Post by Gaen on Jul 15, 2015 14:48:13 GMT
Hello,
I had this approved on the previous site, and with my character being approved, I would like to get this stamped again so when I do get shikai, it's a relatively seamless endeavour.
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Name: Holla
Sealed Form: Holla is a straight, European, black iron short sword about a foot and a half long. The hand guard is more of a flourish, just six bands of bronze woven into a cascading V pattern that locks in with his sheath. The sheath is simple brown leather with no real embellishments on it.
Spirit Appearance: Holla is a very chiseled figure, a strong jaw line leading to a head full of curly dark green hair running down to the middle of her back. Her hair is so dark is looks black, but with the proper perspective one can see a sheen of dark green. Her skin is a pale green with a subtle glow about her, and her eyes are a pupil-less white glow with full dark green lips.
Her figure is strong, lean, and clearly showing her well-built body, and while well-toned, she doesn't look butch. Her fingers are thin and feminine, but her hands are tough and callused, as if she works with her hands every day.
She wears a white robe reminiscent of ancient Greece with a simple hemp rope tied around her waist. She has a large laurel floating behind her with a lily at the bottom and thin vines dangling from the flower. Otherwise she has a very minimalist fashion sense, not even wearing any type of footwear, not that she needs it considering she is constantly floating a few inches off the ground.
Spirit Personality: She seems strong, confident and unrelenting, even though she floats it feels like she's impossible to budge. Where Gaen is shy she is boisterous, where he is patient she wants it now and where Gaen is easy going, she is endlessly strict. She isn't all obnoxiousness and arrogance, showing her caring side more when things get serious. She is also very fun, being the centre of attention whenever she gets the chance, wishing desperately that her inner world could muster a karaoke machine.
Inner World: Gaen's inner world is an endless sea of jungle and forest. Every tree and flower found anywhere can be found there. There is no actual land save a few spotted islands, but otherwise the ground is just interwoven roots and vines. If one were to dig straight down, you'd hit endless open air as the forest actually floats openly in the sky of endless noon day sun. Great trees and spires of vines float in the sky on little islands anchored by thin roots or cascading nets of vines. Holla wonders this endless forest, no real centre or edge to it at all, and every plant and animal known to Gaen can be found here, perfectly available for reference.
» shikai
Release Command: Grow, Holla
Type: Healing
Appearance: Gaen's shikai is a very unique weapon; as when he calls out his release he stabs the small sword into his right shoulder, the sword vanishes, becoming a mess of entangled vines and plant life. The green vines twist and wrap around his shoulder, growing from his hilt which itself gets covered and tied to his shoulder. The vines continue to twist and grow into a bicep, forearm and finally into five fingers to finish off giving Gaen a strong looking right hand. The vines and greenery forms to show tightly chorded muscle wrapped around his wooden bones. The shoulder is covered and the vines work half way across his chest, covering and digging into his body. If one were to remove Gaen’s upper robes, they would find the vines seem to crawl and pulse just under his skin. The vines and roots are visible up to the edge of his rib cage and the middle of his chest/back before they vanish, presumably digging deeper into his body. In reality, Holla reaches to every edge of Gaen’s body with her thin roots wandering down every vein and capillary. As an odd side effect of activating shikai, he sacrifices his right sleeve as Holla eats the fabric entirely. Gaen finds this very frustrating and generally tries to undress his arm beforehand.
Abilities:
Name: Green Hand
Class: Healing
Type: Supplementary
Range: Close
Tier: III
Description: Gaen’s arm is made up of vines, wood, roots and all manner of other plant life. He can control his arm as if it were a normal limb, but giving him a really good prosthetic isn’t all Holla does here. His arm can change and recycle plant matter into whatever Gaen needs at the moment so long as he has enough plant matter to work with. Like this, he could produce bark over his arm, grow thorns to use as needles, flowers to look pretty, whatever plant he needs his arm can produce. It’s really a fantastic tool kit for him that he can control down to the fibre. He can also replenish or stock his arm with fresh plant matter from the environment if his arm is damaged or he doesn’t have enough ‘arm’ to work with. He simply needs to touch a plant, and his arm absorbs an appropriate amount of matter. He can grab up to a litre of matter ‘instantly’ but going for any more would take up to a post of constant contact. Taking this material isn’t damaging to the plant unless she takes over half of the plant matter, in which case reworking what’s left over is too difficult to manage properly. Gaen will rarely kill a plant in this way if he can help it.
