Ryik

List of Ryik's Old Characters

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Name: Jacob "Jake" De'elcruz

Setting(s): Modern Fantasy with higher levels of power

Gender: ♂

Age: 19

Ability: Capable of "charging" people and objects he has come into physical contact with. (Takes roughly one second, more if he can't concentrate, indiscriminate of size) At any given moment he can teleport said object(s) anywhere within "empty" space. He's become specialized with guns, enveloping charged bullets with a flashy glowing shells of energy. Although the bullets don't become more powerful per se, he can expend the charge on bullets to ricochet them instead of teleporting them, allowing him to redirect them without losing momentum three times per charge.

He's been practicing the creation of energy bullets, creating the shells without the bullets (and shooting them without a gun) with very mild success. The bullets hurt, but they're far from lethal. They can only leave nasty bruises at best, and have (very) short range before they fizzle out.

Weaknesses/Limitations: His teleport range is unlimited, but the destination requires visual confirmation. Although he doesn't always need to be directly looking at a destination, memory alone will often cause the attempt to fail, particularly if too much time passes, especially in places of heavier traffic where more minute differences can accrue. Most less-frequented locations can be memorized enough to teleport to for hours, and places of extreme familiarity like his home can last days. The teleport will fail if he tries to teleport an object to a destination that is no longer valid due to obstructions. He can only give any object one charge at a time, and cannot give charges to large structures. The charges expire after a couple of days, and he isn't very capable without his guns. Creating energy bullets himself expends a lot of energy for very little payout. It's mostly a parlor trick.

Combat Equipment: A pair of pistols and an excessive supply of bullets he keeps at home and charges on a daily basis. He teleports magazines full of bullets directly into his guns, but in teleporting them consumes their charge, needing further charging before he can fire charged bullets. The gun as well as the magazines have holes in them specifically to allow for physical contact with the bullets before he fires them.

Personality: A rather excitable person, he's an enormous romanticist, eager to dive into a fantastical adventure he's convinced exists, and is out there waiting for him. He's earnest and naive, liable to bite off more than he can chew at every opportunity. He's a huge idiot not especially wise.

History: Has had a rather ordinary life. He ran away from home at 18 to get away from his parents and has been living as a self-proclaimed adventurer ever since. Despite constantly being on the hunt for ancient ruins and evidence of outlandish conspiracies, he doesn't know the first thing about anthropology or cryptozoology, and mostly sustains his lifestyle through odd jobs, freelance vigilantism, and a web series of his "adventures" he puts out sporadically. Sucks at keeping a low profile and his parents are perfectly aware of his whereabouts, which he is in complete denial about.

List of Ryik's Old Characters

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Name: Valen Agzhen

Setting(s): Modern Fantasy with higher levels of power

Gender: ♂

Age: 38

Appearance: Despite his age, his ability keeps him looking young, having slowed his apparent aging gradually but exponentially. Has dark hair, brown eyes, and a fairly plain wardrobe consisting almost entirely of dull colors. He's also rather tall.

Ability: Invulnerability; all parts of Valen’s body, while they remain attached to him, are immune to any and all external forms of damage, seemingly only destructible through natural biological processes. Blades fail to cut him, fire fails to burn him, and poisons fail to sicken him. Even suffocation and starvation will cause no atrophy or lasting harm. His own cognition seems to be all that is required to moderate the growth of his hair and nails.

Weaknesses/Limitations: In spite of the apparent lack of actual damage, attacks that would normally harm him still cause him pain, albeit only temporarily since there is no lasting wound. The type and severity of the pain mimics the wound he would have received, as if the wound was actually inflicted, despite evidence to the contrary. Likewise, his skin possesses no special "hardness", and fragile weaponry such as thin blades will generally not shatter from a strike, simply stopping as it reaches him as if ignoring Newton's 3rd law. He remains completely unaffected by poisons and illnesses, but retains any kinetic forces imposed on him. (If you hit him really hard, he will fly very far) In addition, he will lose consciousness if deprived of oxygen or sustenance for too long, but will self-resuscitate when exposed to oxygen or when nutrients/water are forced down his throat, respectively.

