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 Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:58 pm
Name: Thanos Barabutes
Nickname: TB, Titanian (after the comic book character of the same name)
Age: 21
Birthday: November 1
Sign: Scorpio
Gemstone: Follows your zodiac sign.
Blood Type: O-
Fav. Food: Rassberry Cheesecake
Hated Food: Raw Fish
School: DCU
Hobbies:
MMA Training: While he's only been doing it since he was sixteen, Thanos fines incredibly joy in training to be a UFC fighter in his later years. He's mixed some karate and judo into his arsenal, but his MMA fighting is the strongest of the techniques he has. He has a wave master set up in his apartment that he regularly practices against.
Kittens: He has a soft spot for cute fuzzy little kittens with their tiny kitten feets and their squeaky meows and their triangle tail. If Thanos sees kittens (or even cats, really) he'll stop whatever he's doing and scrunch down to their level to pet their heads lightly with a finger. He finds them incredibly adorable and has on more than one occasion rescued a kitten from the bushes and adopted it, regardless of whether he has space or permit to do so. He has since ( after four kittens rescued ) tried to temper his love of kittens with filling his blog with adorable kitten Vines and gifs. It only slightly seems to help.
Video Games: When not training or gushing over tiny furry felines, Thanos plays video games. He plays a lot of dungeon crawlers were he plays 'glass cannons:' mages built for maximum damage output and judicious use of the dodge key. He takes great pleasure in building his characters just so and is incredibly giddy when his plans work out the way he wants them too. He plays some shooters as well, but games like Diablo are his bread and butter. If he can play a mage, he will without a doubt.
Virtues:
Unshakeable: Thanos isn't the type of person to let sour situations get him down. Things turn sour at work? He shrugs and works around it. A girl breaks up with him? He'll say he understands, and look calm about the whole thing. Does he lose an MMA match? He turns it into a learning experience. He tries his best to look at situations rationally and not be bogged down by emotional responses. It doesn't always work, but in his experience, it's better to logic your way through a situation, then to have a response to it later.
Resourceful: Thanos has a knack for finding clever and quick ways to overcome problems. Whether its a simple as substituting one product for another, to as complex as jerry-rigging a device to help remove cardboard bails from the bailer, he can figure it out. Give him a few minutes, some objects to work with, and he's golden. This has saved his skin several times. Depending on the solution, he'll show it to coworkers or friends so they don't have to deal with the problem either.
Flaws:
Overly Optimistic: Thanos believes the best in the world. Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise, and it takes a lot of change that in his mind. This leaves him vulnerable to be taken advantage of, however. Many times he has been ripped off, stranded, never paid back, or cheated on simply because he has a hard time seeing the bad in people. Even if you show your true colors, he's liable to give you the benefit of the doubt for far longer than he should have.
Aimless: Put simply, Thanos has no direction in his life. He's going to school, but maybe he'll be an MMA fighter, or maybe do construction work. He has very little he wants to do in his life except for play video games, foster kittens, and train. He will move towards goals in his hobbies and interests, usually with a good amount of gusto to get good at them, but overall he's content where he's at. This ends up not jiving with people who see potential in him; "if only you had drive" they say, and Thanos just shrugs. It's not that he doesn't have a purpose, per say, he just doesn't see the need to "do something" with his life. Plenty of people do things with their lives, so he doesn't have to.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Teal
Hair: Brownish red
Face: Generally has stubble on his chin and sideburns
Clothes: A lot of t-shirts, jeans, and comfy socks. Or just sleep pants. Or nothing. He also doesn't understand the idea of jackets or sweatshirts.
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:01 pm
 Knight Title: Sparta Page of Mars
Challenge: "We hold the line!"
Uniform: Spartan Legion Warrior
Weapon NOTE!: Sparta's spears are blunt and nonlethal, even at knight stage with it's filigree.
Page - Wooden StickSimple wooden dowel, with a Mars symbol on the top, about two feet long. Susceptible to fire.
Squire - Centurion's SpearA light metal spear about 3ft long, with the Mars symbol in place of a spear point, with a tuft of cloth hanging from the connection point. When he channels his magic, he points the spear at his enemy, holding his left arm up like he has a shield. A shield materializes as though its made of fire and gives off an intense feeling of intimidation to those of Chaos in front of him up to 10 feet away in a straight line. The shield seems to shimmer with heat but is not actually hot. This magic lasts up to thirty seconds.
Knight - Legionaire's SpearA longer ornate spear/staff. It's entwined in wire and metal, a weave of Mars symbols from the Mars Symbol at the end to the bottom, with a space for his hand about halfway down. Cloth hangs from the Mars Symbol. When he channels his magic, he points the spear at his enemy, holding his left arm up like he has a shield. A shield materializes as though its made of fire and gives off the same feelings of intimidation as before to those of Chaos, but now also gives off heat up to 15 feet from him in a straight line. The heat is like that of a hot summer day and potentially will burn those caught in the range for too long. This is up to player discretion on whether they take damage from the heat. This magic lasts up to 45 seconds.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:17 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:56 pm
Critique incoming! :3 I'm focusing on virtues/flaws because that's generally where stampers nitpick (that and attacks, lol). You have some conflicting virtues/flaws going on here. It seems counterintuitive to have someone that is 'dedicated' to things also be 'unmotivated'. I would say, having read your description, that the flaw is less 'unmotivated' and more 'tunnel vision' - he's utterly uninterested in things outside his perview and as such is unmotivated to engage in those things, but but I'd probably relable just for complete clarity and ease of stamping? His flaw of being 'unwilling to fight' also seems counterintuitive to his being into MMA - if he doesn't want to fight, why would he engage so thoroughly in a hobby that is literally just fighting? It would also be considered more of a 'virtue' that he's not interested in engaging physically - I read him more as a 'door mat' via the explaination you've given, e.g. TB is very likely to allow others to dominate him physically, emotionally, and mentally because of his lack of engagement in things outside his small realm of interest(s), and as such he gets taken advantage of, etc, etc. Also, being overly optimistic is not really a character flaw unless it makes the person delusional/unstable when their worldview is challenged, so you may wish to either put that up as a virtue, or retool it to be something that actually affects the character negatively on a larger scale? Being annoyingly upbeat is less a flaw and more a quirk, if that makes sense? Bringing more Mars Knights around is perfection, yas. I hope that this crit helps in some small way and that you get TB into play, he seems like he'd be an interesting character to work with.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:39 pm
AND NOW WITH COMPLETELY REWRITTEN TRAITS
If on the first try you don't succeed, throw out the whole thing and start anew.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:34 pm
Looks good to me, have fun!
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