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Thaddeus

Name: Thaddeus Drakeblood

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: Thaddeus is quite tall, standing at 5’11”. He sports short, spiky red hair and brown eyes. His complexion is relatively pale, though not unhealthily so. Thaddeus wears a brown leather coat with his emblem inscribed on the back in red. He also wears a plain black shirt and black jeans (+ belt). His shoes are a pretty standard grey-and-black affair, though they’re armoured a little underneath. He also has lightly armoured fingerless gloves, which he wears in combat. The scabbard for his weapon rests on his back.

Weapon

Weapon name: Dragon Slayer

Appearance: Dragon Slayer is an inherited weapon, passed down and maintained for a long time. The Drakebloods keep several of these, and handed Thaddeus one that would suit his needs. Dragon Slayer is a 4’5” long claymore with a blade roughly 3 inches wide. The guard features a stylised gold dragon head ornament with its wings turned upwards spread to the side acting as the guard, positioned in a way that makes it seem as if it’s spitting the blade out. Its body winds down the black grip, twisting down to rest at the pommel where it ends with a dragon claw holding a lightning dust gem. The blade itself is made of a shiny metal, straight 3 quarters up the blade before tapering off to a point at the end.

Function: Dragon Slayer functions like a wide-bladed claymore, though it’s a considerably bigger than a normal one. It’s still well balanced despite the weight, and can be used for thrusting, sweeping or chopping strikes, and the wide blade can be used to block attacks to an extent. Furthermore, the dust crystal in the pommel can be activated to gather electricity in the blade by pressing a button on the guard, before pressing the same button to discharge it the electricity built up in the direction that the blade is pointed. The charged energy can be kept, buffing the blade with electricity, but will slowly bleed back to the crystal if not used. As with most weapons, it can also channel Thaddeus’s aura, making use of his particular semblance.

Semblance

Devourer
When activating his semblance, Thaddeus becomes coated in red aura and it takes on unique properties. It strengthens Thaddeus more than usual, buffing his physical strength greatly and direct contact to other auras allows Thaddeus’s own to absorb the other aura, replenishing Thaddeus’s aura and strengthening devourer’s effect. Thaddeus’s semblance allows him to effectively fight for very long periods of time as it replenishes his aura often, though the boost is ultimately artificial and does no more to buff his defences than normal aura.

While his semblance is active, drinking aura slowly makes Thaddeus go deeper and deeper into an agitated bloodthirsty state, which allows him to ignore pain to a certain extent. But if he incurs heavy damage during use of his semblance, he will incur its effects after his semblance wears off, possibly leading to injuries or collapse. If Thaddeus deactivates his semblance, he returns to normal. Bloodthirst and strength enhancement drains quickly when it’s inactive, though if he activates it again within a short period of time, the effects will still be active at the current level of deterioration.

Strengths: Close range powerhouse, strong enough to swing his sword one handed. Artificially resilient, capable of fighting for prolonged periods of time. Will outlast most opponents. Typically uses brute strength and augments his sword attacks with unarmed strikes, keeping his fighting style varied. Being close to him is very dangerous and his attacks can conduct to an, ignoring defences to an extent as direct contact to him provides an opportunity to drain aura or shock them. Very good at fighting melee reliant enemies with aura buffs. Can be surprisingly fast by using his strength to jump around the battlefield.

Weaknesses: Lack of ranged attacks, only ranged attack is quite obvious and has a considerable charge time. Has trouble against fast opponents, though not immobile. Quite vulnerable to being kited, and can do little against ranged attacks outside of recklessly jumping at his attacker. Also very high profile as an attacker, and lacks defences.

Personality: Thaddeus is a pretty laid-back individual. He may come off as unmotivated, because he typically isn’t. Quite spacey sometimes, he likes making friends and he likes messing around with them, even if he can’t be bothered making that many. Outside of his friends, he’s quite friendly to strangers as well, though he’s certainly not as close. Despite his spacey exterior, he’s actually quite intelligent. It just doesn’t seem that way most of the time because he’s unconcerned by so many things. Despite that, he’s also quite curious when faced with new things. He doesn’t like rigidly structured things or close-mindedness.

