their escape after Porre invaded the Kingdom of Guardia
Personal History:  Orphaned at a monastery near Medina, the human Leyton was raised at first to be a new Magus, but once the Mystics made peace with Guardia, he was to be the first of a new, more tolerant generation of beings, human and Mystic alike.  Leyton learned many fighting styles from the Mystic monks there, along with much about the culture of the Mystics themselves.  When Guardia fell, many people from Truce fled to Medina, and some joined the monastery.  From them, he learned much about human culture, and about how Porre, once an ally of Guardia, turned against them and effectively stabbed the kingdom in the back.  He spent the next 12 years in the monastery trying to attain serenity and get rid of his anger, with some success.  He is now able to relegate that anger to the back of his mind, but it still comes through sometimes, and at the worst possible moments.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Aitrus on October 06, 2004, 03:59:53 am
...and here's one from ZEAL:

Name: Aias
Gender: Male
Species: Human (Zealian) – ZEAL Timeline
Date of Birth: 315 AD (approximate equivalent to Keystone years)
Eye Color: Gold
Siblings: 2, both sisters; one is a sitting member of the Council
Parents: King and Queen Zeal the IV, both still living
Age: 25 (apparent; ~700 years actual)
Height: 5 ft, 10 inches
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair Color/Length: Purple, dyed, and long
Marital Status: Single
Short Term Goals: Learn what he can from the Council itself
Long Term Goals: Overturn the Council and restore Royal rule in Zeal
Likes: Research, books, and the sister not on the Council
Dislikes: the Council and all its supporters
Strengths: Very strong willed, intelligent, ‘devious’
Weaknesses: Not strong physically, not incredibly magical
Hobbies/Interests: Keeping track of new research being done by the colleges
Distinguishing Marks: Purple hair, intricate tattoo on back of right hand extending down the wrist and up his forearm
Achievements:  Prince of Zeal, heir to the throne; planned the construction of the Council Building on the Royal Mountain below the palace
Disappointments: Lack of magical ability, in stark contrast to his sister on the Council
Personal History:  Born as the Prince of Zeal, Aias is the rightful heir of all he surveys.  However, he was almost completely without innate magical powers, a genetic flaw that hadn’t appeared for several generations within the family.  Without the powers that normally came with being a Royal, Aias had to get by on his intelligence, which was more than up to the task.  He made sure that he remained “in the know” on all projects going on in Zeal, but when the Council started conducting experiments in alternate dimensions, he knew that something was strange about it.  The Council slowly accumulated power over Zeal, so quietly that Aias almost didn’t notice what was happening.  It wasn’t until his family was reduced to figureheads that he realized what had happened.  He has sworn to remove the Council from power and restore his family to what is rightfully theirs, but must be extremely careful about it, lest he suffer an untimely “accident” arranged by the Council.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 06, 2004, 06:06:05 am
So, what's the call on the Glenn issue? Can we have my alt dimension Glenn/Frog (who was actually never Frog at all...) & Ybrik's version of CC Glenn?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 06, 2004, 11:41:37 am
Sweet. Two things worth noting, Aitrus:

1. Immortality was attained ~1000 years before the date of this fic. (I believe ZeaLitY noted this somewhere. Maybe not. I think the exact date was 132 AD by the Guardian system.) If by "King and Queen Zeal IV" you mean literally the decendants five generations away from CT's King and Queen Zeal, they're going to be loooong dead. (~12000 years between CT's Zeal and the advent of immortality, after all!) If you're referring to something akin to "Elizabeth I" and then years upon years later having an "Elizabeth II", that works. Just a minor detail.

2. Royalty (which Aias is) are the only people who are going to have knowledge of who serves on the Council. Going public with that knowledge would be a very grave offense, as the Council very much enjoys their anonymity. Which reminds me, we probably need an article describing the Council in greater detail. I might get to that later this afternoon.

Translanka:

Yeah, I don't see a problem with it. They're two entirely different people - although having two Glenns might be a little confusing. Maybe he would have some reason to change his name after the accident in which he lost his sight? Maybe he's got a middle name he prefers? We do need a convinent way of separating the two.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: 1stoftheLast on October 08, 2004, 03:24:09 am
About the characters, do they have to be from the current time(that the stories take place in) or can they be from the past as well?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 08, 2004, 04:32:33 am
1stoftheLast, I believe I asked a similar question (when regarding my alternate dimension characters), either in this or another thread I'm unsure, and the answer was basically that the characters should be from the new Toma-Keystone or ZEAL (mostly not ZEAL as we've got so many of them so far...but whatever I guess). I think that if you've got a good enough idea to introduce such a character, we could hear it, but otherwise, that we're sticking with the places most effected in the story so far...

Also...I suppose I've been kicking around the idea of giving my Glenn a last name...I've been thinking Hyrul...or Hyrule? However the hell you spell Link's last name...I don't have much reason as why...Maybe it's because of the green...Heh...but I'd like the change from Glenn being called Glenn to being called his last name to occur after the two Glenns meet or something...Wait, Ybrik, is your Glenn going to be one of Gaspar's Heroes or whatever?

Oh yeah, and here's my femme Keystoner...She's basically going to be a pseudo-companion to Hunter...I'll explain...

Amy Millian

The busty, whacky, easy-to-upset human woman who's one of a few beautiful women Hunter has gone to far lengths to avoid. For some reason she's got the hots for him (can you say furry luv? demi-fetish?), and normally follows him along whenever he's on a job. But she's not averse to going into her own quests for money or whatever (she's pretty loose with the rewards herself, but for more geniune reasons than Hunter). She's also quite the theif...but has a reputation for stealing after sex (another reason she may be after Hunter? well...it's at least a reason he tries to stay away from her).

She has long red (obviously a dye job, no red in nature in that shiny mess) hair that she normally ties into a pig-tail or braid for practical purposes. Yellow eyes, tanned skin (possibly islandic), under-cut V necks to show off her clevage, but mostly covered up everywhere else, again, for practical reasons.

She's a long-range kind of person. She has plenty of throwing weapons (stars, darts, dust balls, etc) and she also carries a spear.

Innate: Black
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 08, 2004, 05:50:32 am
I don't think Link ever really had a last name. And it's different Links in most of the games. The kingdom is called Hyrule though, with an 'e'.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 08, 2004, 05:58:17 am
Oh, that's right, it was the kingdom...Whatever, I dig Hyrule as a strong possibility.

*isn't the biggest Zelda fan*
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: 1stoftheLast on October 08, 2004, 06:39:15 am
Well, I was thinking of doing an Earthbound character from either the present in the Zeal Timeline(I'm asuming that in the Zeal Timeline the earth is still in endless winter) or somewhere around 11,000 B.C. of the Keystone/Toma Alteration Timeline.

If no one really digs that one then I can come up with another.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 08, 2004, 07:13:43 am
The Earthbound thing sounds kind of interesting...But how are the Earthbounds handled in the ZEAL timeline? Has that even been covered?

I dunno about the 11,000BC one though...That time would be untouched by the Toma change in the Keystone timeline...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 08, 2004, 09:51:16 am
Welcome, 1stofthelast.

We've got quite a few Zealian characters, so the introduction of more Keystonians is a good thing. Basically, your character can be from anywhere in the Toma Shell-altered timeline. (Sorry if I wasn't clear about this before.)

Earthbound citizens are pretty much treated the same way in ZEAL as they were in Keystone. (All but ignored, occasionally used as slave labour.) The introduction of a Earthbounder (?) from ZEAL is pretty much impossible, but that's not problematic at all if he/she's from Keystone. Gaspar would need some reason to summon him/her to the End of Time, however.

Actually, I take that back. An Earthbound citizen from ZEAL would be possible if for some reason they've been detained. He/She would need to be involved in the jailbreak scene, though. Otherwise they're going to have no way of getting to Keystone. (That would conviently provide us with a fourth person for easy EoT access....)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that yes, the planet is still in a deep freeze in the ZEAL timeline.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 09, 2004, 04:30:06 am
I think I just got an idea for an even better name for my Glenn...I could call him Kaeru...Kearu? Whatever...Someone tell me how to spell that and that'll be his name...It's just "Frog" in Japanese, right? It'll be great...although...since he was never turned into a frog...Hmm...Maybe I'll just make him say it was a nickname from when he was little...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 09, 2004, 04:31:49 am
Kaeru, got it. Although you could go with Gama, but that isn't quite as cool. I know it from Naruto.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 09, 2004, 06:50:01 pm
Yeah, I think I like Kaeru...It'll be a nick referring to his green hair or something...I always wondered what the hell Magus meant by "more fitting form", perhaps it was the hair? Or wait, does Kaeru mean something other than 'frog'? I think I heard somewhere that it did...whatever...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 09, 2004, 08:01:41 pm
Quote from: V_Translanka
Yeah, I think I like Kaeru...It'll be a nick referring to his green hair or something...I always wondered what the hell Magus meant by "more fitting form", perhaps it was the hair? Or wait, does Kaeru mean something other than 'frog'? I think I heard somewhere that it did...whatever...


