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Persona: Ruins

April 15, 2013
Aibo City, Japan. In Nagasaki's metropolitan area in southern Japan, Aibo City straddles the line between town and city in a very nice way -- Aibo has plenty of ways for one to amuse oneself, but still avoids being hectic and crowded. Indeed, nothing ever seems to happen in quiet Aibo, with very little crime and never any incidents suited for more than local news. It's an appreciated oasis, and it extends to one of Aibo's high schools, Hakanai High. Hakanai High may not be the best school (one rarely hears of learned geniuses coming from its halls), but at the least it's a safe and comfortable place for its students to live. Yet things aren't all as normal at Hakanai, not for all its students. A dream, unnvervingly lifelike fragments, worms its way through the mind of two students, part of a group of three friends: ruins, an abandoned and decrepit city, and a cloaked grey shade. What they'll soon find out is that this represents a threat to their peaceful way of life -- one that won't stop with them, won't stop with their friend.


Despite only owning Persona Q, I've read quite a bit about Persona and become something of a fan of the franchise. As such, I wanted to make a Persona game, and I've planned the plot and setting out to a far larger extent than my other, long dead games -- I want this one to live.

Gameplay

Real Life and the Ruins
While the previous two Persona games on these forums had carefully regimented school and battle phases, I don't want to simulate the level grinding between dungeons because I want to move the plot along fairly quickly, so it will primarily be slice-of-life (and space for your characters to suss things out IC) with some timeskips of anywhere between a day to a week, interspersed with dungeon runs in the mysterious Ruins to move along the plot.

The Player: Character and Persona
Much like both of the previous Persona games on this board, there will be two sheets you will be filling out:
The Character is who you will be RPing with, both in real life and in the Ruins -- they're your actual characters, simply enough.
The Persona is a version of a mythological or religious being generated by the personality and psyche of a person with the ability to summon them. Summoned in the Ruins, they are what allows the character to fight beings called Shadows, giving the player characters skills and elemental (or physical) attacks. Unlike your characters, they don't speak and act independently.

Spoiler: Mechanics, based veeeery very loosely off of Persona's: (click to show/hide)

As a note, I've put this in the shell of Persona Millenium's mechanics spoiler. Most of the system is my creation, but bits of the old mechanics (made by IamanElfCollaborator and MrVoid) still exist.
Stats:
STR: Determines physical damage.
MAG: Determines magical damage.
END: Determines damage taken.
AGI: Determines Initiative and Hit and Evasion.
LCK: Determines Critical Hit chance for physical attacks, and SP.

HP and SP do not naturally replenish! However, while there are plentiful items and skills to replenish HP, SP is much harder to recover.
 
Formulas:
Hit chance: Rolling 1d100, misses if rolls over (Move's Hit)+(AGI)-(enemy AGI). Physical attacks have lower Hit.
Damage dealt: 25*sqrt(((STR or MAG)/END)*(Move's modifier))*(Random no. between .9-1.1), rounds up.
Moves have individual strength modifiers -- the basic attack modifier is 1 for magic, 1.25 for physical.
Healing varies on the ability, but is otherwise fixed -- basic Dia heals from 55-65.
HP is 50 + (Endurance+Level) x 10.
SP is 30 + (Luck+Level) x 5.
Criticals only happen for physical attacks, and have a LCK chance of occurring.

Experience: Winning a battle gives experience. At 10 XP, you level up, and you'll receive 4 points of stats, randomly distributed -- though the stat your arcana boosts will have a larger chance, and the one your arcana weakens will get less of a chance.

Status Buffs/Debuffs: There are moves, like Tarukaja, which can buff an ally's stats and Tarunda, which debuffs an enemy's stats. They simply multiply the stat in question by a fixed amount.

Statuses: More will show up over the course of the game.

• Poison: You lose 10% of your HP every turn.
• Confusion: Your actions work on a random target instead.
• Knocked Down: You are unable to attack, but can use healing items. Wears off the turn afterwards.
• Silence: You can't use magical attacks, heals, buffs or debuffs, or physical attacks with elements.

If a character or Shadow is hit by their elemental weakness or by a critical attack, they will be knocked down.

If all enemies are knocked down, you and your party will instantly do an All-Out Attack, dealing 25*Level damage to all enemies regardless of defenses.

If your character reaches 0 HP, they do not die, but they ARE KOed, and this will take them out of the battle for the rest of the dungeon, though revival skills do later exist. Leaving or finishing the dungeon will bring them back to wakefulness, albeit probably a pretty sore one.

Element: Hitting an enemy with an element they are weak against multiplies your damage by x1.5 and knocks them down, while hitting them with one they resist weakens your damage to x0.5. You select the element you are weak to in your Persona sheet.

