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An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

(Title design not necessarily final)

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At first they'd tried showing reverence. It was "Kami" after all. After a few minutes, they'd gotten a solid read on the godly being and slowly dropped that act. A timeless god probably had infinite patience anyway. That had backfired pretty quick, honestly.

"I see you're more than willing to go to this world. I know all I need to." Kami had told them. It seemed that Kami had gotten a read on them just as quickly.

The world of Naruto. They'd recognized it from the description within moments. At long last it was truly becoming their escape from reality.

. . . being conscious of being born, however, was something they could have lived without. A punishment for being obnoxious, or simply an unfortunate consequence of retaining their mind upon rebirth? Either way, not fun. There were lots of theories about the "trauma of being born" and... yep.

Oh well, memories or not, their new body was still that of an infant. They had the emotional stability to go with it, and the memory of a meth addled goldfish. It was all a big blur for the most part. Literally. Their eyesight still hadn't fully kicked in.

Except for the massive, fucking bee on their chest. That... that was crystal clear, in 4K Ultra HD and way too fucking close to their face.

Their new mother and some other guy were discussing the bee rather than expeditiously removing it for some reason. Unfortunately, despite being able to hear perfectly well... they had no idea what everyone was saying because it wasn't in English. Fuck.

However, precise understanding wasn't necessary, because it was fairly easy to infer the conclusion of the conversation. That being... that the bee would stay. Why, fucking Kami, must the bee stay? It was so.... big... and leggy... and horrible and...

Wait.

They strained their shitty little baby muscles to tilt their head up and look more closely at the bee. Why would their, presumably very protective of her newborn child, mother agree to allow the bee to stay? Unless...

Fuckin'. Ninja. Bee.

"Awheglsyrs," their shitty little baby mouth babbled. Oh hell yes. Ninja bees. That was workable. That was very workable.

Still, they shuddered as the bee crawled across their skin, it was gonna take some getting used to.

. . .

Kohaku, their name was Kohaku. Finally got that one squared away. Didn't really take all that long with their new mother crooning it in their ear 24/7, but it all sort've sounded the same at first. Also, they had a brother named Kazoo... Kazuha... Kizass... whatever, they had time to figure that one out. At least Kohaku finally had a grasp on their own name for this life.

Kohaku was also finally getting used to their fuzzy, winged passenger. Or, rather, they had been until it began sticking eggs to their body. It felt so highly unnecessary, but, in the name of nin-bees, Kohaku was resolved to suck it up and get used to it.

. . .

Oh fuck, oh gosh, oh shit, they were hatching.

. . .

"Here you ģ̷̹͙̠̪͕̣̌͆̈́͗́͜o̴̢̢̪̘̳͉̖͇̬̮͂̏͑́̑͐̆̊̌̽̿̌̐̈́, Kohaku, ṭ̵̱͉͙͈͇̜̋̈ͅh̵̛̞̉͒̃̌͋̈́̓͜r̴̼͇̗̭̬̤̃̿ō̷͇͓͙̖̏́̓̄͌͘͠͠͠w̸̞͎͈̄͐̀̊̔̓̈́͆̏̏̾̒̋̎͘ the ball t̷̨̻̺̲̬̫͓̖̭͖̤̖̄̈́̋̄̇͛̓͠͠o̶̜͚͖̠̩̯̼̳̱̥̙̩̎̑́ͅ your brother." Kohaku's mother handed him a small, toy ball.

They were slowly picking up the language, but... it was freaking rough. They had a lifetime of English already crammed in there. However, aside from the small colony of bees slowly forming under their clothes, Kohaku didn't have much else going on, so it was easy enough to focus on learning. Meanwhile, it had become apparent that they didn't have a home, really. They traveled a lot and spent a lot of time outdoors. Aside from Kohaku's mother and brother there was also a trio of men.

Apparently those men were the source of the bee Kohaku had inherited. However, Kohaku also got the impression that none of them was their father.

"What kinda messed up life did you plop me into here!?" . . . "I wonder if I can get a headshot?"

"UWAAAAAAAH!" Yep. Headshot.

And so passed year one of Kohaku's new life. For now... there was naught to do but wait. To wait until they absorbed more of the language,
to wait for the bees to grow, and to wait for their own body to grow. Meanwhile, they would plan... and then forget that plan because they couldn't write it down, but still! A plan would be had... eventually!

