Vesper Vampyr [v1]
Oct 1, 2018 12:10:18 GMT -6
Post by Locomotive on Oct 1, 2018 12:10:18 GMT -6
Name: Dependent on host.
Age: Dependent on host.
Gender: Dependent on host.
Description: While not directly affecting their style, hosting Vesper tends to shift a person's sense of fashion over time. Hosts will find themselves dressing more conservatively to avoid attention or bundling themselves under more layers to simply deny looks by obscuring their bodies. The strength of this compulsion is most strongly tied to their mental fortitude while in EM Wave Change with Vesper. The one major exception to this side effect is every host's willingness to exhibit the amber eyes granted to them by combining with Vesper for the first time. More than just a cosmetic change, these eyes can correct a host's vision and act as a Visualizer through polarization.
Personality: It's difficult to determine the type of person Vesper goes after through simple observation, noting that she seems to flit between hosts with no consistency, randomly favoring some with no common point between them. The main reason she chooses the hosts she does is apparently just the fact that they allowed her in. Vesper cannot take on a new host without them accepting or offering partnership, but this can be by choice or coercion without considering the means, so a host is at least the sort that can be convinced.
A human host of Vesper's is never directly controlled no matter how prevalent her influence becomes, though they'll grow increasingly suspicious of people and become biased towards her judgment of others. This effect is accelerated while transformed but wears off with time and distance. During their Wave Warrior transformation with her, a host is reduced to a mind that faces against not only the enemy but Vesper as well, some feeling the need to fight against her compulsion out of self-preservation of their bodies while others meekly accept her dominating presence.
Biography: After initial contract with Vesper, a host no longer needs to grant consent for her control and in fact becomes entirely unable to deny her so long as she wills it, leaving them vulnerable to her whims. No inherent connection is formed by hosting her, making it possible to simply avoid Vesper or lose her interest. Past hosts that have spent long enough away from Vesper find themselves forgetting her, like trying to remember a fading dream, and eventually lose all signs of having hosted her indicated by their eyes returning to normal.
Recent and current hosts tricked into her service find her easier to stay away from but harder to forget, while those willingly acting as her partner tend to remain drawn to her for a longer period and find themselves more easily freed from her looser grasp. Humans capable of performing an EM Wave Change with another Wizard are immune to Vesper's influence, freeing a host completely if they manage such.
Regardless of the nature or extent of her connection to a host, her bond with them is mostly superficial and renders her incapable of utilizing any other abilities, tools, or powers they may have. At most, they're a body with which she can become a Wave Warrior.
Established Hosts:
Age: Dependent on host.
Gender: Dependent on host.
Description: While not directly affecting their style, hosting Vesper tends to shift a person's sense of fashion over time. Hosts will find themselves dressing more conservatively to avoid attention or bundling themselves under more layers to simply deny looks by obscuring their bodies. The strength of this compulsion is most strongly tied to their mental fortitude while in EM Wave Change with Vesper. The one major exception to this side effect is every host's willingness to exhibit the amber eyes granted to them by combining with Vesper for the first time. More than just a cosmetic change, these eyes can correct a host's vision and act as a Visualizer through polarization.
Personality: It's difficult to determine the type of person Vesper goes after through simple observation, noting that she seems to flit between hosts with no consistency, randomly favoring some with no common point between them. The main reason she chooses the hosts she does is apparently just the fact that they allowed her in. Vesper cannot take on a new host without them accepting or offering partnership, but this can be by choice or coercion without considering the means, so a host is at least the sort that can be convinced.
A human host of Vesper's is never directly controlled no matter how prevalent her influence becomes, though they'll grow increasingly suspicious of people and become biased towards her judgment of others. This effect is accelerated while transformed but wears off with time and distance. During their Wave Warrior transformation with her, a host is reduced to a mind that faces against not only the enemy but Vesper as well, some feeling the need to fight against her compulsion out of self-preservation of their bodies while others meekly accept her dominating presence.
