Finally finished Holly, wooooooo!
Age: Holly has not disclosed her actual age. When asked about it directly, she’ll state a random number between fifteen and fifty, though if obviously somewhere between eighteen and her mid twenties.
Guild: Lunar Raven
Guild Mark Location: The guild mark is on the back of her left hand, where it could be placed without the removal of her armour. A guild mark rests on the left pauldron of her armour as well. Both of these are red.
Magic Type: Thrust magic, a magic that allows the user to interact with the world, but at speed. It can utilise the world in it’s elements by applying momentum to objects, people, the ground or even the air itself.
Spells:
Magic Rank: A
Equipment: Holly is armed with a sword, visible in her appearance picture. She also has a full set of armour that she wears at all times, also visible in the picture.
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Personality: Holly likes to think of herself as a voice of reason, one to stand steady in the face of doom. She is a sensible and incorruptible individual, if a little blunt sometimes, though she makes up for that with a strong mind that remains focused on the task and the goal ahead, while trying to stay clear of tunnel vision.. She dislikes those who have a lack of common sense and those who can’t take care of themselves, not liking having to babysit those who should be able to handle something on their own. She has her own personal honour code, trying to abide by the wishes of others if they are reasonable.
History/Bio: Holly’s early life was not brilliant. She was born to a man and a woman who could not take care of themselves, both because they could not be bothered to learn how to do so and because it was too late to do so, for they were too old, having decided to have a child on the edge of the latest time that they could. It meant that young Holly was required to do a lot of the household work, work that she did not want to do. She would much rather be doing something other than being stuck within her home, caring for two adults who did not care for their child. Nobody knew Holly, because Holly could not leave the house. It was like she did not exist.
To add to this, her home village of Keputu wasn’t exactly free. It was occupied by a hardy group of bandits who worked the villagers for a profit. A group that, no matter how many times the village hired someone to dislodge them, came back just to take control once more. As Holly grew up, she came to realise that her parents had been secluding her from the outside not just because they were lazy, and because they needed someone to do the housework for them, but she realised that in a way her parents were protecting her. It didn’t make her feel any better about it, however.
That didn’t mean she wasn’t sad when her parents died, however. Holly’s parents were made an example of how it was a terrible crime to not work for the bandits, and she, like the rest of the village, were forced to watch their execution. For most young heroes in storybooks, this would be a key moment in their lives, where they suddenly grabbed a knife and fought every bandit on their own. For Holly, it was a sign that she needed to leave, to abandon her home and leave it - young Holly could not bear to spend the rest of her life under the rule of the bandits. She remained in her home and out of sight until the next time the village hired a mage guild, and once the bandits had lifted their rule once more, staying only long enough to watch the mages work their magic (no pun intended) in removing the bandits.
It was in the wilderness that young Holly realised the situation she had placed herself in. She very quickly became lost, wandering in circles and trying to find her way. She ended up running into the group of mages that had just been paid to go into her village. After learning that she had no more family because of the bandits, and why she had decided to leave, the group took her in. A requip mage named Jed paid particular attention to her, talking to her as the group brought her back to their home a town away, and Crystal Shadow, a tiny and unnoticeable Guild. While he wasn’t a particularly skilled individual himself, Jed did begin to teach her the fundamentals of swordsmanship, building her up over the years to be even better at swordsmanship than he was, just by her determination to learn, and to have purpose. Holly did not, however, become an official mage of Crystal Shadow until a particularly intense practice fight with Jed, where she unknowingly triggered Pounce, a move of Thrust. She began to practice and hone her magic, growing in the ranks of Crystal Shadow, and with some money gained herself a set of armour.
