Post by ELFRIEDE VON ENGEL on Nov 22, 2012 4:31:32 GMT -5
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| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,5,true] | [style=width: 200px; font-family: open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;]AGE| 49 GENDER| female RANK| guardian OCCUPATION| guardian |
SEXUALITY| bisexual
RACE| guardian
CANON OR ORIGINAL| canon[/td][/tr][/table][/style][style=width:400px;background-color: #d6c177; font: 16px open sans condensed;serif; color: #000000; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 92%; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px;]THE MAKING[/style]
[style=width: 400px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;text-align:justify; background-color: #a65930]APPEARANCE | Despite being nearly fifty years old, Elfi has the appearance of a teenager. Standing at 160 cm and 45 kg, her skin is snow white due to the amount of time she stays indoors and her brown hair run pasts her knees. From initial impressions, Elfriede appears as a healthy, albeit frail, young girl, and no one would suspect that this woman is actually forty-nine years old and one of the most powerful fighters in the kingdom. Couple these traits with her vibrant blue eyes, and you have yourself what many would call a rare beauty.
Her usual apparel consists of an all black outfit. Her thick black leather trench coat, shirt, pants, boots, and gloves coupled with the visible color of her mana has earned her the nickname: the Black Knight. She wears no metal armor, as they increase her mana consumption due to their weight, and prefers to avoid jewelry all together—with the two rubies on her gloves being the one exception. For special occasions, such as balls, Elfriede will switch to a dress of her eye color tied together by blue ribbons of a darker shade, stockings, and blue high heels with a blue bow. She then ties her hair into a pony tail using a blue scrunchie. Why she doesn't wear blue more often, is her secret and her secret alone.
PERSONALITY | Elfriede is lazy. She prefers to spend her time eating and sleeping and despises hard work and exercise. While her clothing and abilities earned her the nickname of Black Knight, her voracious appetite earned her the fitting title of the Food Bill. The amount of food she consumes as well as the lack of exercise she performs, makes one wonder how she maintains her figure, sparking a bit of envy from females she knows. Controversy Elfriede hates to cook her own food, mainly due to how bad she is at it, and has other people do it for her. Aside from consuming large amounts of food and sleeping, Elfriede loves to read, write, and play the violin. In addition, she loves teasing the queen and makes sure to have her share of fun as payment for having to cut back on her sleep. However, this does not mean she holds any ill will towards the queen. She sees the queen as an older sister, despite being older herself, and admires her greatly. Elfriede also respects the eldest princess for the care she shows to the people, but hates her attitude towards her siblings and the queen. She also holds a bit of a soft spot for the unwanted princess. She does not mind the reluctant heir, being a bit of a pervert herself, and is indifferent towards the rest of the royal family, except for the king.
She finds the king unworthy of the throne. His greed and deceit are unbecoming of a monarch. However, she keeps this feeling to herself, and appears as a loyal subject to the king. Her loyalties lies not with the king but the queen. If the queen commanded it, Elfriede would lop off the king's head without hesitation. If it was not for the queen, Elfriede may have defected to the rebels. There may have been a time where she respected the king, but that time has long passed.
Despite her lazy attitude, Elfriede does not hesitate in her job. She has great respect for the queen and would give her life to protect her charge. While she is normally quite playful, Elfriede becomes a no-nonsense woman during emergencies and combat. During the time when she commanded the Royal Guards, Elfriede was a charismatic and intelligent leader. Her tactics were sound, and her presence inspiring. However, she had no qualms about civilian casualties, something she was heavily criticized for by her troops.
Elfriede can also be described as both reserved and blunt. At times she keeps things to herself, remaining calm and quiet. Other times, she will not hesitate to speak her mind, nor will she hesitate to bash her reasoning into someone's brain. What controls this personality swap is unknown, she will simply feel like being reserved at times, and she will feel like being a brutally honest bitch at other times.
