The armour's actually not that... great; it's just some well-made plate. Shield's good for turtling, though, but why the hell would you try and attack through that enormous shield?
Funnily enough, the pendant doesn't mitigate anything. It can be activated to deflect dark magic, though. And all the dark magic in the game is black and obviously evil, so most stuff will bypass it. Not, I imagine, necromancy and stuff.
As for the second ring... basically? It boils down to 'even better pain threshold'. Probably helps against mind control, but obviously not perfectly.
And a second submission. We need more swords. We ALWAYS need more swords.
Name: Sir Artorias the Abysswalker Age: Unknown Gender: Male
World of Origin: Dark Souls Personality: Artorias is a brave and honourable knight with a persistent hatred for the servants of dark--which, regardless of wider morality, seem to entirely be insane or sociopathic and homicidal, as well as destructive. His willpower is as renowned as Artorias' ability with a sword, never breaking as far as anyone has ever known--the one exception being the person who eventually killed him, someone he wanted to warn away. He's also selfless enough to sacrifice his only defence and get injured in defence of Sif. History: One of the Four Knights of Gwyn, Artorias was a general in the war against the immortal dragons. After winning the war, the knights more or less spent their time killing the remaining dragons (to the point their captain did it as a hobby). More than five hundred years after Gwyn set himself on fire, the rulers of New Londo made a pact with the Abyss... which began to devour and consume their citizens. Artorias himself made a pact with the beasts there, gaining a ring that would allow him to traverse the Abyss without melting instantly, in order to kill the life-stealing Darkwraiths. After the crisis was contained, Artorias was awarded his pendant, and a similar problem appeared in nearby Oolacile. He set off to rescue the princess and broke his arm in the process, leaving his shield behind to guard his companion even as the Abyss began to corrupt him. Defeated and broken, he turned into a mindless beast, barely holding on but still fighting his enemies... until an undead from the future came back and allowed him to die with honour. Of course, that hasn't happened yet. Or maybe it has, time flows strangely in Lordran... Abilities: Unmatched with a sword in his home, Artorias has enough strength to wield his blade with his off-hand alone. His sword, now cursed, cuts as much with magic as sheer force and possesses the ability to cut through ghosts and their ilk, even though they have no physical form. His other possessions are a shield where the wielder is more likely to buckle than it is to get scratched, a ring that allows him to traverse the Abyss, another ring to supplement his unbendable will, and a pendant that can repel dark magic (as well as his armour). It's also quite plausible that Sif, his companion, would be with him--essentially a human-sized wolf pup. Other: He's something like ten feet tall.
Miku had initially felt confusion about her location, as well as concern about how Hibiki would take her apparent sudden disappearance. She had to push the doubt aside, though; how would Hibiki feel if she walked out on helping people just to get home quickly? Even if she wasn't a fighter, and definitely not as dangerous as the alarmingly huge man with an even bigger sword, she had a relic and the courage to use it. Even a little courage is still courage.
Staying around to wait proved to be the right choice, as an all-too-familiar voice called out from elsewhere in the group, announcing her room-mate's presence as loudly and cheerfully as ever. She hadn't quite gotten through the obstructions to Hibiki before the girl was, like ever, picking the straight and obvious path and rushing into the centre door.
The city beyond was... beautiful. They were high up with an amazing view, but the architecture and technology was unfamiliar. She hadn't heard of a city build to any sort of plan like this before, either, since city planning tended to call for not having huge drops all over the place, wherever possible, so building up like this was a strange choice. With the sound of fighting nearby, though, there was only a few seconds to react before the brunette rushed off without realising there was support.
"Hibiki!" Miku rushed over, hoping that she would be noticed. Losing Hibiki in another crowd might cause problems...
Little did the green-eyed girl know that of all the doors she could have picked, this was probably the worst world for her to wander into. Her Symphogear, after all, did share something of a resemblance to a Murakumo unit... complete with floating just above the ground.