Combat Equipment: Defaults to wielding a pair of Pistols and carrying around a few grenades. Strongly prefers gunpowder weapons because his best friend is a technomancer "obsessed" with making everything fire lasers.

Personality: Generally mild-mannered, Valen is calm and approachable. His methodical nature makes him highly reliable, though it also makes him easy to mess with. While chiefly motivated by self-interest, it's not for lack of conscience, and he prefers to do the right thing when his job isn't on the line.

History: Originally intending to join the military, Valen was invited to and subsequently hired by an evil organization through the power of nepotism. From there he went on to serve as a generic mook, apprehending "rogue" supers until his own powers were awakened. It was initially valued highly, and he was assigned to more demanding targets. This backfired as he failed time and again to meet the lofty expectations his ability commanded. Being functionally unkillable didn’t matter when most abilities trump guns in a head-on fight and several of his targets could literally throw him over the horizon. In the end, he was delegated to internal affairs where he could be put to use doing any dangerous job the organization needed done: Personal trainer who couldn't be hurt by their trainee, warden who couldn't be hurt by prisoners and R&D's test dummy who couldn't die no matter how unstable the weapon. Over the years, Valen came to occupy a position as right-hand man to Aaron, head of the R&D department and the friend who got him the job in the first place. Eventually Aaron informed him that he intended to betray the organization, which included blowing their entire workplace to kingdom come and escaping with all the captured Supers, seeking asylum through a contact of his. As far as Valen could tell, the heel-face turn was as a result of Aaron finishing one of his ridiculous experiments and not needing the organization's resources any longer. Seeing as how Valen's job tended towards unpleasant and how he was financially well-off after working for them for years, he went along with it, and for doing so, attained amnesty as part of Aaron's conniving negotiations.

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

Verik

Becoming a Keybearer felt like joining a shadowy cabal. Being the only ones with knowledge of other worlds, yet deliberately keeping people in the dark felt questionable. Sure, it wouldn't do them much good without keys, and he could think of good reasons to leave the worlds segregated like this. Maybe it wasn't not letting them know that bothered him - perhaps it was being part of the group that did know. He got his key completely by accident, and it doesn't seem all that useful other than the 'door to different worlds' stuff that weird old man was going on about. As far as he could tell, obtaining one was just pure luck, making it a completely arbitrary selection criteria. Hell, the first thing he sees when he walks through the portal to another world is a toy raccoon - one of the other keybearers. Also assembled are a pair of men - one wearing what appears to be a cross between a hunter's first attempt at making clothing and fetish gear, while the other is dressed for the beach. Quite the diverse selection of backgrounds, it seems. There's also a giant bee-butterfly monster that seems to be with the questionably clothed one, given the way it hovers behind him. He had received the run down on dream eaters, but actually seeing one made him decide he wasn't interested in befriending one himself. Yeesh.

Well, in any case, might as well introduce himself. Verik walks forward to join the group. "Hey. My name is Verik. Seems we're working together on this mission. Is everyone here?"

Pokémon Knights

Alan

Armored Form

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Alan Cross

"Come on, show me whatcha got!"

Age: 16, almost 17

Status: 2nd year student at the Knights' Academy

Personality: Alan is pretty extroverted. He's not afraid to solicit strangers for conversation and loves getting people to laugh or smile. He'll often gas people up as a "sincere joke", and is pretty thick-skinned. Although he doesn't hate losing, he likes winning more, and has a bit of an ego. At times, he can be stubborn or confrontational, but he's hard to make genuinely mad. He doesn't take much seriously other than battles, which he takes extremely seriously, sometimes even when he's trying not to.