That was, until she was betrayed. Years down the line, Holly accompanied a pair of other guildmates on a job that was familiar to her, but on the receiving end. Her guildmates were surprised to hear that she came from that village, but let her tag along. They made their way to the village of Keputu, to fend off a group of bandits. She was surprised to find she was being told not to attack the bandits by her guildmates, though, instead just warding them off with displays of their magic. She only learned the truth after the bandits had been warded off, when she and her guildmates met up with them to exchange money. She discovered that the constant presence of the bandits was not because of the bandits’ resilience, but because it was a scheme. With the villagers paying the guild to send out mages each time, it ensured no threat actually came for the bandits, and so they kept working the village off for a steady profit. As she thought about it, Holly realised a lot of other jobs seemed to be popping up on a regular basis, in the same place. Crystal Shadow wasn’t really a proper guild, it was just displaying itself as such - a dark guild. No wonder it was so small, so weak compared to other guilds - it didn’t want to build itself to a high profile. Anger burned within Holly at the realisation that everyone had been tortured for years because of the guild that she was in, that the scheme it was involved in had resulted in the death of her parents. Fury built within her, growing to such a point that when she and her two guildmates had left the bandits…
Holly returned to the Guild on her own, joking glumly that the other pair had stopped for food, and she met up with another small group of Crystal Shadow’s mages, who also ended up ‘stopping on the way home’. It was after the third group had mysteriously not came back with Holly that the rest realised something was wrong, but by that time, the Guild, as small as it was in the first, was a lot, lot smaller. It was Jed himself who was the first to challenge her, to ask her where everyone she was leaving with was. He was also the first to fall. Holly left the guild soon after and when she did so, the guild had lost its final member. It’s final surviving member, that is. She chose to keep her helmet on, not wanting anyone to see who she was, or what she was a part of before.
Free of the Dark Guild’s clutches, she made sure that everywhere else was free of it’s clutches, too. With no more Crystal Shadow to ask for ‘help’, a lot of the villages would ask for legitimate guilds’ help to sort their problems, but she an effort to make sure that some of those villages wouldn’t have to pay for that help, starting with Keputu, and when that was done, other villages that had fallen under the scheme of her prior Guild. She ended up travelling afterwards, going from place to place far from the evil she had once been a part of, until she finally came across a young guild named Lunar Raven. She took the time to scope it out, to see what it was, and after developing the knowledge that they were a light guild, she joined.
Holly Vertila
Age: Holly has not disclosed her actual age. When asked about it directly, she’ll state a random number between fifteen and fifty, though if obviously somewhere between eighteen and her mid twenties.
Guild: Lunar Raven
Guild Mark Location: The guild mark is on the back of her left hand, where it could be placed without the removal of her armour. A guild mark rests on the left pauldron of her armour as well. Both of these are red.
Magic Type: Thrust magic, a magic that allows the user to interact with the world, but at speed. It can utilise the world in it’s elements by applying momentum to objects, people, the ground or even the air itself.
Spells:
- Thrust: Pounce
- The user can leap in a direction in nearly the blink of an eye, closing distance rapidly, or generating distance if the user wishes to do so, in all axes of direction including up or down.
- Thrust: Warrior’s Zeal
- The power of Thrust is placed in the arms and legs of the user, allowing them to attack and defend with vigorous amounts of speed and power through momentum.
- Thrust: Sylph’s Blur
- The user rapidly thrusts the air around them in such a way that it creates a shield that is very difficult for projectiles (or projectile based magic) to penetrate, causing non-solid impacts to dissipate and slow moving objects to be tossed behind and to the side of the user (and possibly into teammates by accident).
- Thrust: Dancer’s Assault
- The user dashes in random directions, gaining distance on the target whilst leaving question as to where they’ll dash next, increasing their evasion of enemy attacks. The final dash puts the user in fistfighting (or swordfighting) range of the target.
- Thrust: Eagle’s Strike
- The user strikes the target with both hands or fists with force, thrust being applied to the target and launching them backwards with incredible velocity. This tends to be more effective when there is something behind the target to push them into, but works well for creating distance, or if the user skids into the ground.