An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

Kohaku

Name: Hiryuu Kohaku
Titles: Not Cool Enough Yet
Gender: ??!
Age: 0
Affiliation: TBD
Physical Description: Blue eyes with light-brown hair that seems to have a bright, reddish hue to it when viewed from certain angles. They have a slender build, with delicate features, however they're taller than the majority of their peers. This gives them an ambiguous, yet at times imposing figure.
(Image hopefully in progress soon-ish(tm))

Personality:
Personable, yet aloof. Polite, yet not exactly magnanimous. Kohaku likes people who help themselves, because then Kohaku doesn't have to. The type to condemn a bully and in turn scoff at the victim for letting themselves be bullied. In short: a self-absorbed cynic.

"Short" Bio

Biography:
In their previous life, they worked various jobs. Debt collection, call centers, and delivery work. Often all at the same time. None of them made a lot of money, but they all did wonders for eroding one's faith in humanity. The original Naruto manga was their escape from reality... until one day they were removed from that reality altogether.

While well-read with the original, they were less enthused with Shippuden, and Boruto is right out.

As for their new life, their father is an Uzumaki, part of a lineage that's been marrying in and out of the clan for a few generations now. The father was the latest to marry out, leaving Kohaku's Uzumaki blood rather... diluted. The mother was barely more than a nobody. It was thanks to this union that they survived the purge of Uzugakure... by simply not being there in the first place, however, the father's flaming red hair was a dead giveaway.

At first, they hadn't even heard about the purge, living peacefully away from the war as best they could. Then, later, they continued to lay low, not wanting to travel during, or even shortly after, the hostilities. Finally, the father wanted to visit the remains of his homeland, but this proved to be a mistake. There had been reports, here and there, of Uzumaki survivors. It might not even have been the father they'd caught wind of, but all the same, shinobi of Iwagakure laid in wait.

A group of shinobi, including members of the all but fallen from grace Kamizuru clan, ambushed them. The father sacrificed himself, telling the mother to run. It was no use, the bees and wasps of the Kamizuru clan found the mother within minutes, but she was not killed. At the time, she was just pregnant enough for it to be noticeable.

The Kamizuru clan-members were ecstatic. They'd hunted down an Uzumaki, and captured his pregnant wife. Unfortunately, the leader of the group was not a Kamizuru. They had no desire to give the disgraced clan any time in the sun, rather preferring to keep them under their heel. As this betrayal became evident... spite won the day for Kohaku's mother.

They fled, stealing the woman away under the cover of darkness, if only to lessen their former leader's prize. Spirits were high at first upon their successful escape, and the names of those who'd wronged them were cursed profusely. Then, they realized the depths of their own betrayal. Then... they began to feel the guilt of what they'd done, traveling with the woman they'd wronged, who'd never wronged them in the first place. The ones with her hadn't dealt the fatal blow, but their clan's bees had been instrumental in tracking them down.

As the mother's belly grew heavy, she had no choice but to rely on her former captor's help, as she could not travel far on her own. She got along best with the youngest of the group, for they were the most innocent, both in term of lack of experience and by being of the lowest rank, and thus having had the least to do with her capture.

When it came time for her to give birth, Kohaku was finally born... along with their twin brother, Kozue? However, around that time, it wasn't just the twins being born. The bee swarm possessed by the eldest of the Kamizuru had also given birth to a new queen. Normally, new queens were either culled by the swarm, or carefully collected by the clan should the birth of a new swarm be warranted.

The young queen seemed very interested in Kohaku's chakra signature, flying to them before she could be culled. Thus, one of the first things Kohaku ever saw was the black and yellow stipes of the large queen bee landing on their chest. It was horrifying.

The defacto Kamizuru leader then made two offers before Kohaku's mother could swat the thing. One: to... simply remove the offending creature, or, two... to let Kohaku keep it as some small form of reparation, and to teach them what they could about commanding them. After much debate, Kohaku's mother agreed, wanting her child to have every little advantage possible.

She was nervous of course. She'd chosen to bestow her own family name of Hiryuu rather than Uzumaki, and their signature red hair hadn't... fully taken root, but Iwa was looking for deserters with bees. Then again, Kohaku was clearly not a deserter, and who'd ever heard of an Uzumaki commanding bees?

And so Kohaku's messy little story began.

Inventory:

• Absolutely nothing. Maidenless, even.

