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Character Sheet for Robo27

Name: Asada Keisuke

Screenname: Kei

Age: 21

Appearance:


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Just wanted to add the armor is black with white accents and hair would be black as well.

Race: Spriggan

Personality:
Overall Keisuke is kind to everyone, even to those that do not deserve the kindness he does this because he wants to stay out of any unneeded conflict. When it comes to people that are important to him he will do anything for them, the bottom line is that he is a complete selfless idiot but that doesn’t stop him from doing what he wants to do. Without a doubt Keisuke will be calm and collected no matter the situation even if his own life is on the line, he will stay calm and do his best to find a solution to his problem. Once Keisuke is set on one thing he does not stop until he follows through all the way, that may be one of his weaknesses as well as strengths. Instead of being withdrawn from the world he has changed and became an outgoing guy that loves to talk and meet with people. He does his best to make new relationships so he can build a network of friends he can rely on in hard times. One thing that doesn’t seem so likely at first glance is the fact that Keisuke is rather intelligent, he may seem a bit ditzy and dumb on the outside from time to time, but a majority of the time his intelligence shines through. One flaw he does have is his one track mind, while yes it is a good thing he does not stray far from what he is set on, that is also a double edged sword since that means he literally won’t do anything else until he has solved the current problem or situation. His way with words sometimes make him come off as mean or rude but he doesn’t do it intentionally as he just is brutally honest and doesn’t like beating around the bush.

Occupation:
During the times he is off of ALO he is either in his room studying up on who knows what or out at physical therapy. While he is a college student he got ahead of the game and as such he doesn’t have to attend any classes unless there is a test to be taken. He also works part time at a nearby café as a barista

Bio:
Keisuke comes from a comfortable background. He lives with his parents and his sister that is younger than him by a year. Since childhood, Keisuke has always had an interest in video games and computers. As he grew up he experimented with all sorts of games and found that he liked the MMORPG genre out of all the genres. As he grew older he built his own computer and got into the gaming world. During the time he was able to get into the beta for Sword Art Online. He played it hours on end and enjoyed himself for every little second he was in the virtual world. When the game was officially released he was excited to get his copy of the game. On the day he received it he shut out the outer world and loaded up into the game, on that same day he was given a grim message that he is now stuck in the virtual world of Sword Art Online and that a death in the game would mean death in real life. He kept his cool through all the madness and from that point on started working towards clearing the game so that he could be free from it.

Skipping ahead two years later Keisuke is alive and well, and surprisingly more than happy with life. He got his physical therapy out of the way at an alarming rate and not only that he caught up on everything he missed. That being said he found a new game that would quench his thirst for virtual gaming. That game was Alfheim Online or ALO for short.

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Character Sheet for Narcissistic Potato

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Name:
Naomi Kinoshita

Screenname:
Potato Muncher

Age:
20

Appearance:


Being someone who enjoys exploring every crack and crevice of Tokyo has some advantages with one being that she's incredibly nimble and another being that she's rather fit compared to other VRMMMO players. Despite her good fitness, she's only about five foot, four inches and is unduly hassled quite a bit for her small height by her brother. Her blond hair is surprisingly natural - although she was born in Japan, only her father is Japanese while her mother is American. If the blond hair didn't draw enough attention to her, her bright blue eyes would finish the job.

Her normal attire is typically geeky t-shirts with some form of pop-culture reference and jeans or shorts in the warmer months. She's an incredibly big fan of hoodies as well and will have her hood up if she's not in the mood to talk or interact like a normal human being - she's typically avoided, what with her weird enough looks already.

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Much like her real self, her avatar in Alfheim Online is cursed (or blessed) with small height. This actually isn't so bad considering she isn't a frontliner or a melee fighter who needs physical strength and a body to facilitate that. She's fast though - not Cait Sith sort of fast but a lot faster than most Salamanders.

Her attire in game could best be described as minimalistic. Naomi has yet to run into any reason to fear the consequences of her actions in Alfheim so she doesn't really mind if she shows a little too much skin - it has the guys tripping over one another anyways.