World of Origin: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Personality: A very sweet, kind girl who's cheerfully optimistic about most things, and a far better student than Hibiki, about whom she worries... a lot. Most of the time, she has faith in her friend, though Hibiki can't really hide things from her at all and Miku isn't above calling her an idiot. She's also got a possessive streak and a desire to protect Hibiki, though it's normally the other way round. This culminated in being able to activate the Senshou Jing... through love. In a case of extremely poor judgement, she ended up fighting Hibiki; not that anyone appears to care about this. History: Hibiki's childhood friend, she's been around for practically everything that's happened to the other girl--except for the concert incident, due to being late. This has extended to being her room-mate since beginning to attend Lydian. So naturally, when Hibiki found out that she had a Symphogear, Miku ended up getting involved as well--first mostly by being mad that Hibiki was avoiding her, then later joining the same organisation. She later temporarily gained a Symphogear, only for it to be destroyed. However, with the full relic being presumably recovered and someone with the abilities to make and alter the system around the relic fragments, she can quite easily get it again. Given her track record for being attacked and falling huge distances, this would be a good thing. Abilities: The Senshou Jing, which works like every other Symphogear--sing, get fancy armour and a weapon (Hibiki's Gungnir being an anomaly). In her case, this manifests as a club that looks like a folded fan, and has a mirror that shoots lasers. It also has the honour of being the only Symphogear capable of flight outside of X-Drive, which is handy given that its wielder has no combat training whatsoever. Other capabilities include the club splitting into an actual mirror-fan, which can fire a burst of lasers, attacking with the strange trailing bits, and launching mirrors that... shoot lasers (with really bad apparent aim). If her synchronization was better, then it would also have the Liuxang attack--a relic-destroying magical wave motion gun. The downside, however, of her lasers is that mirrors reflect them. On the plus side, Miku's in very good shape, as she's on the track and field team, which has come in useful on more than one occasion. Other:
... she seriously has bad luck with falling off of things. All three seasons she's fallen from somewhere high up, nearly twice in season two, and she's averaging getting attacked by something somewhere around... three. xD
... the sane version: same universe as Hibiki. Had a Symphogear for a while. Whilst it would be POSSIBLE to enter her from that time, it would be a bad idea. Given a few pieces of info from the next season, it's entirely plausible that she could get the thing again without a season-long knowledge gap and related problems.
I... had a character idea a few days ago, but I've not posted to apply or anything mostly because of the somewhat... awkward way things would need to happen to make it work? The simple version is that to take the character from the right point as-is would introduce a temporal problem due to coming from somewhat earlier in the series as compared to another character. But given something else that happened, it's entirely possible to explain around it.
Or in less obtuse terms: Kohinata Miku with the Shenshou Jing (but without the huge-ass laser due to lack of synchronisation), theoretically because if you gathered a bunch of shit from the moon after G and then got someone who could repair and enhance relics, you'd probably end up with that. And who else would you give it to? xD
Seeing that the man with far too many swords was catching people, Olivie turned around and focused on the rest of the stairs. The headless skeleton was concerning; without seeing the head it was hard to tell what to actually expect. Whilst some sort of head-targeted spike would probably hit her hand instead, doing less serious damage, if it was a decapitating axe then she'd get a far more serious injury.
Whilst being so large obviously had its downsides--her lack of armour attested to that, and she was a major target when a fight broke out--it meant that if they needed someone to test a trap, she was probably the best choice due to the sheer unlikelihood that any immediately fatal blows would get her.
Plus her sword was big enough to function as the other adventuring staple: a ten foot pole, which she carefully used to test the nearby stairs for any moving parts... and hopefully gently enough to not set things off.
Olivie was standing by the hole when other group members started to coalesce around them. One had a good idea--testing the depth of the entrance--but the bearded man seemed to think that they were better off digging a new hole in the wall rather than fighting any possible undead. Given that they were a group largely composed of warriors with a few spellcasters, the chance anyone would know enough architecture to not bring the tower down on their heads was minimal.
"With all respect, sir, I believe that another entrance would merely delay contact with our foes, as we have no map with which to navigate," the half-giant stated, watching the torch's fall--then dropping down if the fall was harmless to her. In the event the drop was rather too large for anyone else, she could help bridge the gap.