Skills:

• Grifter - In Kohaku's previous life, dealing with angry, entitled, selfish individuals was commonplace. Between their employment and their own less than ideal lot in life, they had to learn to deal with these people. They had to learn to see through their lies and sob stories, to shut off their own emotions when necessary, and manipulate them in turn.

Tropes:

• "I Don't Even Know Who You Are" - The Uzumaki side of Kohaku's heritage all but speaks for itself, but their mother's side is pretty much a mystery. No one knows much of anything, including the mother herself. In most cases this would mean absolutely nothing, but in Kohaku's case it will likely result in some prior unforeseen benefit at a sufficiently dramatic moment.

Chakra Affinity:

• Water

Bloodline Limit:

• No Bitches, Just Beetches - In other words, Kohaku has been paired with a queen bee of the Kamizuru clan and will begin to form a hive surrounding their body. - Kohaku as of now has no control of this singular bee.
• While possessing no techniques, Kohaku has a stronger than average life-force and chakra pool right from birth due to being part Uzumaki. Not enough to automatically heal others with, though.

Jutsu:

• M A I D E N L E S S

Current Goals:
Short Term: Don't get killed again - More bees
Long Term: More bees - "I can fix her" - MORE. BEES. - Seriously, don't get killed again - BEES

Extra:
Apparently these aren't functional tropes, but they amused me as I wrote them, so here they'll stay.

• Filthy Halfbreed:
  Being roughly 40%, give or take (and it's probably take), Uzumaki, they have been screwed out of all the really cool bloodline traits, but at least have the advantage of an above-average life force and chakra pool, especially should they focus on training it. Don't bite them, though. You'll just get hurt. Again.
• 'Member Beerries:
  'Member that filler plot about the bees? OK, well it wasn't really about bees. It was about a bug, though, the one with the long nose. Still... still not remembering it? OK, fine it was the arc that had Hinata dancing naked in the moonlight. Yeah, remember it now? Point is: Kohaku has bees. Bees? BEES! FOR EVERYONE!

An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

Kohaku

Name: Hiryuu Kohaku
Titles: Not Cool Enough Yet
Gender: ??!
Age: 0
Affiliation: TBD
Physical Description: Blue eyes with light-brown hair that seems to have a bright, reddish hue to it when viewed from certain angles. They have a slender build, with delicate features, however they're taller than the majority of their peers. This gives them an ambiguous, yet at times imposing figure.
(Image hopefully in progress soon-ish(tm))

Personality:
Personable, yet aloof. Polite, yet not exactly magnanimous. Kohaku likes people who help themselves, because then Kohaku doesn't have to. The type to condemn a bully and in turn scoff at the victim for letting themselves be bullied. In short: a self-absorbed cynic.

"Short" Bio

Biography:
In their previous life, they worked various jobs. Debt collection, call centers, and delivery work. Often all at the same time. None of them made a lot of money, but they all did wonders for eroding one's faith in humanity. The original Naruto manga was their escape from reality... until one day they were removed from that reality altogether.

While well-read with the original, they were less enthused with Shippuden, and Boruto is right out.

As for their new life, their father is an Uzumaki, part of a lineage that's been marrying in and out of the clan for a few generations now. The father was the latest to marry out, leaving Kohaku's Uzumaki blood rather... diluted. The mother was barely more than a nobody. It was thanks to this union that they survived the purge of Uzugakure... by simply not being there in the first place, however, the father's flaming red hair was a dead giveaway.

At first, they hadn't even heard about the purge, living peacefully away from the war as best they could. Then, later, they continued to lay low, not wanting to travel during, or even shortly after, the hostilities. Finally, the father wanted to visit the remains of his homeland, but this proved to be a mistake. There had been reports, here and there, of Uzumaki survivors. It might not even have been the father they'd caught wind of, but all the same, shinobi of Iwagakure laid in wait.

A group of shinobi, including members of the all but fallen from grace Kamizuru clan, ambushed them. The father sacrificed himself, telling the mother to run. It was no use, the bees and wasps of the Kamizuru clan found the mother within minutes, but she was not killed. At the time, she was just pregnant enough for it to be noticeable.

The Kamizuru clan-members were ecstatic. They'd hunted down an Uzumaki, and captured his pregnant wife. Unfortunately, the leader of the group was not a Kamizuru. They had no desire to give the disgraced clan any time in the sun, rather preferring to keep them under their heel. As this betrayal became evident... spite won the day for Kohaku's mother.