It also means "to return" or "to change."
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: 1stoftheLast on October 10, 2004, 06:27:01 am
Ok in case we want to go with the earthbound here goes...
Jack Nova, even though it doesn't sound like a very tribal name, it is.  Jack is an "Earthbound one" from either the distant past of the Keystone timeline or modern day Zeal.  

Jack's whole life has been spent with the extended family of his village.  No one comes into the village thats not born to it.  The endless winter makes travel impossable, the only time anyone travels is when the men make hunting rounds.  In fact, most of what the village eats is animal, plant life being very scarce in the tundra.  Because of the steady diet of protien, Jack, aloing with the rest of the village, has a very stredy build.  Jack is about 5'8'' and 230 lbs.  Also because of the thousands of years spent in survival mode, jack and his tribe have hieghtened senses, espesscaily smell and taste.

Language isn't well developed in the tribe, people usualy speak to each other only on matters pertaining to day to day life and survival.  Because of this Jack wouldn't be quick to understand abstract thought.  Women are revered in Jacks tribe because it is through thier cycles that the village can measure extended amounts of time(there is no sky to see the moon becuase of either storm clouds or floating continets, and there are no seasons).  

From a tribe that has never known war Jack may be at a dissadvantage but it wouldn't take him long to translate his hunting skills into combat abilities and considering his build he should be able to hold his own.  Weapons he carries include knives, harpoons, hatchets, nets.  He would think of these more as tools.

Reason for being chosen:

If we're doing the Zeal timeline Jack then we could say that he got kidnaped for the purpose of slave labor, then escaped with the rest during the jailbreak scene.  

If we're doing the Keystone from the past Jack then I guess he would get picked the same way the nba drafts players nowadays, purely on potential.  I figure the hard life, plus a strong build and heightend senses would make for a good person to have on your team, if you can give them some magic first then let them spend four years back home trying to learn how to use it.

Feedback is apreciated.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 10, 2004, 07:51:09 am
Aw, man, 1stoftheLast...does he gotta be jailed in ZEAL? I mean, we've already got 3 people escaping, and what? We're already having trouble believing that being possible...but then add a 4th and not only is it more absurd sounding, but they also get a free trip to the End of Time...

I like the idea of him being Earthbound, but there's gotta be another way to get him to Keystone and/or the End of Time...Or maybe not...whatever...I don't even know anymore!
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 10, 2004, 05:43:02 pm
Meh, you guys are confusing me with your jailbreak.

My understanding was that as for cover, Gil, Argus, and Sigma would release a number of people. Then I thought you (pl) wanted four people so that the gate out of ZEAL would immediately take you to the EoT.


1stoftheLast:

Interesting character. I like the idea and it definately brings something different to the table.

On the one hand, while the jailbreak scenario would be "convinent", we've already got a number of people involved in it and adding someone else would further complicate who writes what and so on.

More purely Keystonian characters are always a plus. I somewhat lean towards Jack being summoned by the Gaspar draft. We have quite a few magically inclined characters, but one devoid of arcane talent, relying entirely on strength and combat skills, is something no party should be without. Good enough reason for Gaspar to summon him, I guess.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Hadriel on October 11, 2004, 12:07:21 am
I think I've got a couple of ideas for characters -- I think I'll get a feel for the story a bit more before jumping in, but I think I'll post the general descriptions right now.  One of them, however, I'm not sure would work -- he's a hardheaded Princeton University archaeologist of the year 2180 AD, and as such, obviously from Keystone.  He doesn't care about his methods -- think of him as something of a slightly less sadistic Belloq from the first Indiana Jones movie.  In that vein, he's quite similar to the ZEAL researchers, and errs more on the side of evil and what knowledge, and thus, power, he stands to gain from the defeat of ZEAL.  But he does have a bit of a conscience, and this quest might give him the opportunity to reclaim it.  I was wondering if it mattered if I used a real-world location for his school.  In the grand scheme of things, I'd think it wouldn't make that much of a difference, but it's the admins' call.

The other one is a little younger than Serge was in CC, and is the son of one of ZEAL's top Nanashi supervisors.  He doesn't really have any ideals or anything yet -- for the most part, he's a victim of ZEAL's brainwashing.  But, a chance encounter with the dormant Lavos would provide the trigger for Gaspar to summon him.  As Lavos has been subjugated in ZEAL, he is not directly the reason for Gaspar's intervention, and does absolutely nothing short of just sitting there and triggering weirdness because of his natural aura of evilly EVIL.  Basically, he accidentally goes to the End of Time because he wondered what the big red button did.

Thoughts?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 11, 2004, 12:54:35 am
Well, I don't mind you using the name Princeton, but let's try and avoid recreating our own history in the fic's timeline. It probably shouldn't be related in the United States or something.

Also, you must give your character a whip. And that awesome Indy Jones hat.  :D (Not really...)

I don't think we've kicked around the name of Lavos' subjugation. I just figured he'd be in the core of the planet or pocket dimension somewhere just "sitting" there. I'm not sure if an encounter with Lavos is quite possible as there isn't a particular place where it is "detained".

Don't throw the idea out, but before you progress too much further there, let's try and tinker with this a bit.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: 1stoftheLast on October 11, 2004, 12:18:59 pm
Yeah I don't mind him not being used in the jailbreak scene, when he can just as easily be introduced by having Gaspar summon him for some reason.  Maybe Endless G has a plan to strike Zeal from the earthbound territory and needs a guide?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 11, 2004, 02:38:24 pm
Well, the fact that your character kicks major ass should be enough for now. Gaspar will see the value in recruiting him, as the Entity saw in heading up Crono, Ayla, etc.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Hadriel on October 11, 2004, 08:28:46 pm
Tinkering is always good.  I do a fair bit of it to make my independent stories and papers better.

My idea was that the two histories are largely the same, but that none of the history that we know in our world matters to the storyline of ZEAL, and so it wouldn't get more than a passing mention, perhaps as research done on the character's resume.  In fact, if you work it right, all of the history we know can fit into a framework where it is a direct result of the Chrono Trigger history, mostly in relation to Lavos.  Therefore, either way, anything outside of the Chrono history outlined in the games is of little to no importance where Keystone is concerned in the ZEAL story.  Under such a framework, the very existence of the entire world that we know is the result of the events in the Chrono series -- the landing of Lavos, the destruction of Zeal, the war between Guardia and Porre, and the heroism of Crono and his friends in stopping Lavos from destroying Earth as we know it.  I believe I could write something pretty compelling with that -- to a student of history such as an archaeologist, knowing the events of the Chrono series under a real-world framework would be like having his entire concept of truth pulled out from under him by the echoes of Lavos' influence on humanity.  He would no longer be certain which way to go, and therefore initiate a literary transformation into one of several different types of characters which can affect the story in their own ways.

Or perhaps I have an irrational craving for realism...maybe it's the physicist in me.

I'd thought that ZEAL had properly subjugated Lavos and was currently using him for power via the Mammon Machine, which is a great deal more advanced and powerful in the ZEAL timeline than it was in Keystone, due to many extra years of time to develop its functionality before they decided to hook it up to Lavos.  If that's the case, Lavos, or at least whatever Pocket Dimension houses Lavos, is connected to the Mammon Machine.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 11, 2004, 11:38:41 pm
I think its best to stear clear of tying the two worlds together for the purposes of this project, regardless of whether or not its plausible.

Your Zealian character is good to go. Lavos is indeed still off in its pocket dimension and should they desire, citizens of the kingdom could go observe it at the liking. Most don't though because after ~12000 years of Lavos being around in its docile state, it starts to lose any sort of wonder or awe-inspiring power. Going back to your evil aura idea, I think that works well, as it would serve to reinforce the notion that Zealians generally avoid "visiting" Lavos.

I figure the gate to Lavos' pocket dimension would be close to the Mammon Machine - for symbolic purposes more than anything.

I'm not entirely sure how he'd make his way to the EoT, though. Gaspar isn't "choosing" people from ZEAL, (His whole reason for summoning people is to bring together Keystonians to defend Keystone, Zealians join the party quite a bit down the road, the exception being Argus.) and the only other way to cross dimensions (for the time being) would be the Council's Centre for Temporal/Dimensional Research - which, can be arranged.

There is quite the thick plot going on within ZEAL itself, however, so you might want to consider leaving him there and writing about one in each.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Hadriel on October 12, 2004, 12:33:21 am
Yeah, you're probably right.  It'd be an extra thing to deal with, it kind of takes away from focus on the game history, and it would likely distract from character development.  You could still probably fit everything in if you wanted to, except if ZEAL succeeds in permanently wrecking Keystone, so the only real concern is stopping ZEAL's corrupt government one way or another.