History: Thaddeus was born to an ancient family of famous hunters, originating from an ancient influential hunter involved in the creation of society itself. Prestigious as it was, Thaddeus didn’t want any of it. Thaddeus was born as a second son in a family obsessed with combat strength. Constantly a disappointment, Thaddeus performed the bare minimum of combat training as a child, stating often that he couldn’t be bothered with it. His parents wanted him to train as much as his brothers, as he had some of the best potential out of any of his siblings, mostly due to his rather unique semblance. Thaddeus works to be a hunter mainly to get his family off his back, but he’s far more interested in seeing new things, whereas his family want him to become a hunter solely for the purpose of cementing their role as one of the most influential hunter families in the world.

Emblem

Team: None

Other: Normal animals tend to be on guard around Thaddeus

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RWBY Roleplay

I'd be very interested in taking part.

@Karos

Actually, we're sorta full.

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@AquaAzura
Right, so, I sorta decided not to tell you about the personality synergies because I feel like if I did, I'd dictate people's activities a little to much for my liking.

What I mean by that is, say I point out that certain characters would go well with each other. When the RP starts, they'll probably at least interact eventually. When they do, they can go either one of two ways, either go along with my suggestions or shy away from them. Either way, they know that either they're following my predictions or they're trying not to, and it'd feel forced for them. That's why I won't tell you, anyway.

In lieu of that, however, I'm going to keep a set of predictions, and I'll tell you if I get them right. Either that or I can just PM you stuff I figured out, though that'll take a little time since I basically just woke up. Oh, and I gotta go somewhere today.

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@The_written_john
I'll give you some input on your semblance before I go to sleep.

Your character's essentially a heavy damage dealer but is quite slow in doing so. He can't dish out much, but if he hits you with it, it hurts. That means that if you want a more offensive type semblance, heavy AoE oneshot attacks suit your character better, I'd say. Something like a big laser beam, or a power blast of sorts. Something big and flashy, that does a bunch of damage.

On the other hand, your personality indicates that he dislikes being pushed around, and he likes protecting/serving people. In that case, it might be good for your semblance to instead buff your defensive prowess without lowering his mobility so that he can protect himself and his allies better. It ties in with his personality as one who likes to help people, you see.

As an alternative route, you could have both as part of a duality sort of thing. You could maybe have the shield first, which takes energy from attacks when it gets hit that you can store up and release into a really strong laser blast. I sorta feel like this is the best option considering that you seem to want to have a little of everything. I also noticed that team DEVL don't have many defensive options, so yeah.

Those are my suggestions, anyway. Feel free to use them as you wish.

Oh, and I'll see to crunching personality compatibility theories in the morning. I gotta go to sleep sooner or later.

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I would say that we don't make up teams according to how personalities would mesh. These are all people who presumably have not met each other until now, and I think part of the reason for having Huntsmen and Huntresses train in teams is that you sometimes have to work with people you don't necessarily get along with.

Plus, team dynamics change over time as the individuals get to know each other better and become accustomed to each other.

@Thundercrash

Yeah, but we're basically theory crunching at this stage, and it's mainly for fun. I, for one, am basically doing this to kill time before this starts. And also, you pretty much pinned down one of the reasons I'm hesitant to match up personalities and stuff. As mentioned before, it's a little touchy when it comes to personalities and they aren't static things. So yeah.

Pretty much, as long as it's in the spirit of fun, I'd be happy to do it, as long as it doesn't come off as somewhat forceful or something, like I'm enforcing my will on your characters. That's sort of what I want to avoid.

And also, this is partially to make naming easier since there are so many combinations, but ey, I'll give it some work.

The Immortals!

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Thank you for taking over while I am away Santa.

@The One

Well, I mean, I didn't do a whole lot, but no problem.

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So @Lord Santa gave us a good idea on how our characters will work in combat together, if they are willing to work together, I'm interested in how our characters will be like forced to work with certain characters?