Spoiler: Arcana (click to show/hide)

Arcana: Every Persona-wielding character has an Arcana, which represents a trend in their personality and accordingly determines the nature of their Persona. The stat each Arcana boosts gets twice the chance to get an upgrade at each level up. The stat each one weakens gets half the chance. The Arcana choices are as follows, and exclude a couple of Arcana that are plot-related in the games, specifically Fool, Hunger/Jester, and World.

I. Magician: The tarot of the Magician represents initiative and talent, being willing and eager to act and make things happen... but also, recklessness and immaturity. Mag+, End-.
II. Priestess: The tarot of the Priestess represents knowledge and intuition... albeit, untapped. Potential, but potential that has yet to be realized. Mag+, Agi-.
III. Empress: The tarot of the Empress represents motherhood, grandeur, nurturing, and creativity, being supportive... but with that can come being smothering and overprotective. Lck+, End-.
IV. Emperor: The tarot of the Emperor represents masculinity, power, and/or attempting to control one's surroundings, but also trying to control what can't be. Str+, Lck-.
V. Hierophant: The tarot of the Hierophant represents sharing knowledge and supporting others, but also unwillingness to receive that same knowledge and support oneself. Lck+, Mag-.
VI. Lovers: The tarot of the Lovers represents passion, love, and being with another. It can also signify difficulty being alone and a dependence upon others. Agi+, Str-.
VII. Chariot: The tarot of the Chariot represents conquest and self-assertion over conflict and troubles, but also risks much in that conquest. Str+, End-.
VIII. Justice: The tarot of Justice represents rational analysis and balance, but when that analysis fails and emotions take hold, the consequences can be dire. Agi+, End-.
IX. Hermit: The tarot of the Hermit represents introspection and wisdom, but this intelligence tends to come with social reclusiveness. Lck+, Agi-.
X. Fortune: The tarot of Fortune represents fortune, luck, and fate, but can also indicate one's circumstances being outside of one's direct control. Lck+ (what else), Str-.
XI. Strength: The tarot of Strength represents inner strength and self-control, though it can also indicate restriction and suppression. End+ (hue), Agi-.
XII. Hanged Man: The tarot of the Hanged Man represents enlightenment through self-sacrifice and reflection, but self-sacrifice can certainly go too far. End+. Mag-.
XIII. Death: The tarot of Death represents an ending in something that creates a beginning in something else... but often is associated with doom and foreboding. Mag+, Lck-.
XIV: Temperance: The tarot of Temperance represents harmony, prudence, and the merging of opposites, which perhaps keeps one from standing out. End+, Str-.
XV: Devil: The tarot of the Devil represents commitments and bonds... both of the healthy sort, and the tempting, chaining sort (mostly the latter). End+, Lck-.
XVI: Tower: The tarot of the Tower... The Tower is primarily used to represent sudden, destructive and terrible change. But sometimes, rarely, it can mean liberation. Agi+, Lck-.
XVII: Star: The tarot of the Star represents hope and optimism, of good omens in the sky ahead. Sometimes, though, this hope takes long to come to fruition. Str+, Agi-.
XVIII: Moon: The tarot of the Moon represents creativity, inspiration, and dreams, but is also ephemeral and represents illusions and what isn't really there. Mag+, Str-.
XIX: Sun: The tarot of the Sun represents energy and joy -- a tarot of happiness, essentially. It is the happiness, however, that comes after hardship. Agi+, Mag-.
XX: Judgement: The tarot of Judgement primarily reflects learning from one's mistakes, and progression... but to learn from a mistake, there must be a mistake. Str+, Mag-.

Arcana by Stats:
Mag+: Magician (End-), Priestess (Agi-), Death (Lck-), Moon (Str-).
Str+: Emperor (Lck-), Chariot (End-), Star (Agi-), Judgement (Mag-).
End+: Strength (Agi-), Hanged Man (Mag-), Temperance (Str-), Devil (Lck-).
Lck+: Empress (End-), Hierophant (Mag-), Hermit (Agi-), Fortune (Str-)
Agi+ : Lovers (Str-), Justice (End-), Tower (Lck-), Sun (Mag-)

Spoiler: Roles (click to show/hide)

"Roles" aren't so much a designated class or anything so much as they are a designation of what moves the character will learn as he or she levels up. You select two, and can select one as primary and one as secondary or select both as equal, and I will construct a progression move list. The elemental roles will give physical and magical skills balanced on your build.