Race:
Salamander

Personality:
The primary point of Naomi's personality is probably her curiosity - she's an explorer at heart and she follows that out in nearly everything she does. There's not a dish that she won't try or a place she won't visit at least once. So far, her curiosity only served to get her into trouble when she was younger but her interest in the world around her has morphed into a career prospects, of sorts. Granted, she draws the line at drugs and heavier forms of alcohol - she enjoys trying things out but when things become dangerous, she backs down a little.

Naomi always has had a rather rebellious taint. She's never quite been normal or 'fitted-in' so she usually found herself befriending the weirder people in class and subsequently, she got up to weirder things that her parents probably didn't approve of. Nevertheless, any of her bigger rebellions have been stomped out whenever they arose - her parents were loving but strict in their approach. Now that she's older, she's realised that rebellion is simply a statement to her parents and due to the fact that her tuition fees are mostly paid by her parents, she's decided that it's a much better idea to keep her head down. In some regards, Alfheim allows her to forgot any rules or boundaries placed on her - the VRMMO is a liberation from the bores of normal life. Even in the game she doesn't exactly follow the social trend. Unlike nearly every other member of the Salamander, Naomi refuses to take part in their silly wars and refuses to bow down to the Lord of the Salamanders. Granted, they know each other in real life and he's crushing on her so he let her off with the banishment that she really should have received.

Sometimes the barrier between brain and mouth breaks down, however, and she becomes a babbling mess of exposing secrets and offending parties that she really shouldn't offend. Naomi has come to know these as 'blonde moments'. Thankfully, most of the important secrets and facts are hidden amongst a forest of mindless chatter and filler - real professionals, like her brother, have learned to filter out the rubbish and extract the important parts. On occasion, she has been noted to have had an entire conversation with a navigation pixie.

Occupation:
Studies architecture and works part-time at a small restaurant. Typically, she's on late at night on the weekend (around 10pm) and earlier during the week (around 7-8pm).

Bio:
Parents killed in dark alleyway where she swore vengeance? Nope. Abused by her alcoholic parents before running away from home? Once again, nope! Naomi has had a rather normal childhood and life. Her father studied in America where he met Naomi's mother. For a time, they remained there but when she became pregnant with Naomi's older brother, they decided to return to Japan to raise their children.

Naomi can't say if she appreciated that decision later in life - school was a pain for the first few years as she might have well have been a foreign to the other students. Granted, it didn't help that they chose to live in rural Japan for the first few years where her brother and her stuck out like sore thumbs. Blond hair and blue eyes were apparently rare where the lived because it seemed like her brother and her were walking, talking zoos to some of the other children.

When they moved to Tokyo, things became a little easier and Naomi even found herself making some friends. Granted, they were never really the popular kids who blubbered on about fashion, boys and other deplorable things. Instead, they actually had fun and if it wasn't for that, she probably wouldn't be the quirky individual she is today.

Naomi first found Alfheim Online through a friend who couldn't stop going on about how good it was. Naturally interested, she found herself buying the AmuSphere and a copy of Alfheim Online. And the rest, as they say, is history. She became partially addicted for the few months of summer and spent a massive amount of time building up an expertise in the game and seeing all there was to see. Over that time, she's had a few relationships through it and although it was fun, it proved to be a little awkward in real life.

Strangely, she never levelled any weapons for most of her time in-game. Although it was inefficient, wasting one of her racial passives, she much preferred to use fire magic. For this reason, she's one of the strongest fire mages amongst the Salamanders and thus, one of the strongest in the game. Despite being asked to join countless military crusades and become a close advisor to Mortimer, the leader of the Salamanders, Naomi has always been separated from the rest of her race and prefers the live of a nomad. Some theorized that there was a relationship between her and Mortimer, considering he let her off easily for cowardice in the eyes of the Salamanders, but she's been quick to deny it.

Other:
If she's forced to use a weapon then she has a strong enough spear that would do the trick but she does not like falling back on that.
Doesn't have a permanent home in Alfheim - she's a nomad and makes quite a bit of money from doing dungeons and selling unwanted weapons or training others.

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Character Sheet for Red_Massa

Name: Duke Huntley

Screenname: Duk_Hunt

Age: 22

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Race: Leprechaun

Personality IRL: He is reserved since he has problems creating bonds with people since he doesn't have many factors with people he associates himself with. He can force himself to get through tough moments with hard work and determination. When he creates close bonds and can open up he is an extremely likeable and friendly character.

