RolePlayerRoxas

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

I suppose Nila will be doing some bartending or just wandering around between jobs.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

I dread the day I write a bio in wordpad, then not save it if I ever close the window down.

Because I will definitely do that at some point.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

I'm not even sure Nila will have White Wind. I'd consider it to be more of a high-level spell. Or at least a skill tricky enough to get that she hasn't acquired it yet.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

So if Nila kidnaps recruits a moogle to her party, she technically wouodn't be alone...

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

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There might be some abilities that just require more MP than she actually has? Like I could imagine one of the really crazy monster moves like Shadow Flare or Light Curtain just outstripping the normal resources she has right now.

That could also be a cool character thread for her, like, maybe she learned a really powerful monster move at one point, but it's not something she has the stamina or magical strength to perform as is, so she's working up to the point she can actually one day use it. Or something like that.

@Oddsbod

So I can give her all the OP abilities and skirt around 'not enough MP' buy giving her a ton of soma drops. Ufufu.

That's a good idea, though. I was pondering whether or not she had Bad Breath, so given how poorly the fight went, even if she learnt it, it's something she'd refuse to use, even if it would solve all of her problems. So I guess she can work to get over that.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

That is clearly the Warkobo Kick.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

"CHOCOBO KWEH"
-Roundhouse kick-

...Although this reminds me, would there be any kind of limitations to the skills Nila could learn? Like, limited to the staple skills or something?

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

The most important thing to decide: Whether or not to have Nila try to learn Chocobo Kick for no readily-apparent reason.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

Nila would presumably sheath her blade, then perform some sort of dramatic pose with her mask.

Or rapidly throw her arms up and down indefinitely. Depends on how old school the celebration must be.

Final Fantasy: The Dark Crystal

Nila

No picture because I cannot find anything remotely suitable for what I have in mind. Hopefully my description doesn't suck.

_{"Just you wait and see, I'll become the bluest of all mages!"}

Name: Nila Daana
Title: The Bluest Of All Mages
Race: Hume
Job: Blue Mage
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Warrior of Light: No

_{Appearance Information}

Physical Features:

Nila stands at five-foot-five, with a thin build suited more for manouverability than heavy lifting. As such, her measurements are also on the shorter side, much to her complete indifference. Nila's skin is lightly tanned, with thick, pitch-black hair that falls wildly onto her shoulders, where it's generally left to lie - aside from a blue ribbon tied around a lock of hair. Her eyes are a super unique and brilliant hazel.

A scar lies underneath Nila's left eye, a nasty cut from childhood, following a terrible run-in with a grouchy goblin that had figured out "Goblin Punch + Pointy Object = more damage". This scar hasn't healed the most gracefully, but is generally hidden under the domino mask Nila likes to wear, however. Not that she has an issue showing the scar, the mask is just too awesome to not wear.

Clothing/Armor/Weapons:

Rare is the occasion that Nila is not decked out in her 'work clothes'. With a standard white undershirt, and blue, poofy trousers as her base, Nila also dons an equally blue cape that travels midway down her back, and neatly wraps around her shoulders. In addition, Nila wears black, travel-worn boots that have served her well in her travels.

And of course, a domino mask. Covering most of the upper half of her face, Nila tends to wear this when being overly-theatrical. The rims of the mask extend slightly beyond her face, with the upper corners tipped with a light teal gradient and stretching upward slightly.

In battle, Nila would wear light, leather armour - anything heavier she finds too cumbersome or detrimental to her spellcasting and evasive action. As such, she generally won't wear anything more complicated than a cuirass, and maybe a leather helmet, if she's going to fight a monster known for throwing projectiles.

At her hip, Nila wields her trusty sabre, a small, curved sword that can be wielded with one hand. It's a rather bog-standard sword, as far as materials go, and has seen it's fair share of fights. Luckily, it's still got plenty of usage left in it. Probably helps that Nila isn't exactly a frontline fighter, making its maintenance much easier.

_{Psychological Information}

Personality Traits:

Outgoing | Cheerful | Impulsive | Curious | Theatrical

Nila's pretty darn showy a lot of the time, seemingly unaware of the art of subtlety. She expresses great confidence in her skills, knowledge and presentation, but lacks restraint and tact in certain situations, which can draw some unwanted attention. She's a friendly and helpful gal with an optimistic mindset about things, but loses sight of her surroundings when a chance to expand her personal bestiary occurs - no matter what, she needs to know how behemoths react to getting poked with a stick.

Nila has a great love for magic of all forms, and naturally loves her brand most of all. When she learned that most places outside of Dahlgren seemed disdainful at best towards magic, it blew her mind. What was the problem? They were acting like magic nearly destroyed the world or something! Nila often overlooks a particular black spot in history when defending magic.

Likes:

Monsters | Moogles | Theatres

Even compared to other Blue Mages, Nila seems to hold a great admiration for the creatures that like to randomly ambush travellers. Part of this may just be because of the possibility she can acquire new techniques to mess around with, but even beyond that, she speaks of monters' chaarcteristics with great fondness and passion. Well, with a particular exception...
The poor moogles, cursed with infinite cuteness, are also Nila's prey. She cannot stop herself from hugging them tightly, wishing to keep them as companions, and touching their pom-poms. It's probably safe to say she is not popular amongst moogles.
And of course, Nila holds great fondness for the theatrical and grandiose. Anyone with an affinity for the extravagant shall earn her much-coveted admiration.

Dislikes:

Malboros | Anti-magic bias | Large bodies of water

...Bad Breath was not worth the effort to learn. That's all Nila will say regarding Malboros.
'Baseless and unfounded' fears about magic are a given for someone that practices an admittedly-unusual school of magic, but regardless, Nila cannot fathom why anyone would consider magic to be a bad thing. It's nothing but beneficial, right?!
Nila, unfortunately, is not a particularly strong swimmer. This probably stems from another monster-related incident, though it's not exactly as trauamtic as the Malboro Incident. Still, she hasn't exactly done much to rectify this issue. The aquatic creatures of her bestiary are going to be neglected for a while, it seems.

_{Personal History}

Hometown:

Dahlgren

Current Residence:

Thorne, The Great Outdoors/Some Inn

Occupation:

Monster Hunter: Nila mainly earns her keep by snatching up bounties on troublesome monsters. Not only does this let her eat for the day, she's practically getting paid to study potentially new monsters! Though on a slow day with no monsters to hunt, she'll ask around for any day-jobs cleaning tables or something.

Backstory:

Born in Dahlgren to a family that heavily favoured Blue Magic, Nila is the youngest of five siblings - the second-eldest sadly deceased at this point in time. While Nila isn't exactly a prodigy, her great love of blue magic, and fascination with monsters in general, has inspired some promising results for her.

Nila has taken every chance possible to encounter a wide variety of monsters, expanding her knowledge of any and all genus recorded in her personal bestiary. Not just their looks or abilities, but even their habitats, habits, typical diet... anything she can observe. Having only just begun her travels though, there are stil lso many fascinating creatures to find...

Growing up, Nila wasn't quite as outgoing and boisterous as she is now. Having a few unlucky encounters with monsters certainly did little to boost her confidence. Fortunately, Nila's family are a rather supportive lot: with their encouragement, Nila stuck with her studies of Blue Magic, and her passion bloomed when she was officially enrolled as a student. Seeing more of the world, a wider variety of monsters with interesting lifestyles, and of course, learning more and more monster-based spells had sparked a desire to master the school of magic.

Other:

Her favourite colour is actually green. Go figure.
Oddly enough, despite getting scarred in this incident, Nila quickly got over the incident. It got her to start wearing a stylish mask, so no point in moping over it, right?