Persona: Fractured Dreams RP Sign Up and Interest Check

If sign-ups are still open, here's my character.

• Name: Matthew Clarke
• Age: 17
• Gender: Male
• Appearance: Pale skin with black, messy hair and icy blue eyes. Matthew is skinny and somewhat tall, standing at nearly 6’. He often wears jeans and loose t-shirts.
• Weapon: Spear
• Catalyst: A commemorative coin, with a symbol of a wheel on the head side and a spear on the tail side.
• Arcana: (Wheel of) Fortune
• Personality: Matthew, at first glance, seems carefree and relaxed, allowing life to take its course. In this way, he is also quite lazy, but his laziness hides a sharp mind and calculating demeanour. His attitudes can be compared to two sides of the same coin: if it weren’t for the aforementioned laziness, Matthew could be a dangerous individual, with borderline sociopathic tendencies. When he’s not taking a nap, that is.
• History: Matthew was born to a large, middle-class family in a small town far away from Archwood City. With his parents, widowed grandmother, and four siblings, their home was nuclear to say the least. But shortly after his 16th birthday, his parents had an unexpected lottery win. They moved to a large mansion near Redrock Town, just outside of Archwood City. The move was sudden, so sudden in fact, that Matthew could only manage to bring very little with him on the journey. One of the items he brought was a commemorative coin belonging to his late grandfather, a banker. He keeps it to remind him of his former home and good fortune, and possible for other reasons he hasn't figured out yet.

PERSONA

• Persona Name: Lugh
• Persona Appearance: Here◊
• Strengths: High speed, attack and magic attack stats. Resistant to fire and light.
• Weaknesses: Low physical and magical defence. Weak to lightning and darkness.
• Magic:
  • Maragion: Explosion hits all enemies for medium fire damage.
  • Agidyne: Explosion hits one enemy for high fire damage.
  • Deathbound: Lugh strikes all enemies with his sword for high physical damage.
  • Hamaon: High chance of instantly killing one enemy.
  • Masukukaja: Increases an ally's agility temporarily.
  • Tetrakarn: Protects ally from physical attack.
• Specials:
  • Ildánach: Lugh flips a coin; if heads, all enemies are hit for high damage, but Lugh’s physical and magical attack stats are lowered temporarily; if tails, all enemies are hit for less damage, but Lugh’s physical and magical attack stats are raised temporarily.

edited 31st Aug '12 11:15:46 AM by CamrocG

Changing my Arcana from Lovers to Devil. Fits his skill set better.

• Name: Eugene "Kazaru" Maebrook - Kurogawa
• Age: 17
• Gender: male
• Appearance: Eugene / Kazaru is a rather eerie looking fellow, his eyes looking almost perpetually tired, dark and unhappy, and are black, looking somewhat fish-like. But even during these phases, it seems he has a small smile on his face. He has greasy hair that seems to start as a dirty, darker color, and then progresses down to a blond look. He is rather tall and muscular, having a thuggish look to him that really amplifies any intimidation caused by his stance and general "aura", which is a nigh perpetually angry, hateful feel that shows in an aggressive stance at almost all times. He wears a long sleeved brown shirt, old and torn blue jeans, boots, and he is obsessively trying to keep a piece of brown bag kept over his very disgusting looking eye socket. This piece of brown bag has an eye drawn on there in a surreal manner, and is attached by a pair of straps which go above and under his head and keep the piece there. He has a tendency to walk about in odd, borderline ridiculous outfits.
• Weapon: a large axe.
• Catalyst: a necklace with a star at the middle.
• Arcana: Strength
• Personality: The most important thing to remember about Eugene / Kazaru is that he is, no matter what he says, still crazy. While he may act like a Yes-Man half the time, this is because he's so bored he's on autopilot. But the minute you inconvenience him, he shows a much less pleasant personality. He seems to overreact at small things, like kids playing with random stuff, or people foiling some minor aspect of his plan of the day, but when he himself does something unquestionably evil, he dismisses it as something minor. He possesses a demeanor one could call Faux Affably Evil, acting friendly and loyal to whoever he's loyal to, but aside the leader, he feels he has no obligation to anybody else.
• History: He is a child of a certainly strange union, namely, a seemingly straight lace American businessman who is involved in political lobbying and a very profitable investing business, and a 1/2 Japanese "nice, respectable business woman. Neither of them liked the kind of person that their son grew up to be. He is, frankly, out of his mind. When he was in Middle School at Redrock, he met a girl named Rei-chan who he liked, but she ignored him. So, he tried to get her attention, by this, I mean that he began harassing anyone she might have liked. However, at one point, he harassed the whole of the football team, and during the course of the fight, his eye was badly injured. He was expelled as a result, especially when it was discovered he showed signs of pyromania. His father put him into a sanitarium, where he remained for quite a few years. He is inferred to have been very horrified by what he saw in there, and it might have caused some of his later personality quirks. However, very recently he was let out due to his father and mother having a falling out, and his father wanting someone to help with a few plans. He was reinstalled at the local highschool, though his teachers feel he is "creepy" and has a "loathsome personality", thus, they watch him most of the time.

