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HEY! I will sick a Ravine Hound on your ass!
You all concern me. The worst part is I live with one of you.
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originally I had it noted that it needs work and you're definitely right. I posted in the char section on accident and I'm really sorry. It was just a bad idea to push to get it finished tonight because that's not my A game or the impression I want you to have of me, its late where I live and I should have just finished it tomorrow. The bio is probably going to have another paragraph I think so there will be more explanation.
As of right now she's not well put together but I have all my ideas there, at least that's something.
Fixed!
5'6" and despite her average build she has plenty of muscle and with it strength. Her hair is an dirty blond and her eyes are grey. She has a full body armor suit as shown which she wears in battle. Out side of that she often wears a simple leather chest plate, pants, and a cloak.
Name: Wylin Nordin
Age: 23
Species: Hylian
Weapons and Equipment:
Broadsword: Belonged to her father, she carries it more as a remembrance
Double sided Halberd: Her preferred weapon and family heirloom
Nordin Armor: Family specialty, lightweight but durable and insulated. Unfortunately it does cause discomfort in warm climates
Skills:
Strength: Like the rest of her family she is exceedingly strong
Weaponry skills: She is skilled with the heavy stuff, swords and spears especially. Daggers and other smaller blades are really not her forte, her aim is alright.
Endurance: She can power through the toughest of beatings and harshest of journeys
Blacksmithing/repair: While not the greatest craftsman out there she can name some repairs and knows how to care for weapons, often insists on caring for them
Wit/Banter: damn right its a skill
Flaws:
Guilt: For all the lives taken an people hurt, it is her belief that she had a choice to spare them but she was too weak to make it
Cynical
Survivor's guilt
Alcoholism
Bio:
For as long as anyone can remember the Nordins lived at the base of the Snowpeak mountains. The family name is likely connected to this but whether that is true is lost to time, as is why they chose to live there. However popular belief is that it has to do with the weapons the family made and sold. Rivaling even some Goron craftsmanship Nordin weapons were heavy hitters, War hammers, Battle axes, Broad swords, long swords, spears. The weapons they made were sturdy and ice cold to the touch, some curse of the mountains. Nevertheless if one was in the market for heavy weaponry Nordin was the high end and hard to come by, the only way to get them was to travel to the Nordins themselves. Naturally Blacksmithing was the family tradition but Wylin would never be the blacksmith her brother was, she was a fighter and the family could see it. She learned what she could from visitors and her family, taking bits and pieces of techniques she became an avid fighter. Her specialty was spears. She was promised a family treasure a double sided halberd as soon as she could wield it. Her family would not live to see that day.
It was just a house fire, no assassination, no murder, no big fight. Just a stupid house fire. It was summer time then and that meant there were warmer days and nights, Wylin loved the night sky and went to go find it while her family slept. There would be no house when she came back, she would never quite understand why the fire started but it never felt right. Not that she could have investigated, the one night she had left them was the one night that had mattered. In a fit of self loathing she set off to the mountains, it was an act of suicide but it had made sense at the times. Starving and weak she walked for 3 days until she collapsed, ready to die on the mountain her family had loved. That was not to be, a traveler had tracked her from the burnt ruins of her home and caught her on the brink of death. After being nursed back to health he decided to teach Wylin a thing or two, his heart wasn't big he wanted the money a fighter like her could bring in. His intent was to buy a weapon but instead he gained an apprentice, the man was a mercenary as Wylin would one day become one as well. Why she would follow in the footsteps of a man who forced her to kill is a questions she still asks herself regularly. She would eventually kill him after he tried to force her to kill innocent beings. This past is not a thing she talks about willingly and she rarely uses her last name.
Her family died 8 years ago, she killed her 'mentor' 3 years ago and now a country she hardly knows calls her to save them, the situation must have been worse than she thought.
I'm super interested. Can I still join up?
Name:
Sheilo (Pronounced: SHAY-LOW)
Goron name:
Gororick (Pronounced: GORE-RICK)
Age:
31
Species:
Hylian / Goron
Skills:
- Two handed weapons: Sheilo is a master of two handed weapons that usually require a lot of strength and precision to wield. He is deadly lethal with these weapons especially Scythes which is his specialty. Trained by special Goron protectors he is dedicated to his art, his will to protect his family his motivation. Given his size of his strength he is able to use these weapons faster then others making him a adversary to one who is not prepared to face him.
