[OOC] Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP) — Take 2!

[KoL]

I may have something around tomorrow or so. Probably.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll post for Saber when I can talk to @Rin about what she wants to do there. ^^;

[Raineh Daze]

So here is your general purpose aide/walking magibabble/Magical Tech Support™ filling the missing abilities gap/explanation of how the hell this was all set up:

Another Ridiculous Name

• Name: Meran Briefort Marzikek
• Age: 19
• Appearance: For her, this is unusually and unexpectedly expressive.
• Personality: The first and foremost thing noticed about Meran's personality is that it appears to... not exist. To complete strangers, she comes across as alien, coldly logical and robotic without the slightest hint of emoting. This is only partially true--to the extent that she is seemingly incapable of showing strong emotion or inflecting, which is most likely an error stemming from self-modification of the soul. There's also an element of truth to calling her logical: as her abilities would indicate, she likes to gather information and think things through before arriving at a plan of action, but whilst impressive that doesn't mean that her every action is dictated by logic.
  Her actual feelings are almost the reverse of her apparent attitude: she's cheerful, enthusiastic, and incorrigibly optimistic. Meran is confident that any problem can be overcome once you have enough information to work out the means to bypass it and new experiences should be embraced to learn as much as possible. It's pretty hard to make her angry, but treating her like she doesn't have feelings is a good way to do it.
• Abilities: Meran has a pitifully small number of Magic Circuits--just enough to start the ritual to summon a Servant and far from enough to use magecraft that would interfere with the world beyond her own body. Consequently, although she has a Water affinity, none of her abilities utilise it beyond the assistance it provided with altering the rest of her circuits.
  This alteration was to use the 'something unnatural' of the circuits and use it as a basis for turning herself into the incomplete expression of a mystery--in this case, "unforeseen deviation from the course", to allow the possibility of redirecting the effects of any one of Atlas's weapons without damage. By mentally calculating the missing component and utilising the remaining circuits as a bridge to complete it, Meran can redirect both mystical and physical effects on the slightest notice, including reversing them entirely, for practically no effort. Its limitations stem from being a mystery of human origin and the mental work needed; it grows more difficult to actualise the further the effect is from human understanding and the mental work (and consequently time) needed increases along with the difficulty and scale of the effect to be redirected. Both are flaws Meran is seeking to overcome--by improving her own mental capabilities and becoming more involved with the very mysteries she wishes to alter.
  A normal person with this ability would be unable to put it to any use due to the on-the-fly completion needed. However, as an alchemist of Atlas, Meran has both Thought Acceleration and Memory Partition on her side, and a level of skill that, though genius, she feels falls far short of where she needs to aim for in order to use this properly. Whilst she also possesses a fitting ability to create a large range of mystical tools, the equipment needed isn't here and neither is she willing to produce anything like that outside of where it can be properly disposed of.
  Purely in the interests of self-defence in an environment fraught with magi, Meran carries a silver athame, a conceptual weapon of "rupturing on fault lines". Against a truly flawless object it cannot cut, the blade is useless, but on a sufficiently flawed and unresisting target, it sets off a cascade ripping through whatever is pierced. When tested on an animal, a deep enough cut allowed it to tear open a large part of the circulatory system. Despite the potency of the knife, its use is limited by its bearer's relative lack of combat potential or potent reinforcement.
• History: From a young age, Meran was destined to enter into the Mage's Association and follow her family's interest in alchemy; the only way that she could have avoided Atlas would have been to run from home as a child. Oddly, for a magus in Atlas and as an oddity in her own family, Meran had a plentiful supply of Magic Circuits. Seeing no need for these once her skills began to progress to a 'competent' (in her own mind) level, the girl took it upon herself to utilise the majority as fuel for a far more helpful ability, incomplete as it is, and focusing her efforts in general on trying to create purely reactive devices capable of averting disaster should any of the great weapons ever make their way from the Institute's safekeeping.
  When the Wizard-Marshall sent out for help, one of the seven contracts obliging Atlas to offer assistance was produced and Meran pushed to be the one to answer the call. Her abilities were not the type of weapon that would court disaster and the experience would further her research. Naturally, her role was to aid in preparing the ritual and systems needed to progress with the summoning and to observe the proceedings, helping the Masters and Servants in the field.
• Other: As a representative of the branch of the Mage's Association that creates and buries highly destructive Mystic Codes on a regular basis, she certainly has access to even more potent weaponry but a disinclination to acquire any.