Biography: Alan had a rather ordinary childhood. His mother was a Knight of Rallen and his father ran a flower shop. They had a large garden in their backyard where they grew most of the flowers, and it attracted a variety of pokémon to their home. Eventually, however, at the age of 14, he and his father got caught up in a plot against his mother made by Decree. They forced their way into their home, busting down the doors and eventually attacking his father. Alan didn't know what to do. His father told him to run, and in the panic of the situation, he did. Though, As he thought it through, he wasn't confident he could escape trackers with Unity powers for long. Perhaps that was just an excuse not to leave his father behind, but he decided he was either going to save his father or die trying. As such, he went to the gardens and beseeched all the pokémon within for help. They were all pokémon he had known for much of his life, pokémon he grew up with, but most weren't confident they could take on the intruders. He still hadn't managed to trigger the Unity phenomenon, and as much as he tried, he couldn't rally the pokémon to attack together. Time was of the essence, so he gave up, cursing the pokémon, calling them selfish and ungrateful, but just as he turned around, he found a Spewpa quietly waiting behind him. He knew this one; it was the son of his mother's Butterfree. It wasn't exactly what he was looking for, but beggars can't be choosers, and at least it could use Protect.

He rushed back into the house, carrying Spewpa, and immediately put himself between the assailants and his father. Spewpa managed to block a single attack for him and retaliate with Stun Spore, but he knew better than to expect much from him. Right after guilt-tripping the other pokémon, he wasn't about to let Spewpa fight an unwinnable battle, so he never let go of it, protecting it from every attack that came their way. He knew the only way they'd make it out alive was with Spewpa's disabling abilities anyway. It was during this time when he was being cut, burned, and beaten to a pulp that he finally awoke the power of Unity, donning Unity Armor and finally being able to fight on even footing... with one of them. His father was unconscious and badly wounded, so he scattered Rage Powder to drag the fight outside, back to the gardens. Using himself as a distraction, he managed to allow his Spewpa and even some of the other wild pokémon still in the garden to gang up on the attackers. They became inundated with negative status effects, paralyzed, slowed, and struggling to inflict meaningful damage, but they were far stronger than an amateur and a bunch of wild pokémon. They eventually burned the garden down, forcing the wild pokémon out of hiding and soon after, out of the fight. They gradually beat Alan within an inch of his life, unable to land a decisive blow but having nothing to fear from him and Spewpa in return. It was only at the last possible moment, when Alan's legs gave out from under him and he fell to his knees did help arrive. His mother had come personally, and finished the assailants off with a single Hurricane, putting out the fires and leaving the arrests to her compatriots. Attending to her son was more important, but all Alan could think about at the time was his dad.

His father died that day, unable to be saved from his injuries even with the medics they had brought. Alan came to regret listening to his father, wishing he had never left him. Even if the more logical side of him recognizes the futility of stopping or even delaying the attackers without Unity armor, he never got to say goodbye to his father, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't let go of the feeling that he failed him.

Alan eventually decided to become a Knight, like his mother. Although protecting people is one of his goals, he can't say he chose his current path for purely moralistic reasons. He mainly wants revenge on Decree, seeking nothing less than their complete dissolution.

Partner Pokemon: Spewpa. He keeps an eviolite given to him by Alan tucked within his cloak and knows a variety of uncommon moves. He possesses the hidden ability, Friend Guard, and is not particularly capable in 1 on 1 battles. Contrary to Alan, Spewpa is rather reserved.

Unity Abilities: After entering his armored form, Alan gains a massive defensive boost, covering his body in a chitin-like armor and providing him with a fur cloak highly resistant to cutting forces and magic attacks. He gains large gauntlets on either hand that can emit various powders (Poison Powder, Rage Powder and Stun Spore) or create and launch webbing to help him disorient, weaken, or distract his opponents. Finally, he is capable of a small selection of magic abilities, able to channel electricity through his webbing, letting him perform Electroweb attacks. He can also create energy barriers; either a short-lived one to block attacks, (Protect) or a weaker but long-lasting one to continuously dampen attacks on an ally. (Friend Guard) From an offensive perspective, Alan's armor form does almost nothing for him, only able to poison and moderately electrify. He can simply wrestle people into submission, but this is easier said than done against armored opponents.