They fled, stealing the woman away under the cover of darkness, if only to lessen their former leader's prize. Spirits were high at first upon their successful escape, and the names of those who'd wronged them were cursed profusely. Then, they realized the depths of their own betrayal. Then... they began to feel the guilt of what they'd done, traveling with the woman they'd wronged, who'd never wronged them in the first place. The ones with her hadn't dealt the fatal blow, but their clan's bees had been instrumental in tracking them down.

As the mother's belly grew heavy, she had no choice but to rely on her former captor's help, as she could not travel far on her own. She got along best with the youngest of the group, for they were the most innocent, both in term of lack of experience and by being of the lowest rank, and thus having had the least to do with her capture.

When it came time for her to give birth, Kohaku was finally born... along with their twin brother, Kozue? However, around that time, it wasn't just the twins being born. The bee swarm possessed by the eldest of the Kamizuru had also given birth to a new queen. Normally, new queens were either culled by the swarm, or carefully collected by the clan should the birth of a new swarm be warranted.

The young queen seemed very interested in Kohaku's chakra signature, flying to them before she could be culled. Thus, one of the first things Kohaku ever saw was the black and yellow stipes of the large queen bee landing on their chest. It was horrifying.

The defacto Kamizuru leader then made two offers before Kohaku's mother could swat the thing. One: to... simply remove the offending creature, or, two... to let Kohaku keep it as some small form of reparation, and to teach them what they could about commanding them. After much debate, Kohaku's mother agreed, wanting her child to have every little advantage possible.

She was nervous of course. She'd chosen to bestow her own family name of Hiryuu rather than Uzumaki, and their signature red hair hadn't... fully taken root, but Iwa was looking for deserters with bees. Then again, Kohaku was clearly not a deserter, and who'd ever heard of an Uzumaki commanding bees?

And so Kohaku's messy little story began.

Inventory:

• Absolutely nothing. Maidenless, even.

Skills:

• Still Maidenless

Tropes:

• "I Don't Even Know Who You Are" - The Uzumaki side of Kohaku's heritage all but speaks for itself, but their mother's side is pretty much a mystery. No one knows much of anything, including the mother herself. In most cases this would mean absolutely nothing, but in Kohaku's case it will likely result in some prior unforeseen benefit at a sufficiently dramatic moment.

Chakra Affinity:

• Water

Bloodline Limit:

• No Bitches, Just Beetches - In other words, Kohaku has been paired with a queen bee of the Kamizuru clan and will begin to form a hive surrounding their body. - Kohaku as of now has no control of this singular bee.
• While possessing no techniques, Kohaku has a stronger than average life-force and chakra pool right from birth due to being part Uzumaki. Not enough to automatically heal others with, though.

Jutsu:

• M A I D E N L E S S

Current Goals:
Short Term: Don't get killed again - More bees
Long Term: More bees - "I can fix her" - MORE. BEES. - Seriously, don't get killed again - BEES

Extra:
Apparently these aren't functional tropes, but they amused me as I wrote them, so here they'll stay.

• Filthy Halfbreed:
  Being roughly 40%, give or take (and it's probably take), Uzumaki, they have been screwed out of all the really cool bloodline traits, but at least have the advantage of an above-average life force and chakra pool, especially should they focus on training it. Don't bite them, though. You'll just get hurt. Again.
• 'Member Beerries:
  'Member that filler plot about the bees? OK, well it wasn't really about bees. It was about a bug, though, the one with the long nose. Still... still not remembering it? OK, fine it was the arc that had Hinata dancing naked in the moonlight. Yeah, remember it now? Point is: Kohaku has bees. Bees? BEES! FOR EVERYONE!

@Lewascan2 As you can see... I got a little silly at times. May have... gone too far in some places.

An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes - a Naruto Mass-Isekai RP

I'm in.

Surely my house won't light on fire a second time...

If you know, you know.

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

@Crowvette

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Wolf did not protest as Alex led him away, though her need for privacy was... curious.

However, when she finally spoke, he had little to say in response. He couldn't quite form the words. Every time he tried, he seemed to get tripped up as his mind further processed all she'd just told him. Alex had clearly been awake for some time. Time enough that she felt comfortable seeking out fights. Vera had seen her, and she'd told him nothing. Alex had joined a tournament before coming to see him. Vera hadn't told him.