Name: Green Blood
Class: Healing
Type: Supplementary
Range: Self
Tier: III-IV
Description: Holla is an amazing, portable living bio-lab and refinery. With Holla, Gaen can produce any chemical, or bacterial strain he has prior knowledge of the formula for. He can also use her to break down foreign substances, riddling out what they’re made of. It’s up to Gaen to figure out how to counteract these foreign substances chemically. He can formulate cures and anti-toxins to mundane poisons and diseases with relative ease, as well as concocting mundane chemicals inside Holla, which is only a tier III use of his power. If there is a super-natural component to the disease, he has to use the tier IV, functionally putting more rietsu into curing the ailment. This only works on abilities of equal Advantages or lower, anything higher being reduced in duration as described below to a minimum of 1 post.
1 Advantage Higher - 3 Post reduction
2 Advantage Higher - 2 Post reduction
3 Advantage Higher - 1 Post reduction
The downside to his abilities however is that he is limited in materials based on what is currently on hand or in his body. Holla can draw whatever ingredients she needs from Gaen’s body, but he has to be careful not to pull too much of anything, since something as simple as not having enough salt in your blood can kill you. Thankfully, Holla knows literally everything about Gaen’s body at any given second so she will usually let Gaen know if he’s asking for too much of something.
Name: Green Breath
Class: Healing
Type: Healing
Range: Varies
Tier: IV
Description: Holla is more than just a refinery for chemicals, she is also a refinery for Gaen’s rietsu. By simply focusing rietsu through his arm, Holla transforms this energy into a healing force that can be applied to any wound. Gaen can heal scratches and shallow cuts nearly instantly with little to no attention, deeper cuts and internal damage in 1 post, and anything more severe in 3 posts, though he can only re-attach limbs or heal over the wound. The real power in this ability is the range of it though, as Gaen can heal anybody he can make contact with through other living things. This means he could heal somebody sitting in a tree by touching the trunk of the tree, using the tree like an extension of his arm. Now, while he is healing somebody, he has to stay in contact with them either directly or through a ‘living conduit’ and during this time his arm is otherwise useless. Gaen can move around so long as contact isn’t broken and his rietsu remains entirely focused on feeding Holla (meaning he can’t use other rietsu fueled abilities).
Name: Green Man
Class: Zan Spirit
Type: Suplimentary
Range: Self
Tier: IV
Duration: 5 Posts
Description: Before this technique can be used at all, Holla must absorb 5 litres of plant material, though she can do so over several posts if need be so long as she doesn’t lose any material along the way. Holla uses the extra material to grow over Gaen entirely, no longer being secluded to his arm alone. She covers every inch of his body like a second skin, but she isn’t being worn like a suit. The roots and vines that have traversed his body are just growing out to the surface, meaning this is literally a second skin of vines and greenery as much a part of his body as his bones. The sensation of this ability coming into effect is… uncomfortable so long as Holla takes her time; wrapping Gaen up over the course of a post during which time his strength and speed suffer a x2 debuff. She can also do this ‘instantly’ but it is extremely painful for Gaen, causing no debuff, but he also can’t focus on any abilities for 1 post while he recovers. In the end, his body is covered in vines, bark and greenery with similar functionality to the Green Hand ability save he can’t change the underlying shape of his body. Every muscle group is detailed in thick, wound vines or course bark, grass and thorns poking out where his hair or nails would normally be. His eyes glow a soft green in this form and he looks a little bulkier than his normal body.
While Green Man is active Gaen has a 3x boost to his strength or speed as the vines and roots pull his bones in concert with his muscles and tendons. Switching between the two takes 1 post, and the boost only lasts 2 posts unless switch over. Also, the green breath ability is usable on Gaen alone, and cannot be directed outward, meaning he is no long able to heal others. The vines/bark provide a tier III defensive layer over Gaen that regenerates (the armour only) so long as he can access plant matter around him. The damage, recovery time and effective defense during recovery is described below:
Tier IV damage - 1 post recovery, effectively Tier II protection
Tier V damage - 2 post recovery, effectively Tier I protection
Tier VI damage - 3 post recovery, offers no protection
Tier VII damage - 4 post recovery, offers no protection
The Green Man armour cannot be totally destroyed, regenerating even if every piece had been blown off Gaen's body because a fair portion of the material is under his skin. All other Green Man abilities function normally.
Lastly, Gaen isn’t really the one in the drivers’ seat when Green Man is active, functionally going unconscious while Holla takes charge. Holla is a lot more aggressive than Gaen, and she doesn’t know his fighting techs, or kido outside of his healing arts. She can use any fighting techs that she knows personally however. Out of respect for Gaen, she also refuses to kill anybody.
At the end of the technique, Gaen comes back into consciousness and the Green Man skin can be easily removed or re-absorbed by Holla. Gaen is hobbled for a post though, suffering a 2x debuff to his strength and speed, though fully capable of using his other techniques.