Biography: After initial contract with Vesper, a host no longer needs to grant consent for her control and in fact becomes entirely unable to deny her so long as she wills it, leaving them vulnerable to her whims. No inherent connection is formed by hosting her, making it possible to simply avoid Vesper or lose her interest. Past hosts that have spent long enough away from Vesper find themselves forgetting her, like trying to remember a fading dream, and eventually lose all signs of having hosted her indicated by their eyes returning to normal.
Recent and current hosts tricked into her service find her easier to stay away from but harder to forget, while those willingly acting as her partner tend to remain drawn to her for a longer period and find themselves more easily freed from her looser grasp. Humans capable of performing an EM Wave Change with another Wizard are immune to Vesper's influence, freeing a host completely if they manage such.
Regardless of the nature or extent of her connection to a host, her bond with them is mostly superficial and renders her incapable of utilizing any other abilities, tools, or powers they may have. At most, they're a body with which she can become a Wave Warrior.
Established Hosts:
- Kumiko Shou / 27 / Female
Personality: Kumiko is predominantly timid in nature and also has trouble with articulating herself when flustered to the point where she'll often opt to remain silent to avoid making a fool of herself. For the select few who have managed to get past her cool exterior, Kumiko is known to be a trusting, empathetic individual peculiarly able to stand her ground in fight or flee scenarios in direct opposition of her usual self.
Biography: Vesper might have never discovered Kumiko had her first choice of partner been any less inept. Desiring excitement after an extended dry spell, Vesper found Kumiko after leaving behind the underperforming Tsuneo. Unlike the man who was all talk and no action, Kumiko's perceived vulnerability and her quiet and shy demeanor belied an inner strength enough to cause Vesper to fall for her. Aware that she couldn't have her cake and eat it too for very long, Vesper fell back on previous partners specifically to avoid putting Kumiko in danger, saving their pairing as a necessity.
[li]Tsuneo Tsunoda / 25 / Male[/li]
Description: With bright red hair and a shark's grin, Tsuneo appears to be brimming with confidence and full of youthful energy. A relatively new hire at the IFL Tower, Tsuneo is forever wearing his security guard outfit, not necessarily due to work but because it makes him feel tough. His overall look, from the way he styles his hair to how he carries himself as he needlessly patrols around his post, is carefully curated out of a belief that appearances are everything. Sometimes it's enough to even fool others, and not just himself.
Personality: Whatever Vesper says, Tsuneo drives the point home that other than his acrophobia, he's one hard-boiled guy. His loud words and overreactions are for the benefit of others and the tears he sheds at the conclusion of romcoms are out of manly respect. Tsuneo's got nothing to prove, which is exactly why he'd do anything to prove that he's got the stuff, whatever that stuff is, so long as he's allowed to keep his feet firmly planted on solid earth.
Biography: Average by all accounts but not really in any bad way, Tsuneo grew up as an elder sibling, placing a lot of expectations for his family upon his shoulders. However, his younger sister turned out to be a piano-playing prodigy and a lot of his motivation coming out of school was lost along with his pride as an older brother. During his high school days, Tsuneo was actually rather popular among the girls of his class because of his habit for keeping up appearances but lost a lot of points among the guys due to jealousy and also being rather shallow outside of his looks. Although he received a lot of confessions, Tsuneo turned them all down to pursue an energetic thrill-seeker and when she finally accepted, he took her out on a disastrous bungee jumping date. This is when he discovered his crippling fear of heights.[/ul][/quote]
Name: Vesper
Gender: Female
Description: Vesper is an EM Being whose design is mostly based on a bat. As an FM-ian, she was mostly a mass of unstable waves extending from her head and claws, but now as a Wizard her form is much more distinct. Her most prominent features are her head and large ears, capable of transmitting and receiving an unfathomable range of wave frequencies, as well as her wings. The joints of her hands and claws are able to extend to increase the area of her webbed wings accordingly, aiding her in the habit of clinging to her host's backs and draping her wings over their shoulders like a makeshift cloak.