Personality In-Game: Since he doesn't get to connect with people since they don't share interests going into into Alfheim is his most relaxing part of his day. He loves to talk since the common ground of gaming is there. He is quite friendly, always talking to people and helping out people in need.

Occupation: Company Accountant

Bio: Duke has always hard worker and was always determined to be comfortable so that he could have whatever he wanted. This was because his parents always had enough for the necessities but nothing extravagent, he wanted to break that mold. He had to work his way through college because his parents have been hardwired and were tough to change.

It wasn't until Duke had gotten into college that he was able to start indulging in the things that he liked, the first thing that he started was virtual reality since he heard it from someone in one of his classes. That was his hook line and sinker since it was the thing that he enjoyed more than anything else that he tried, he couldn't get over how real everything felt. He even changed around his schedule so that he could have all of his classes in the mornings so that he could work in an accounting office in the afternoons and place Alfheim in the evenings. This was his success to finishing school with a degree in accounting. When Duke finished school he was accepted into an accounting job and started working 9 to 5 which was perfect since it gave him his evenings back to Alfheim so he could keep hanging out with the people he enjoyed.

Other: Dukes birthday is on the 17th day of the 10th month.
He owns his own gym equipment so that he can keep healthy without having to leave the house any longer than necessary so he can get back to Alfheim when he is done.
Duk_Hunt owns a medium sized shop that takes orders for weapons so that he can be away from the physical entity and still do business. He owns the upstairs for the building that he uses for living arrangements.

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Character Sheet for Lord Santa

Name: Takeshi Kurogane

Screenname: Kurogane

Age: 19

Appearance:

He's around 5'8 with black hair and black eyes. Rather normal. Looks dopey.

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His avatar is about 6 foot. It looks really stupid, so he wears a full helmet all the time. His helmet usually doesn’t match the rest of his armour, as if it isn’t a full helm, Kurogane won’t wear it. This is what it is right now.

Race: Salamander

Personality: To put it in three words, Dense but kind. Takeshi is incredibly dense. He often daydreams and thinks to himself a lot. He’s not stupid, but he can exasperate his friends with his density. With that said, he worries about his relationships and values friendship. He tends to think more of others than himself. He’s also quite earnest and naïve, and this can lead to a lot of troubles. His honest, gentle personality lets a lot of people take advantage of him, but he makes friends easily and they pull him out of situations. Rather friendly and kind, but also rather dense and a little air-headed.

Occupation: Part time convenience store employee, college student (freshman)

Bio: There’s nothing really noteworthy in Takeshi’s history. He has a sizeable family, with him and 3 sisters, aged 25, 15 and 9 respectively. He went to school, made a lot of friends, moved out when he went to college. His Alfheim career is more interesting, and boy is it funny. He started off some time in high school, picking a Salamander character. When he chose his skills, he decided to pick heavy armour and some other stuff. If you asked him why, he’d say that he was really thick, so he thought it would make sense to wear the thickest armour. He then ran into some trouble.

When he made his character, he chose a randomly generated appearance. This normally results in an adequate appearance, but Takeshi got the short end of the stick. He has one of the stupidest looking avatars to ever exist. Everyone laughed at him back in Salamander n00b city, so he took the first full helm he could find and put it on. He never took his helmet off ever. At this point, he started looking into changing his face, but he found that it was annoyingly expensive. Thus began his long quest to change his ugly avatar into something more acceptable.

He eventually made a name for himself as a tower shield bearing wall, renowned for tanking hits even when his health was in the red. He often forgot about keeping his health up and he also forgot to take potions a lot, but he built a good friendship or acquaintance with the friendlier part of the player base, gaining the reputation as a stalwart wall for those he knew, defending even NPCs to a fault.

As you can may have guessed, he died a lot. No one begrudged him for it, and they liked his simple personality. That said, he didn’t get a lot of money and most of his equips were gained from his party’s pity. He also spends and gives a lot of his money, so he’s still pretty far away from fixing his face.[/hider]

Other: He likes dogs. He has the one handed straight sword skill but doesn’t use it too often. He also makes his big sister’s lunch every day because she probably wouldn’t eat right if he didn’t. Can’t hold his alcohol.