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I had this approved on the previous site, and with my character being approved, I would like to get this stamped again so when I do get shikai, it's a relatively seamless endeavour.
~~
Name: Holla
Sealed Form: Holla is a straight, European, black iron short sword about a foot and a half long. The hand guard is more of a flourish, just six bands of bronze woven into a cascading V pattern that locks in with his sheath. The sheath is simple brown leather with no real embellishments on it.
Spirit Appearance: Holla is a very chiseled figure, a strong jaw line leading to a head full of curly dark green hair running down to the middle of her back. Her hair is so dark is looks black, but with the proper perspective one can see a sheen of dark green. Her skin is a pale green with a subtle glow about her, and her eyes are a pupil-less white glow with full dark green lips.
Her figure is strong, lean, and clearly showing her well-built body, and while well-toned, she doesn't look butch. Her fingers are thin and feminine, but her hands are tough and callused, as if she works with her hands every day.
She wears a white robe reminiscent of ancient Greece with a simple hemp rope tied around her waist. She has a large laurel floating behind her with a lily at the bottom and thin vines dangling from the flower. Otherwise she has a very minimalist fashion sense, not even wearing any type of footwear, not that she needs it considering she is constantly floating a few inches off the ground.
Spirit Personality: She seems strong, confident and unrelenting, even though she floats it feels like she's impossible to budge. Where Gaen is shy she is boisterous, where he is patient she wants it now and where Gaen is easy going, she is endlessly strict. She isn't all obnoxiousness and arrogance, showing her caring side more when things get serious. She is also very fun, being the centre of attention whenever she gets the chance, wishing desperately that her inner world could muster a karaoke machine.
Inner World: Gaen's inner world is an endless sea of jungle and forest. Every tree and flower found anywhere can be found there. There is no actual land save a few spotted islands, but otherwise the ground is just interwoven roots and vines. If one were to dig straight down, you'd hit endless open air as the forest actually floats openly in the sky of endless noon day sun. Great trees and spires of vines float in the sky on little islands anchored by thin roots or cascading nets of vines. Holla wonders this endless forest, no real centre or edge to it at all, and every plant and animal known to Gaen can be found here, perfectly available for reference.
» shikai
Release Command: Grow, Holla
Type: Healing
Appearance: Gaen's shikai is a very unique weapon; as when he calls out his release he stabs the small sword into his right shoulder, the sword vanishes, becoming a mess of entangled vines and plant life. The green vines twist and wrap around his shoulder, growing from his hilt which itself gets covered and tied to his shoulder. The vines continue to twist and grow into a bicep, forearm and finally into five fingers to finish off giving Gaen a strong looking right hand. The vines and greenery forms to show tightly chorded muscle wrapped around his wooden bones. The shoulder is covered and the vines work half way across his chest, covering and digging into his body. If one were to remove Gaen’s upper robes, they would find the vines seem to crawl and pulse just under his skin. The vines and roots are visible up to the edge of his rib cage and the middle of his chest/back before they vanish, presumably digging deeper into his body. In reality, Holla reaches to every edge of Gaen’s body with her thin roots wandering down every vein and capillary. As an odd side effect of activating shikai, he sacrifices his right sleeve as Holla eats the fabric entirely. Gaen finds this very frustrating and generally tries to undress his arm beforehand.
Abilities:
Name: Green Hand
Class: Healing
Type: Supplementary
Range: Close
Tier: III
Description: Gaen’s arm is made up of vines, wood, roots and all manner of other plant life. He can control his arm as if it were a normal limb, but giving him a really good prosthetic isn’t all Holla does here. His arm can change and recycle plant matter into whatever Gaen needs at the moment so long as he has enough plant matter to work with. Like this, he could produce bark over his arm, grow thorns to use as needles, flowers to look pretty, whatever plant he needs his arm can produce. It’s really a fantastic tool kit for him that he can control down to the fibre. He can also replenish or stock his arm with fresh plant matter from the environment if his arm is damaged or he doesn’t have enough ‘arm’ to work with. He simply needs to touch a plant, and his arm absorbs an appropriate amount of matter. He can grab up to a litre of matter ‘instantly’ but going for any more would take up to a post of constant contact. Taking this material isn’t damaging to the plant unless she takes over half of the plant matter, in which case reworking what’s left over is too difficult to manage properly. Gaen will rarely kill a plant in this way if he can help it.