Scratch the archaeologist -- I can use that idea as comedy cannon fodder in the other fic I'm working on, since in that case I'm going for as much historical realism as possible, since it's virtually required for the story to make any damn sense.  Ironically, it's a humor/satire fic that treats our world as presented in South Park as if it is one with the CT world.  It presents several new time paradoxes a la Chrono Cross, and of course takes every possible opportunity to make fun of absolutely everything and everyone.

For now, I'll simply develop upon the Zealian kid.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 12, 2004, 06:14:12 am
That's right, Hadriel, you pimp your shit...:roll:

:lol: Like I'm one to talk (LOOK AT MY SIG!)

Oh, I was wondering...My Keystone characters, Hunter & Amy...I am in the process of writing their introductory scene...And I was thinking of having them find some spectacular object (which would probably lead the eye of Gaspar upon them)...Although the Rainbow Shell is obviously out of the question, I was wondering, what could they find? I was thinking something that could possibly combine with something else that Hunter already had...or something that could be two parts or something so they could/would have to share it...

I thought of perhaps the Moonstone...or maybe even the Frozen Flame? But I'm not sure...Somebody wanna kick some ideas around?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 12, 2004, 10:10:30 am
It'd be interesting if for some reason they found the Moonstone thanks to the recent disturbing of history; Gaspar would instantly call that a No-No and dip his hand in the affairs of men.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 12, 2004, 12:57:28 pm
Perhaps they could find some ultra-powerful weapons and armor that were created from (directly or indirectly) the Rainbow Shell.

One other idea I had was for a Keystonian "mage" who gained his powers from some wierd arcane ritual involving the Rainbow Shell. If you still need more characters (particularly Keystonians), I'll post him.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 12, 2004, 04:23:26 pm
As soon as you mentioned the Rainbow Shell, I thought of the Moonstone.

Interestingly enough, ZeaLitY pointed out that the Sun Keep is the point ZEAL uses to warp in and out of Keystone. The Moonstone should be waiting there, right? Perhaps Hunter & Amy happened to be witnesses to some action by the Nanashi and followed them there, stumbling upon the Moonstone in the process?

Of course, how they'd manage to track the Nanashi without them knowing it is a little sketchy, but still... someplace to start.

Initially, there were some ideas to incorporate the Frozen Flame into the project somehow - as the last bit of tinkering with the timeline, ZEAL might give it to someone who really shouldn't ever get their hands on it. I don't know if we're going to use that idea now, but it couldn't hurt if somehow Hunter & Amy had some contact with it.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 12, 2004, 07:21:07 pm
Yeah, I'm not too sure about that Sunkeep thing...but after the tinkering (and especially the end of Lavos), would the Moonstone still be there at all?

Plus, we only know where the Moonstone from the future is (the one from Son of Sun [holy crap, I just thought, is Son of Sun related to SonofaGun in CC?])...The Moonstone in it's earlier forms Pre-Future would definately still be around, right? Especially with the ZEAL tinkering...Although another question I'd want to ask about the Moonstone is: how long exactly did it take the Moonstone to run out of juice? We know in the future 2300AD that it's become a Moonstone, but what about before?

The main thing I haven't gone over with the characters is where they are...at first I thought maybe Choras (sp?) and then thought about the Mystic Continent...and if I were to introduce the FF, I'd probably make them in El Nido (which would be a fine choice as Hunter is Demi-human)...heck, I could probably make it El Nido for the Moonstone too...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Hadriel on October 12, 2004, 09:32:58 pm
Quote from: V_Translanka
That's right, Hadriel, you pimp your shit...


I prefer English rather than ebonics on subjects of any seriousness...foo.   8)
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 13, 2004, 10:57:32 pm
A little expansion on Sigma, for when others will be including her in their posts:

First, Sigma is not intended to be overpowered (She's immune to every attack the enemy can throw at her! If they ever try to cast a spell, she'll turn it around and kill them!). Quite the opposite; she's meant to be quite pathetic in combat, with her ability only coming into play on rare, desperate occasions at first (the feeling of desperation being the prime factory). Later on, as she gains experience, she could become quite a nuisance to enemy spellcasters, nullifying or reflecting their attacks back at them (ie. She'll improve like any other character).

Additionally, her ability's effectiveness is limited by the enemy's magical ability, and strengthened by her experience, determination, and desperation. This means that she won't be as resistant to spells of more powerful mages, but, as seen in my first post, she can still pull off a miracle if she's desperate enough.

On her personality: She's generally suspicious, cautious, and quiet, but is prone to outbursts and fits of rage, all due to her ordeal. I expect her to develop a degree of hero-worship towards Argus, assuming he rescues her in the jailbreak. A few of her old traits remain: She's intelligent and clever, but poor in social situations. From time to time, she'll make nearly superhuman leaps of logic, not knowing herself how she comes to her conclusions. As her old personality resurfaces, she'll show herself to be more and more inquisitive, along with talking more.

Combat: She'll try to avoid any form of combat whenever possible, trying to find an alternative way out or to set up a trap for the enemy. If the rest of the party gets engaged in battle, she'll try to stay out of the way and find some alternative way to help out (toss out potions to her allies, look around for environmental factors she could take advantage of, etc.). Once she's become more confident in her ability, she may try to disrupt enemy spellcasters, shield her allies from harmful spells, or turn back spells.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 13, 2004, 11:35:46 pm
Good thinking.

Probably a good idea for everyone to provide a little help on how they'd like to see their characters portrayed. I'll get something similiar up quite soon.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 14, 2004, 08:37:02 pm
Hmmm...Argus is on the whole patient, as a result from having studied Temporal Magic extensively, however the tattoo affair has been rather frustrating for him. So while he may be a bit snappy during the escape from ZEAL, once he makes it out, he should go back to being his old patient self. He generally doesn't move more quickly than he has to, and will happily sit quitely while not needed or waiting. He still gets frustrated when trying to use his more powerful, and therefor, more heavily limited, spells, but generally calms down soon after the encounter ends.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 14, 2004, 10:19:15 pm
Alright, here's my first character (I have another one in mind, but he'll come in later).

1) Gryph Elesian.  

Gryph is a man from the 600 A.D. of the Lavos timeline, born in 565 A.D.  He grew up as a merchant, trading goods (dangerously) between Guardia and Medina, even though a war between Mystics and humans was breaking out.  In 597 A.D. he was arrested by Guardia troops because of his direct violation of the trade ban between the two continents, sentencing him to a harsh prison sentence.  He served it well for three years, but during his stay, he began to have delusions that he was the father of a boy from the future, a fatherless single child in 1000 A.D.  He even started to remember things they did together, things that never happened, and judged by the wardens in Guardia as mentally unfit to be released, he has stayed there until this day.  
Gryph is also a master of the blade, having created his own weapon, the Covenant, a sword he hoped to one day pass onto his son.  But at this point, he believes that will never happen.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 15, 2004, 12:13:40 am
Welcome, Claado.

Just so you're aware, you've got awhile to get to the End of Time - if there was more you wanted to do, don't feel rushed to get there.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: YbrikMetaknight on October 15, 2004, 03:22:18 am
I will be unable to participate in any major way in this project for the foreseeable future (i.e. at the very least until mid-November or so).  I'd like to do the proofreading on all of this, as proofreading is my particular specialty.  But anyway...here is a write-up for an original character of mine.  I want nobody to touch this character at least until I give the OK, preferably not until I have the time to write a bit.  If I ever get around to writing one of the fanfics of my own that I have planned, I will be using her in it, but I see no reason not to have her in ZEAL as well.

Clarice Smythe (name COMPLETELY subject to change, especially the last name) - Home era:  A.D. 1999.  Home Dimension: Keystone.  Magic: Lightning (or innate color if we're using CC stuff:  either yellow or white).  History:  On the Day of Lavos, Clarice was near Ground Zero.  She saw Lavos erupt from the ground, and her childhood love was the first one killed in the Rain of Terror (they were both 18).  A few moments after he died in her arms, Crono & Co. warped in.  She watched the Magnificent Seven (as news outlets dubbed them later) fight through the shell, enter it, and emerge victorious.  Although the world at large grew to idolize and even (in some cases) truly worship them, she took it to a new extreme.  She discovered her magic potential in an age when magic was being rediscovered (a la FFVI) and began adventuring.