Overall, Elfriede is a kind hearted individual with faults like everyone else. She has people she cares for and people she would love to see die just like everyone else. What is differs her from others, however, is her mental instability. Due to a traumatizing experience during her childhood, Elfriede has a berserker personality inside her. She keeps the mad warrior in check by allocating the vast majority of her mana reserves to the task of suppressing the beast. The berserker personality does not differentiate from friend or foe, it does not care if the target is harmless. It lives only to kill. It can be said that the one thing Elfriede fears most is the monster within her.[/style][style=padding: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 15px 15px; border-radius: 0px 0px 15px 15px;]
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,5,true] | [style=width: 200px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;]LIKES: - Eating - Sleeping - The queen - Teasing the queen - Alcohol - Winter - The Violin - Literature | [style=width: 200px;font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;]DISLIKES: - Hard Work - The morning Sun - Warm Weather - Tomatoes - Cooking - Exercising - Loud Noises - The king |
[style=width: 400px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;text-align:justify; background-color: #a65930]WEAPON | Rather than using actual physical weapons, Elfriede shapes her mana into a weapon. To better control the consumption of mana, Elfriede wears enchanted gloves that regulate her mana usage. They create a sort of closed loop where mana is only consumed in the process of creating a weapon, and when the weapon strikes a target. The shape and nature of the weapons are limited by the amount of mana they consume and Elfriede's imagination.
The gloves are a pair of black leather gloves whose only notable quality is a ruby embedded into the backhand that contains the magical enchantments, and the structures Elfriede creates from her mana appear to be made from black lustrous metal. Also, while it is possible for Elfriede to use her ability without the gloves, it will constantly leak mana, increasing the mana consumption rate, and the structures appear as a mass of black shadows.
WEAPON LEVEL | 3
SPECIAL ABILITY |
Mana Burst | Elfriede cannot cast any spells despite a rather large mana capacity. However, her ability to freely manipulate the raw energy of her own mana more than makes up for this. She can shape and harden her mana into various forms such as swords, axes, spears, bows, and shields. In addition, she can release a portion of her mana in the air around her and immediately harden it to dampen or even block attacks. Furthermore she uses the raw magical energies to augment her physical abilities. Ever since her birth, Elfriede had a frail body and her physical statistics were well below the average human. However, through her Mana Burst, she “cheats” pass this by augmenting her body with her mana, boosting it to frightening levels. However, as a sort of “cheat”, this ability has one serious flaw: mana consumption. While Elfriede naturally has a large reserve of mana, this is severely offset by the enormous amount of mana this ability constantly consumes. While powerful, it is incredibly inefficient and forces Elfriede to end her fights quickly or risk losing all of her power.
Berserker Release | Not exactly an ability, but rather the removal of a limitation. Elfriede knows of her beserker persona and suppresses it with the majority of her mana reserves. While she can tap into this extra reserve of mana anytime she wished to, Elfriede refuses to remove this limitation due to the uncontrollable nature of her berserker persona. If removed, Elfriede becomes consumed by her and becomes a berserker—her only goal: kill.
During Berserker Release, Elfriede gains access to her entire mana reserves. As a result her mana output and, by extension, her physical augments are greatly increased and strengthened. In addition, she ignore all wounds, prior and new, as her mana begins to sew together the wounds, temporary mending them. While her ability was already powerful to begin with, Berserker Release is said to make her a true monster.
However, such a power is not without its drawbacks. Due to the extreme mana output, the mana regulation gloves overload and cease to function. The loss of the gloves and the lack of intelligence causes a large mana leak during the entirety of Berserker Release. Her structures appear as masses of shadows rather than the black lusterous metallic material it generally materializes as. In addition, the output of mana is so great that her body is torn apart by her own power. New wounds are made while old ones are reopened, and in response, her mana sews together the wounds only for them to reopen yet again—creating a cycle of tearing and mending. All of these factors. combined with the increased mana costs, added on to the already high mana consumption rate greatly limits the amount of time Elfriede can use Berserker Release. With just the untapped mana reserves, Elfriede has about four minutes in Berserker Release—five if she removed the limiter with her usual mana reserves at full. At the end of Berserker Release, Elfriede is sent into a one week coma where her mana reserves slowly recover to re-suppress the berserker persona and heal her wounds.
ARMOR | Level 3 Leather
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| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,5,true] | [style=width: 200px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;]STRENGTHS: - Strong both offensively and defensively - Merciless - Adaptable - Intelligent Leader - Large Mana Reserves | [style=width: 200px;font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;]WEAKNESSES: - Cannot cast any formal magic - High Mana Consumption - Weak natural stamina and strength - Refuses to use majority of mana - Uncontrollable Berserker Persona |
[style=width: 400px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;text-align:justify; background-color: #a65930]INVENTORY |
Journal | A small pocket journal Elfriede keeps around with her to write whatever she feels like writing. Notes, daily events, random ideas, anything that comes to her mind. It is bound by a worn leather cover, and has a small lock. The key was destroyed, but Elfriede remembers the exact shape and proportions of the key and recreates it with her mana burst ability when she needs to open her journal.
High Quality Quill | Hey guardians have to have some pretty nice stuff right? The average quill won't do, Elfi buys the most expensive quill she can for the best writing quality.