Roles: Fire (Learn Agi damage spells)
Wind (Learn Garu damage spells)
Ice (Learn Bufu damage spells)
Electricity (Learn Zio damage spells)
Light (Learn Hama spells, chance of instant kill)
Darkness (Learn Mudo spells, chance of instant kill)
Pure Physical (Learn heavy, pure physical spells for a pricey HP cost)
Almighty (Learn heavy, elementless spells that can't be resisted, later on and for a very pricey SP cost.)
Buff/Debuff (Learn spells that increase your stats and spells that decrease enemy stats)
Ailment (Learn spells that inflict statuses on your opponents)
Heal (Learn spells that heal and remove statuses from your allies)
Passive (Gain passive boosts to stats, and passive heals and SP recovery.)
Random (Get completely random skills. Several odd skills can be found here and nowhere else.)

As for how admission is going to work, as you can see here I'm only taking three spots here to start. This is because I don't think I can handle the absolute storm of players many games around here take, and I want to hew a bit closer to the actual games in how characters are introduced. Accordingly, I will open up single slots throughout the game, and will accept players into those slots when they open up. For these first three sheets, I want a group of friends, and I'm going to make two of you neighbors -- later slots won't have these restrictions, this is to help me start the game.

Sheets aren't FCFS, and I'm accepting until next Monday.
FINALLY, the sheets:

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender/Sex:
Age: As a Japanese high schooler, you are from 15 years old (first year) to 17 years old (third year).
Description: Physical description. I actually tend to prefer text descriptions, but do whatever floats your boat.
Personality: Very important, given the focus of characterization in Persona, and the nature of Personas themselves.
Backstory: I'd like at least a brief one, it doesn't have to be long.
Weapon: What weapon will you use? You'll find them in the Ruins.
Arcana: What Arcana is your character? This should correspond to something in your character's personality, chosen from the spoiler above.

Spoiler: Persona Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: What mythological or fictional character does your Persona take the form of? All myths work, including tall tales, and fictional characters from before 1955, though I reserve the right to say no.

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): Determines physical attack damage.
Magic (MAG): Determines magical attack damage.
Endurance (END): Determines defense and HP.
Luck (LCK): Determines critical hit chance, as well as SP.
Agility (AGI): Determines hit chance, evasion chance, and initiative.

Roles: Select two roles from the role list above, and specify which one is primary and which is secondary, or if you would like them weighted equally.
Weakness: What element are you weak to?

Link to the Discord channel. Server rule's in the channel topic.
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Party Level: 5
Players:

Spoiler: Aoi Tachibana (Empiricist) (click to show/hide)

• Name:
  Aoi Tachibana
  
• Gender:
  
  
• Age:
  16
  
• Description:
  Windswept hair. Shoulder length. It covers her left eye; both, the color of absinthe.
  Faint. Lingering. The scent of Pomegranates. Shampoo perhaps?
  A matching pair of headphones. They rest around her neck, embracing a simple black choker.
  Her stance appears relaxed, but seemingly energetic, often swaying or tapping her feet.
  She is rarely seen without her drawing pad and a few pencils and erasers.
  
  Out of uniform, she normally wears a green blouse with a black waistcoat and skirt.
  
  ((Here, have a reference image. Everyone else seems to have one. Coloration and clothing aren't exactly accurate, but it's close enough and I'd rather not trawl indefinitely for the off-chance someone somewhere drew a fitting image.))
  
• Personality:
  Shy. Helpful. Timid. Self-sacrificing. Relaxed. Awkward.
  
• Backstory:
  They say to follow your passion, to do what you love, to choose happiness in lieu of wealthy. To this day, Minato Tachibana is glad she had not.
  
  Born to a working class family, the then-named Minato Honda possessed an academic aptitude that lead her to receiving a rather prestigious education, one that often painfully showed what she lacked. Driven by the kind of hunger that could only be born of envy, and all the sacrifices of her parents, she became an actuarial, not particularly compelling perhaps, but it was a living, and quite a good one at that.
  
  Soon enough, she crossed paths with Yuuki Tachibana, her future husband, a doctor whose trade had taken him here to Aibo.
  
  It was to this couple that Aoi was born. For the earlier part of her childhood, it was her mother who cared for her, having comfortably quit her job amidst the windfall she made through some shrewd investments during the Lost Decade.
  
  Soon enough however, their roles were reversed with her father’s early retirement to look after her and her brother. Their upbringing was perhaps odd, compelled to follow her parent’s paths in studious pursuits (both academics and certain other life skills) and yet offered no help in it at all such to ensure independence, Aoi’s social life suffered as a result, to the point that few if any would even remember her from those bygone days.
  
  Still, she was far from lonely with her father’s playful antics and the petty quarrels with Hayato that one would reasonably expect between siblings. In addition, as part of that push to make her independent, Aoi was far freer than most people of her age, being permitted to use her judgement and generous allowance as she saw fit.
  
  In 2009, Yuuki Tachibana was killed in a car crash. A freak accident they said. His old colleagues assured them that it wouldn’t have hurt, that unconsciousness, and death, would have been near-immediate. Cold comfort, they knew, but what more could they say?
  