Likes:

• Spewpa
• Games & Competition
• Winning
• Making people happy
• Talking
• Meat
• Sweets
• Flowers

Dislikes:

• Anyone who dares to insult his Spewpa
• People who put other people down / Gatekeeping
• Gaslighting
• Getting stuck in the rain
• Shutting up
• Spicy food
• Flowers

Quirks:

• Tries to be extremely positive with people. Success is mixed, and it's not always welcome, but he genuinely finds it enjoyable to ambush people with compliments just to try to get them to smile or turn away in embarrassment. Either is fine.
• Real life-or-death battles put him on edge, and although he is very confident and capable in terms of keeping calm under pressure, the stiff and serious demeanor still bleeds into his behavior in less serious battles, causing him to seem standoffish. It's a huge contrast to his cocky attitude when playing sports or games and he's been trying to remind himself to loosen up, with mixed success.
• Never lost a mock battle at the academy by knockout
• Never won a mock battle at the academy by knockout either.
• Generally unpopular as a sparring partner.

Relations:
-

Pokémon Knights

Yo

I saw the interest check, but couldn't think of a fitting character until very shortly after the main thread was posted.

Alan

Armored Form

Theme

Alan Cross

"Come on, show me whatcha got!"

Age: 16, almost 17

Status: 2nd year student at the Knights' Academy

Personality: Alan is pretty extroverted. He's not afraid to solicit strangers for conversation and loves getting people to laugh or smile. He'll often gas people up as a "sincere joke", and is pretty thick-skinned. Although he doesn't hate losing, he likes winning more, and has a bit of an ego. At times, he can be stubborn or confrontational, but he's hard to make genuinely mad. He doesn't take much seriously other than battles, which he takes extremely seriously, sometimes even when he's trying not to.

Biography: Alan had a rather ordinary childhood. His mother was a Knight of Rallen and his father ran a flower shop. They had a large garden in their backyard where they grew most of the flowers, and it attracted a variety of pokémon to their home. Eventually, however, at the age of 14, he and his father got caught up in a plot against his mother made by Decree. They forced their way into their home, busting down the doors and eventually attacking his father. Alan didn't know what to do. His father told him to run, and in the panic of the situation, he did. Though, As he thought it through, he wasn't confident he could escape trackers with Unity powers for long. Perhaps that was just an excuse not to leave his father behind, but he decided he was either going to save his father or die trying. As such, he went to the gardens and beseeched all the pokémon within for help. They were all pokémon he had known for much of his life, pokémon he grew up with, but most weren't confident they could take on the intruders. He still hadn't managed to trigger the Unity phenomenon, and as much as he tried, he couldn't rally the pokémon to attack together. Time was of the essence, so he gave up, cursing the pokémon, calling them selfish and ungrateful, but just as he turned around, he found a Spewpa quietly waiting behind him. He knew this one; it was the son of his mother's Butterfree. It wasn't exactly what he was looking for, but beggars can't be choosers, and at least it could use Protect.

