Post by Restkastel on Jul 20, 2015 1:35:19 GMT
MINOTAURS
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Hailey Smith
Aliases: None
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Faction: Independent (Buck n' Wild Casino)
Division: Security
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Appearance: Hailey is 7 foot tall and weighs around 220 pounds, however this tends to fluctuate a bit given her nature as a minotaur and how she puts on and loses weight for use in battle. She has fair skin, blue eyes, and fiery red hair. Her current outfit is a result of working at the casino, as everyone there dresses up in extremely stereotypical clothes for their particular race, as to create an atmosphere where they can laugh at each other and interact without really thinking about race all that much. Furthermore, she wears minotaur boots, as it would be hard to walk on many surfaces in the human world without damaging them if she did not. When she has gained weight in preparation for combat, she looks a bit chubbier than this, and her perfectly toned musculature is unable to be seen.
Personality: Hailey, while large, tends to be a fairly gentle person unless her home or children are threatened, as is the case for most mothers. She only works as a security guard in the casino as her only other skill besides combat, blacksmithing, is not in very high demand, especially at a casino. If it were up to her, she would live out in the countryside with a man she loves and her children, spending the rest of the days being a mother to her children. However, she is willing to do whatever it takes to give her child a good life, even if that means putting aside her generally gentle nature to work security for her mother's casino. She enjoys cooking, blacksmithing, and, oddly enough, reality television. She has been a bit of a sucker for things like the Amazing Race and other stuff like that, and also enjoys a good soap opera every once in a while.
She is a person of rather simple pleasures, not caring for fancy food or drink, instead preferring simple and nutritious home cooking that she makes for herself and whoever else is dining with her. However, she does tend to like alcohol, though again, shes not that picky, and will drink pretty much anything you give her, though she does like her drinks sweet, as she likes to have sweet stuff, at least every once in a while as a treat to herself.
One thing that absolutely petrifies her, however, is the loss of loved ones, more so than a normal person. After losing her father, brother, and husband to mercenaries and having them die while working for them, she has become utterly terrified of having this happen, and as a result, despises anyone who would fight for no reason, much like the men who took her loved ones away. As a result, she does not get along very well with most of the males from her own species, thinking them brutes who care not for the loved ones they leave behind when they go off to fight for petty reasons. Due to this, she tends to recoil from masculine people in general, making it hard for her to find a potential mate and foster father for her children, however she still is trying, as she feels having a proper male role model for her child is very important.
History: Hailey was born to Maria and John Smith on September 22nd, 1987 in a small minotaur village in Nebraska. They lived a happy family life, until a man, who was recruiting for a mercenary company came to her village. He recruited her father and older brother, along with most of the other males in the town, and the next day, they were all gone, drawn away by the promise of honor and money for their families. Unfortunately, this would not happen, as not even a year after, the same man came back to the village with the news that they had all been killed, and only brought a very paltry sum as compensation. The scene of her mother crying and hugging her tight, her last remaining child, was burned vividly in her eight year old mind. Not long after, Her mother would leave the village in search for an income to support her last remaining daughter and possibly the village, leaving her in the care of the other women from the village.
She took up the position as the town blacksmith, which she had learned from her father before he left, and became very good at it, studying under various other minotaur who had dabbled in blacksmithing, and with her hard work, she soon surpassed all her mentors and reached the level of her father, who was once the best in the village . She really had a gift for it, as far as she was told by the other women in the small village. She spent her days slaving over the forge, trying to be the best smith she could be in memory of her lost father, as the smithy was the last thing she had of him, and she refused to let either her brother or her father disappear into forgotten memory. To that end, she also began to learn how to wield an axe, which had been her Brother's weapon of choice, in an effort to keep him alive in her mind as well. She was not nearly as successful in that endeavor, however, as she did not have a natural talent for it. This did not stop her, however, and she kept at it until she was good enough to not only do her blacksmithing, but to help protect her village as well.
This daily life of training and smithing without rest continued for the next seven years, until she reached sixteen, the age at which all the girls of her village would get married. She married one of the last remaining males left in the village, spared from the recruiter only because he was too young to be drafted at the time. They were married quickly, and just as was expected, she was quickly pregnant with her first child, a boy who she would later name Johnathan, in memory of her late father. They lived peacefully for another four years, until tragedy struck yet again, this time without any outside influence.