Oh.

Well, why would they?

"OK." Wolf finally said softly, looking at Alex, yet his gaze seeming to pass right through her. "So, you want me to help you calm Vera down? That can be a little tricky, but I'll do my best." He gave her what was supposed to be a reassuring smile, and while to all the rest of the world it would have looked completely normal, it felt so wrong. "I'm just glad you're OK."

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

@Crowvette

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Wolf paused with his thumb over Vera's contact in his phone. It was an unfortunate truth that he'd gotten good at reading faces in order to survive his relationship with Vera. It didn't actually help him that much on a daily basis, as he was really only attuned to Vera herself... but Alex wasn't doing a very good job of hiding her feelings right now.

He could no longer ignore that something was off.

"She... has good days and bad days? Why do you ask?" Wolf tilted his head. It was such an oddly specific question to ask about somebody you hadn't seen in years... unless. "You did talk to her, didn't you? Did she do something?"

But if that was true, why wouldn't Alex just tell him? What was scaring her? Why... why didn't Vera tell him? It made sense though, didn't it? Alex had tried to change her story, but she'd still admitted to it. Her behavior made no sense otherwise, and yet what would drive her to hide it? He felt... dizzy, thinking about it? He felt an overwhelming rushing sensation in his head, as if he was drowning beneath unrelenting waves in the ocean.

He tried to keep it from showing, but it hurt. He wanted her to just tell him what was going on. He wanted her to trust him... but he had no right to ask for that.

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Zelie Faramont

'Zelie Faramont'

Nationality: French
Age: 18

Image

Appearance: A sturdy, well-built girl, standing 6 feet tall with a fluffy mop of pink hair atop her head. If one actually manages to get a good look, her eyes are a striking, silvery-white in color.

Faction
World Serpent


Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyrie
Origin: Human
Rank: C

Grades
Power: C -- Endurance: C (+1) -- Agility: E
Intellect: E -- Honkai: C (+1) -- Burst: C

Type
Mecha


Element: Physical

Discipline: Greatsword

Weapon: Prototype Buster-Gunsword

• Ability: Begins charging energy to unleash a short-ranged bolt of kinetic energy. It takes one round to charge, to then be fired during the next. Landing direct hits during the charging phase can accelerate this to allow it to fire the same round. The blast can stun weaker enemies for 1 round. The bolt has a max range of 7 meters before dissipating completely. After 5 meters it loses the stun effect. Within 3 meters it retains full offensive power, but after begins to rapidly lose power.
  
  One round of cooldown before initiating another charge sequence, meaning up to two rounds in total before another blast is fired.

Stigmata: Natural Stigmata

• Natural Stigmata: Faramont

Battlesuit: Ivory Tower

• Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. Micro-Jet boosters for short bursts of enhanced movement, or more dramatic ones under Burst-Mode conditions. Low-yield energy projectors are located in the suit's bracers.
• Time Fracture.

Honkai Arts:

• Bleed: C
• Time Fracture: E
• Honkai Sensing: E
• Over Boost: D -- She can momentarily use her innate honkai energy to power-up her gear. In her Ivory Tower battlesuit, for example, she can use this for offensive charges with her suit's thrusters, or even an enhanced jump followed by a sky-strike using those same thrusters. Her thrusters can be overcharged 3 times before they need a 1 round cooldown period. An aerial strike hits this limit immediately. If she has already boosted twice on the ground, a subsequent aerial strike will double this cooldown.
• Shatter Shield: D -- Using her battlesuit's energy projectors, she can put up a short-lived energy shield. It can absorb "1.5" hits per rank and then "shatters," lacerating any enemies in front of Zelie that are within melee range to inflict bleeding. Can deploy the shield in a dome formation, but this halves the number of hits it can withstand. - The shield will burn out if overused and require a 3-round cooldown. If the shield is not burnt out, it will fully recover after 2 rounds of no use. Even if not burnt out, it still requires a 1-round cooldown after shattering. - Full burnout occurs after shattering twice, or shattering after hitting its damage limit.

Burst: Overdrive Crash

• Rank: C
• Duration: 2 rounds.
• Modifier Points: 6 (+1 Boost, +1 Charge, +1 Armor Break, +1 Power/Endurance/Agility)
• Effect: She overcharges her battlesuit and weapon to the max. In this state she can rapidly charge forth using the boosters built into the suit and weapon to confront enemies head-on. The surge of energy restores all abilities to usable status and charges them instantly, skipping any wind-up period. She can reset an ability again during this period, but only once. Finally, she can launch an overcharged, armor-shredding blast from her weapon, but this will end the burst immediately upon use.