- Thrust: Racing Spear
- The user uses Thrust to give themself constant momentum toward their threat, allowing them to rubber-band constantly around their target and perform increasing attacks on them.
- Thrust: Catch
- The user pulls the target toward them at speed, whether this be an object or a person. The effectiveness of this is determined by the effort by the user as well as the target Catch is being used on. A larger or heavier target will take more effort to actually pull. The user also must be wary of the target accidentally smacking into them, if not caught.
- Thrust: Lockdown
- The user can suddenly thrust a target downwards, causing them to crash into the ground hard, and furthermore, lock them down, making them unable to move their limbs up off the ground.
- Thrust: Guardian’s Throw
- The user can cause nearby objects, debris and even people to fly at great speed towards the target. This includes objects the user may be holding, allowing them to effectively super-throw weapons or turn pebbles into shrapnel.
- Thrust: Attack Projection
- The user utilises the power of thrust to attack at range, with attack moves pushing the air itself, visibly echoing through the air toward their target in arclike fashions.
- Thrust: Terra Uprise
- One of the stronger attacks of a Thrust user, the user can apply thrust to the ground, causing it to shoot upwards under or around the target area. This can be used in a multitude of ways, with the user being able to suddenly create a landfall beneath a foe’s feet to lifting the ground before them to block an attack (and then sending that same ground toward the enemy).
- Thrust: Guardian’s Implosion
- One of the stronger attacks of a Thrust user and a stronger form of Thrust: Guardian’s Throw, Guardian’s Implosion causes everything surrounding a foe, including the air, to suddenly gain momentum toward the target, slamming into them with full force.
Magic Rank: A
Equipment: Holly is armed with a sword, visible in her appearance picture. She also has a full set of armour that she wears at all times, also visible in the picture.
Strengths:
- Capable fighter: Holly doesn’t need magic to be good at fighting. At heart, she’s a swordsman, and even without a blade, a swing is bound to sting.
- Motivated: Even if she is getting frustrated, she has her mind on the goal and the endgame.
- Loyal: Her guild, her friends, her family. They all sit at her heart. She’d break her loyalty to them only after they break theirs to her.
Weaknesses:
- Secluded and untrusting: Holly does not disclose a lot about herself, even to her friends. Indeed, even her appearance is a mystery beyond the faceless appearance of her armour.
- Unforgiving: If someone displeases Holly enough, it’s not too easy to receive forgiveness from her.
- Cynical: Often, Holly can be quite blunt or cynical about a situation. If she’s doing this, it’s a good sign she’s stressed.
Personality: Holly likes to think of herself as a voice of reason, one to stand steady in the face of doom. She is a sensible and incorruptible individual, if a little blunt sometimes, though she makes up for that with a strong mind that remains focused on the task and the goal ahead, while trying to stay clear of tunnel vision.. She dislikes those who have a lack of common sense and those who can’t take care of themselves, not liking having to babysit those who should be able to handle something on their own. She has her own personal honour code, trying to abide by the wishes of others if they are reasonable.
History/Bio: Holly’s early life was not brilliant. She was born to a man and a woman who could not take care of themselves, both because they could not be bothered to learn how to do so and because it was too late to do so, for they were too old, having decided to have a child on the edge of the latest time that they could. It meant that young Holly was required to do a lot of the household work, work that she did not want to do. She would much rather be doing something other than being stuck within her home, caring for two adults who did not care for their child. Nobody knew Holly, because Holly could not leave the house. It was like she did not exist.
To add to this, her home village of Keputu wasn’t exactly free. It was occupied by a hardy group of bandits who worked the villagers for a profit. A group that, no matter how many times the village hired someone to dislodge them, came back just to take control once more. As Holly grew up, she came to realise that her parents had been secluding her from the outside not just because they were lazy, and because they needed someone to do the housework for them, but she realised that in a way her parents were protecting her. It didn’t make her feel any better about it, however.