  It was unreal, surreal, and terrifyingly real at the same time. She saw the surgeons at her house, for they too had come to pay their respects, to comfort her mother, and yet, she did not cry. Instead, she calmly poured each and every one of them a glass, for he was their friend, and unlike her, they had to deliver the news.
  
  As Aoi and Hayato cried well into that dark night, she quietly comforted them, all while coolly assessing their financial situation. After ascertaining the rather obvious financial implications (namely none, in between her salary, the fact that her now late husband already having stopped working, and several more bountiful investments during the global financial crisis), she tucked the pair into bed, and kissed them goodnight.
  
  Aoi did not sleep, she could not sleep, and she would not sleep, for as she lay awake, too drained to sleep, she heard her mother finally begin to sob. A quiet, agonizing sob, a widow’s wail that continued well into the earliest glimpses of dawn.
  
  It’s been four years now. Four years. The skies may cry, but they will not cry for four years, and most definitely not forever. Nowadays, Aoi’s head is filled with the kind of banal and ultimately inconsequential worries only any other teenager would have.
  
• Weapon Type:
  Gloves/Light Gauntlets
  
• Arcana:
  High Priestess
  _{Knowing others is intelligence;
  knowing yourself is true wisdom.
  Mastering others is strength;
  mastering yourself is true power.}
  

Spoiler: Faust (click to show/hide)

• Name:
  Faust
  _{The Penitent}
  
• Statistics:
  STR:   2
  MAG:   7
  END:   6
  LUC:   8
  AGI:   5
  
• Roles:
  Buff/Debuff (Equal)
  Random (Equal)
  _{If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.
  If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
  If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
  Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.}
  
• Weakness:
  Ice
  _{Hardness and strength are death's companions.}
  

Total HP: 130
Total SP: 80
Moves:
Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to one enemy. Magical.
Tarukaja (12 SP): Boost an ally's attack's by 1.5x the damage! Lasts three turns. Does not stack.
Agi (6 SP): Deal light Fire damage to one enemy. Magical.

Spoiler: Kanade Akiyama (IamanElfCollaborator) (click to show/hide)

Name: Kanade Akiyama
Gender/Sex: Female/Female
Age: 17
Description: Kanade is a tall and slender girl, being about 5'8'' in height. Her jet-black hair is also quite long, reaching down to the middle of her back, with a sleek, metal sheen to it, and held in place with a small pin in the shape of a butterfly with purple wings. Her eyes are a deep brown, almost black, and her skin is rather pale, lending her an cold, elegant look. This is aided by her preference for simple, yet opulent attire out of school, and the school uniform being rather formal and lending itself to a more elegant air. Her voice has a silky, sultry quality to it, and her expression always seems to be teasing, or coy, contributing to the air of vague mystery and elegance around Kanade.

Personality: Kanade seems hard to approach due to all of the above, not helped due to other factors in general, causing people to shy away for fear of angering an unseen clique of harpies or an overprotective boyfriend when Kanade approaches them to be as friendly as possible. Indeed, should these people actually pay attention to Kanade, one would detect a hint of loneliness and desire for companionship, caused by this enforced isolation. To someone completely unaware of what Kanade is really like, she seems overly open, always going out to greet the newcomers and trying to make conversation before the inevitable rumour mill comes into play. When one ignores the rumours and mystery and actually gets to know Kanade, she is rather teasing and mischievous, but kind and warm to her friends. She is protective of her friends to a fault, with an inner steel one might not expect from the fragile-looking slender girl that she is, shown especially in dangerous situations. Her kindness is not extended to her enemies, especially those stupid enough to harm her friends; to them, she is perfectly happy to unleash her bitingly harsh tongue and her wrath. She is also industrious and hardworking, seeking to ignore the stereotype of the idle rich.

Backstory: The Akiyama family are a small, but respectable and decently rich family, descended from the samurai clique before the abolition of the class led the Akiyama clan to establish a zaibatsu from their former lands' thriving ports with China that remains prosperous, albeit small, to the present day. Nowadays, the Akiyama clan- no longer in charge of the group, though most of the family still works in the conglomerate and Kanade's father, Tetsuo, is still the chairman- live off the riches of their eponymous group, living in simple, yet opulent surroundings as per their once great pedigree.

Kanade is the only child of the current generation of the Akiyama clan. As a child, she spent much of her childhood in Sendai; her parents, especially her mother Ayane- the local doctor- were determined that Kanade would live her life as she wanted to live it and so allowed her as much freedom as was reasonable for a child. Her childhood was normal at first, and Kanade excelled in school and made many friends, but as she grew older, and children began to realise the person in whose presence they were, they began to drift further and further apart from the growing girl. This was not helped as she blossomed into a beautiful young woman as people began backing away for fear of retribution from her friends or her non-existent lover should they get near her, and slowly her circle shrank only to her closest friends; nobody else could muster the courage to grow near to her. Kanade noted this, but was not overly saddened; as long as she had friends and people she could trust and confide in, she could tolerate it.

