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 Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:05 pm
NAME Cecylia Mendoza (Meaning: November 22, cold or high mountain)
GENDER Female
AGE Chronological 155, Physical 23
RACE DUSZEK
HOMETOWN Heym
OCCUPATION Performer
APPEARANCE
Some of her jet black hair is kept in a loose bun held by some ornaments and the rest just slips down past her butt, her hair contrasts well with her skin. Cecylia has a slender yet very curvatious body, long arms and legs and is an even 5’9”. She has a black Pegasus tattoo located on her left shoulder blade, and wears little make up to adorn her silver eyes. Cecylia has the long ears of her race which are not pierced. She wears a modified shorter version of a geisha kimono made with desert fabrics; its coloration is a deep blood red with a floral design, as shoes Cecylia has simple wooden geta sandals or goes out bare foot.
Hair ornaments
Face
Kimono colors
How I want the kimono to open up
make up
How I want the kimono to look like
PERSONALITY
Aesthetic- Cecylia learned this skill when she first became an apprentice dancer; she needs to always look good.
Callous – Being a Duszek has hardened her towards outsiders.
Composed – Cecylia is calm, cool and collected. Not even eminent danger of the worst kind can shake her. She is not easily disturbed by the actions of others and she rarely loses her self control or her temper.
Courteous – Cecylia will always be well mannered, respectful, civil, polite and usually very aware of what is proper and what is not when speaking to others.
Flamboyant – Being a performer Cecylia loves attention and is more than willing to play up to it by being showy in both speech and behaviour.
Genius – She may not look it, but Cecylia is far more intelligent then she looks.
Mercurial – Cecylia is a very moody person, if things don’t go her way, there aren’t any other ways.
Meticulous – Cecylia gives a lot of her time on being careful with all details, she wants things done right and right on the first time.
Opportunist – If she can exploit an opportunity she will, another thing she learned through performing.
Pompous – Cecylia is arrogant, pretentious and ostentatious. She is of the privileged and makes no bones about showing it off, she does not think well of those of a lesser class.
Looking good, getting lots of attention and performing are the three things Cecylia lives for giving her that pompous, egoistic and hardened persona so many see. She is an opportunist that will do anything for her career and will not hold her tongue when she wants to express herself in very odd ways, debating with her is not easy. You will never see her mad because of how composed she is and even if she didn’t get her way she will always be courteous to everyone, this also allows her to observe with the eye of an expert on small detailed things and as much as many would argue to this, Cecylia may not look smart, but beware just because something does not look harmless doesn’t mean it’s bit isn’t poisionous.
CHARACTER QUIRK
-Egotistical- Cecylia thinks very highly of herself, to the point that she dismisses other people’s beliefs and ideas if she doesn't happen to agree with them. She is very opinionated.
- Musically Inclined- Cecylia absolutely loves music; she play and dance to it. Being a performer helped this a lot.
- Opinionated- Arguing with Cecylia is like arguing with a brick wall. She is set in her ways and will happily try to convince everyone of the veracity of her point of view.
- Picky Eater- There are just something’s that will never cross the lips of Cecylia. In fact, there are a lot of these things. She'll wiggle her nose at anything if it doesn't suit her, and may not care who's feelings get hurt in the process.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:07 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:18 pm
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
- Where she is from.
- How she treats others.
- How she views the world.
- Bits and pieces of her history.
- Brag about her performances.
DIVISION Offensive Magic, Melee
CLASS PROGRESSION Quilluá songstress > Gypsy > Dancing illusionist
Quilluá songstress
Melee (2), Ranged (), Magic/Other (3)
Evade (14), Hp (35)
Quilluá songstresses nearly never see the stage, they usually pick a style for themselves and study the art of singing, dancing and playing one instrument. To pass from a quilluá songstress to a nárán performer one must pass three different tests and have an average above 85. Many usually fail and do not try again, quilluá songstresses are known to be one of the higher paid entertainers because of their talents and later on their ranks.
Cecylia was more then glad to leave her orphanage to move into the private world of the quilluá songstresses, having devote most of her time to dancing and music back at home it was no surprised within 15 years she was ready to pass the three finally stages of her life and move on to become a nárán performer.
Back then Cecylia did not have long hair, in fact it was short and out of order most of the time, although just because her hair did not look good did not mean she didn’t look good when practising. After asking permission more then once, Cecylia was allowed to learn the ways of dancing with blades, twin moon blades. Since the school was an all females female only, they were allowed to wear a lot of things that showed curves. Thus Cecylia began wearing something that looked like a one piece bathing suit with a hole in the middle to show off her abdomen and she attached numerous pieces of fabric to enhance her movements and allow her a nice motion flow.
When fighting, Cecylia will use her dancing making her very flexible and able to attain positions one does not usually go into when fighting. At this point in her life she uses not much magic although she still is magical inclined.
- Matador's Song: Raises evasion.
Make-up
Dress
Dress
Blades
Gypsy
Melee (4), Ranged (), Magic/Other (6)
Evade (18 ), Hp (40)
Gypsies hold a mystical veil over them, not much is known apart that magic is one of the major parts to them. Gypsies are not feared although you wouldn’t want to anger one and get cursed upon. Not many exist and a few are selected precisely for their magical abilities.
Cecylia was shocked by her own actions when she picked to become a gypsy over becoming a nárán performer, which got her thrown out of the school immediately, although the gypsy circle took her in with open arms and from there her abilities grew.
It didn’t take long for her to throw out her other clothing and settle in for a more gypsy like dress. Over the 15 years she had spent at the academy Cecylia’s hair had grown rather long and now reached bellow her butt cheeks, bangs held back with a makeshift cloth. Cecylia also rejected her moon blades and learned the dancing art with longer ones, she was certainly sending out an image now. A short brown leather top, shorts, a belt that held another lighter fabric and now she actually made the effort to wear shows.