Wow, I have more ideas for this character already.  Maybe I should go ahead and write a mini-fic to at least introduce her to both the ZEAL universe and to my own fanfic universe.  Too bad I lack the time to do so.  Damn.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 15, 2004, 06:31:21 am
Okay, I just read everything up to (and including) Claado Shou's scene (a little more -ly adverbs than I normally like, nothing in the land of Narnia, and most writers worth their chops are guilty of innocently putting in the randomly placed -ly adverb, myself included, ecept for that 'chops' thing which I'm not sure I completely understand...not a big deal...a very good scene...good writing too!...see how I'm trying to be smooth about this? I'm totally doing this smoothly...) and I know it's just an introductory scene...but I have questions...

I'm guessing that the hint is that he's Crono's father? Yeah, I know, I'm a genius at deduction, a regular sheerluck holms...So are we really going to try and answer that question in this fic of ours? Tell me it's going to be open-ended...please?

2. (oh wait, I didn't number that other part) You said the Lavos timeline...do you really mean the Lavos timeline? Or the Crono/Keystone timeline? Because the Lavos timeline is the one w/o Entity influence where 2300AD is in ruin and Lavos won the earth or whatever...

Three (3), That light-stuff in the cell...I'm guessing a Gate? Yeah, i'm a freakin' detective...It opens, closes, and then opens when he touches it...I know there's still a lot to be explained...But is that going to just lead to the End of Time? Somewhere else? How did it open/suddenly appear?

It's obvious that I can't handle suspence or something...I just want to know because if it's not a gate made by Gaspar or something, then shouldn't Gryph need a Gate Key & a Pendant or somethin'? And what about the Covenant? How is he going to get that if he was in jail?

Sorry to pick it apart! It's my NATURE! Or more accurately, I'm an owl+bungee cord (=my ASS)!
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 15, 2004, 09:48:05 am
Wow, I didn't know that my post was going to cause such excitement.  But since you asked, here are the answers I'm willing to divulge.

1) Yes, Gryph is having delusions of being the father of a boy named Crono, although they've never met and none of those things could possibly have happened.  I'm a huge proponent of the Crono/Jesus corollation, meaning that Crono in fact has no father, meaning that Gryph is and never will be a blood relative of Crono's.  HOWEVER, as the fanfic goes on...well, you'll see.

2) What I meant when I said Lavos timeline (I'm not too keen on the terminology of dimensions) was the timeline as it would have been leading up to Lavos' arrival.  Meaning, Magus is in full force and is summoning Lavos for a final showdown, though whether or not Crono and the others come to stop him is yet to be determined.  Basically, 600 A.D. as Crono knew it the first time he stepped into that Gate.

3) The light Gryph saw in the cell was NOT a Gate...at least, in the traditional sense.  Since it was a bright white light and not the purple-blue kind from the game, I thought that would be apparent.  I also don't want to ruin the revelation (which won't take that long for you guys to figure out), but I'll give you something to work on.  You remember how Robo says that Gates are paths leading into the Entity's already-existing memories?  Well, what if the Entity was trying to create NEW memories...what exactly would He do?

As for my writing style, I took four years of creative writing classes, and that's just the way I do it.  I'm more keen on poetry, actually, so if that filters into my work, I apologize. :)

~.C.S.~
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 15, 2004, 11:17:32 am
Meh, I always considered the Entity female. Why? Well, the Entity is probably the planet, and almost every religion/mythology that personifies the planet makes it female.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 15, 2004, 06:30:13 pm
Oh pish-posh the semantics of pronouns for inanimate objects...Just refer to the damn thing as "it".

Okay, Claado...I dunno why I cared so much...I'm just giddy about this whole thing, I guess...And yeah, I figured the light-gate thingy was something different...I eagerly await more from everyone I guess...My two scenes are near completion myself...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 16, 2004, 12:08:50 pm
Is anybody going to post in the story thread?  It seems rather strange that there's so much activity in other Project ZEAL topics and not the most important one.  Sort of like shooting just outside the target, ya know?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: YbrikMetaknight on October 16, 2004, 12:43:54 pm
Maybe more like getting all your ducks in a row.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 16, 2004, 12:47:56 pm
Well, I've already posted all that my character will be involved in up until someone else starts the jailbreak scene, so I'm waiting until then.

On another note, I'll probably be posting a second character in the near future. A brief overview: A Keystonian granted magical powers via an arcane ritual involving the Rainbow Shell who may or may not be completely insane.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 16, 2004, 01:39:04 pm
Quote from: YbrikMetaknight
Maybe more like getting all your ducks in a row.


Touche.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 16, 2004, 02:08:15 pm
Quote from: Claado Shou
Is anybody going to post in the story thread?  It seems rather strange that there's so much activity in other Project ZEAL topics and not the most important one.  Sort of like shooting just outside the target, ya know?


We're still in the process of fleshing out the world we're writing about and getting on the same page.

Plus, I think a lot of us are waiting on the jailbreak scene to happen and get the ball rolling.

But yeah. This project is going to take a lot of coordination, so expect to see a lot of posting about the story.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 16, 2004, 05:53:54 pm
Name: Backer

Race: Human or Demihuman (depending on the definition of Demihuman)

Age: Between 20 and 22

Appearance: 6 feet tall, very sturdy build, brown hair that seems to have a trace of gold in it, and eyes which comprise a rainbow of color. Every color on Backer's body and anything he wears tends to be more pronounced. This effect is even more shocking when in conditions of low light, as no matter how dark it is, Backer can always be seen as if he were standing in full daylight.

Combat: Backer has a unique combat style. He wields a magically crafted sword that resembles no other; the grip is perpendicular to the blade, which has a diamond cross section and steadily tapers down to a point from the grip. One edge of the blade continues past the grip and curls back in a small hook. How he came up with this design is unknown, but he wields it expertly. His most fearsome combat abilities, however, come from his magical talent. He is capable of channeling energy and either simply tossing it at his enemy, or imbuing his sword with it (his sword having been magically altered to support this function). The forms the energy can take on roughly correspond to the CC elements: Fire (Red), Ice (Blue), Light (White), Lightning (Yellow), or Wind (Green). By combining Fire, Ice, and Lightning energy, he is also capable of mimicking Shadow (Black) energy. Once his sword is so imbued, he can either attack with it as normal, or use it to shoot out a blast of the energy. To augment this even further, he has developed a some skill in healing magic, making him virtually unstoppable (at least to non-ZEALians).

History: In 1004 AD, the rising kingdom of Porre began an experiment involving the rainbow shell. The purpose was to imbue a child with the shell's energy, creating the ultimate spellcaster. Unfortunately, the researchers lost control of the process, and all involved were killed--except the child. The frightened child somehow disappeared from the laboratory's ruins, leading the investigators to believe he was dead, and to call the attempt a disastrous failure.

Little did they know that the project had actually succeeded in empowering this child, but at a cost to him; his mind was irreversibly altered, erasing all prior knowledge, and altering his thought processes to something has been described as both superhuman and insane. The child miraculously survived alone in the wilderness for a great while, and eventually started to reintegrate with society. He started to call himself "Backer" for unknown reasons. He acts primarily as a mercenary for hire to take out dangerous monsters, but has been known to assist law-enforcement officials from time to time in dealing with particularly violent criminals.

Personality: Backer's thoughts are so chaotic that he's learned to speak little, and to be very careful about what he says so that he doesn't sound crazy. This gives him the air of being an introspective intellectual, which clashes with his occasional outbursts of rage. Through extensive training, he's learned to repress this rage until he can unleash it in battle, making him a reckless, fearless, and powerful combatant. Throughout his life, he's been searching for a meaning for his existence, but has yet to find any answers.

EDIT: Clarified the types of energy he can wield. His magical ability ends up falling somewhere in between the CT and CC styles; he wields magic naturally like in CT, but it's based off of the CC colors. On this note, since he is already able to use magic, Spekkio won't be able to do anything for him.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 16, 2004, 07:19:06 pm
Wait, is diamond even a mineral in Chrono World (much less able to forge it into a weapon?)? All I know is copper, iron, gold, denadorite, silver/mythril, bone, Rainbow Shell, shiny material, and Moon/Sunstone...Was there some Diamond weapons or armor in Trigger?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 16, 2004, 07:24:50 pm
Rainbow Shell might be the diamond of the Chrono series, or very similar in composition. Crystalpan C6 comes to mind, suggesting prism weapons are made of carbon.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 16, 2004, 07:39:03 pm
Quote from: V_Translanka
Wait, is diamond even a mineral in Chrono World (much less able to forge it into a weapon?)? All I know is copper, iron, gold, denadorite, silver/mythril, bone, Rainbow Shell, shiny material, and Moon/Sunstone...Was there some Diamond weapons or armor in Trigger?


Don't forget wood.  Crono's first weapon is the Wooden Sword, the only wooden piece of equipment in the game (Jesus=carpenter, Crono=Jesus, get it?).
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 16, 2004, 07:46:04 pm
That's not what I meant by diamond. I meant that its cross section looks like this:
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Standard fare for a longsword, shortsword, or rapier, as opposed to the circular épée, the rectangular foil, and the triangular sabre.