PERSONA

• Persona Name: Caligula
• Persona Appearance: here it is.◊
• Strengths: Caligula has strong fire spells, being able to, in his words, "roast roast roast roast and toast!" It also has strong physical abilities and magic prowess, and decent defenses.
• Weaknesses: It is slow, and its magical defense is lower than its physical defense. He also has a weakness to Piercing Attacks.
• Magic: Maragi, Agilao, Maragilao, Agidyne
• Specials:
  • Flame Bomb: Medium Damage. Chucks a fire element bomb at an enemy. In addition to fire damage, it has a high likelihood of panicking an enemy.
  • Bombarrage: Medium Damage. Causes an inaccurate, indiscriminate rain of bombs on all other people in the area.

edited 1st Sep '12 7:48:52 PM by NickTheSwing

I have a hard time believing that this guy would not be locked up in an asylum.

Just saying.

You raise a good point, Firock.

I have to say I agree as well. Persona characters are usually normal people.

Oh hey a Persona RP~

• Name: Nerissa Baines
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Relatively thin and bony, with sharp, angular features that makes her stand out in a crowd. Her face is a bit elongated, and is usually covered by her long, jagged black hair that falls down to her waist. Usually wears a white tank top and plaid belted skirt combo with fingerless fishnet gloves, green tights, and black lace-up knee-high boots.
• Weapon: Rapier
• Catalyst: An ornate silver zippo lighter belonging to her nanny.
• Arcana: The Sun
• Personality: Nerissa represents someone who is totally honest and open with herself — which is a stunning feat for someone her age. She's fairly certain of her place in the world and has a nearly unshakeable confidence in her abilities. This may make her come off as a bit arrogant, which wouldn't be totally false. But it's this nature that allows her to not only form meaningful bonds but to also keep them strong and intact. Although she's often laying too much of "herself" out on the table so to speak, which makes her vulnerable to those who seek to toy with the emotions and dreams of others.
• History: Born into a wealthy family, Nerissa became an only child when her mother died during her infancy. She was left to be raised by her father, who despite his best efforts was not cut out for single parenthood. It wasn't long before she gained a nanny who would cater to her every need while her father focused on keeping his profitable family business afloat. Despite this however Nerissa did not grow up bitter or resentful. She chose to embrace the positives of her life rather than the negatives, maturing into a bright young woman full of ideals. Perhaps as a side-effect she also developed the need to be close with others, gaining popularity among peers for her friendliness. Her life continued onward as such until recently when her beloved nanny fell into a strange coma, which has become a subject of intense study for her. What caused this to happen? Well, Nerissa aims to find out...