Skills: - Knows French and English

Cooking, cleaning, sewing, and anything else one might pick up when left to do all the chores the "scientists" running the Hermitage could not be bothered to do. However, it should be noted that Zelie's go-to recipes are very... hearty, and heavy, and in such portions that one is likely to be left in a coma for a week while their body tries to digest it all.

More relevant to her career as a Valkyrie, she has basic hand-to-hand enough to survive should she lose her weapon, but with a special focus in grappling. More specifically, she is adept at armed grappling with a weapon in hand. Despite the length and heft of her preferred weapon, getting face-to-face with her is no guarantee of safety.

Makes amazing hand-crafted bird-houses.

Gear:
She never goes on an assignment without the most vital of supplies: Ration bars, dehydrated food, water, a hot-plate she can power via her battlesuit if need be, collapsible pan, and cutlery. She also keeps a small book on person at all times, but no one knows what's it.

Personality:
She's very quiet and generally keeps to herself. One can be in the same room with her and almost forget she was there. The vast majority of her acquaintances don't even know what her voice sounds like. If it wasn't for her physical stature, she could almost disappear into the background.

The mistake is assuming any of this equates to her being timid or weak.

Finds cozy cottages on the coast mildly unnerving.

Biography:
She spent her early years in a Hermitage with a group of other children. While she wasn't born there, she has only the faintest memories of what came before, including her parents. She would come to know the truth of her situation in her early pre-teen years when her stigmata manifested. Centuries ago, the first of her bloodline too awakened their stigmata, becoming a bastion against the growing honkai threat. However, over time that bloodline diluted and the stigmata faded to obscurity.

The Hermitage was run by the former stewards of the Faramont family and had quietly collected the scattered offshoots in a bid to revive it and return to glory. Finally, it seemed they'd found success with Zelie and so bestowed upon her the Faramont name.

The next step was to put her to the test. If they could prove her potential, and their own, they could bring her to Schicksal and gain entry, and perhaps a high station, within the organization. True to her lineage, Zelie excelled at all tasks, but only relative to her age. Compared to the A and S-rank Valkyries of Schicksal she was deemed yet too inferior to be worthy of mention. It was still too soon to say she'd for sure reach such heights.

The head of the Hermitage grew impatient. They wanted to prove that their work meant something. Over a century and three generations had gone into finding this one girl. There had to be something to show for it all.

So they tested her upper limits. They pushed, she withstood, and so they pushed some more. The amount of energy she could channel proved remarkable for her age. However, like a light shining its brightest just before the filament burns out... they did find her limit.

The numbers they had recorded were indeed phenomenal, and as a testament to her fortitude and lineage, Zelia was still alive...

But they had broken the girl.

She was all but unresponsive. There was nothing they could bring before Schicksal's leadership. Without Zelie, the numbers were meaningless. Over a century of work and three generations -- wasted. Their dreams of grandeur were now little more the delusions.

However, in the end, the door closed by their folly would only lead to a new one opening -- for her. Schicksal would indeed hear of their work, of the reawakening of the Faramont bloodline, and the squandering of it all due to their excess of ambition. To say they were displeased was an understatement and the hammer came down. At the least, no more would children be corralled and observed. Zelie, meanwhile, was "sent away for treatment."

To World Serpent.

Someone had to say something. The numbers had been remarkable, after all. They had done their good deed, saved the children, and so what was wrong with a little compensation? OK sure, the compensation was a mentally shattered teenage girl, but it was for her own good too... probably.

She was in no condition to consent to their idea of treatment... but that also meant she couldn't say no. If in the end she picked up a weapon and carried on where she left off, all the better. The world always needed more heroes.

Even broken ones.

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Hi, I'm very interested in this & working on a character (assuming it's still open!) - I just have a questions character creation wise.

For the grades you mention points, and say about starting with an average of enough to have D in each but that this can be adjusted as we like. For adjustment, is it a case of having to reduce one to increase another? (Say I reduce endurance to E and increase honkai to C) or is at adjust as you'd like within reason?