Eventually, the situation was exacerbated when, three years ago, the Akiyama family moved from their residence in Sendai to Aibo City, following a reorganisation of the company to move their Japan headquarters to there. The farewell from her friends in Sendai was tearful, and Kanade grew to miss them; even more so when it transpired that she knew nobody in Aibo. Aibo, indeed, was a far different place to Sendai, and everyone knew who the Akiyamas were there. Though the fellow rich families of Aibo were willing to socialise with the newcomers, they were still considered outsiders, albeit rich and shrewd outsiders.

Kanade spent most of her three years in Hakanai alone; though she had a circle of admirers who wanted to be her, and suitors who wanted to be with her due to her beauty or her riches, there were only a few, if any, people she could count as friends- closer to acquaintances who didn't fear the rumours, even-, and nowhere near as close as her friends in Sendai at that; if it were to be chalked up to any reason at all, it was due to a combination of her outsider status, her status as a wealthy person and assumptions about her as a result that she could not successfully debunk. Kanade's desire for a circle of close friends continued to grow, and her yearning for the past and for her old friends grew more, to the point that she found herself wishing sometimes that she could re-live her childhood and harken back to a younger time. However, as her last year at Hakanai began, Kanade grew optimistic. After all, she graduated this year, and perhaps, with a change of pace, she could get what she wanted; people she could confide and trust in, just as she once used to have.

On a side note, the family words of the Akiyama clan translate roughly to 'Be Careful What You Wish For'.

Weapon: Naginata/Lances
Arcana:
Lovers
The bond that is friendship is a double-edged sword. Just as it ties you in companionship, so too does it hold you in servitude.

Spoiler: Lenore (click to show/hide)

Name: Lenore, the Maiden Forlorn
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, nameless here for evermore.

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 2
Magic (MAG): 10
Endurance (END): 4
Luck (LCK): 5
Agility (AGI): 8

Roles:
Healing (primary)
The mere sight of fair Lenore can return the spirits of even the most downtrodden.

Fire (secondary)
The radiance of Heaven will sear through all suffering and cleanse away all troubles.

Weakness:
Electricity
No man can hold back the doom that awaits all men by God forever.

Total HP: 110
Total SP: 70
Moves: Dia (5 SP): Heals one party member for 55-65 HP.
Agi (6 SP): Deals light Fire damage. Magical.
Media (12 SP): Heals every party member for 55-65 HP.

Spoiler: Mijimeki Genmetsu (Sl4cker) (click to show/hide)

Name: Mijimeki Genmetsu
Gender/Sex: Male/Male
Age: 16
Description: He very usually wears a very thick, light green woolen sweater that's just slightly too big for him. He decorates it with various black pins he seems to just randomly stick on it, with designs like skulls and crossbones and devilish-looking faces, things like that. He wears loose black shorts that reveal most of his skinny legs, and a pair of sneakers colored completely dark green. His entire outfit thus shows he either knows or cares very little about fashion.

He's quite thin and tall, with black hair and brown eyes. He usually has a rather neutral expression on his face.

Personality: Mijimeki is pretty cold and silent, just observing other people he hangs around. He doesn't say much when he does speak, and he usually does it in a very calm and matter-of-fact fashion. Sometimes he keeps silent even when people try to talk to him.

Mijimeki is often described as a cynic, and he doesn't exactly disagree with that notion. But, all in all, when he does talk it's usually to make a pretty good point, as he is quite knowledgeable on many things, especially history.

He's often not afraid to speak his opinion on most matters, even if he knows people probably wouldn't agree with him. In combination with that, he also has a strong sense of justice.

Backstory: Mijimeki was born to two loving parents in Aibo City. He grew up watching shounen anime, and was a very happy child. No one really knows how he became like he is now - you wouldn't even think they were the same person. He still likes shounen, though.
Weapon: Guns. He knows how to use them.
Arcana: Hanged Man

Spoiler: Frankenstein Monster (click to show/hide)

Name: Monster (Frankenstein's Monster)

Weaknesses: Fire

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 9
Magic (MAG): 4
Endurance (END): 9
Luck (LCK): 3
Agility (AGI): 3

Roles: Physical (Primary)
Electric (Secondary)

Total HP: 160
Total SP: 60

Moves: Bash (5% HP/8 HP): Deal light Physical damage.
Zio (6 SP): Deal light Electric damage.
Skull Cracker: (8%/13 HP): Deal light Physical damage, and have a 15% chance to deal confusion.