PERSONA

• Persona Name: Prometheus
• Persona Appearance: Beards are totally manly.◊
• Strengths: Fire Magic, Recovery, Physical Attacks
• Weaknesses: Ice Magic, Darkness Magic, Slow Speed
• Magic:
  • Agi - Inflicts a small amount of Fire damage on one enemy.
  • Maragi - Inflicts a small amount of Fire damage on all enemies.
  • Dia - Recovers a small amount of HP to one ally.
  • Media - Recovers a small amount of HP to all allies.
  • Bash - Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.
• Specials:
  • Champion of Mankind: Prometheus uses the chains which formerly imprisoned him to repeatedly whip enemies, each hit dealing a considerable amount of fire damage. Takes 55% of Nerissa's life force.

edited 30th Aug '12 7:03:28 PM by maxyrama

^ I'm fairly sure The World is not an Arcana up for grabs since, in the games at least, it is the Final Ultimate power gained by P3 and P4's respective protagonists. I think the only known Persona of The World was Izanagi-no-Okami. Someone correct if I'm wrong though, I never actually got the chance to play P4 (and I still need to marathon the anime and/or get a Vita for P4:Golden)

^Oop. Well that's what I get for not paying attention~ I thought everything was up for grabs. I'll gladly change it to something else if it's a problem...

Actually Persona 3's Protagonist got The Universe instead of the World.

I'd change your Aracana, mate.

edited 30th Aug '12 12:05:52 PM by RagnaTheSaviour

@ Jamdat: There have been quite a few crazy antagonist characters in the sage.

As for why he was let out, his father and mother are having a falling out. His father arranged it so as to use him as an Unwitting Pawn.

In the interest of fairness, I will admit that I had misread a part of Nick's signup and was under the impression that he had successfully killed some of his fellow students in that bombing attempt when I made that last post.

That said, even just trying to murder your fellow students with a bomb is not something people just forget, so I still would think that someone would have the common sense to keep an eye on him. Particularly informing his teachers, since they already have to be near him five days of the week. And based on his listed personality traits, I just don't buy that professionals in the field and the teachers would not realize that he's still clearly all kinds of messed up in the head.

Emphasis mine, but I don't think this makes a great compelling argument for an RP where I think we're supposed to be playing protagonists.

edited 30th Aug '12 3:38:50 PM by FirockFinion

Ok. Umm any suggestions for a good Arcana then? :V

Based on her personality and after giving the arcana list a quick look over again, I'd say Fool or Sun.

edited 30th Aug '12 4:42:06 PM by FirockFinion

Changed to The Sun! Thanks a bunch!

Dad bought the professionals, but its a plot point I'd like to arrange that his teachers are very, very suspicious of him, despite his claims of sanity.

And as for that, Ragna told me I was free to make a crazy antagonist and post him up here.

I said go ahead and apply. I really didn't say I would accept him or not. I wanted to see what others thought of it first.

Maybe tone him down? I mean he's a domestic terrorist for Christ's sake. I understand you want a crazy over the top villain. But this is a realistic setting. A guy like him running around, at least without the authorities on constant watch for him, creates a gigantic plothole.

edited 31st Aug '12 4:30:46 AM by Jamdat369

My two cents on the crazy guy. I think a slight insanity is fine as a quirk but it becomes an issue when he attempted to bomb someone. That would get you on the short list to prison no matter how you slice it. Even if professionals said "No, he's totally sane" then you'd end up in prison possibly for longer than you would if declared crazy. Even if we assume his family managed to avoid getting him jail time and sent him to a crazy house when he got out he'd be on the police's radar.

Not an impossible character to play but it's going to be an uphill battle to say the least in my opinion.

While I'm at it, did you get my PM last night Ragna? My computer is acting up so I don't know if my second PM got through or got lost to the ether.

edited 31st Aug '12 8:03:52 AM by AuraofMildChaos

Is my girl good to go Ragna? :3

Yeah, she's good to go.

What about mine?

Seems fine, although I'm not crazy about Heat Riser and Maragion.

Fair enough, changed Heat Riser to Masukukaja.

Accepted then.