Besides that, it's made from steel imbued with some of Backer's magic, which makes it appear similar to something made out of rainbow shell (same source, after all), except with more of a metallic tinge.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 17, 2004, 01:09:53 am
Oh, right, my bad...I misunderstood...Sounds cool...almost too cool...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 17, 2004, 01:45:51 am
How other characters see Naomi

On paper, Naomi seems like she might have befriended Sigma - had she been born on the other side of the dimensional fence. She is generally quiet and reserved, refusing to reveal to anyone around her the myriad of fears she holds within. Although she tries her best to appear otherwise, Naomi is very insecure about herself (in all respects) and is constantly plauged by the fear that she will bring dishonour to the family name through her inadiquacies - this often results in her appearing very timid and hesitant to answer personal questions asked of her. Despite all this, Naomi occasionally summons the courage to spill her guts - often through very sarcastic rants - only to crawl back into her shell shortly afterward.

Other Zealians realize Naomi's inadequacies and have a tendency to look down their noses at her. (At least, other aristocrats. Even Gentry don't quite give her the respect they should, although Naomi is far too passive to ever demand it.) Keystonians, however, would not be so quick to judge her - as they fail to see why her peers find her unattractive, subpar in her arcane talents, and socially incompetent.

Being removed from the sources of Naomi's anxieties would probably make her a more self-confident and open person.

In combat scenarios - as many Zealians are - Naomi is somewhat reluctant to engage an enemy out of fear for her life. While she is a subpar enchantress, struggling to successfully pull off basic techniques, and her secret studies of summoning have gotten her nowhere - in the eyes of a Keystonian she is quite useful for her training as a wizard alone. This sense of "feeling needed" would undoubtedly boost her confidence and in turn, her competence in battle. (However, wielding a weapon of any sort is simply out of the question. She's just not that coordinated.)

Given her dislike of the nature of enchanting in general, Naomi is probably one of the few Zealians you would meet that takes little pride in wearing her (pink) subfusc, shedding it whenever possible.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 17, 2004, 02:37:20 am
Quote from: Claado Shou
Quote from: V_Translanka
Wait, is diamond even a mineral in Chrono World (much less able to forge it into a weapon?)? All I know is copper, iron, gold, denadorite, silver/mythril, bone, Rainbow Shell, shiny material, and Moon/Sunstone...Was there some Diamond weapons or armor in Trigger?


Don't forget wood.  Crono's first weapon is the Wooden Sword, the only wooden piece of equipment in the game (Jesus=carpenter, Crono=Jesus, get it?).


So what do you propose the mop was made out of?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 17, 2004, 02:53:39 pm
Don't remember the Mop as a weapon.  Besides, plastic?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 17, 2004, 06:19:37 pm
A question/point worth noting about Backer, Leebot -

The first subplot involves Toma coming into posession of the Rainbow Shell. I don't think the implications of the this have been entirely explored yet, have they?

Porre should have seized the shell in the conquest of Guardia in the original timeline. We can still suggest that Toma acquiring the shell does not effect the shell's destiny in the long run, as it is acquired when Porre makes its invasion in that scenario as well.

Whatever the case, Backer couldn't have traveled through time and gained immunity, right? Which means that he's at least the result of the Toma alteration. Upon being called to the EoT he'd gain time traveller's immunity, so we don't have to worry about his fate afterward.

Perhaps you've already kicked all this around. Just curious what your thoughts were on that scenario.


How others see Sessimine

Sessimine is charming with a capital C - and not a cutesy, adorable charming. She's the sophisticated, fascinating sort of charming who has as many talents and reasons to be adored as she does admirers. And while there are obvious reasons to to find Sessimine attractive - her appearance - many more find themselves enamoured by her plethora of artistic and social graces. She is incredibly self-confident (perhaps approaching the point of arrogance), extroverted (perhaps approaching the point of needing others to socialize with), flirtatious (most certainly approaching the point of being a tart), and expressive (without question, a drama queen). Of course, one suspects that much of Sessimine's appeal stems from the fact that she abuses her arcane powers quite liberally.

Its also worth noting that as an instructor, she's a encyclopedia of arcane knowledge - although much to her dismay, she still can't stack up to the book-smart sorcerer in that regard. Sessimine really has a dislike for sorcerers, as she views them a possible rival for attention.

Zealians and Keystonians alike would find themselves captivated by Sessimine - despite the fact that a fair number of Zealians are quite envious of her and Keystonians dislike her for obivious reasons, upon coming face to face with the enchantress once again they find themselves forgetting why they ever disliked her so in the first place.

As one who takes every opportunity to flaunt her talents, Sessimine would have little hesitation to rush into a dangerous situation - never considering that a foe could possibly be her equal. Fortunately for her sake, she's generally right - although a mere bruise or two (god forbid a scar!) would send her crying all the way back to ZEAL and make her think twice about being so hasty in the future. Unlike her daughter, she isn't clumsy and occasionally could be found wielding a fan - although she's hardly strong enough to be able to be anything more than a minor annoyance with one.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 17, 2004, 06:40:59 pm
Quote from: Symmetry
A question/point worth noting about Backer, Leebot -

The first subplot involves Toma coming into posession of the Rainbow Shell. I don't think the implications of the this have been entirely explored yet, have they?

Porre should have seized the shell in the conquest of Guardia in the original timeline. We can still suggest that Toma acquiring the shell does not effect the shell's destiny in the long run, as it is acquired when Porre makes its invasion in that scenario as well.

Whatever the case, Backer couldn't have traveled through time and gained immunity, right? Which means that he's at least the result of the Toma alteration. Upon being called to the EoT he'd gain time traveller's immunity, so we don't have to worry about his fate afterward.

Perhaps you've already kicked all this around. Just curious what your thoughts were on that scenario.


I'd already considered all of that. In fact, it was my intention to make him be one of the results of the altered timeline. In this timeline, the shell gets to Porre much earlier (possibly Toma sells it to them), and they have time to do research on it. While they were gearing up for the invasion of Guardia, this was one of their projects. (Note that the project took place in 1004 AD, before the invasion of Guardia.)
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 17, 2004, 08:12:15 pm
Quote from: Claado Shou
Don't remember the Mop as a weapon.  Besides, plastic?


You charm it off a Nu in the hunting grounds in 65,000,000B.C. I'm gonna assume it's not made of plastic.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Claado Shou on October 17, 2004, 08:26:10 pm
Quote from: Radical_Dreamer
Quote from: Claado Shou
Don't remember the Mop as a weapon.  Besides, plastic?


You charm it off a Nu in the hunting grounds in 65,000,000B.C. I'm gonna assume it's not made of plastic.


Yeah, I just looked it up.  It's a weapon for Crono anyway, so there's no dissolution of the Crono/Jesus connection.  Besides, a mop is used for cleaning...Jesus washed his disciples' feet and cleansed mankind of their sins.  So it makes my case even stronger. :)
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Aplateofsashimi on October 19, 2004, 01:11:46 am
I have been feeling it would be interesting if soemone writes from the perspective of an enhasian, I know there are already too many Zealians but I think this one is quite different from any other Zealian you may come across, I still need to work out the final details of  his story but I think the character himself is pretty much defined like for talking about him.

Hansaad, son of  Jasktin The Summoner, one of the most remembered master mages from the last times. Beign the son of a such powerful and recognized magician as his father was, his entrance to the Academy of Najran was right in the pocket, yet what it was in the mind of Hansaad was something wide differen -to join Enhasa, the holy ground, and find in dreams the answers he seek-

You see, Hansaad is sort of a teologist, that would be the best way to describe him and his high interest  in religon and philosophical research  -Those are his reason for joining Zeal-, yet is a kinda of a rebel, he is just not so happy with the religious system stablished in Zeal, as he says in one of the parts I have already wrote for my chapter:

´´ The gods... I have dreamed of them all... yet none of them provides me with answers.´´

Also what I think is cool about him is the fact that he despises magic (something totally oposite from what is stablished in Zeal culture!) as he think it only twist the minds of man and turning life into a ¨neverending, perversed search for power, first the power over the nature, then over man himself¨. So, altough he is an innate user and a very powerful one , he will use most of the time weapons maded in the Keystone dimension, only using magic when there is really no other way, as a result of this, his true power remains asleep.

It all would start when, in one of his dreams,  he is able to have visions from the Keystone dimension (How I still dont know) and other dimensions as well, he then becomes aware of the council and project Zeal , and what they are doign  seems really disgusting to him, he is able to see the great perversion in the hearts of the members of the coucil and start wondering in a way to stop them, he comes to realize that a way for achieve this would be to turn into public light what the council is and their sick experiment of messing other dimensions. what he doesnt know is that the council already knew what he was after and have set a group of  Nanashis to eliminate him, because he knows too much...