@FernStone

Yep. So it works like this:
P: D
E: D
A: D
I: D
H: D
B: D

Then you can shuffle points around (to a max of C, and a minimum of E [or F, but only in one stat and that's risky]). For example:

P: E
E: E
A: C
I: C
H: D
B: D

Then, you'd add/remove bonus points based off of whether you have Artificial or Natural Stigma or SWARA. These points can allow you to go up to B. So say you took Artificial, which is the most common:

P: E
E: F (-1)
A: B (+1)
I: C
H: C (+1)
B: D

The + or - 1 just shows that the stat in question is at that grade because of a bonus (or penalty) point. It does NOT mean it's B + 1 = A or anything like that. I say that because I was a little confused when I first saw it. I hope I explained things well.

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Zelie Faramont

'Zelie Faramont'

Nationality: French
Age: 18

Image

Appearance: A sturdy, well-built girl, standing 6 feet tall with a fluffy mop of pink hair atop her head. If one actually manages to get a good look, her eyes are a striking, silvery-white in color.

Faction
World Serpent


Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyrie
Origin: Human
Rank: C

Grades
Power: C -- Endurance: C (+1) -- Agility: E
Intellect: E -- Honkai: C (+1) -- Burst: C

Type
Mecha


Element: Physical

Discipline: Greatsword

Weapon: Prototype Buster-Gunsword

• Ability: Begins charging energy to unleash a short-ranged bolt of kinetic energy. It takes one round to charge, to then be fired during the next. Landing direct hits during the charging phase can accelerate this to allow it to fire the same round. The blast can stun weaker enemies for 1 round. The bolt has a max range of 7 meters before dissipating completely. After 5 meters it loses the stun effect. Within 3 meters it retains full offensive power, but after begins to rapidly lose power.
  
  One round of cooldown before initiating another charge sequence, meaning up to two rounds in total before another blast is fired.

Stigmata: Natural Stigmata

• Natural Stigmata: Faramont

Battlesuit: Ivory Tower

• Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. Micro-Jet boosters for short bursts of enhanced movement, or more dramatic ones under Burst-Mode conditions. Low-yield energy projectors are located in the suit's bracers.
• Time Fracture.

Honkai Arts:

• Bleed: C
• Time Fracture: E
• Honkai Sensing: E
• Over Boost: D -- She can momentarily use her innate honkai energy to power-up her gear. In her Ivory Tower battlesuit, for example, she can use this for offensive charges with her suit's thrusters, or even an enhanced jump followed by a sky-strike using those same thrusters. Her thrusters can be overcharged 3 times before they need a 1 round cooldown period. An aerial strike hits this limit immediately. If she has already boosted twice on the ground, a subsequent aerial strike will double this cooldown.
• Shatter Shield: D -- Using her battlesuit's energy projectors, she can put up a short-lived energy shield. It can absorb "1.5" hits per rank and then "shatters," lacerating any enemies in front of Zelie that are within melee range to inflict bleeding. Can deploy the shield in a dome formation, but this halves the number of hits it can withstand. - The shield will burn out if overused and require a 3-round cooldown. If the shield is not burnt out, it will fully recover after 2 rounds of no use. Even if not burnt out, it still requires a 1-round cooldown after shattering. - Full burnout occurs after shattering twice, or shattering after hitting its damage limit.

Burst: Overdrive Crash

• Rank: C
• Duration: 2 rounds.
• Modifier Points: 6 (+1 Boost, +1 Charge, +1 Armor Break, +1 Power/Endurance/Agility)
• Effect: She overcharges her battlesuit and weapon to the max. In this state she can rapidly charge forth using the boosters built into the suit and weapon to confront enemies head-on. The surge of energy restores all abilities to usable status and charges them instantly, skipping any wind-up period. She can reset an ability again during this period, but only once. Finally, she can launch an overcharged, armor-shredding blast from her weapon, but this will end the burst immediately upon use.

Skills: - Knows French and English

Cooking, cleaning, sewing, and anything else one might pick up when left to do all the chores the "scientists" running the Hermitage could not be bothered to do. However, it should be noted that Zelie's go-to recipes are very... hearty, and heavy, and in such portions that one is likely to be left in a coma for a week while their body tries to digest it all.

More relevant to her career as a Valkyrie, she has basic hand-to-hand enough to survive should she lose her weapon, but with a special focus in grappling. More specifically, she is adept at armed grappling with a weapon in hand. Despite the length and heft of her preferred weapon, getting face-to-face with her is no guarantee of safety.

