I mean, that was kind of the idea, like how you already referred to Coco's weapon. Then you got someone using a trumpet and Raver Girl On Wheels, and sniper rifle scythe (I kinda wrote a historical essay once on why using scythes as weapons is impractical) - it sounds like the RWBY universe hasn't set the tone for being serious until someone died, so I figured I would add to that color and charm.
Oh, and nunchuck pistols! Wukong steals my heart.
I was gonna say, the staff into nunchuck pistols was cool. Also, I'm that friend of Thunder's. I'm working on a character, but I'm uncertain if I can join. Typing extensive detail, or any detail, is difficult for me as it's hard to put what I see in my mind into words.
Oh I don't even want to think about thinking about the mechanical realities of the weapons. They're all just as dumb as coco's weapon, or at least on a similar tier.
For that matter, where does Nora keep her spare grenades? We know for a fact that she does run out eventually, because Magnhild can open up to fire all of them at once. Where are the rest?
RWBY shares the same trait that many animes, tv shows and the occasional movie use: endless ammo :)
For clarity, magazines put cartridges into barrels, clips put cartridges into magazines. But let's not get me writing an essay on the gun smithing and ballistic physics in the show, it'll scare away potential players. If you're actually interested, shoot me a PM
I've always assumed that Dust was more ammo efficient than traditional projectiles, like bullets, at the trade off of not instantly killing someone in the brain.
I GOT THE SHEET DONE BEFORE WORK, YIPPEE!
Perry, as in periwinkle.
Name: Perry Widad Manfoosah Age: 20 Gender: Female Race: Human Nationality: Vacuo Appearance:
If you don't know her, she is certainly intimidating. Standing at 6'2”, with skin like like rich cocoa, striking amber eyes, sharp cheek bones, and full lips. Most noticeable is her strong frame. This woman is muscular and with awesome strength, the type of lady you'd think did some body-building, and you can bet that she has done body-building in her effort to get into shape and be a huntress. You can also bet that she beats all the guys at arm wrestling. Also covered in scrapes and scars from a life out in Vacuo, most of those were just cuts she got while working the job. She's got two scars on her left cheek, however, in a fight with some Grimm. For clothing, she's usually got an Under Armour-styled tank, as it breathes very well. Over it, she dons a soft ballistic vest, and a belt just below it with scaled leather armor attached to it, which runs down her thighs. Lightweight, baggy pants over her legs, which are then tucked into knee-high combat boots. She has a supportive brace made out of the same material as the vest over her elbow.
She also wears a blue hijab that cover the top of her head, looking almost like a hood, and has a matching set of peculiar robes that goes with it, almost like a toga, which she wears over her usual outfit. The left side of these robes are taken off of her shoulder and tied around her waist, allowing unrestricted use of her left arm. People ask her why she wears her hijab and she never gives a clarifying answer. It's not their business, right? Underneath it is black hair chopped down to a manageable pixie cut. Anyways, she only has two accessories, and that is a silver industrial bar piercing on her right ear, and a smaller one just above it. The smaller one is a gift given to her by a close friend.
Personality: Apparently hyper-active, but not in the same sense as her childhood bestie, Meral. Whereas her energy comes from grating optimism, Perry's energy is an anxious, jittering sort from too much caffeine. She always has to fiddle with something lest she becomes restless. Always moving, whether it's fighting, fixing, or just twitching her finger when things get slow, she tries to make a habit out of keeping busy. Even when she's talking, she appears to always be worrying about something, tripping over her own words, or talking a mile a minute. While her activity does her well in keeping her body in shape, stressing herself out all the time is bound to kill her.
She's always worried about "the next big thing". After all, what if she can't fix it? What if it's out of her control?
This does not mean she is timid, however. She'll talk to a stranger, even if she's always worrying about minute details that don't really seem relevant. She can come across as bold and cheeky, self-assured, and this blunt, assertive stance she takes while talking to others can set them off and give them the impression of being cocksure. She's got some insecurities, but Perry still trudges on with as much bravery as she can muster and faces it with a sense of humor while attempting to cage it in. She tackles her issues, she owns up to them, and tries her best to acknowledge that it's all in her head, even if it's beating on her especially hard some days. But her anxiety is partially artificial. She has developed a reliance on caffeine. Whether it's a coffee, energy drink, soda, she just tries to avoid sleeping if she can help it, and it's not just because she wants to get things done. Perry suffers from reoccurring nightmares and they unsettle her so greatly that she gives herself caffeine jitters. Her anxiety stems from that, her nightmares, and her inclination to try and fix or make things while that creative spark is still lit.
That's why her relationship with Meral is so extraordinary, they all melt away when she's with her. They're complete and utter best friends, and perhaps that's because the girl is so genuine and good and honest that Perry has nothing to fear from her. This relationship also helps to make her stronger and it emphasizes a side of her that's always been there, but nobody seemed to take notice: remarkably swift to act, fiercely protective, and she doesn't back down at the face of danger or authority. One other constant is that she gets a kick out of and even enjoys fixing things. What is more gratifying to someone with anxiety than fixing or solving a problem? She's got the drive to make things better, and the definition is loose, too. It could be building something, solving a mystery, or kicking the ass of someone who deserves it. She might be anxious, but she still has the heart of a huntress. Fierce and full of love.