He rushed back into the house, carrying Spewpa, and immediately put himself between the assailants and his father. Spewpa managed to block a single attack for him and retaliate with Stun Spore, but he knew better than to expect much from him. Right after guilt-tripping the other pokémon, he wasn't about to let Spewpa fight an unwinnable battle, so he never let go of it, protecting it from every attack that came their way. He knew the only way they'd make it out alive was with Spewpa's disabling abilities anyway. It was during this time when he was being cut, burned, and beaten to a pulp that he finally awoke the power of Unity, donning Unity Armor and finally being able to fight on even footing... with one of them. His father was unconscious and badly wounded, so he scattered Rage Powder to drag the fight outside, back to the gardens. Using himself as a distraction, he managed to allow his Spewpa and even some of the other wild pokémon still in the garden to gang up on the attackers. They became inundated with negative status effects, paralyzed, slowed, and struggling to inflict meaningful damage, but they were far stronger than an amateur and a bunch of wild pokémon. They eventually burned the garden down, forcing the wild pokémon out of hiding and soon after, out of the fight. They gradually beat Alan within an inch of his life, unable to land a decisive blow but having nothing to fear from him and Spewpa in return. It was only at the last possible moment, when Alan's legs gave out from under him and he fell to his knees did help arrive. His mother had come personally, and finished the assailants off with a single Hurricane, putting out the fires and leaving the arrests to her compatriots. Attending to her son was more important, but all Alan could think about at the time was his dad.

His father died that day, unable to be saved from his injuries even with the medics they had brought. Alan came to regret listening to his father, wishing he had never left him. Even if the more logical side of him recognizes the futility of stopping or even delaying the attackers without Unity armor, he never got to say goodbye to his father, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't let go of the feeling that he failed him.

Alan eventually decided to become a Knight, like his mother. Although protecting people is one of his goals, he can't say he chose his current path for purely moralistic reasons. He mainly wants revenge on Decree, seeking nothing less than their complete dissolution.

Partner Pokemon: Spewpa. He keeps an eviolite given to him by Alan tucked within his cloak and knows a variety of uncommon moves. He possesses the hidden ability, Friend Guard, and is not particularly capable in 1 on 1 battles. Contrary to Alan, Spewpa is rather reserved.

Unity Abilities: After entering his armored form, Alan gains a massive defensive boost, covering his body in a chitin-like armor and providing him with a fur cloak highly resistant to cutting forces and magic attacks. He gains large gauntlets on either hand that can emit various powders (Poison Powder, Rage Powder and Stun Spore) or create and launch webbing to help him disorient, weaken, or distract his opponents. Finally, he is capable of a small selection of magic abilities, able to channel electricity through his webbing, letting him perform Electroweb attacks. He can also create energy barriers; either a short-lived one to block attacks, (Protect) or a weaker but long-lasting one to continuously dampen attacks on an ally. (Friend Guard) From an offensive perspective, Alan's armor form does almost nothing for him, only able to poison and moderately electrify. He can simply wrestle people into submission, but this is easier said than done against armored opponents.

Likes:

• Spewpa
• Games & Competition
• Winning
• Making people happy
• Talking
• Meat
• Sweets
• Flowers

Dislikes:

• Anyone who dares to insult his Spewpa
• People who put other people down / Gatekeeping
• Gaslighting
• Getting stuck in the rain
• Shutting up
• Spicy food
• Flowers

Quirks:

• Tries to be extremely positive with people. Success is mixed, and it's not always welcome, but he genuinely finds it enjoyable to ambush people with compliments just to try to get them to smile or turn away in embarrassment. Either is fine.
• Real life-or-death battles put him on edge, and although he is very confident and capable in terms of keeping calm under pressure, the stiff and serious demeanor still bleeds into his behavior in less serious battles, causing him to seem standoffish. It's a huge contrast to his cocky attitude when playing sports or games and he's been trying to remind himself to loosen up, with mixed success.
• Never lost a mock battle at the academy by knockout
• Never won a mock battle at the academy by knockout either.
• Generally unpopular as a sparring partner.

Relations:
-

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

Verik

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Name: Verik Innes

Age: 20

Gender: ♂

Race: Human

Homeworld: Luxendarc (Bravely Default)

Key-Weapon: A friendship bracelet embedded with his blue mage asterisk. It gains additional charms for each spell/ability copied through "Skill Drain" and additional stylized bracelets are generated through "Seal Pact". He can generate spectral weaponry based on the abilities to help facilitate their physical components, and will simply free-hand most magic attacks.