The remaining males of the village, which only numbered about four total including her husband, had decided they did not want to live in the middle of nowhere anymore, with no chance for glory or money, toiling away their days in anonymity. They decided that they would seek glory together, and decided to seek out a band of mercenaries to join so they could gain fortune and fame for themselves. So they decided to up and leave in the middle of the night without telling any of their families where they were going beforehand, and just disappeared like they never existed, taking all of their belongings and leaving only a note, saying that they would be back when they had gained a name for themselves. Their families were heartbroken, and Hailey herself tasted the feeling of left behind with a young child, much like her mother had many years ago. The village, with only women remaining, decided to split apart, and they each went their own way. Hailey, along with a few other girls, headed to vegas, where her mother apparently ran a very successful casino which she used to support the village, at least that's what the letters she got said. She set out, with her young infant in tow, for Sin city, and the Buck n Wild casino, in order to create a future for herself and her young child, and hopefully teach him not to grow up to be like his father, and shape him into a proper young man.
STATISTICS
Od: E (20 units)
Strength: E
Endurance: D
Agility: F
LOADOUT
Equipments:
Name: Ol' Bessy
Rank: E
Description: This is a rather large great-axe that Hailey made for herself before setting out for Vegas when her village broke apart. It is a very sturdy blade, not the best in the world, but it is definitely reliable, and has seen her through quite a few scuffles.
CAPABILITIES
Skills:
Name: Blacksmithing
Description: Since she was a little girl, Hailey had been interested in her father's work at the forge. When he left, she took over as the village blacksmith, and has been making weaponry for them ever since. This has left her as a decently skillful blacksmith, and she even made the ax she currently is using.
Rank: E
Name: Path of the Protector
Description: A two-handed axe style passed down in her village for many generations, it is a style that takes advantage of the high amount of Od in a minotaur's body, and uses it for combat. It could be called a predecessor to modern ki arts, where ki arts are a very sharply honed blade, and this style is like a blunt club. It lacks refinement, but it is still quite deadly in the hands of a strong and skilled user.
Rank: E
Abilities:
Name: Hyper Metabolism
Description: While their pride in their appetites and weights seems to be a cultural matter, this attitude among minotaur is actually linked to their abilities. Given a period of focus, minotaur can overclock their natural metabolism in a manner akin to meditation; albeit at the serious cost of their body’s energy. A minotaur can regenerate one fifth of their total Od each half an hour with this ability; however if they continue this process more than once in a row or on an empty stomach they will begin to harm their body as they try to overdraw on energy; lowering their Endurance with a - modifier. Each half hour this continues an additional - modifier will be added, until it goes over an hour and a half at which point they will pass out from the lack of energy. They will not recover from the negative modifiers until they have had a proper meal; though they will recover from passing out as their body recuperates.
Rank: E
Name: Natural Weapon (Horns)
Description: The growth of a natural weapon from one’s body, typically from bone or chitin. Akin to natural bovines, all minotaur have a pair or horns which can act as improvised weapons – particularly when they are on the end of a charge. Although they take a long time to regrow, a minotaur’s horns are as strong as metal and as sharp as a lance.
Rank: E
Name: Heat Resistance
Description: As a result of her long hours working in a forge, Hailey has developed a higher resistance to heat than most, through simply being used to it as well as her body's natural means of heat regulation becoming more adapted to working in higher temperature environments. However, this means that she is also a bit more susceptible to cold, as her body is not used to working in cool environments.
Rank: E
Names: Thick Skin
Description: Due to long hours working in her forge and having more than her fair share of firescale flake off of her projects and burn her, as well as her minotaur heritage, Hailey has developed a thicker hide than most, making it harder to penetrate with small, sharp objects (such as fragmentation) and tougher to chew through with acids. Attacks based around either of these methods are ignored at E rank or lower.
Rank: E
Techniques/Spells:
Name: Bull Rush
Description: The iconic charge feared by farmers and rodeo contestants around the world is as prolific among minotaur as it is amongst their bovine kin; albeit perhaps even more terrifying given there’s usually an axe behind it. Given enough room for a run up, the minotaur can crush their target with a charge headed by their horns. While charging, it is impossible to stagger or distract a minotaur without enough force to outright knock them off their feet. The impact itself is an attack from their strength with a ++ modifier thanks to the charge.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Offensive
Name: Minotaur Strength
Description: An extremely basic technique, Hayley pumps od into her muscles to increase her strength or endurance by two plus modifiers for five posts. Can only be done once, so she cant use it twice to give another two modifiers.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Offensive
Name: Regeneration
Description: Another fairly basic technique, Hayley takes advantage of her minotaur physiology and pushes od into an injured area, healing an E rank wound in 2 posts, and F rank wounds in 1 post.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Healing
Name: Cleave
Description: An extremely basic technique, Hayley pumps od into her muscles and swings her weapon in a devastating arc, causing damage basedo n strength plus a + modifier to all enemies in a 90 degree cone in front of her.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Offensive