That didn’t mean she wasn’t sad when her parents died, however. Holly’s parents were made an example of how it was a terrible crime to not work for the bandits, and she, like the rest of the village, were forced to watch their execution. For most young heroes in storybooks, this would be a key moment in their lives, where they suddenly grabbed a knife and fought every bandit on their own. For Holly, it was a sign that she needed to leave, to abandon her home and leave it - young Holly could not bear to spend the rest of her life under the rule of the bandits. She remained in her home and out of sight until the next time the village hired a mage guild, and once the bandits had lifted their rule once more, staying only long enough to watch the mages work their magic (no pun intended) in removing the bandits.
It was in the wilderness that young Holly realised the situation she had placed herself in. She very quickly became lost, wandering in circles and trying to find her way. She ended up running into the group of mages that had just been paid to go into her village. After learning that she had no more family because of the bandits, and why she had decided to leave, the group took her in. A requip mage named Jed paid particular attention to her, talking to her as the group brought her back to their home a town away, and Crystal Shadow, a tiny and unnoticeable Guild. While he wasn’t a particularly skilled individual himself, Jed did begin to teach her the fundamentals of swordsmanship, building her up over the years to be even better at swordsmanship than he was, just by her determination to learn, and to have purpose. Holly did not, however, become an official mage of Crystal Shadow until a particularly intense practice fight with Jed, where she unknowingly triggered Pounce, a move of Thrust. She began to practice and hone her magic, growing in the ranks of Crystal Shadow, and with some money gained herself a set of armour.
That was, until she was betrayed. Years down the line, Holly accompanied a pair of other guildmates on a job that was familiar to her, but on the receiving end. Her guildmates were surprised to hear that she came from that village, but let her tag along. They made their way to the village of Keputu, to fend off a group of bandits. She was surprised to find she was being told not to attack the bandits by her guildmates, though, instead just warding them off with displays of their magic. She only learned the truth after the bandits had been warded off, when she and her guildmates met up with them to exchange money. She discovered that the constant presence of the bandits was not because of the bandits’ resilience, but because it was a scheme. With the villagers paying the guild to send out mages each time, it ensured no threat actually came for the bandits, and so they kept working the village off for a steady profit. As she thought about it, Holly realised a lot of other jobs seemed to be popping up on a regular basis, in the same place. Crystal Shadow wasn’t really a proper guild, it was just displaying itself as such - a dark guild. No wonder it was so small, so weak compared to other guilds - it didn’t want to build itself to a high profile. Anger burned within Holly at the realisation that everyone had been tortured for years because of the guild that she was in, that the scheme it was involved in had resulted in the death of her parents. Fury built within her, growing to such a point that when she and her two guildmates had left the bandits…
Holly returned to the Guild on her own, joking glumly that the other pair had stopped for food, and she met up with another small group of Crystal Shadow’s mages, who also ended up ‘stopping on the way home’. It was after the third group had mysteriously not came back with Holly that the rest realised something was wrong, but by that time, the Guild, as small as it was in the first, was a lot, lot smaller. It was Jed himself who was the first to challenge her, to ask her where everyone she was leaving with was. He was also the first to fall. Holly left the guild soon after and when she did so, the guild had lost its final member. It’s final surviving member, that is. She chose to keep her helmet on, not wanting anyone to see who she was, or what she was a part of before.
Free of the Dark Guild’s clutches, she made sure that everywhere else was free of it’s clutches, too. With no more Crystal Shadow to ask for ‘help’, a lot of the villages would ask for legitimate guilds’ help to sort their problems, but she an effort to make sure that some of those villages wouldn’t have to pay for that help, starting with Keputu, and when that was done, other villages that had fallen under the scheme of her prior Guild. She ended up travelling afterwards, going from place to place far from the evil she had once been a part of, until she finally came across a young guild named Lunar Raven. She took the time to scope it out, to see what it was, and after developing the knowledge that they were a light guild, she joined.
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