Cyrania

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Jo-Anne

"There isn't really a clan of us," The Taguel said as she followed the Viera. "My grandmother was the only one left of the Taguel after her warren was massacred. But then she married grandfather and the race continued through my father, Yarne."

"And what was your grandfather then?" Livia asked.

"A human, or as you call them a hume." Jo-Anne responded. "They had fought together in Chrom and Robin's army and fallen in love. Anyways, then through some bizarre circumstance, my father was transported back in time to prevent Grima's conquering of our world along with other children of the army's soldiers including Chrom's daughter, Lucinda, and Nah, my future mother and a hybrid human/manakete, a long-lived race that could change into dragons. They fell in love and got married, having six of us and settling down after Grima seemed to have been defeated for good."

"And all of you can change into either state?" the Viera asked as they left the gates behind.

"Well, yes and no," was the Taguel's response. "You see, all of us are capable of doing it, but to varying degrees. Tartane and I are right at home in our Taguel forms, but feel bloated and stretched in Manakete form. Zuko and Shannon are magnificent in Manakete form, but are almost laughable in Taguel form. Then there's Alastair and Dana who can just barely use either form. Alastair takes it well though, he's the strongest of the family and will often fight for us when kids call us names, even though we're older than him and the name-callers were older than him."

Jo-Anne laughed a bit at the memory of one of those fights. Then she hung her head. "But Dana, she's the most magically inclined and would willingly act as our healer when needed. Yet, she always acted like either she wished she could truly transform as well or that she despised us for being non-human and wished to have pure human blood. I've never been really sure of her and always felt bad for not being able to trust a sister."

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Jo-Anne

As the crowd was dismissed, Jo-Anne wrestled with herself whether she should have done something different that day. "Was there a better way to tell Va'gaji about Grima? Should I not have tried to help those strange people? Come on now, it was the Risen who caused the death, like that moogle on the bird said. Va'gaji would probably have misconstructed anything I said, he has a short fuse from a war he seeks an explanation for. I need to do something to clear my head, too much has happened today"

So the Taguel rushed to catch up with Viera. "Hey, Viera wait up." Then Viera stopped, turned, and wordlessly waited for Jo-Anne. Then the Taguel asked her, " I know this is a bad time to ask this and I'm sorry but, when would be a good time to meet up with your sisters?"

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Here's how my stats upgraded as I can recall
HP -> 30 (+5)
STR -> 14 (+3)
MAG -> 4 (+1)
SKL -> 14 (+3)
SPD -> 12 (+2)
LCK -> 10 (+3)
DEF -> 11 (+1)
RES -> 11 (+1)

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Jo-Anne

Seeing her new friend from earlier in such a state, the Taguel ran over to her and exclaimed, "Livia, what happened to you? Are you wounded? Where's Cedwic?" Then Jo-Anne reached for one of her vulenaries and offered it to the Veira. "Here's for any injuries you may have. Is Cedwic... no, he can't be. Please say he isn't dead." Then the Ylissean looked around and saw all the other dead and wounded and thought of the commander's command to stay in formation while the two strangers were by themselves and what was finally unleashed after they had left the battlefield. Then Jo-Anne knelt down with tears streaming down and silently, solemnly said, "Livia, is all this death and suffering my fault?"

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Jo-Anne

As the trio landed back at town gate, Jo-Anne finally grumblingly admitted to herself that her companions probably were right. They probably would not have survived aganist that big creature and have been uselessly killed. "There might have still been a chance for victory, but what do you do when you've been outvoted?" But, the rest of the army had retreated with them, she needed to join them, and it would be a relief to be out of dragonform. So the Taguel deactivated the Dragonstone, readied her Beastone, and waited for what ever came next.
(hr)
Jo-Anne: 10 - 2 SPD = 4 actions
Traveled back to city: 2 actions
Deactivated Dragonstone: 1 action, SPD restored to normal
Wait: 1 action

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Is there anything else I could improve though, whether with writing her or that she should change as the story progresses?

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Any suggestions for Tierra?

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

So everyone on Jo-Anne wants to retreat back to the main army then? Maybe then she could stay dragon long enough to ferry more people to it. Unless the retreat allows the event to finally trigger and disable the Dark Esper. (I wouldn't mind a GM hint.)

Shepards of Ivalice: The Wings of Ruin

Why couldn't the chocobo ride on the dragon, @Evanist? With dragons being the size of a barn, the only problem the chocobo might have is panicing a bit and shoving its claws into Jo-Anne's back, causing her some damage. But as long as it doesn't kill her, she would still transport it.

@Leolycan I was thinking of moving towards the Esper since we are the closest to it.

Chronicles of Altea

Maybe you'll just need to implement a number of days per round that posts need to be put in or that person's character is just skipped. In other words, a round lasts let's say three days. The players need to send in their posts during that timeframe or their character doesn't appear during that round. If a player misses too many rounds, then unless they have valid reasons, then that player has probably lost interest and might just need to be taken off. It works well on RWBY AU: Heroes of a Different Story.