Well, that is basically it, what I still need to workout is how he will finally escape from certain death (as he doesnt have any studies in magic yet he is a innate user, he has no chance of defeating the assasins after him) in Zeal and join Gaspar in the Keystone dimension, as for what I understand Gaspar wont come to a way for dimensional travel until the last chapters of the fanfic, what I tought is that maybe among the lines of the Zeal Agents  insurrected soldiers have arosed, and they travel from one dimension to another seeking for a way to stop the council, one of those rebels is the one that rescues Hansaad from death and takes him to the Keystone dimension or even the end of time itself.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 19, 2004, 06:04:53 am
Enhansa is just part of Zeal.

So, what? That brings no. of ZEALians to Keystoners somewhere around 20/1?

Am I the only one sick of them (didn't want to make one really)? Obviously I am...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 19, 2004, 06:29:40 pm
It's just difficult, Plate. The Council is absurdly secretive and paranoid, so learning of their doings and plans even through dreaming is very farfetched and out of the question. Additionally, the Council really can't peer into his mind and figure out he had a dream, can they? And the ZEAL/Keystone crossover won't fly unless you're in the jailbreak or the Council has a reason to dispatch you, as they do with Naomi and Sessimine for instance. Lastly, the Council wouldn't tolerate an insurrection. Now, I feel pretty bad, so I'm going over to Chronicles to see if Guardian of Ages will grace us with his fanfiction that he's posted there.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: ZeaLitY on October 19, 2004, 08:34:25 pm
4. Rashelle Tujaas

Rashelle, if she were to be summed up in three words, would be a brilliant tactical specialist. She hails from the 15th century A.D. in the Keystone Dimension, a Porrean officer with a Type-A personality, little tolerance for inactivity and slothfulness, and several reinforcing motivators that have led her through the highest military academies and have toned her mind into a battle-computing machine. She doesn't care much for artistic, emotional concepts or things in life, as her military training has repressed these urges and likings. She evokes the utmost fear in her enemies, who are numerous; the 1400s are a tumultuous time for Porre, as the old vanquished states are lobbying from indepence after four centuries of submission. Rashelle is sent on various missions to subdue the more active segments of the dissenters. She grows to be hated with such ferocity that a ludicrous number of fanatical soldiers in a combined army of Chorasians and Mystics throw themselves upon her strike force, eventually getting the upper-hand long enough to kill her before being massacred themselves.

During one of the subplots, Gaspar notices her pure excellence in matters of warfare, and her subsequent death. He extracts her milliseconds before a hail of bullets ravage her fortified position on the plains of Choras.

Please consult the World of Keystone/ZEAL thread for confirmation about the history of the world as it relates to her.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 19, 2004, 09:50:15 pm
Quote from: V_Translanka
So, what? That brings no. of ZEALians to Keystoners somewhere around 20/1?

Am I the only one sick of them (didn't want to make one really)? Obviously I am...


Although some would probably find me saying this to be hypocritical, I agree. We really do not need anymore Zealians. In fact, from this point on - I think we should insist that all future "main" characters come from Keystone. (For the time being) A rival to square off with from ZEAL is fine.

For one, the jailbreak is already locked. Secondly, we have quite enough Zealians with moral dilemmas that might send them to Keystone. And finally, the Crown vs Council subplot is already well-stocked as well.

If you've already suggested you were going to write as a Zealian (and have yet to finalize your sketch or something), then that's okay.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 19, 2004, 10:04:35 pm
Quote from: ZeaLitY
4. Rashelle Tujaas

Rashelle, if she were to be summed up in three words, would be a brilliant tactical specialist. She hails from the 15th century A.D. in the Keystone Dimension, a Porrean officer with a Type-A personality, little tolerance for inactivity and slothfulness, and several reinforcing motivators that have led her through the highest military academies and have toned her mind into a battle-computing machine. She doesn't care much for artistic, emotional concepts or things in life, as her military training has repressed these urges and likings. She evokes the utmost fear in her enemies, who are numerous; the 1400s are a tumultuous time for Porre, as the old vanquished states are lobbying from indepence after four centuries of submission. Rashelle is sent on various missions to subdue the more active segments of the dissenters. She grows to be hated with such ferocity that a ludicrous number of fanatical soldiers in a combined army of Chorasians and Mystics throw themselves upon her strike force, eventually getting the upper-hand long enough to kill her before being massacred themselves.

During one of the subplots, Gaspar notices her pure excellence in matters of warfare, and her subsequent death. He extracts her milliseconds before a hail of bullets ravage her fortified position on the plains of Choras.

Please consult the World of Keystone/ZEAL thread for confirmation about the history of the world as it relates to her.


Hmm... this could lead to an interesting relationship with Backer... very interesting...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on October 23, 2004, 07:29:18 am
I've decided that Hunter & Amy are going to have a brief contact with the FF...It's going to change them somewhat...Giving them both a kind of red barnacle-crusty growths on their arms & legs (respectively, not both) which will give them increased strength in those extremities (along with a general inlargement of said body-parts), but may (or may not) cause some impairments later...because they (the growths, not their body-parts) will continue to grow...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Dunsparce on October 23, 2004, 04:44:46 pm
I got an idea for a very... unique character

Name: Closest thing in human tongue is Jai (pronounced Yigh or Yie)

A stange super-intellegent lifeform for the age after human eventually leave the face of the earth, making other animals such as squid to evolve, move to land, and become the dominate beings of earth (based off of a theory from Discovery channel's The Future is Wild) Large, Dark red Squid like creatur with an anvil-like stucture atop of its head and Large Eyes. I got a pic from a Dragon Quest game that kinda looks like it: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Moolmomo/inspector.gif)
Can speak telepathically typed like this. Has pathetic physical attack, but makes up for it in high defense, high magic defense, somewhat average magic attack, and has a little lower than average stamina and speed. can use some shadow but has water innate. has a thin coat of mucus on the outside. It doesn't fully understand all human morals, but tries its best. attacks using its tentacles, and is unable to have dual techs and triple techs under normal conditions.  It may be blunt at times, but has no intentions of being rude in any manner.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 24, 2004, 01:19:22 pm
Well. Unique is certainly the word to use.

There aren't any logisticial problems of Gaspar summoning Jai as he comes from the very far future, but something tells me that people in general aren't going to react well to a floating squid-like creature.

But then again, CC had walking, talking plants. @_@

Maybe for the sake of not arousing mass hysteria wherever he goes, he has someway of appearing in human form?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 24, 2004, 07:33:04 pm
Let's see, CC had...

A dream of a turnip
A voodoo doll
A baby dragon
A genetically-engineered test-tube monster
A flower
A little blue alien
Many demihumans

A futuristic squid isn't out of the question for being too off the wall. The problem will be if you can write him. It's relatively easy to write characters that think like humans (even if they have a different moral code), but it's quite a different story writing characters who have an entirely different thought process. Unless you're an experienced writer, I'd recommend against trying it; it will likely end up looking like you're making it up as you go along.
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Post by: Dunsparce on October 25, 2004, 06:42:22 pm
Don't worry. Its personallity isn't too complicated, seeing as it "speaks" its mind fully and doesn't hide its own feelings that much. I was not suprised you mentioned the odd characters from CC, as they were the inspiration for me to create such an odd thing.
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Post by: V_Translanka on October 26, 2004, 06:19:46 pm
Quote from: Dunsparce
[OOC] Jai will be inn the EOT prior to the story. I don't want to give away too much info about it (Jai). lets just say it treid to mess around with time travel and ended up there. strangly, there is no way of it returning to its own time, due to the actual date it came from has not been recorded in the humans BC/AD system, but rather in a difdferent system. B0 is the year the humans defeated the reptites. B as in 2nd age (the age of humans) and it is currently D3175, D meaning the fourth age (the age of Octopods) . The only info about its era is that the sun is much larger and more orange-ish, and has more complex technology then any human can comprehend, also the Pentapuss from CC is actually from this era as a result of the same event that made Jai end up in the EOT. Also Jai's most closest ansestors found in the Present are the octopods in the Hekran's cave.