Spoiler: Ryo Kamimoto (click to show/hide)

Name:  Ryo Kamimoto
Gender/Sex:  Female
Age: 15.
Description: I said Hex Maniac in an insomniac stupor and now I cant think of anything else.
Personality: Reserved and quiet, you'd have a hard time to get this girl to say much of anything. Even her hobbies are kept secret. And yet, in the right circumstances, maybe she will talk your ear off, or point excitedly at some obscure nick knack and rattle off it's supposed odd properties. Her eyes look past you, as if seeing some other world. The faint scent of incense follows in her wake, and her hands seem perpetually dusty...

Backstory:

"This is a doll," she began, voice full of mischievousness. I took the ragged old thing. It was small, and fit into the palm of my hand. "A very special one. It's called a 'voodoo doll'. It can do all sorts of things.

I looked at my grandmother, eyes wide and sparkling. "What does it do?" I asked, in eagerness.

"If you put something of another persons physical body upon the doll, like a lock of hair, their spirit becomes intertwined in the fabric. Everything the doll experiances, so too does the body. Watch."

She took a small scissors and clipped one strand of hair from my head and tied it to the head of the doll. Enraptured, I could only watch as she lightly stroked the cloth face of the doll, and I could almost feel the gesture happening upon my own cheek.

"Amazing!" I breathed.

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"Stupid girl, playing with dolls at school?" The teen in front of her jeered at her. "What sort of child are you? No wonder you don't have any friends! All you do is read those ratty old books and play with 'magic'" He put air quotes over his words.

I stood, fuming, in the middle of the hallway. The voodoo doll was clutched in my hand, giving me reassurance. "This doll is a precious keepsake, and it keeps me safe!" I rhetorted.

The boy snorted. "Childish, Childish! How dare you walk in these halls and spout off to everyone you see about your dumb mystic crap! I'll take that doll and force you to join the rest of us in this harsh reality." His hand reached out, and my eyes widened into saucers.

"Get AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed, and raked my hand over his face. Several oozing scratches were the result, and he jerked back in pain. I took off down the hall, crying.

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At dusk, I put the dried blood in my fingernails into a tiny glass jar. I tied the jar arount the dolls neck, and left it to hang from the ceiling.

The next day, The boy didn't show up to class. The next hour, We were informed of a tragic car accident that left a student completely paralyzed.

In the next month, her parents never figured out why she had suddenly turned into a recluse.

And in three years, nobody remembered the bright young girl who shouted gibberish every day, and only knew the mysterious loner with purple hair and a chilling stare.

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Weapon: A book! Useful to cast spells and in a pinch it's probably heavy enough to give a concussion.

Arcana: Moon.
The celestial bodies are of great importance to the old ones. They will answer your call!... Right?

Spoiler: Cthulhu (click to show/hide)

Name: Cthulhu, the Dreamer.


Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 1
Magic (MAG): 9
Endurance (END): 4
Luck (LCK): 6
Agility (AGI): 8

Roles:
Ice (Learn Bufu damage spells)
The frozen depths hold unknown terrors. What great need are you burdened with, that you dare unearth such horror?

Ailment (Learn spells that inflict statuses on your opponents)
The old ones inspire fear and worship in many forms. Witness his gaze, and become other.

Equal.

Weakness: Light
Who you are in the dark is not in question, but to bring to light what horrors lie would be most unwise.

HP: 110/110
SP: 75/75

Bufu (6 SP): Deal light Ice damage to an enemy.
Pulinpa (8 SP): 30% chance of applying Confusion to an enemy.
Mabufu (15 SP): Deal light Ice damage to every enemy.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

first

Spoiler: Dude (click to show/hide)

Name: Katsu Takenaka (竹中 勝, or Takenaka Katsu, if using Japanese naming conventions)
Gender/Sex: Male/Male
Age: 15
Description: Katsu is a rather short Japanese teenager, at 5'1". He has shaggy dark brown hair, blue eyes, and slightly tanned skin. He is lean, yet has a rather muscular build. His chin is slightly pointed, high cheekbones and a pointed nose. He seems to lack facial hair of any sort. He has a noticeable preference for simple shirts and jeans, though in summer weather the jeans are replaced with shorts. He seems to prefer blues of all kinds on his clothes over other colours.