When calling upon Ringabel's D-Link, he can generate a spectral spellbook/scrapbook, containing pictures/drawings of the original owner of each of his abilities and the abilities themselves. The book can float and be used as a firing platform, with the pages burning off as Skill Drain spells/abilities are consumed.

Abilities: Skill Drain - Copies almost any spell or ability he's been hit with, but only for a single use, if he survives.
Seal Pact - copies one spell or ability from a friend, for as long as they remain friends. Can only copy one per friend. "Sealing the pact" requires physical contact.

Pact Abilities:
Plant Slayer - Fire a spectral arrow that deals massive damage to plant enemies - Obtained from his mother

Skill Drain Abilities: (single-use)
Cura - Tier 2 Healing Spell - Stolen from a Red Mage
Raise - Revives a target that has been knocked out or that has died recently - Stolen from a Red Mage
Fira - Tier 2 Fire Spell - Stolen from a Red Mage
Blizzara - Tier 2 Ice Spell - Stolen from a Red Mage
Thundara - Tier 2 Thunder Spell - Stolen from a Red Mage
Paralyzing Pollen - Causes pollen to erupt from any physical attack, paralyzing foes - Stolen from an Alraune
Lullaby - Inflict sleep on all enemies - Stolen from a Treant

D-Link: Ringabel

Job: Blue Mage - power of friendship variant.

Appearance: Blue eyes, black hair, and an understated yet meticulously chosen wardrobe. Cares far too much about how others view him, and his physique and grooming generally reflect that. He aims for an air of Sprezzatura to conceal his need for validation.

History: Born in Florem, "the Land of Radiant Flowers". Males are strictly forbidden from taking up residence in Florem, and so when his single mother gave birth to him, she decided to move to the surrounding outskirts, not wanting to give him or her home up. Although it mostly worked out, she came to regret her decision not to make a clean break with Florem. There are no laws restricting visits to Florem, so he mostly grew up with Florem culture, which is known to be rather superficial. Soon enough Verik had grown into a gregarious flirt, getting into relationships with plenty of girls, and getting into just as many fights with his mother over them. They didn't exactly live a life of glamour, residing in a cabin and living off the land, and he perceived it to be interfering with his relationships. Eventually, however, in his most recent relationship, he had his heart broken over petty reasons, got into a fight with a Red Mage love rival and lost all of his "friends" in the process as he suffered a shameful defeat. He came to better understand why his mother had such resentment for the place, realizing he had no true friends within Florem. Although he hasn't resigned himself to becoming a hermit like his mother, she was all he had for a friend when he fell through a crack in the world and gained a Keyblade.

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

@mattmanganon Conner's the one with the trident, but yes (new as the game begins) and no. (hasn't done anything with his keyblade)
He had magic before leaving his world and has already been in combat against monsters before, but he's not particularly experienced and has not fought any heartless. He also has not met his D-link yet, and I was planning on delaying that for quite a while considering their whereabouts at the end of Bravely Default. (Though I could always change it to Kuzco or something if meeting D-links early is mandatory)

I thought this was all self-evident from their history.

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

I was just thinking they would have problems with basic locomotion on land.

By the way, for D-links, should they function as temporary alternate powersets? The interest check implied it was more a determinant of their overall powerset rather than functioning like the original game mechanic, but in hindsight I'm not so sure.

Kingdom Hearts: So You Wanna Be A Hero, Kid?

Since I want Ariel as a D link, I guess my character will be a Merperson then.

@Crimson Flame

Well, there are humans in Ariel's world. If you wanted to stick with Merpeople though, I imagine they'd have to use magic to grow legs for travel on other worlds. Either that or learn how to permanently levitate. Alternatively, they could come from a different world entirely.

Your character's D-Link doesn't have to be with a character from their own world. People accidentally stumble through the cracks in the universe all the time

@mattmanganon