Aspiration: The elimination of the Grimm. The Grimm are indisputably mankind's greatest and most dangerous enemy, and their origins are sketchy at best. But if she can help it, she'll take out as many Grimm as she can to reduce their numbers and stem what rising tides that may be swelling beyond our walls – also, we've all got to admit it: fighting monsters is kind of awesome. She's also got this nervous tick that drives her to try and fix and solve everything, so she has this “fix the world” mentality that keeps pushing her to do right by everyone.
Oh, and she's got a driving desire to keep Meral safe. That comes before anything.
Fears: People will often think that there's nothing that can frighten Perry Manfoosah. Does she get nervous? Yeah. Does she worry about everything under the sun? You know it. But she isn't afraid to face those things, she just sees it as another thing on top of tall pile of things to fix, and that can be overwhelming, but these aren't really fears. Even the Grimm, it's said that they are really just another form that negative emotion can manifest in, such as anxiety, and she faces that shit every day. Instead, her fears come from social constructs. Fear of rejection, abandonment, alienation - if not being accepted or wanted, being betrayed... any situation, really, social or not, that turns out to be out of Perry's control - unthinkable ultimatums, a blockade too great for her to pass through, an insurmountable foe - she is afraid to face. While the anxiety itself is manageable, she finds herself deathly afraid of those things.
Oh, and flying. You can't trust flight. And ghosts. Funny, she seems afraid of all the things you can't see...
Ethics: Perry is a dreamer of peace, to let others be as they are, and totally supportive of the Faunus community. She is also an engineer, so she is as much an advocate for learning and innovation as well, to improve upon the current world. The aforementioned ideal of peace doesn't restrict that goal, but it can trip upon itself. You let live unless a force acting upon others impedes the right to live, then you act since that law was thereon broken. Strife, war – the push to end all of it, ironically, by fighting them, but fighting breed more fighting in the end. Being an idealist in this economy is a toughy and perhaps that dream can never really be met, but long as there those who would seek to do us harm, there are battles to be fought.
History: Take this girl, put her in the middle of Vacuo. In a shabby little Faunus-inhabited town surrounded by arid land, where it almost looks like a western. Give her an adopted human family, they're loved and fair and trusted among the Faunus community. Make the town shabby. Now that little girl has to work alongside her family to help Sure, perhaps for the town they were in, they were well off. Owning the only garage, everyone tends to come to you for repair. You see a girl that was made to grow up pretty quickly, to own her responsibilities. Fixing things and making junk contraptions since Perry was a little girl, it's little wonder she turned out to be an engineer. Her family found a little toddler on death's edge under the hot sun in a ravaged caravan. The mutilated bodies were assumed to be her blood family – it was a miracle that the Grimm didn't find the baby. Perry knows the truth, but those events were too far back for her to remember anything about it. As far as she is concerned, her adopted family was always her family... but she does wonder how different life would've been if her blood had lived. Her semblance manifested at a fairly early age, due to in part by the encounter she had with the Grimm long before. Her nightmares started around this time, but they weren't nearly as frequent as they are in Vale, since there are much fewer and smaller Grimm to be found near her small hometown.
Perry was still young when she met her greatest friend and her family, a girl her age named Meral, an immigrant that came from outside nation boundaries, an outsider. She immediately took an interest in the life outside Vacuo, but as the two talked, Perry learned that life even beyond the desert was harsh and unforgiving. It seemed that people from the world over had sob stories to tell. Perry wasn't excited to be where she lived, but it was all she knew and she made the best of every day, so you couldn't help but be under the impression that she liked it here. As time passed, she learned from Meral that a band of hunters and huntresses passed by to help the town and the children that lived here. Hearing the awe in her friend's voice was beautiful, and when she declared that she wanted to become a huntress too, Perry wanted to follow. She wanted to watch over Meral and protect the shorty, while also wanting to see what the outside world was like and help fix things like the huntresses Meral met.
Also, the sound of beating up monsters sounded pretty flippin' awesome.
She has shown to have some natural talent at it, absorbing the information like a sponge, and devotedly exercising and working out so that she can be a better huntress. However, this led to her getting a little overconfident. When they were sent outside the walls in a practice skirmish with some Grimm, one of the wolves got to her and left a two-clawed scar on her left cheek as a memento. This served to pull Perry back to reality – being a huntress is dangerous, and has very real consequences, with very little room for error or complacency. Was the accident unfortunate? Of course, but Perry doesn't regret it. It was exactly the kind of smack in the face she needed to keep her head in the game. She matured greatly after the experience and began excelling, enough so that she got transferred to Beacon alongside Meral. Her friend doesn't know it, but Perry gave her a sparkling recommendation alongside the initial offer. The dean agreed with her praises, and off together the two went to forge a new future.
Semblance: Perry is very sensitive to the negative emotions and ill intentions of those around her. Mostly it is on a subconscious level, and rarely does anyone feel so intensely that it can actually upset her. It allows her to get a good read on people in conversation and acts as a radar, to the point where enemies can't sneak up on her.