It seems like you should have just posted this here, rather than in the story-introduction thread...Unless you're going to add an actual written story part to it or something...Especially since you're having your character basically start out in the EoT now...That could really fug with some of the other people who have to work with characters also in the EoT (ie Gaspar, Spekkio, and my Magness characters)...
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on October 26, 2004, 07:09:46 pm
Yeah -

If you wouldn't mind, could you repost that info here somewhere and scatch it out of the story thread?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on October 26, 2004, 10:23:56 pm
Well, this board doesn't allow you to delete your posts, so ZeaLitY or RD will have to do that (I believe they're the only ones here with administrative privileges).
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on October 27, 2004, 12:50:28 am
Consider it done.
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Post by: Dunsparce on October 27, 2004, 04:21:50 pm
...
My modem's dead.
And all my acumulated info for Jai that was on another site was completely removed from the face of the earth (the site was dead, so the site's admins deleted it). Everything I have to do from memory. If you chcked my previous post on some other thread, you will see that I agreed for it to be simplified to Jai being summoned to the EOT instead of all that fancey stuff. That's a relief. I think what I said earlier was kinda stupid anyways. A problem is that I have no idea how any of everyone elses characters would react to such an odd creature, cause I am trying really hard to not get anyone frustrated at me so I am quite nervous about posting anything else without being critisized for having odd ideas.
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Post by: Leebot on October 27, 2004, 06:23:15 pm
I won't criticize your ideas for being odd, but if they plain won't work or will clash heavily with preestablished material, then I'll have a problem. There are ways to make Jai seem more acceptable to other characters, such as giving him the ability to shapeshift into a humanoid form. Also remember that Gaspar would have to have a reason to summon him to the End of Time, so maybe shapeshifting abilities would play into this. That's just a suggestion, though.
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Post by: Symmetry on October 27, 2004, 07:30:35 pm
I really don't see a problem with Jai already being in the End of Time when the attention turns there. Its not as if his presence ruins anything. (At least that I'm aware of.)

The capacity to shapeshift would definately make him more palatible to other characters, as well as build on reasons why Gaspar would summon him to the End of Time. Or maybe you could stick with your original idea entirely and play on the fact that Jai has to constantly be on the lookout for people thinking he's some terrible monster.
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Post by: 1stoftheLast on October 28, 2004, 05:03:33 am
I don't think that Jai whould have to be a shapeshifter to be accepted.  I'm sure some would fine it quite odd, but on the other hand most people, espescially those in El Nido, wouldn't have too much of a problem with it, seeing as how they have all the demi humans, monsters, dwarves and whatnot roaming around.

I am reminded of a part in Chrono Trigger where you learn that some monsters co-exist with humans peacefully.  Granted that was only a piano playing Kilwala, but I'm sure Jai could be at least tenatively accepted.  Either that or when out with the crew on missions everyone could say that Jai is thier pet.
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Post by: Claado Shou on October 28, 2004, 09:55:14 am
I posted this earlier in the character interactions thread or whatever it's called, but I think I'll just post it again in the right place.

SERIAN RENDATH

Serian is from a dimension in which Lavos and his spawn have begun to reign over the planet in 2300 A.D.  He belongs to a group of survivors known as the Tyrans, humans given incredible intuition and slight physical deformities by the magical dust given off during Lavos' eruption, remnants of his shell that fused with their bodies.  They live underground and have been secretly fighting a war with the Lavos spawn, and though they have been having great success in their endeavor, supplies are running low.  So, the leaders send out Serian, one of their best, to the mainland in order to get supplies.  

Serian is a very physically-tone and mentally-sound character, who doesn't have any emotion left over from the genetic changes he and his people went through.  His brain is incredibly logical, and in battle, his muscles oftentimes move on their own to escape danger, a side effect of his increased agility and intuition.  He cannot use magic, though shards of Lavos' shell, stored by his people and carried by those on important quests, allow him to do certain things that normally would be impossible for humans to accomplish.  He wields a single short sword and wears thin body armor, with no greaves or footwear.  He is a simple, very intelligent, warrior.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Dunsparce on October 28, 2004, 04:19:18 pm
...
hmmm
...

 Okay he can appear to be just a mere 11 year old bot with yellowhair and sage-like clothes. But he cannot stay in a guise while sleeping, and he still will only speak using his mind rather than mouth. You see, Jai in human years is 47, but is quite young for his speicie, but bright for one of his age. One of his speicie cannot make photonic sounds (aside from a strange clicking noise).
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 01, 2004, 09:19:31 pm
Gargeth (“Garg”) Wardell

Garg's parents are irrelevant, his childhood unremarkable. When you gossip in the alleyways about Garg Wardell, there is jut one thing you need to know:

Toma f--king ripped him off.

At least, that’s his story. When you see him, he’ll probably be flaunting his shard of the Rainbow Shell, claiming that Toma followed him into the Giant’s Claw and, upon seeing the shell, tried to kill him. He’ll yell that “The bastard didn’t let me escape until I had nothing left but my bruised skin and a few flakes!” but the truth is that if the coward were to have followed Toma in and found his corpse before the Rainbow Shell, he’d have run without a second thought and left his gravestone up to whoever in Dorino felt most guilty of their greed.

In fact, that is precisely what he did when Toma died. You see, Garg overheard Toma talking to a barmaid in Choras about the Rainbow Shell and Garg, being humanly selfish, decided to follow Toma to the Giant’s Claw, thinking that maybe he’d get a chance to swipe the Rainbow Shell first—or kill Toma for it before he get off the island. Originally, Garg ran into one small problem: Toma died in the cave before ever finding the shell. Then ZEAL changed his life.

Toma got to the innermost chamber of the cave with ease, and so, therefore, did Garg. Yet the Rainbow Shell was quite a bit more than Garg was expecting. He realized that he couldn’t possibly carry it out alone, and since he had no friends of note in high places, he wasn’t going to get this thing all to himself. Garg decided that his best option was to try to share the glory with Toma.

Toma didn’t seem too keen on the idea when Garg approached him from the shadows, offering to lend a helping hand in relocating the shell (which, incidentally, would have broken both their spines and probably their arms, should they have attempted it), and Garg, uneasy in the depths of the cave and still caught up in the shell’s prismatic luster, popped a sucker punch in Toma’s face. In Toma’s following disorientation, Garg managed to pluck a few hefty shards of the Rainbow Shell and escape into the labyrinth.

It wasn’t long, of course, before Toma got his friends in Dorino to pick up the shell and spread tales of his honor and valor in retrieving such a great artifact. Obviously, it wasn’t much longer before Garg, stubbornly seeking his renown, publicly challenged Toma’s (and, thus, the town of Dorino’s) claim to the Rainbow Shell. Alone, he wouldn’t have been heard by anyone but the drunkard next to him at the Choras Inn, but Garg was not witless; he won over the Choras Elders’ support in exchange for a share of the prestige that could be gained. And so the propaganda war ensued.

While Toma is assuredly more popular among the royalty and the villages of Truce and Dorino, Choras and the majority of Porre support Garg by pure promise alone. It is this position that Gaspar needs to utilize to get to the bottom of ZEAL’s interference in time.

--

A fun little write-up... I actually plan on detailing the rest of his life at some point, but I felt this was important to describe first. The final bit may be a bit presumptuous, but I do have several options of where to go with Garg and of what his importance may be; one of them involved a long, arduous series of attempts to steal the shell from Toma and seal it back in the Giant's Claw and observe the repercussions to see if that may have been the change (an experiment, per se), but nothing is yet definite without approval from the Men.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on November 02, 2004, 11:50:51 pm
Everything looks okay to me.

Since our writer for Toma seems to have gone AWOL, this seems like a particularly good background for the subplot.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on November 03, 2004, 12:27:24 am
The only thing I'd like to note is that one of my characters' history has already stated that the Rainbow Shell ended up in Dorino, so we can't change that at first (Not that we can't, just that my work would all go to waste). After my character has reached the End of Time, we may be able to go back and alter the fate of the Rainbow Shell, but I, for one, don't see any reason to do so; the crew will probably have more pressing concerns.
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Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 03, 2004, 11:47:46 am
Yes, that is what I intended; everyone will have to be exempt from changes to the Keystone before Garg may investigate by altering what ZEAL has already altered. But that is his purpose: to see what happened, since as Zeality tells me, it is so far unsure. Also, I am certain that if that is what Garg will be sent to do, he will fail miserably quite a few times before he actually does anything at all in Keystone's collective interest.

Anyway, my main concern is this: was it all right to suggest what areas may be particularly supportive of which "owner"? I.e., monarchy/Truce/Dorino for Toma, Porre/Choras for Garg?
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Post by: Leebot on November 03, 2004, 11:27:49 pm
More on Backer:

In combat with any humanoid, Backer prefers to focus on swordplay rather than using his magical abilities. While his swordplay is precise and graceful, his magical abilities are anything but. Contrary to other mages focus mana behind the scenes and release it in an elegant spell, Backer can only pull out elemental energy directly from the mana layer, and then exercise a small measure of control over it. He can either shoot out the channeled energy immediately (the most efficient use), or focus it into an orb of energy in his hand before releasing it in a more powerful, sudden blast. Alternatively, he can store energy in his sword, then either shoot it out or allow it to discharge when he strikes the enemy.