Name: Green Blood
Class: Healing
Type: Supplementary
Range: Self
Tier: III-IV
Description: Holla is an amazing, portable living bio-lab and refinery. With Holla, Gaen can produce any chemical, or bacterial strain he has prior knowledge of the formula for. He can also use her to break down foreign substances, riddling out what they’re made of. It’s up to Gaen to figure out how to counteract these foreign substances chemically. He can formulate cures and anti-toxins to mundane poisons and diseases with relative ease, as well as concocting mundane chemicals inside Holla, which is only a tier III use of his power. If there is a super-natural component to the disease, he has to use the tier IV, functionally putting more rietsu into curing the ailment. This only works on abilities of equal Advantages or lower, anything higher being reduced in duration as described below to a minimum of 1 post.
1 Advantage Higher - 3 Post reduction
2 Advantage Higher - 2 Post reduction
3 Advantage Higher - 1 Post reduction
The downside to his abilities however is that he is limited in materials based on what is currently on hand or in his body. Holla can draw whatever ingredients she needs from Gaen’s body, but he has to be careful not to pull too much of anything, since something as simple as not having enough salt in your blood can kill you. Thankfully, Holla knows literally everything about Gaen’s body at any given second so she will usually let Gaen know if he’s asking for too much of something.
Name: Green Breath
Class: Healing
Type: Healing
Range: Varies
Tier: IV
Description: Holla is more than just a refinery for chemicals, she is also a refinery for Gaen’s rietsu. By simply focusing rietsu through his arm, Holla transforms this energy into a healing force that can be applied to any wound. Gaen can heal scratches and shallow cuts nearly instantly with little to no attention, deeper cuts and internal damage in 1 post, and anything more severe in 3 posts, though he can only re-attach limbs or heal over the wound. The real power in this ability is the range of it though, as Gaen can heal anybody he can make contact with through other living things. This means he could heal somebody sitting in a tree by touching the trunk of the tree, using the tree like an extension of his arm. Now, while he is healing somebody, he has to stay in contact with them either directly or through a ‘living conduit’ and during this time his arm is otherwise useless. Gaen can move around so long as contact isn’t broken and his rietsu remains entirely focused on feeding Holla (meaning he can’t use other rietsu fueled abilities).
Name: Green Man
Class: Zan Spirit
Type: Suplimentary
Range: Self
Tier: IV
Duration: 5 Posts
Description: Before this technique can be used at all, Holla must absorb 5 litres of plant material, though she can do so over several posts if need be so long as she doesn’t lose any material along the way. Holla uses the extra material to grow over Gaen entirely, no longer being secluded to his arm alone. She covers every inch of his body like a second skin, but she isn’t being worn like a suit. The roots and vines that have traversed his body are just growing out to the surface, meaning this is literally a second skin of vines and greenery as much a part of his body as his bones. The sensation of this ability coming into effect is… uncomfortable so long as Holla takes her time; wrapping Gaen up over the course of a post during which time his strength and speed suffer a x2 debuff. She can also do this ‘instantly’ but it is extremely painful for Gaen, causing no debuff, but he also can’t focus on any abilities for 1 post while he recovers. In the end, his body is covered in vines, bark and greenery with similar functionality to the Green Hand ability save he can’t change the underlying shape of his body. Every muscle group is detailed in thick, wound vines or course bark, grass and thorns poking out where his hair or nails would normally be. His eyes glow a soft green in this form and he looks a little bulkier than his normal body.
While Green Man is active Gaen has a 3x boost to his strength or speed as the vines and roots pull his bones in concert with his muscles and tendons. Switching between the two takes 1 post, and the boost only lasts 2 posts unless switch over. Also, the green breath ability is usable on Gaen alone, and cannot be directed outward, meaning he is no long able to heal others. The vines/bark provide a tier III defensive layer over Gaen that regenerates (the armour only) so long as he can access plant matter around him. The damage, recovery time and effective defense during recovery is described below:
Tier IV damage - 1 post recovery, effectively Tier II protection
Tier V damage - 2 post recovery, effectively Tier I protection
Tier VI damage - 3 post recovery, offers no protection
Tier VII damage - 4 post recovery, offers no protection
The Green Man armour cannot be totally destroyed, regenerating even if every piece had been blown off Gaen's body because a fair portion of the material is under his skin. All other Green Man abilities function normally.
Lastly, Gaen isn’t really the one in the drivers’ seat when Green Man is active, functionally going unconscious while Holla takes charge. Holla is a lot more aggressive than Gaen, and she doesn’t know his fighting techs, or kido outside of his healing arts. She can use any fighting techs that she knows personally however. Out of respect for Gaen, she also refuses to kill anybody.
At the end of the technique, Gaen comes back into consciousness and the Green Man skin can be easily removed or re-absorbed by Holla. Gaen is hobbled for a post though, suffering a 2x debuff to his strength and speed, though fully capable of using his other techniques.