Makes amazing hand-crafted bird-houses.

Gear:
She never goes on an assignment without the most vital of supplies: Ration bars, dehydrated food, water, a hot-plate she can power via her battlesuit if need be, collapsible pan, and cutlery. She also keeps a small book on person at all times, but no one knows what's it.

Personality:
She's very quiet and generally keeps to herself. One can be in the same room with her and almost forget she was there. The vast majority of her acquaintances don't even know what her voice sounds like. If it wasn't for her physical stature, she could almost disappear into the background.

The mistake is assuming any of this equates to her being timid or weak.

Finds cozy cottages on the coast mildly unnerving.

Biography:
She spent her early years in a Hermitage with a group of other children. While she wasn't born there, she has only the faintest memories of what came before, including her parents. She would come to know the truth of her situation in her early pre-teen years when her stigmata manifested. Centuries ago, the first of her bloodline too awakened their stigmata, becoming a bastion against the growing honkai threat. However, over time that bloodline diluted and the stigmata faded to obscurity.

The Hermitage was run by the former stewards of the Faramont family and had quietly collected the scattered offshoots in a bid to revive it and return to glory. Finally, it seemed they'd found success with Zelie and so bestowed upon her the Faramont name.

The next step was to put her to the test. If they could prove her potential, and their own, they could bring her to Schicksal and gain entry, and perhaps a high station, within the organization. True to her lineage, Zelie excelled at all tasks, but only relative to her age. Compared to the A and S-rank Valkyries of Schicksal she was deemed yet too inferior to be worthy of mention. It was still too soon to say she'd for sure reach such heights.

The head of the Hermitage grew impatient. They wanted to prove that their work meant something. Over a century and three generations had gone into finding this one girl. There had to be something to show for it all.

So they tested her upper limits. They pushed, she withstood, and so they pushed some more. The amount of energy she could channel proved remarkable for her age. However, like a light shining its brightest just before the filament burns out... they did find her limit.

The numbers they had recorded were indeed phenomenal, and as a testament to her fortitude and lineage, Zelia was still alive...

But they had broken the girl.

She was all but unresponsive. There was nothing they could bring before Schicksal's leadership. Without Zelie, the numbers were meaningless. Over a century of work and three generations -- wasted. Their dreams of grandeur were now little more the delusions.

However, in the end, the door closed by their folly would only lead to a new one opening -- for her. Schicksal would indeed hear of their work, of the reawakening of the Faramont bloodline, and the squandering of it all due to their excess of ambition. To say they were displeased was an understatement and the hammer came down. At the least, no more would children be corralled and observed. Zelie, meanwhile, was "sent away for treatment."

To World Serpent.

Someone had to say something. The numbers had been remarkable, after all. They had done their good deed, saved the children, and so what was wrong with a little compensation? OK sure, the compensation was a mentally shattered teenage girl, but it was for her own good too... probably.

She was in no condition to consent to their idea of treatment... but that also meant she couldn't say no. If in the end she picked up a weapon and carried on where she left off, all the better. The world always needed more heroes.

Even broken ones.

Royal Rumble: Rumble over the Heavens

@Crowvette

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Wolf was a little confused by how flustered Alex appeared after the question. It wasn't like he had room to talk, but it seemed to have thrown her off quite a bit. She could hardly keep her story straight, literally changing her story outright from one sentence to the next.

"Yeah. We see each other every day, almost," Wolf told her. That... hardly explained things. He wasn't sure how to explain things. What was the nicest way to say: "we're dating, but I think she hates me almost as much as I hate myself?" He couldn't think of a good way to say it, especially not within the first ten minutes of seeing Alex again. "I know she missed you just as much as I did. I-I can tell her you're here. I'm sure she'd come right over."

Of course he had no idea of Alex and Vera's prior meeting. No one had told him a thing, even now, and so one could only imagine what he might have done or thought had he known -- if he'd been told how angry Vera had gotten, or that she'd withheld that fact that she'd seen Alex from him.

"I-I should tell her..." Wolf began fumbling to find his phone. "Um, if you're OK with that." He couldn't shake how strange her answer had been. Had she talked to Vera or not? If not, and she'd seen her, why avoid her? She'd seemed to feel guilty about her absence from their lives. Was it that simple?

But why did she feel guilty? She was the victim...