Cecylia learned a new way of fighting with the longer blades, her speed has also increased as she continues and advances in her studies with blade dancing.
- Midnight Vial: Blinds target(s) for the duration of the dance.
- Battle Cry: Makes target unable to hear anything.
Dress
Blades
Dress
Make-up
How to close the shirt up
Dancing illusionist
Melee (4), Ranged (), Magic/Other (11)
Evade (23), Hp (50)
Illusionists are renowned for their power to change reality and feared because of what they can inflict upon their victims. They play deadly tricks and usually leave things unanswered with a multitude of questions floating in the air. One can feel the power of an Illusionist as they walk down the streets; things seem to happen around them. The grass may seem brownish right before an illusionist walks by, then out of no where it is green and flowers growing as the illusionist passes it glancing at the patch, you blink after the illusionist is gone and everything is brown again. At this stage, many concentrate on enhancing their abilities.
As much as the gypsies wanted to keep Cecylia within their ranks when her illusionist powers became more apparent they sent her out into the world with the Asterion league once and for all. Although she had previously been in it she had never actually taken part of it, now she had no choice to because she was being pushed into it.
From here on end, Cecylia was matured greatly and does not wear as much showing clothing as she used too. Her color palette is entirely in the silver and when she isn’t performing or fighting she as taken into walking around in a modified kimono to fit the desert. Cecylia now wears a silver short simple designed dress over a silver coat that is slit open in the middle, a loose silver belt with two swords like holding pockets to hold her fans and a cap that fully reveals one eye while the other is hidden behind a transparent silver fabric. In this outfit, Cecylia likes to braid her hair fully and tie it up in a ponytail to pass it though her cap, she also continues to wear shoes.
With fans now Cecylia uses more her magic then anything else, although don’t be a critic of her fans, they are armoured and have a sharp edge to them. She still dances, thus her title as a dancing illusionist.
- Star Dust: The fans seem to be throwing out dust, the area around seems to sparkle, target(s) start to think they are chocking when in fact they aren’t and they start to feel numb.
- Blink: Changes the setting around the illusionist.
Dress
Coat
Coat. I'd like the first models style of cap and you see how the second one has that transparent fabric, I'd like that over half of the eye.
Make-up
Twin fans
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Nameless Dance: Dance with unexplainable moves. Causes various abnormal status. Such as darkness, confusion, making it seem like target is slowing down, Feeling of heavyness.
- Gypsy’s kiss: Poisons target.
- Disillusion: Creates an illusion around a selected target, the illusion brings up the targets worst fear. They only way to return to normal is by getting over your fear or someone helping you out of it.
WEAPON Twin moons blades> Twin blades> Twin armoured fans.
LEVEL One
POINT ASSIGNMENT Melee (2), Ranged (), Magic/Other (3)
HIT POINTS 35>40>50
EVADE 14>18>23
OTHER NOTES I put everything on evade because Cecylia uses a lot of her dancing when she is fighting. She is able to evade attacks quickly and effectively counter at times.
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:32 am
Ann,
Please be sure to read everything in the guild, especially when it pertains to the race of your character. There are a lot of major parts to this character that completely mischaracterize the Duszek: Japanese popular culture – kimonos, geisha, origami, Japanese dress is NOT a part of Duszecy culture at all; you claimed that the Duszek are an impolite people, which is not the case at all (this is especially surprising because their politeness is HEAVILY emphasized and is the only aspect that was explicitly taken from Japanese culture); and Ceycilia has a surname name which doesn't fit in with the Duszek naming guidelines at all - it should be Yiddish or Polish, and not Spanish.
I’m afraid she won’t work as a Duszek. If you would like to do something Japanese, please look into the Kioni village – a village of humans. Please remember, though, that Kioni Village is a tribal Japanese setting; they do not have the extravagant kimono and geta. In general, the Tales of Aludra staff has decided that we would rather not have a geisha character in the game – you can certainly take the idea of a entertainer hostess, but please don’t take so completely from the concept of ‘geisha’, because this is not Earth and there is no Japan in Aludra.
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:07 pm
I didn't know you had upgraded the guild at the front and made a whole announcement about the Duszek. I would like to clarify a couple things about my character and will fix some things.
First you addressed her name as being Spanish, her name is polish according to here where I found her name in the first place.
You also addressed something about the geisha / Japanese culture. Geisha are entertainers, they dance, sing and entertain men at small parties, Cecylia is a performer she only dances in front of a large crowd. A geisha would never touch a sword in her life, while Cecylia dances with a blade which is very contradictory to being a geisha. Also a kimono is not what I had in mind for Cecylia, anyone who has seen a real kimono would never call what I want her to wear a kimono. Kimonos are made to hide flesh, while I tried to find images to show that I wanted it to be much shorter and show a lot more flesh. Kimonos are also made of heavy silk; the clothing Cecylia wears are made from light desert fabric. Cecylia also doesn’t wear that dress / kimono thing when she’d performing as the geisha do, she just wears it when she’s not perform. Also Geisha wear heavy make up and Cecylia does not.
I can live with her not doing origami, that I wouldn’t mind.
Now her personality, I don’t know where I ‘claimed’ that the Duszek were impolite, I do know I put her as courteous, but extremely moody. I don’t know where you got the idea that I was basing my character off a geisha: the only thing I ‘technically’ took from the Japanese is her modified kimono and geta because I didn’t know what other shoes to give her. Also if you did read my character you would have seen she becomes a gypsy then a dancing illusionist, I don’t know how a gypsy would make a geisha.
Next time please read my character carefully, thank you for your comments anyways. I hope this clarifies some of what you said.
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