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@Mega Birb I bet if you lead and actually post something that sets the scene, other interested machina players will show up.

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@TheWindel I said I planned on making one character for each faction, because I honestly don't know which faction Miyu will end up in. She has ties to literally all of them now.

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@TheWindel Well, I plan on leading Demon Infiltration just as soon as I can get a moment without another person teleporting in or coming through a wall to see Miyu.

(In before Suprana)

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@TheWindel Well, right now the Machina are failing to follow their sidequest, the Demons are inexplicably fawning over Miyu, and the Angels are planning to rescue her, so I think we're decent for sidequests at the moment.

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@TheWindel

Considering that and how many angels Fran goes through a day, it's a miracle Angel of Death has time to get to any of the other races.

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@Mega Birb Have the birb carry beer.

.:: ℤ𝕖𝕝𝕕𝕒 - 𝕎𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 ::.

@Lugubrious And whenever I see you I think about Dungeon Keepers. That was one of my first on this site. :P

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@Lonewolf685So, no concept of soul that is necessary for revival in this universe? Gotcha, I'll think of something else.

Also, I thought Angel of Death was in charge of resurrections, and so could choose to say "nope, no rez for you". Theoretically, if you're not ok with some foreign one off magic beating Nexus' gimick, it could be "Angel of Death decided the lot of these Knights as a whole were useless, and tried this to distill their powers into one actually useful warrior." But I don't know whether Angel of Death is actually in on the "helping everyone power up to beat mysterious oogeyboogey force."

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@TheWindel The reasoning for her character is that due to oath shenanigans of magic before they came into the nexus, the fellow knight's souls are bound into her weapon, before Angel of Death can resurrect them. However, if that doesn't work for you, I can think of something else.

I don't think what you mentioned would work, because if they all did decide to work for different factions, it wouldn't be very dramatic, because

A. Then Alexi wouldn't slowly be going crazy from voices in her sword*.
B. If the Knights go Team Angel.. Alexi would just totally join up with them again, and my goal is to have one chary for each faction.
C. If the Knights go Team Demon.. Smitey smite smite. Ok that'd be kinda fun, but it'd also be out of character for ALL of the knights to do that, maybe one or two.

*Which has already claimed poor Fran.

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It's an absolute shame that none of the Machina characters have Pacific Rim Themes. Time to change that.

Alexi

"I wonder... Do I fight on because I want to win? Or simply to drown out the howling of the dead?"

Name: Alexi Robsdotter
Title: The Knight of Winter
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Machina
Race: Human

Personality: For one who fights for the Machina, the Knight of Winter was an exemplar of many of the virtues of an angelic knight. Unquestioning loyalty born of honor and oaths, rejection of modern technology for chivalric steel and sorcerous will, a grim and serious demeanor. But the loss of her order has twisted seriousness to the hint of madness and turned grimness to fatalism that gnaws away at her heart. In a more idyllic time, Alexi would enjoy the pleasures of a roaring fire, hearty stew, and copious amounts of cheap beer and ale.

History: Humans have never been the race with the greatest sorcerous potential, but that does not mean they have none. The short lifespans of humans could never master magic to a degree that would allow them to fight in the war between Hell and Heaven on a mass scale, and their breakthrough came in the form of machines. There are occasionally those with the genius and natural potential to in a short life amass the power to fight, however, even if perhaps the playing field still isn't quite even.

The Knights of Winter, was once an order, living near the peaks of a snow-covered mountains, honing ice magic beyond mere manipulation of cold, and preparing their skills for when they were needed once more. When they were found and drawn into the conflict in the Nexus, their hearts were roused by the plight of humans seeking independence from both gods and devils, and they launched a crusade to aid the Machina. But they were few, and many were of only human talent, and they made no difference in the war at large. Especially due to the fact that the Nexus didn't seem to agree with them.

Alexi became The Knight of Winter with a capital T because there are none left of her kin or fellow knights. None of her oathbrothers have ever been reborn by the magic of the Nexus, and what was once a righteous crusade quickly became a lone warrior. Gifted beyond her years in skill, but more importantly in simple fate that left her the last of her kind.

Powers:

The Knight of Winter has ice themed powers. Shocking. However, her LITERAL ice powers are... Lackluster. While she can summon misty fogs, icebolts, and walls of ice, they simply lack in sheer power compared to angelic or demonic magicians, or even normal Machina technology such as guns and shield projectors. While bolstered in an cold environment or weakened in a hot environment, neither makes much of a difference to the fact that her literal cryomancy is little more than a support and utility power save in the most absolutely ice or fire aspected areas.

But her true powers are thematically related to "freezing" and slowing things, and the rebound when things revert to how they were meant to be.

Inviolability of the Mountain Peak- This creates an aura which places a "maximum speed" on all physical objects within a short distance of Alexi. Bullets become dodgeable, allowing martial combatants with the skill to parry arrows the potential to parry bullets. Momentum is however left intact, because magic says so, so the objects become no less deadly. If something enters then exits, it resumes appropriate speed.

Frostbourn Steps/Avalanche Strikes- Alexi can store up her speed, momentarily slowing her steps, to gain a great burst of movement, a "dash move". While her overall speed, does not change, sometimes it is useful to be much faster for a critical moment at the cost of slowness when you can afford to. Likewise, she can charge up a swing of her sword or some other strike, pushing and exerting her muscles, but her blade not moving until she releases the energy all at once in a strike that hits like ten. The weakness of both these abilities is that she cannot change the direction of the energy. Going right cannot become going left, and a thrust cannot become a swing, and being interrupted from focusing wastes the charge.

Dazzling Snow- Alexi can "freeze" the light coming off of her, to slow its travel from her body. When combined with fast movement, this can leave afterimages and leave the opponent a moment behind if they rely to much on their eyes and reactions.

Weapons: Her Oathblade is a magically augmented steel, that has served her well. It holds a keen edge and has not broken or blunted yet. It is also cursed or booned with the souls of all her fallen comrades. She does not know this, and thinks the pained voices are simply her own trauma, and not the fact that the Knights of Winter had a dark pact made in their past. The Oathblade currently draws upon the souls inside it to be very resilient, but if a necromancer with mastery of souls rather than just bones and bodies got ahold of it, the potential power would be quite something.

Equipment: The Knight of Winter is well equipped for the snow. But otherwise doesn't carry many of the useful gadgets like grenades or guns that other Machina aligned characters might.
Theme:

With a character who has absolutely no mecha in their soul. :/

And she comes with pre-prepared reasoning for not helping on the anti-demon mission! You don't send The Knight of Winter into a desert unless you want really expensive air conditioning.