Also, are we doing this like the last time where every Servant pretty much instantly revealed their identity because it's confusing to have multiple Sabers?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Raineh Daze: I would say yes since there's no need for secrecy.

[PKMNB0Y]

@Raineh Daze: Well, you've clarified that this isn't a Master in any sense of the word and is a more supportive character to boot, so I don't mind her being here as a pseudo-NPC/character/person/thing.

And yes, secrecy out the window for the cast at our totally-not-Chaldea. Within any given singularity, though... That's up to the NPCs. :D

Anyways, hooray for more posts!

[PKMNB0Y]

@KoL@Riegal
*pokepoke*

This might just be me being impatient, but... Well, I don't think I really need to say the rest lol.
I admit that the jumping off point is a bit weird, though, but that first rotation never really adds anything to the story other than acting as a roll call imo so... Yeah, skipped. =w=;;

[Raineh Daze]

I have tried to provide useful information! AKA Nero has yet to try and proposition Atalanta, yes it's historically recorded Nero's a girl, and... no interdimensional phones yet. :D

[KoL]

@PKMNB0Y

Oh, sorry, I was supposed to have posted already. Sorry for that, I'll really have something up by tomorrow.

[PKMNB0Y]

@KoL: Ah, no problemo. We're all only human, after all.
...
I think.
>w>
<w<

[KoL]

Who knows? What if there's a chatbot between us and no one ever noticed?

[Riegal]

I'll have a post up tomorrow! Haven't been home the last two nights.

[Raineh Daze]

"Why do we have three short girls?" asked nobody ever when looking at the Sabers and Nobunaga.

[KoL]

And posted. Sorry for the wait, once more.

[Raineh Daze]

We seem to have somewhat contradictory posts, since I was implying that nobody would've expected Nero to be a man anyway. :P

[KoL]

We seem to have somewhat contradictory posts, since I was implying that nobody would've expected Nero to be a man anyway. :P

@Raineh Daze

Hehehe.

[Raineh Daze]

She was friends with Tacitus. Tacitus. And we have busts. I refuse to believe anyone mistook Nero for a man in Fate--she doesn't even have an excuse to pawn off on people like Arturia and Nobunaga. :P

So I guess you're just not versed in Roman history. \o/

[PKMNB0Y]

Well, lemme just step in right here before things get heated, aight? =w=;;

There's no need to be sharp-tongued to this extent, so let's take a step back here and not try to get people riled up, okay?

Assuming I'm not misinterpreting something. That tends to happen. =w=;;

[KoL]

Well, lemme just step in right here before things get heated, aight? =w=;;

There's no need to be sharp-tongued to this extent, so let's take a step back here and not try to get people riled up, okay?

Assuming I'm not misinterpreting something. That tends to happen. =w=;;

@PKMNB0Y

No worries, nothing is happening as far as I can tell.

She was friends with Tacitus. Tacitus. And we have busts. I refuse to believe anyone mistook Nero for a man in Fate--she doesn't even have an excuse to pawn off on people like Arturia and Nobunaga. :P

So I guess you're just not versed in Roman history. \o/

@Raineh Daze

As far as I remember from extra, Nero really didn't care is people remembered her as a man or not, so... Her friends were jerks? I guess this kind of a canon thing, right?

[KoL]

But yeah, I'm doing this for fun so I'll go with whatever way. I just find that (on Nero's specific case) it's kind of a fun point ofher character, rather than something made for drama, like on Arthuria's case. Just like how Alexander the Great was a towering giant, instead of his historical counterpart.

It's part of their charm and a reason why I think that Nero is 10x the character Arthuria is.

[Raineh Daze]

She didn't care, but she's also under five feet tall and has quite noticeable breasts. I've been operating on the principle that people know Nero was a girl when they dig into it a lot, but because of her name, people make mistakes when looking at the emperors as a whole.

Because it seems implausible that everyone that was a girl in the Nasuverse has a case of mistaken sex. xD