-Strength: Sheilo is what you might consider hell of a strong person, having spent his entire life among power houses who could lift rocks the size of a house with ease, naturally Sheilo inspired to become that strong and drove his dedication to gaining the same strength as the Gorons. While he has not reached that exact goal, his training and determination have improved his strength beyond most normal Hylians.
-Endurance: Like almost any Goron does, Sheilo has and abundance of endurance to back him up in any sort of situation. Training like a Goron is among the most extreme training methods in the world, and most are unable to keep up with the Gorons rock like endurance. Sheilo is able to keep going well after his limit if his or another life is on the line, and he is more then used to taking a hit and getting back up for more.
- Loving: While being a lover is not usually considered a skill it is sort of a prerequisite for most Gorons, while there is always a little fighting here and there and some distrust to outsiders, Gorons are rather nice and peaceful people if not provoked and Sheilo has grown up learning this live himself. He cares little for wealth or for gratification for anything he does, he is simple in a lot of ways and just wants to protect those he loves.
Flaws:
- Speed: Where these is strength there is usually not much speed, like many of the Gorons Sheilo is rather slow having concentrated on his strength then how fast he could cover distance. While he has a rather rock hard defense given his strength his speed is a major upset when it comes to an opponent that is way faster then he is. Up until this point living with the Gorons he has not meant many who are fast either way, which makes it a bigger weakness for now.
- Wholehearted: Lets face it Sheilo had lived with a rather peace living race his whole life, being trained for combat to protect and ti witness it first hand are two different things when it comes down to it. While Sheilo is no stranger then protecting his Goron family from potential threats, his perceptions on evil intention people are severely lacking. Growing up with honest Gorons his whole life he prefers to see the best in others before the worst which can make his decisions conflicted. He does not wish to harm anyone, but if its to protect others he will.
- Impressionable: Sheilo is not and complete idiot however he does not know as much of the world outside his Goron family like others do. Again knowing something and seeing it for yourself are two different things, and in that respect Sheilo lacks any real world knowledge. Sheilo would probably be trusting enough to lend his weapon to a would be thief if it would help them and not realize the mistake. Again it all goes back to his trust in the better of people then the worst and his little experiences with the real world only makes it worse.
Bio:
Sheilo does not know when he was born, sheilo does not know who his mother and father were or are, an most of all Sheilo does not know any other world then the Gorons philosophy and this suits him fine. After all one can hardly miss something they never truly knew or had. Sheilo was just a baby when he was found on the mountainside by an Goron Elder who was out for a stroll that particular night. From that moment on Sheilo was taken in by the Gorons and with a few hitches here and there and the realization that Hylian babies don't eat rocks, Sheilo grew up to be a fine young man in respects. He grew up believing in the beliefs of his Goron brothers, to love not to hate, to protect family with life and above all else to always be honorable. Sheilo never wished for anything in life and lived for the most part a simple life. From the moment he could understand he was fascinated by the Gorons and their ways, he strives so much to be like them and to become a loyal brother to them. He trained hard like no other Hylian could, he became a part of the Gorons family, by time he was becoming a man he was as much a Goron as any other Goron. Once a man he decided to become a Goron protector, so he began his training in the art of two handed weapons, a specialty of the Gorons due to their strength, in a few short years he had taken to the training extremely well and soon enough he was a gifted individual in the way of combat. By the age of twenty five he received the tattoos of the Gorons which was in reality a painful process but he now bares them with pride. Now at the age of thirty one it seems that dark times are ahead, the Goron Elders have felt an evil on the horizon, one that could spell doom, hearing the call of Princess Zelda far up in the mountains Sheilo has decided to answer, the want and the need to protect his Goron family his motivations. He travels out into the world for the first time ever.
It's meant to tie in to both the Sheikah items in the games (Mask/Lens of Truth, and the Stone of Agony in Ocarina of time) and the "chi/ki sense" of fictional martial artists. It's not intended to be as strong as Spider Sense, as that borders on precognition a lot of times. This would be like noticing something out of the corner of your eye as you walk on a crowded sidewalk. He might be able to differentiate what he's feeling ("Is this magic, or bloodlust?") but he can't know for certain what it is ahead of time, and has to consciously react to it. Something like an enemy coming down on top of him with weapon at the ready might trigger a strong enough response that he'd know "someone is trying to attack me from this direction" but he still has to turn around and react. He doesn't know if they have a sword or an axe, and doesn't know if they're too heavy to stop or too fast to get away from.
If you're still not cool with it I can downplay it some more.
Here's my submission for judgement, let me know if anything needs to be changed or tweaked.
