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Post by Pom on Jun 1, 2024 15:13:54 GMT -5
GENERAL INFORMATION
NAME: PomegranateALIASES: Pom
AGE: 24
GENDER: Trans man (he/they)
SPECIES: Alien (Citrilian)
CORE TRAITS:
Forerunners: Choose two standard variants from the following at character creation - Homing, Bleed, Inspiring, Exhausting, Stasis, Distanced, Sustained, Shield, Taunt. The chosen variants have their TP cost changed to 1 if it ordinarily costs 2 TP, or is rendered free if it ordinarily costs 1 TP. (Bleed + Taunt)
Hardy: Your total HP threshold is increased by +60%. Critical Damage will still defeat you at its normal rate. Wounds only reduce your HP threshold by -50% instead of -100%.
GENERAL TRAITS:
Restrained Might: Gain a bonus of +10% to all techniques when fighting below your current strongest transformation. Additionally, when you transform into your strongest form for the first time, you may spend momentum in increments of 2 to regain KP at a cost of 2 MP to 1 KP.
Metamorphosis: When transforming, you may choose to retain the MP that you currently have. However, you cannot use a Sparking Technique on that turn. Additionally, when you transform into your strongest form for the first time, you remove 1 turn or instance of a debuff from yourself.
OPTIONAL TRAIT:
Survivalist: If you are below 80% of an opponent's PL, your techniques can now fizzle against theirs so long as they are within 60% of their power. Additionally, you can still fizzle against techniques with Overflowing. This only applies if your technique is the weaker one.
STARTING PLANET: Arcose
HOME REGION: None for now
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
APPEARANCE: Pom stands at about 5’11, with a wide, chubby but muscular build, and a long, thick tail. His hair is long, reaching down to his knees, and he rarely ties it up. He carries himself with an almost smug air, seeming as if he doesn’t care about much.In his Monstrous form, Pom doubles in height (or, rather, length) and crawls on all fours. He resembles Earth’s ‘Komodo dragon,’ with razor sharp claws and fangs, and a long whiptail.
IMAGE CREDIT: Drew it myself
BACKGROUND: Born into an average working class family, there is not much remarkable about Pom’s life.
His family hails from his race’s native planet, which became a part of the Arcosian Empire long before his immediate family members were born. As such, he was raised with intentions to have him enlist in the army, as he did. His job was to go between his home planet and Arcose, sticking around their checkpoints as a sort of ‘guard,’ checking people who entered and exited.
If you were to ask Pom about his job, if he considered it important, he would tell you no. And, maybe, his unimportant job has made him lazy, hitting his glass ceiling before he even decided to look at it. It made him unambitious.
But his first ambitious action was confessing to a higher ranking soldier who frequented the outpost, as he did. Small talk turned into long conversations - Pom listening more than speaking, as he had nothing interesting to say about himself. He began to admire the soldier’s pride, their prowess, and then he began to look forward to staying at the outpost. Their relationship, however, was finicky; things changed, positions switched, tensions flared, and the pair hardly had any chances to bond. The soldier went off, and the guard stayed back, watching.
Pom’s second ambitious action was forming his plans of escape. His job was small, unimportant; and the soldier’s was, too, he thought. Taking a pod and disappearing far away from there would give the two chances to live freely, have a family, explore the world outside of uniforms and weapons. And it would be easy, too - nobody would notice.
But the soldier declined. Their job became more important than themself, than Pom, than them together.
And so, spirit broken, Pom decided to take the pod and leave by himself. “Come back to me, when it’s all over,” He’d said.
Now, Pom is something of a wandering mercenary. With nothing more than his Zeni, the clothes he wears, and his stolen pod, he has no other choice. But being known as a deserter, of course, isn’t a very good look, is it?
COMBAT INFORMATION
TECHNIQUES:
Light Attack Technique || ‘Tsk!’
A simple attack, usually in the form of a flippant slap or backhand. In his Monstrous form, his claws make the attack a little more dangerous.
Power: 20%
KP Cost: 1 KP
Variants: N/A
Medium Attack Technique || Tail Slam
Pom whips around, slamming his tail into an opponent; this can be used to put distance between himself and others as well. In his Monstrous form, the hit is much more forceful.
Power: 80%
KP Cost: 4 KP
Variants: N/A
Medium Defense Technique || Tail Bounce
Once again using his tail, Pom bounces or outright blocks an attack.
Power: 80%
KP Cost: 4 KP
Variants: N/A
Heavy SPARKING Attack Technique || Violent Bite
Only usable in Monstrous form. Pom lunges at his opponent, pinning them down and biting them harshly. His saliva is capable of getting the wound infected as well…
Power: 110%
KP Cost: 6 KP
Variants: Fatigue, Bleed, Bleed+
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
| TRANSFORMATION NAME | MULTIPLIER | MODIFICATIONS | PREREQUISITES |
| Monstrous | x4 | N/A | Starter Transformation |
| ? ? ? | x16 | N/A | 100,000 PL |
| ? ? ? | x18 | N/A | 150,000 PL |
| ? ? ? | x26 | N/A | 200,000 PL |
| ? ? ? | x31 | N/A | 250,000 PL |
| ? ? ? | x36 | N/A | 300,000 PL |
STARTING LOADOUT: 2,000 Zeni and half of the starter XP into PL, please!
COMPANION APPLICATION: N/A