Personality: Katsu is, frankly, an utter moron. He's incredibly gullible, which isn't helped by his tendency of charging into things without any thought whatsoever. Sometimes, this turns out well. More often than not, it doesn't. As a result, he's easy to bait into things, be it getting himself into trouble or, more often, simply getting him to help you out with whatever you happen to need at the time.
You see, while gullible, he's also a really nice guy and rather idealistic, always willing to help out someone in need. His idealism and sheer idiocy also mean that even a clue-by-four wouldn't be enough to get him to notice any insults, teasing etc. directed at him. He is almost entirely incapable of understanding such things.
He's a persistent bugger, too. Very determined, and once he has his mind set on something, it's impossible to get him to change his mind with how thick-headed he is.
All in all, this results in Katsu being a rather friendly person who easily makes friends, through sheer persistence if nothing else, but, again, he's immature and almost too willing to take action.
Katsu likes many things, but his major likes are his two hobbies, and the only two things he's exhibited any talent at in general: fishing and swordplay of all kinds. He enjoys fishing more, claiming that he finds it more 'relaxing'.

Backstory: Katsu comes from an average, middle-class family. He has two loving parents who do everything they can to help him, a 2-year old sister and a massive extended family.  In the end, he has everything a child his age could hope for, and he's fine with that. Happy, even. What he isn't happy with is his performance in school.
For all that Katsu is lauded as a 'kendo prodigy' at school, on account of his natural talent with swordsmanship of all kinds, it's his academic performance that truly nags at him. Even if he misses anyone else implying, or even being extremely blatant, about his stupidity, he knows he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. The problem is that he's never figured out how to fix this. Didn't matter what he tried, he just couldn't get grades that were above 'barely passable'.
In the end, Katsu's major problem isn't loneliness, because he has plenty of friends. It isn't a lack of something he's good at, the sheer amount of success he's displayed during kendo competitions of all kinds shows that's not true either. His problem is simply the fact he wishes he was good at something else, something that so many people claim is important.
Weapon: A sword.
Arcana: Magician(Mag+, End-)

Spoiler: Too many different forms (click to show/hide)

Name: Verethragna, the Hypostasis of Victory
The divinity Verethragna was the most highly-armed and best equipped with might, battling men and demons alike.

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 3
Magic (MAG): 5
Endurance (END): 4
Luck (LCK): 6
Agility (AGI): 2

Roles
Buff/Debuff
Smiting of resistance and rendering wonderful are wielded in equal measure by the hypostasis of victory.

Wind
The divine Verethragna possessed many incarnations; an armed warrior, an adolescent of fifteen and a tempestuous wind were amongst these.

Equal.

Weakness: Lightning
A bull with horns of gold, a horse with a muzzle of purest gold, uncountable weapons... These are both Verethragna's greatest strength, and his biggest weakness.

[Dermonster]

MAYBE. IT'S 3 AM.

All myths work, including tall tales, and fictional characters from before 1955, though I reserve the right to say no.

CTHULHU WAS MADE IN 1923. EXCELLENT. I'll work something out. later. hermit? A recluse who enjoys ritualistic stuff and is too afraid of what others think to bring it up. Female. First image pops to head is hex maniac from pokemon games. That works.


Sleep.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Spoiler: QUOTH THE RAVEN (click to show/hide)

Name: Kanade Akiyama
Gender/Sex: Female/Female
Age: 17
Description: Kanade is a tall and slender girl, being about 5'8'' in height. Her jet-black hair is also quite long, reaching down to the middle of her back, with a sleek, metal sheen to it, and held in place with a small pin in the shape of a butterfly with purple wings. Her eyes are a deep brown, almost black, and her skin is rather pale, lending her an cold, elegant look. This is aided by her preference for simple, yet opulent attire out of school, and the school uniform being rather formal and lending itself to a more elegant air. Her voice has a silky, sultry quality to it, and her expression always seems to be teasing, or coy, contributing to the air of vague mystery and elegance around Kanade.

Personality: Kanade seems hard to approach due to all of the above, not helped due to other factors in general, causing people to shy away for fear of angering an unseen clique of harpies or an overprotective boyfriend when Kanade approaches them to be as friendly as possible. Indeed, should these people actually pay attention to Kanade, one would detect a hint of loneliness and desire for companionship, caused by this enforced isolation. To someone completely unaware of what Kanade is really like, she seems overly open, always going out to greet the newcomers and trying to make conversation before the inevitable rumour mill comes into play. When one ignores the rumours and mystery and actually gets to know Kanade, she is rather teasing and mischievous, but kind and warm to her friends. She is protective of her friends to a fault, with an inner steel one might not expect from the fragile-looking slender girl that she is, shown especially in dangerous situations. Her kindness is not extended to her enemies, especially those stupid enough to harm her friends; to them, she is perfectly happy to unleash her bitingly harsh tongue and her wrath. She is also industrious and hardworking, seeking to ignore the stereotype of the idle rich.

Backstory: The Akiyama family are a small, but respectable and decently rich family, descended from the samurai clique before the abolition of the class led the Akiyama clan to establish a zaibatsu from their former lands' thriving ports with China that remains prosperous, albeit small, to the present day. Nowadays, the Akiyama clan- no longer in charge of the group, though most of the family still works in the conglomerate and Kanade's father, Tetsuo, is still the chairman- live off the riches of their eponymous group, living in simple, yet opulent surroundings as per their once great pedigree.