Personality: Deviously playful and burdened by perpetual boredom as well as her desire to feed, Vesper is a troublesome free spirit who finds great pleasure in involving herself with anyone or anything that interests her, just as quickly moving on after she's had her short-lived fun. Her attention is constantly turning to new things, occasionally lingering on particularly tasty prospects. Due to troubles with having consistent hosts, she finds maintaining relations irksome even with those who seek her out, preferring fresh bodies and experiences. Selfish by nature, Vesper still goes out of her way to limit the extent to which she affects and drains her hosts, understanding that most of them can't sustain her for as long as she'd like.
Biography: Originally an FM-ian only capable of manipulating EM viruses and the resulting Jammers to a degree, Vesper unlocked new abilities and found new life as an independent Wizard, putting herself through the corrupted conversion process of an abandoned Hunter-VG. Her empowered form demanded more power than she was capable of sustaining and the programming of a Wizard instilled within her the desire for a partner, pushing her to find a host for the first time.
Through risky trial and error, Vesper found a relatively happy balance that allowed her to have fun with potentially infinite hosts while not tying herself down and endangering the life of a single partner. Her personality slowly developed from sadistic manipulation to playful toying that served a greater purpose in keeping her alive. To that end she continues to search for a perfect match while enjoying her current situation in the best way she can, only hurting people a little bit to do so.
Gender: Female
Description: Vesper is an EM Being whose design is mostly based on a bat. As an FM-ian, she was mostly a mass of unstable waves extending from her head and claws, but now as a Wizard her form is much more distinct. Her most prominent features are her head and large ears, capable of transmitting and receiving an unfathomable range of wave frequencies, as well as her wings. The joints of her hands and claws are able to extend to increase the area of her webbed wings accordingly, aiding her in the habit of clinging to her host's backs and draping her wings over their shoulders like a makeshift cloak.
Personality: Deviously playful and burdened by perpetual boredom as well as her desire to feed, Vesper is a troublesome free spirit who finds great pleasure in involving herself with anyone or anything that interests her, just as quickly moving on after she's had her short-lived fun. Her attention is constantly turning to new things, occasionally lingering on particularly tasty prospects. Due to troubles with having consistent hosts, she finds maintaining relations irksome even with those who seek her out, preferring fresh bodies and experiences. Selfish by nature, Vesper still goes out of her way to limit the extent to which she affects and drains her hosts, understanding that most of them can't sustain her for as long as she'd like.
Biography: Originally an FM-ian only capable of manipulating EM viruses and the resulting Jammers to a degree, Vesper unlocked new abilities and found new life as an independent Wizard, putting herself through the corrupted conversion process of an abandoned Hunter-VG. Her empowered form demanded more power than she was capable of sustaining and the programming of a Wizard instilled within her the desire for a partner, pushing her to find a host for the first time.
Through risky trial and error, Vesper found a relatively happy balance that allowed her to have fun with potentially infinite hosts while not tying herself down and endangering the life of a single partner. Her personality slowly developed from sadistic manipulation to playful toying that served a greater purpose in keeping her alive. To that end she continues to search for a perfect match while enjoying her current situation in the best way she can, only hurting people a little bit to do so.
Name: Vesper Vampyr
Elements:
Description: Regardless of host, Vesper Vampyr takes a female form most often wearing minimal clothing with a large cloak, a combination meant to optimize freedom of movement with the pretense of still preserving modesty. While the outfit is generally a modified version of the host's clothes, a number of Vesper's traits come through as well, such as her ears and claws being incorporated as a motif.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Elements:
- Dark: Base|v2|v3|Ω
- Base: +Pitiful Damage to a single attack each turn.
- v2: Self-Inflicted Damage instead grants Turns of CD's worth of Drawbacks equal to the amount of Damage subtracted. (Pathetic = 1-CD, so on).