Channeling energy has a few notable effects on Backer's appearance. Whenever he channels an element, the irises of his eyes change from prismatic to match its color. As he increases the flow of energy, his skin tone starts to shift to match this color as well. When he's at maximum output, he starts to give off a powerful glow of this color as well.

For all of his skill and power, Backer has a couple of notable weaknesses. For one, he works very poorly with others, and often prefers to operate alone. Additionally, for all his cool exterior, he covers a tumultuous personality beneath, covering up a lifetime of rage and pain. Given the right circumstances, he may snap. I'm thinking that this may occur when a ZEALian enchantress tries to enchant him; the mind-altering effects of enchantment spells could have disastrous effects on a mind like his.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 04, 2004, 06:07:36 pm
Further Background On Gargeth Wardell:

You know the thief NPC from Chrono Trigger (ED: FFVI) (find it here (http://www.geocities.com/cyberfenrir/waxmuseum/thief.gif) if you aren't familiar)? That's pretty much how Garg looked around the time that he followed Toma into the Giant's Claw and for a short period after (mostly before he went public with his Rainbow Shard). His hair was naturally blonde, but it was constantly so filthy that no one could say he wasn't brunette. He certainly wasn't blind in one eye (or, for all anyone knows, missing the eye itself), but there were some pretty outstanding scars all around his eyes (and, actually, all over his face) that made one wonder how close he'd come to finding himself blind. His trousers ratty, ripped and soiled and his shirt often either missing or little more than a makeshift poncho consisting of a torn potato sack, he wasn't much to look at.

Beneath his appearance, though, was wit and a hint of skill. If nothing, he was more than half the dreamer and "archaeologist" that Toma was--if not the man's equal. In truth, his only disadvantage was never having heard of such a thing as the Rainbow Shell before Toma had already made his plans. Given as much time, it is possible that Gargeth Wardell would be the name on the tip of every Dorino resident's tongue, but such is obviously not the case. Regardless, Garg was prone to mistakes--among them, drinking and (consequentially) gambling. While much of his problems were physiochemically inevitable, it cannot be denied that it was a choice of his--one choice only--to "experience" alcohol for his first time. That choice cost him all the inheritance that could have taken him so far.

For you see, the only reason Garg's parents are a note of obscurity is that he made them so. In the normal course of his life, his parents were great, influential citizens of the Choras region. His father was brother to a former mayor of Porre, bringing in a partial inheritance from Garg's grandfather that, compared to most other people in Choras, made him nearly a millionare, and his mother's family owned many of the crafty businesses in the Choras market. With their combined contributions, Garg would have been among the five richest men on the continent, but Garg was known for being a sassy, rude little beast. So when his parents died on a tour of the Hero's Grave--actually an appraisal visit, as they were thinking of purchasing the plot--both sides of his family rebuked him, refusing to give him either shelter or his rightful dues. Had Garg ever had the opportunity to study interregional law as his parents wished, he could have legally obtained what he wanted. Unfortunately, the only skill he had to fall back on was his fascination with larceny plots.

To make a long story short, he underestimated the security of his families' estates, and he never managed to regain a thousandth as much through mischief as he had once lost by it. With what little money he managed to keep, he eventually fell more and more deeply ill with alcoholism, until that fateful day when he invited himself to play follower to Toma's leader.

Side Note: What exactly is the title of Choras' leader in 600 A.D.? Or are we not given it in/able to infer it from the game?
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Symmetry on November 04, 2004, 11:51:12 pm
Although that link to the picture doesn't seem to be working for me now, I checked it earlier and I think its a sprite from FFVI, not Chrono Trigger - not that it matters, though.

I don't seem to remember the leader having a title - probably something like Elder. Feel free to improvise, unless someone can dig up the actual title, if one exists.

Quote from: Leebot
I'm thinking that this may occur when a ZEALian enchantress tries to enchant him; the mind-altering effects of enchantment spells could have disastrous effects on a mind like his.


If you've got a particular scene in which this would happen, it could be easily arranged. Sessimine will be on the Keystonian side of the fence shortly enough.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Leebot on November 05, 2004, 10:05:44 am
I don't have anything particular in mind for what leads up to it, yet. Once he snaps, well, imagine Id from Xenogears with slightly different priorities. Quite literally, this effect would strip away his Ego and Superego, leaving only his Id in control of his mind (impulse and emotion only, no logic or conscience). He likely won't actually kill anyone, but rather would try to make them believe he's going to kill them. In "Id" form, his power level will be somewhat greater than normal, as he would lack his usual qualms about killing others.

He'll probably be on a rampage for a few posts, cutting a swath through reality and occasionally tapping into his hidden power to rend open a time portal. The rest of the party may or may not try to track him down and subdue him. Behind the scenes, his Ego will be working to repair his mind and return it to its normal state.
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Post by: Claado Shou on November 05, 2004, 02:41:44 pm
Yeah, that thief sprite is from FFVI, not Chrono Trigger.  It's one of the pirates that follows Edgar in the World of Ruin, when he's known as Gerad.  Check this page (http://tsgk.captainn.net/sprites.php?s=snes&g=finalfantasy6_misccharacters) to see (he's about two-thirds of the way down in the center).

EDIT: Maybe this thief sprite would suit your fancy more?  

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/585226/CT-thief.JPG)
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Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 05, 2004, 04:11:03 pm
A: I was thinking FFVI and yet typed Chrono Trigger. Nah, I wasn't mistaken, just stupid (since I specifically searched for the Fenrir's FFVI site to find the sprite). Something is the hell wrong with me, it seems.

B: That's Toma, and while they bear certain resemblances, Garg has a distinctly different appearance from Toma. Especially when it comes to post-Rainbow Shell appearances, which I'll have a write-up about with, just as my last post, a description of his personality changes and the events since then, done soon. First post: incident, second post: pre-incident, third post: post-incident. Not to mention an actually story piece or two before everyone meets up at the End of Time.

ED: I talked with Zeality and we concluded that Choras is probably headed by an elder, the same way that the other towns of 600 A.D. are. Come 1000 A.D. Choras' map has joined the convention and includes a "Mayor's Mansion" similar to those in the other towns of 1000 A.D., so it stands to reason that Choras would have similar leadership during the previous 400 years as well.
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Post by: Claado Shou on November 06, 2004, 09:31:32 am
CTfreak, how old was Garg when Toma found the Rainbow Shell?  What's the age difference between the two of them?  I can't seem to find it anywhere...

EDIT: I modded a CT sprite and made something that looks like my character Serian Rendath.  This is the basic body shape and coloring of the Tyran people.  Try to imagine him with short spines on his skin and you've got a good idea.

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/585226/SerianSprite.JPG)

Also, anybody wanting a sprite mod done for their character can just ask.  I have a bunch of experience doing FFVI and CT mods, so...yeah.  Just ask.
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Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 06, 2004, 05:36:55 pm
I'd figure they're about the same age, unless someone wants to suggest Toma is over the hill (40+), in which case Garg would be younger. For sure, he's in his late 20's to mid 30's, depending on how old Toma himself actually is.

Afterthought: choosing randomly from a prime numbers chart, I'd wager that Garg was born between A.D. 563 and A.D. 569.
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Post by: Radical_Dreamer on November 06, 2004, 05:49:23 pm
We can establish Toma's age, because his birthday is on his gravestone. I don't have it handy, but we don't need to speculate on it.
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Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 06, 2004, 09:16:12 pm
3/6/634?

That doesn't make sense.
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Post by: Claado Shou on November 06, 2004, 10:45:41 pm
Quote from: chronotriggerfreak
3/6/634?

That doesn't make sense.


That's the day Toma dies, not the day he's born.  Let's just say 570 and be done with it.
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Post by: Radical_Dreamer on November 06, 2004, 11:12:23 pm
Hmmm. I thought  it was both. Guess I was wrong. 570 is as good an estimate as any though.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: V_Translanka on November 07, 2004, 05:30:20 am
How much is their exact age going to matter? I mean, it's not like you're going to outright state & specify their age in your writing, right? I guess you could though...whatever...
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Post by: chronotriggerfreak on November 07, 2004, 10:47:55 am
The specific age doesn't matter, but I needed to know how old Toma was--aproximately--before I could say how old Garg was in relation to Toma. I suspected they were about the same age, but if Toma was going to be called forty or fifty years old, then Garg would have to be called younger. And the age relationship is quite important, given the politics-like nature of their overall relationship.

Besides, his age would change such phrases as "Garg's younger/older counterpart," and those can be used without much distraction at all.
Title: Character Sketches.
Post by: Dunsparce on December 27, 2004, 09:18:32 pm
OK I have no idea where to put this but I would like to point out that since Jai is techically a monster, his moveset would be monster moves, meaning none of his attacks are original.

Crimson Rain/HP down
Mystic Ray/Shadow
Psychoteinesis
Blizzard/Chaos