High Quality Vial of Ink | Same with the quill, Elfi requires some of the best ink money can buy!
Violin | An old violin her late parents gave her. Elfi considers this to be one of her greatest treasures, and does not allow another soul to touch it—not even the Royal Family.[/style]
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[style=width: 400px; font: 12px open sans condensed;serif; color: #e4be66;text-align:justify; background-color: #a65930]Elfriede's was a rare oddity. Normally being born from Guardian parents would mean that the child would have superior abilities to the average human. However, Elfriede was born with a frail body and weak health. She was constantly bedridden in her childhood, spending most of her time sleeping. While other children spent their time playing with each other outside, Elfriede had to seclude herself indoors with books. However, despite her poor health and the burdens she created, her parents still loved her dearly. However, as guardians, they had to limit the amount of time they could spend with her. Their duties entailed danger, and they would not risk the life of their only daughter. With the little time they had with her, they taught her the violin, something she found herself excelling it.
However, Elfi could not help be saddened by how much of a burden she was. When it was discovered that Elfi had enormous reserves of mana, she was elated. She dreamed of finally being able to contribute to society like her parents did; she dreamed of finally no longer being a burden to her family. However, those hopes and dreams were crushed when she found out she had no affinity for any school of magic. No matter how hard she tried she could not cast a single spell. Despite having one of the largest recorded reserves of mana, she could not use it at all. It was too cruel of a joke, and Elfriede fell into depression.
It was during this time that a stranger appeared to her. He offered her a way to use her enormous magical potential and out of desperation she accepted. The stranger taught her the Mana Burst ability that would become the center of her combat capabilities. However, the stranger had other motives. Once he taught her the secrets of Mana Burst, he used his own magics and took control of her mind. When Elfriede's parents came to rescue her, they were faced by the one opponent they could not defeat, their own daughter. While the children of Guardians were weaker than their parents, Elfriede had the potential to become stronger than her parents. Her body was frail and weak, but her magical potential was far greater than the anyone could expect. While they were more experienced and Elfi's ability had yet to mature, her parents did not wish to harm their beloved daughter, and soon Elfriede would commit both patricide and matricide. To torture the young girl one last time, the stranger returned her conscious to witness the deed. When she regained control, Elfriede found herself in chains and her mother's lifeless body being violated by the man she trusted as a teacher. The sight of her stained hands, the broken trust between a student and their teacher, and the cruelty was too much for the young girl to handle and her mind broke. It was during this moment that the berserker persona was born. In mere moments, the stranger reaped what he sowed, a monster he could not control.
With the true culprit torn asunder, Elfriede had no evidence to her innocence—she would be given a death sentence. Elfriede even longed for death herself. She wanted to join her parents in whatever awaited people after their lives were extinguished. However, Elfriede's ability was too valuable. Officially she was cleared of all charges, and all of the fault was, ironically, placed on her former teacher—the same one she tore apart. Behind the scenes however, she was forcibly enlisted into the Royal Guard and was kept under heavy surveillance. As someone who wished for death, Elfriede refused to comply, hoping that she would be executed, but death never came. They would torture her, but keep her barely alive; they would then heal her with magic and repeat the process until she complied. After months of defiance, they considered executing her as the expenses of training her stacked. However, for some strange reason, Elfriede began to comply with their demands. Whether the torture finally worked or something else occurred, they did not care—they had a true monster under their control. The truth of Elfriede's sudden compliance was not due to the torture but a memory. Before they died, her parents used their dying breath to instill one last message to their daughter. Her parents told her how much they loved her, and implored her to live on. If she truly felt that she made a mistake, then she would live on to repent for her sins.
Elfriede was enlisted into the Landdancers of the Royal Guard. Her abilities allowed her to rise through the ranks of the Royal Guard. She became one of the most powerful Landdancers the Royal Guard had ever known. Battle after battle, she fought and lead her fellow soldiers to victory. By the time the truth of her parents' murder was brought to life, Elfriede had become a national hero, reclaiming her freedom. She would then lead the entire Royal Guard and became the youngest one to ever hold that position. When the king began searching for a guardian for his queen, Elfriede was chosen. Remembering her parents, Elfriede accepted without hesitation and withdrew from the ranks of the Royal Guards, leaving her position vacant. However, until the vacancy is filled, Elfriede still holds the privileges of her former rank, but she tends to leave most of the work to the second in command. Though it could be said that even if the vacancy was filled, Elfriede still held enough respect from her former comrades to command once more, should the situation require it.[/style]
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