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Post by veleth95 on May 27, 2013 20:43:45 GMT -5
Name: Festus Suchiiru Age: 26 Race: Human Occupation: Swordsmith Ability: Can manipulate the temperatures of metal Power: Roughly a Stage 2 boss
Festus stands at around 5'6" and has a muscular build. His hair is shoulder length and kept in a pony tail to keep it from lighting on fire as he works. His eyes are dark green with gold around the pupil. He wears a loose, black robe with a fire pattern embroidered into it. When making or using swords he keeps a strip of leather in front of his face to protect it from sparks flying off the metal.
Festus has worked in the Human Village making swords for over ten years. He uses his ability to cut down on the time needed to make katanas and always tries to get the job done early. He is a very careful person and tries his best to make it out of a situation in one piece. He is also very independent and has made every sword on his own since his apprenticeship ended. His house is in the Human Village and consists of a first floor on which he does his metallurgy and a second where he lives. He learned to use the swords he makes in combat on his own time due to the amount of incidents that threaten the safety of the Human Village, and he always brings an extra sword with him whenever he needs to see customers outside the village.
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Brine
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Post by Brine on May 28, 2013 0:39:28 GMT -5
A few questions here... Even for Touhou, Festus' ability seems very vaguely defined. What does he need to do to manipulate the temperature? Touch it? Be in "range"? And how high can he make the temperature go? Also, you talk a lot about his swords and sword combat, but... what about his danmaku? Humans are limited by the spell card rules just as much as youkai are; you can't just suddenly pull out a sword and start slashing people, even if there -is- an incident going on. (If nothing else, you'll get yourself severely bapped by Reimu for doing that...)
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Post by maltramac on May 26, 2013 1:30:47 GMT -5
Well, Youmu has no problems shooting bullets out of her sword. And if people like Shizuha or Futo can translate their abilities into danmaku, I don't see why manipulating the temperature of metal wouldn't work. Just stick to the theme when naming spellcards and it should work fine.
Some more details on his ability would be nice. It's not more vague than some of ZUN's profiles (I still have no clue what exactly Yuugi's ability is, other than a Confucius reference), in my opinion, but ZUN's writing shouldn't be used as a standard for OCs. (Again, Yuugi's ability. Also the Ten Desires backstory mess between Futo and Tojiko.)
I'm guessing he only heats the metal up enough to melt it and do his job, as opposed to Utsuho levels of heat, but a confirmation would be nice.
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Brine
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Post by Brine on May 28, 2013 11:10:55 GMT -5
I don't have a problem with swords being used for danmaku in the slightest, but the way it's currently written, it sounds more like he's saying that he tries to fight youkai with the swords themselves, not with danmaku. That's all I'm saying.
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