@AquaAzura

Do you want me to answer this? I'll try my best.

I think you're talking about team personalities, and honestly, that's a dicier subject considering personalities are significantly harder to write. I myself know that it's pretty difficult to write down how they are, and even when I have a solid plan in mind, I find that, for me at least, it's one of the hardest parts to write about. But hey, that won't stop me from thinking about this.

Given the difficulties, I'll need a little bit, but I'll do it anyway. Sorry in advance if I misinterpret people's characters, but you can just yell at me later :P

The Immortals!

No problem. I'm sort of doing nothing, so feel free to ask about stuff. I'll answer to the best of my ability, but I'm no GM so that's pretty limited.

The Immortals!

According to the GM, the immortal hunans don't know about the other world and will only find out when Pea brings them there. The link ultimately depends on what you want, so you'll sort of just have to write it and see if the GM finds it acceptable, but keep in mind that the immortal normal world characters don't know anything about their soulmates or the other world.

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Since I have little to do right now, I'll go in a little detail with a couple of examples.

Cyra+Bastion+2

Take someone like Thundercrash's character Cyra for an example. She's a very good tank considering her 2 shields and has high-ranged options with her guns. This leaves her with several weaknesses. First and foremost, according to her sheet, she basically waits for her opponents to come to her, and her offensive prowess is low. Taking both that and her strengths into account, however, makes hatakekuro's character Bastion have good synergy with Cyra. While Cyra has weak offensive prowess, she can lock people down with her machine gun. Bastion has quite a high range on his bow, but it's quite hard to hit with and has limited ammunition. Hence, with Cyra locking down targets with her machine gun, Bastion can pick them off.

Furthermore, he has quite a high agility and can comfortably square off against other speed types with his semblance, hence covering for Cyra's other weakness, her relatively low mobility. While this works quite, they could use something in terms of close range assurances, so either tanderbolt's Tommy or my character Thaddeus may be a good idea in a team like that.

Tommy+Thaddeus+2

Tommy and Thaddeus are both long-lasting close ranged fighters able to outlast the majority of opponents. They can easily make any skirmish a battle of attrition by turning around and draining the opponent's resources. Tommy and Thaddeus both have an advantage in prolonged fights because of their longetivity. In this case, the synergy isn't so much managing their weaknesses, it's playing on their strengths.

Their lack of ranged power might be fixed with the addition of Nallore's Sienna, who (I assume) is a light damage mobile harasser, peppering foes with bullets to wear them down without getting hit herself (I'm assuming all this. Care to confirm, @Nallore?) Combining those three, you get a team composition who can drag out fights for pretty much as long as they feel like.

One important thing to note, however, is that someone like Volenvradica's Lelia wouldn't be good with this team composition because her weakness is prolonged fights.

Lelia+Solomon+2

Speaking of Lelia, however, she could go well with your character Solomon. Lelia's specialization is burst damage, so speed is a pretty big factor in her damage. She's very precise, so characters that can initiate a fight and disrupt/separate the enemy team would be ideal. She can actually do this herself, I believe, but for bust squads, you also need someone to help the main damage dealers peel away from the fight if things go hairy. This makes Solomon ideal as his natural tankiness and speed can both help her burst down a few members of an enemy team and also escape without many losses.

The burst team is, however, bad at sustained fights and they are quite vulnerable if they don't take down their targets quickly. If the enemy is prepared for their entry and manage to escape before any real damage is done, it can be hard (but not impossible) to catch them. One possible fix for this is someone like Sienna, who has great mobility because of her hoverboard. While (I assume) she does little damage, she can corral enemies back to her teammates, or Solomon who can, again, pick people off with range. He also fits quite well as he moves quickly and can help with the initial melee burst.

Keep in mind that, with all these synergies, they still have weaknesses. Synergies either work with people's weaknesses or capitalize on their strengths to form a strong team. It's something to be considered as a group of strong individual fighters can be beaten by a team of weaker fighters with better synergies.