- v3: +Moderate Damage to a single attack each turn.
- Sniping: Base|v2|v3|Ω
- Base: Ranged Damage Cap is increased by 1 Full Damage Level.
Description: Regardless of host, Vesper Vampyr takes a female form most often wearing minimal clothing with a large cloak, a combination meant to optimize freedom of movement with the pretense of still preserving modesty. While the outfit is generally a modified version of the host's clothes, a number of Vesper's traits come through as well, such as her ears and claws being incorporated as a motif.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Physical Strength: During their EM Wave Change, Vesper has final say and essentially full control over the body she shares with her host. She is able to better rely on her own power and is thus more aware of her physical capabilities and limitations, provided she gives more of herself to shore up whatever weaknesses a less fit host might have.
Psychological Strength: Vesper's nature and her prior status as an FM-ian result in her being attuned to the negative emotions of embarrassment and shame, which she thrives upon. By inciting and acting upon these feelings in her hosts, she can harmlessly make them more compatible by drawing their focus away from more crippling emotions, such as fear.
Psychological Strength: Her substantial strength allows Vesper to rely almost purely and most efficiently on herself to manipulate and control her EM Wave Change by doing her utmost to suppress her host's consciousness by keeping their attention on anything but their external physical actions as a Wave Warrior. If she can divert her host's attention to simply dwelling on thoughts and feelings, she can achieve nearly complete control of their body.
Psychological Strength: Knowing that some hosts are more expendable than others frees Vesper's conscience in a cruel sense that unfetters her conduct. Hardly a heartless being, this insight still makes her prone to self-serving choices which have the technically positive effect of catering to her greater good.
Psychological Strength: Vesper's nature and her prior status as an FM-ian result in her being attuned to the negative emotions of embarrassment and shame, which she thrives upon. By inciting and acting upon these feelings in her hosts, she can harmlessly make them more compatible by drawing their focus away from more crippling emotions, such as fear.
Psychological Strength: Her substantial strength allows Vesper to rely almost purely and most efficiently on herself to manipulate and control her EM Wave Change by doing her utmost to suppress her host's consciousness by keeping their attention on anything but their external physical actions as a Wave Warrior. If she can divert her host's attention to simply dwelling on thoughts and feelings, she can achieve nearly complete control of their body.
Psychological Strength: Knowing that some hosts are more expendable than others frees Vesper's conscience in a cruel sense that unfetters her conduct. Hardly a heartless being, this insight still makes her prone to self-serving choices which have the technically positive effect of catering to her greater good.
Physical Weakness: Although utilizing a human host's body, Vesper must take care not to tax too much of her own strength while in her Wave Warrior form. Exhaustion and injury put Vesper at risk of being overcome by a host fearing for their lives or willing to break free, or in some extreme cases uncontrollably draining a weaker host's life force. A balance must be kept that implies a more trusting host, or at least a more pliant one, is better suited for EM Wave Change.
Psychological Weakness: Vesper's hosts are generally unfamiliar with battling, much less Wave Battling. While this does allow her more control from those deferring to her judgment, she lacks a level of fighting sense and spirit present in truly synchronized Wave Warriors and must work every bit harder to make up for whatever her current partner is lacking.
Psychological Weakness: On occasion, Vesper encounters the reverse issue, with hosts believing themselves correct in their course of action or undermining her decisions. Though she ends up maintaining overall control, her reactions can suffer if a host doesn't trust her and especially if they're directly against her. Otherwise weak wills are still prone to this, fear and anxiety feeding into their misgivings.
Psychological Weakness: Having to rotate hosts due to energy concerns means that even if Vesper transforms often, having to reestablish their connection each time denies her a sense of familiarity between partners, crumbling the foundation of her potential bonds before ever being able to build up anything of significance.
