Name: Lillet Duchamps (nee Lillet Blanc)
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Nation: Illiserev
Appearance: Lillet stands at average height, and has a slight build that tends to hide her true strength. She dresses like most girls, and seems to lean more toward clothing lacking ostentatious accents. Some would scoff at such preferences as a sign of her humble birth. She would ignore them. She tries to avoid full-length dresses, as they can get in the way when it comes to martial arts.
Personality: Lillet is warm, friendly, and usually pretty well behaved. In battle, she is passionate and hot-blooded, and tends to really go all-out on her kiai. In no way is she afraid to take risks and bet everything on slim chances, intending to make up the rest on sheer guts. She’s a careful student of history, and is particularly interested in the origins of the Gods of War, and other such ancient mysteries.
She’s jealous and somewhat distrustful of all these Talentium-wielding wannabe “God-breakers” running around. Sure, they’re powerful, but the attitude they can have toward Gods of War can get infuriating at times. The ancient colossi may not be as effective against Rift beasts, but there’s no need to call them obsolete, or behave as if one is inherently superior. Then again, anyone who gets too cocky about taking on a giant mecha solo may have another thing coming. She may be suffering a bit from being an old "elite" faced with changing times, or simply influenced by the stereotypes carried by those around her a bit too much.
Lillet is terrified of vampires. She also dislikes spiders, centipedes, and other creepy things with too many legs. Otherwise, she fears very little. Mundane threats such as assassination or Rift beasts are challenges to overcome.
Biography: Lillet was born into a family of servants within the Duchamps household. When she was three years old, her mother took her to see the Duchamps family's God of War.
Azure Aeon knelt down before the young girl, irrespective of its current Chosen's wishes, and a dark blue crest manifested itself over Lillet's solar plexus. This sudden changing of Chosen, and to a lowborn girl, no less, caused something of a stir within the family ranks. Lillet was quickly adopted into the family, for appearance's sake if nothing else. It simply wouldn't
do to have their Chosen be a servant and not a member of the family.
Life didn't really improve for Lillet much, as she was scorned by her eldest adoptive brother, whom everyone thought would inherit the
Aeon. Outside of public functions and social events where she was treated as the Duchamps' youngest daughter, she was essentially still treated as a servant. She was also bullied by some of her siblings, her eldest brother chief among them. There's certainly no love lost between her and most of her adoptive family. Those relatives whom she actually likes do see more than the merely formally polite treatment. Even appearance-wise, she's something of the literal black sheep of the family, as most true Duchamps are blonde or otherwise fair-haired.
Lillet's extensive martial arts training began young, where she was placed under the tutelage of the various battle-butlers of the family. Physical abuse, at least, dropped off quickly once she became able to effectively defend herself against any such attempts. The whole "Fist of the Six Heavens" thing may be a bit of a fabrication either by Lillet or her entire family, but nobody's likely to give a straight answer if asked. She takes quite a bit of pride in her skills, and keeps them sharp with frequent practice and training. Including kata done by giant robot.
Within the cities managed by the Duchamps family, Lillet is often paraded around as a symbol of strength and tradition. Actual combat tends to be managed by the corps of battle butlers and the family's eldest son, who turned out to be capable of using Talentium. The friendly (on the surface) rivalry between brother and adopted sister continues to this day. The brother names his Talentium greatsword "God-Breaker". The sister is happy to point out he's done no such thing to actually earn such a title. And so it goes. Propriety and fear of being absolutely crushed under the full weight of parental anger are probably the only things which have kept the two from just fighting it to the death, already.
It perhaps comes as little surprise, given her family situation, that Lillet spends much of her time traveling around Illiserev alone, usually involved in one or another of her antiquarian searches. She spends her days looking for and investigating ancient ruins and other sites. Occasionally, she'll manage to actually scrape together a full expedition of like-minded scholars, either on a volunteer basis or by funding an expedition via her family ties, however tenuous they are. Usually, any such funded expeditions require a fair bit of convincing that they will increase the prestige of the family one way or another. If she ever did find something irrefutably related to the Gods of War (or even a new one), it would be quite something, indeed.
Abilities: Chosen of the God of War
Azure AeonLillet is not particularly talented as a mage, and her abilities are primarily focused into spells designed to enhance herself or her God. Rather than annihilate the battlefield with long-incantation destruction magic cast from impunity aboard a colossal robot, she focuses on physical enhancement, elemental auras, and other spells which allow her and Aeon to more easily cut a swath of destruction through the battlefield, personally. The effects she can achieve may pale in comparison to those of Talentium wielders, but they do keep her from falling behind quite as badly. She also has something of a knack for healing magic, although she usually only heals herself. She can heal others by laying on hands, but she can’t manage anything useful at ranges beyond touch.
Fist of the Six Heavens - Lillet is trained in a martial arts style that has been passed down along with her God of War. True, it lacks the power of modern Sword Arts, but it is unusual in purpose all the same: it is designed specifically for use with and by a God of War.
Aeon’s weapon itself has been lost for generations, and the Six Heavens represent its current unique armament.
Alone, Lillet's techniques are useful enough to handle combat against a few opponents, although she's no match for anyone wielding Talentium, even fighting at her best. Unless she manages to disarm or evade such a foe, she would be overwhelmed, quite possibly sooner rather than later. The true strength of her art comes from the fact that it treats
Aeon as an extension of her body. She generally doesn't fight with it while still on the ground, to avoid squashing herself.
Important Items: Azure AeonA blue-armored God of War which leans more toward speed and agility than raw physical power.
Aeon, as Lillet usually calls it, has a long and battle-scarred history, like all such ancient war machines. Its original weapon is lost to the sands of time, although Duchamps family history has it that one of the other nations possesses it as spoils of war. For the past several generations,
Aeon has fought unarmed, using techniques that are quite similar to those used in unarmed combat across Illiserev. One hasn't lived before one has seen a giant robot throw another giant robot across a battlefield.
Aeon is maintained by a dedicated staff of maids-turned-mechanics, who are very proud of their work, and that one of their own is its current Chosen.
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