Most particularly the Grimm. Soulless creatures, drawn to negative energy, are as likely to exhibit such energy themselves. As a result, Perry can practically pinpoint any surrounding Grimm. The larger the Grimm, the further she can sense them. As her semblance is always there in the back of her subconscious, it is even more active in her sleep without all the background noise in the way. This radar expands in its radius greatly in her sleep, giving her a sharp sensitivity to the Goliaths that surround human cities. So malevolent are these Grimm, that her exposure to them in her sleep causes intense nightmares that tend to wake her before in as little as two-three hours after falling asleep.
Sometimes she does get so exhausted that she can sleep all through the night without remembering any nightmares, but that's quite a bit of suffering for her to go through just for a good night's rest. This semblance is very much a mixed blessing, and Perry wishes she could have a different semblance.
Combat Style: Very much the reckless sort, as reflected by her choice of weapon, preferring to overwhelm them with her power. At the same time, she's also a smart combatant. You have to be if you are going to be swinging a massive metal ball of predictability at your opponents. She does more than try to crush you, she also tries to crush you from different angles. A type of crushing you won't see coming. That's all in the chain to be honest, she implements the chain to manipulate the path of her inertia. This could mean intentionally missing you, the chain wraps around a pole, and the wrecking ball shatters your spine from behind. Or she hits you with the chain itself, it wraps around you, and then you say goodbye to literally all of your teeth. Even if you get too close to her for the ball and chain style of fighting to really work, she can still use the chain itself to grapple, disarm, and defend herself – and her physical strength is such that she can win most of those altercations. Her “into the fray” style is straight forward, but it works - and to devastating effect.
She can turn it into its mounted turret form which fires dust powered blasts every .5 seconds - it isn't fast, so it can't mow down a pack of Grimm wolves, but with it, Perry can take down most lone large Grimm single-handed.
Weapon:
Perry is the engineer of her own weapon. So when contemplating what it should be, there was really only one thing she was looking for, and that was the rule of cool: what would be really fucking awesome? What she built in the end was exactly that, but was also paralleled by the device's power. A hybrid wrecking ball/mounted turret. While the weapon is rather clumsy and slow – and, God, heavy – Perry has the strength to throw it around and make it look easy, and it can shatter nearly anything she hits while also withstanding harsh punishment. While in its turret form, it can turn a full 360 degrees, only slowly fire a shot every .5 seconds, but each shot is akin to a shotgun blast and with loads of stopping power. The barrel is rather short, so it also trades accuracy for power. It is most effective in narrow choke points, but Perry can still make skillful use of it in an open field with the tons of practice she put into it and predicting her targets. She sets her own feet on the feet of the turret to help compensate for some of the machine's kickback.
The biggest pain in the ass about it is the conversion time. It take a little bit of preparation to change gears. When going from turret to ball, she twists the sides to unlock, pulls the barrel up, then drives both sides of the shell together. Yank the pegged stand out (the feet automatically collapse), insert it into the barrel, and then she can finally get into the melee. It can be used as a club, but when the handle is pulled, a ratchet releases a chain so that it can be used at range. A function on the handle can let the chain retract back, and turning it back into its turret form is a bit more lengthy in time. Put stand back in. Unlock the shell to pull out. Set the barrel. Lock the shell. You're set.
She lovingly names this contraption the Bad News.
Non-Combat skills: Perry is one hell of an engineer. Her early days were spent tinkering around in old garages, usually working around junk or scrap metal, but you also get vagrants coming in and out of those old Vacuo towns with something they need fixed. Of course, she's got no formal education in engineering, she's just got the practical know-how from tinkering ever since she was a wee girl – and when you're out in a place like that, you've gotta get creative sometimes. So whatever she makes might be unorthodox, if it even works, but hey – it's all part of the creative process. She has typical survival training that huntresses have. She also has sick dance moves.
Deficiencies: Unless the job is something Perry is actively interested in or committed to, she isn't really devoted to the mission – she's more in tune with acting on her own accord, letting her mind wander elsewhere and having her legs follow. She can get side-tracked, tacking on an unnecessary addendum to the mission, forgetting or ignoring a strategy, acting selfishly, she is by no means perfect. She's got an individual sense of loyalty that can cause a divide in her duties or create a conflict of interest in a party. She is also honest to a fault. A notoriously bad liar, and bluntly delivering her thoughts to her allies even if they don't like hearing what she has to say, which can cause conflict between her and another member of the team. Her sluggish combat style also leaves lots of openings for smart enemies to capitalize on.
Miscellaneous: She's something of a health guru. She can cook well and has all sorts of tidbits of information for healthy eating and living. But she lives off of caffeine, so it's not like even she follows her own advice.
RWBY RP? I am 110% down for this. I've been working on a character on and off for the past few days, hopefully I'll have him up by Wednesday at the latest.
So just so everyone is on the same page: I will not be online with any sort of consistency until the evening of the 17th, at the very earliest. I will be putting the post up on the evening of the 18th EST, God willing, but I'll be flicking through characters before that to make sure everything is copacetic and the roster is plump.