Psychological Weakness: Vesper's hosts are generally unfamiliar with battling, much less Wave Battling. While this does allow her more control from those deferring to her judgment, she lacks a level of fighting sense and spirit present in truly synchronized Wave Warriors and must work every bit harder to make up for whatever her current partner is lacking.
Psychological Weakness: On occasion, Vesper encounters the reverse issue, with hosts believing themselves correct in their course of action or undermining her decisions. Though she ends up maintaining overall control, her reactions can suffer if a host doesn't trust her and especially if they're directly against her. Otherwise weak wills are still prone to this, fear and anxiety feeding into their misgivings.
Psychological Weakness: Having to rotate hosts due to energy concerns means that even if Vesper transforms often, having to reestablish their connection each time denies her a sense of familiarity between partners, crumbling the foundation of her potential bonds before ever being able to build up anything of significance.
Version: v1
Experience: 0/100
Perks Selected:
Health: 100%
Action Slots: 3
Unstated Attack Damage: Pitiful
Weapon Slots: 3
Natural Regen: 0
Experience: 0/100
Perks Selected:
- The user advances their Main Element from v2 to v3.
- At the start of the user's turn, after all attacks have been responded to, if they sustained more than Moderate Self-Inflicted Damage in the previous turn, they restore Health equal to the difference, up to High.
Health: 100%
Action Slots: 3
Unstated Attack Damage: Pitiful
Weapon Slots: 3
Natural Regen: 0
Weapon Name: Bat Bow
Weapon Description: Vesper utilizes bows by shooting projectiles created with her host's energy.
1. Attack Name: ~Forme: Petite~
Type: Basic Artillery
Element: Dark
Description: A crossbow fired with one hand, accurate up to 5 meters.
Damage: High; Moderate Self-Damage, 1-turn cooldown
2. Attack Name: ~Forme: Curvy~
Type: Specialized Artillery
Element: Dark
Description: A bow fired with both hands, accurate beyond 10 meters.
Damage: Moderate; Moderate Self-Damage
Weapon Description: Vesper utilizes bows by shooting projectiles created with her host's energy.
1. Attack Name: ~Forme: Petite~
Type: Basic Artillery
Element: Dark
Description: A crossbow fired with one hand, accurate up to 5 meters.
Damage: High; Moderate Self-Damage, 1-turn cooldown
2. Attack Name: ~Forme: Curvy~
Type: Specialized Artillery
Element: Dark
Description: A bow fired with both hands, accurate beyond 10 meters.
Damage: Moderate; Moderate Self-Damage
Weapon Name: Bat Bomb
Weapon Description: Vesper coalesces her host's energy into explosive orbs with a variety of properties.
1. Attack Name: ~Type: Struggle~
Type: Bomb
Element: Dark
Description: A bomb that Vesper compresses to focus its potency at the cost of mentally draining herself for a turn, reducing her synchronization with her host.
Damage: High, 0.5-meter radius; Moderate Self-Damage
2. Attack Name: ~Type: Seduce~
Type: Bomb
Element: Dark
Description: A bomb that imparts overwhelming negative feelings meant to incapacitate prey, Breaking defenses and Paralyzing those caught in its blast.
Damage: Pathetic, Breaks, Paralyzes, 2-meter radius; Moderate Self-Damage, 4-turn cooldown
Weapon Description: Vesper coalesces her host's energy into explosive orbs with a variety of properties.
1. Attack Name: ~Type: Struggle~
Type: Bomb
Element: Dark
Description: A bomb that Vesper compresses to focus its potency at the cost of mentally draining herself for a turn, reducing her synchronization with her host.
Damage: High, 0.5-meter radius; Moderate Self-Damage
2. Attack Name: ~Type: Seduce~
Type: Bomb
Element: Dark
Description: A bomb that imparts overwhelming negative feelings meant to incapacitate prey, Breaking defenses and Paralyzing those caught in its blast.
Damage: Pathetic, Breaks, Paralyzes, 2-meter radius; Moderate Self-Damage, 4-turn cooldown
Weapon Name: Bat Body
Weapon Description: Vesper draws purely on her own power to gain an advantage in combat.
1. Attack Name: ~Technique: Recover~
Type: Recovery
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper recovers a High amount of health, granting her host some relief.
Damage: High Health Recovery, 9-turn cooldown
2. Attack Name: ~Technique: Relocate~
Type: Warp
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper warps up to 2 meters away, suffering slightly from the relocation.
Damage: 2-meter warp; Moderate Self-Damage, 5-turn cooldown, T1 Speed Decrease
Weapon Description: Vesper draws purely on her own power to gain an advantage in combat.
1. Attack Name: ~Technique: Recover~
Type: Recovery
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper recovers a High amount of health, granting her host some relief.
Damage: High Health Recovery, 9-turn cooldown
2. Attack Name: ~Technique: Relocate~
Type: Warp
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper warps up to 2 meters away, suffering slightly from the relocation.
Damage: 2-meter warp; Moderate Self-Damage, 5-turn cooldown, T1 Speed Decrease
Weapon Name: ~Lover's Quarrel / Heart's a Quiver~
Type: One-Use CQC Big Bang Weapon
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper reaches out with a Piercing touch to draw upon a victim's essence, leaving a shadow of her FMian form to embrace the target's heart (or nearest approximation). Defiling their stolen energy, Vesper's next successful Bat Bow attack on the victim in either Petite or Curvy forme triggers her mark to confer the negative life energy and deal Incredible damage.
Damage: Incredible on proc, Pierces; Moderate Self-Damage
Type: One-Use CQC Big Bang Weapon
Element: Dark
Description: Vesper reaches out with a Piercing touch to draw upon a victim's essence, leaving a shadow of her FMian form to embrace the target's heart (or nearest approximation). Defiling their stolen energy, Vesper's next successful Bat Bow attack on the victim in either Petite or Curvy forme triggers her mark to confer the negative life energy and deal Incredible damage.
Damage: Incredible on proc, Pierces; Moderate Self-Damage
Brother Bands and Link Power
Current Link Power: 100/100
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Brother Band Info
Favorites: Area Eater, Mech Flame, Madness Spread, Silver Meteor
Ability Waves
*T-1 Plus (100): Upon equipping this Ability Wave, the user chooses one Tier 1 Status Effect (Break, Blows Auras/Barriers or Homing). By activating this Ability Wave, the user can add the selected effect to one of their attacks that turn. 3-turn cooldown between uses. Any Tier 1 Status Effect already on the attack is overwritten upon use. This Ability Wave can be equipped multiple times, with a different effect chosen each time.
Battle Cards
Standard:Cannon
Air Spread
Gatling
Mad Vulcan
Mini Grenade
Power Bomb
Sword
Long Sword
Wide Sword
Sync Hook
Big Ax
Scythe
Fire Dance
Paralyze Plus
Attack +10
Guard
Junk Cube
Area Eater
Moai Fall
Mop Lance
Heat Upper
Fire Bazooka
Piranha Kiss
Voltic Eye
Jumbo Hammer
Chain Bubble
Plasma Gun
Flicker Kick
Ice Meteor
Arach Attack
Recover 50
Chaos Card
Mech Flame
Madness Spread
Tail Burner
Silver Meteor
Air Spread
Gatling
Mad Vulcan
Mini Grenade
Power Bomb
Sword
Long Sword
Wide Sword
Sync Hook
Big Ax
Scythe
Fire Dance
Paralyze Plus
Attack +10
Guard
Junk Cube
Area Eater
Moai Fall
Mop Lance
Heat Upper
Fire Bazooka
Piranha Kiss
Voltic Eye
Jumbo Hammer
Chain Bubble
Plasma Gun
Flicker Kick
Ice Meteor
Arach Attack
Recover 50
Chaos Card
Mech Flame
Madness Spread
Tail Burner
Silver Meteor