Kanade is the only child of the current generation of the Akiyama clan. As a child, she spent much of her childhood in Sendai; her parents, especially her mother Ayane- the local doctor- were determined that Kanade would live her life as she wanted to live it and so allowed her as much freedom as was reasonable for a child. Her childhood was normal at first, and Kanade excelled in school and made many friends, but as she grew older, and children began to realise the person in whose presence they were, they began to drift further and further apart from the growing girl. This was not helped as she blossomed into a beautiful young woman as people began backing away for fear of retribution from her friends or her non-existent lover should they get near her, and slowly her circle shrank only to her closest friends; nobody else could muster the courage to grow near to her. Kanade noted this, but was not overly saddened; as long as she had friends and people she could trust and confide in, she could tolerate it.

Eventually, the situation was exacerbated when, three years ago, the Akiyama family moved from their residence in Sendai to Aibo City, following a reorganisation of the company to move their Japan headquarters to there. The farewell from her friends in Sendai was tearful, and Kanade grew to miss them; even more so when it transpired that she knew nobody in Aibo. Aibo, indeed, was a far different place to Sendai, and everyone knew who the Akiyamas were there. Though the fellow rich families of Aibo were willing to socialise with the newcomers, they were still considered outsiders, albeit rich and shrewd outsiders.

Kanade spent most of her three years in Hakanai alone; though she had a circle of admirers who wanted to be her, and suitors who wanted to be with her due to her beauty or her riches, there were only a few, if any, people she could count as friends- closer to acquaintances who didn't fear the rumours, even-, and nowhere near as close as her friends in Sendai at that; if it were to be chalked up to any reason at all, it was due to a combination of her outsider status, her status as a wealthy person and assumptions about her as a result that she could not successfully debunk. Kanade's desire for a circle of close friends continued to grow, and her yearning for the past and for her old friends grew more, to the point that she found herself wishing sometimes that she could re-live her childhood and harken back to a younger time. However, as her last year at Hakanai began, Kanade grew optimistic. After all, she graduated this year, and perhaps, with a change of pace, she could get what she wanted; people she could confide and trust in, just as she once used to have.

On a side note, the family words of the Akiyama clan translate roughly to 'Be Careful What You Wish For'.

Weapon: Naginata/Lances
Arcana:
Lovers
The bond that is friendship is a double-edged sword. Just as it ties you in companionship, so too does it hold you in servitude.

Spoiler: NEVERMORE (click to show/hide)

Name: Lenore, the Maiden Forlorn
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, nameless here for evermore.

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 1
Magic (MAG): 6
Endurance (END): 3
Luck (LCK): 5
Agility (AGI): 5

Roles:
Healing (primary)
The mere sight of fair Lenore can return the spirits of even the most downtrodden.

Fire (secondary)
The radiance of Heaven will sear through all suffering and cleanse away all troubles.

Weakness:
Electricity
No man can hold back the doom that awaits all men by God forever.

[Twinwolf]

PTW

[_DivideByZero_]

I have a question, how many spoilers?

<---is still playing Persona 3

[Empiricist]

Spoiler: Ego (click to show/hide)

• Name:
  Aoi Tachibana
  
• Gender:
  
  
• Age:
  16
  
• Description:
  Windswept hair. Shoulder length. It covers her left eye; both, the color of absinthe.
  Faint. Lingering. The scent of Pomegranates. Shampoo perhaps?
  A matching pair of headphones. They rest around her neck, embracing a simple black choker.
  Her stance appears relaxed, but seemingly energetic, often swaying or tapping her feet.
  She is rarely seen without her drawing pad and a few pencils and erasers.
  
  Out of uniform, she normally wears a green blouse with a black waistcoat and skirt.
  
  ((Here, have a reference image. Everyone else seems to have one. Coloration and clothing aren't exactly accurate, but it's close enough and I'd rather not trawl indefinitely for the off-chance someone somewhere drew a fitting image.))
  
• Personality:
  Shy. Helpful. Timid. Self-sacrificing. Relaxed. Awkward.
  
• Backstory:
  They say to follow your passion, to do what you love, to choose happiness in lieu of wealthy. To this day, Minato Tachibana is glad she had not.
  
  Born to a working class family, the then-named Minato Honda possessed an academic aptitude that lead her to receiving a rather prestigious education, one that often painfully showed what she lacked. Driven by the kind of hunger that could only be born of envy, and all the sacrifices of her parents, she became an actuarial, not particularly compelling perhaps, but it was a living, and quite a good one at that.
  
  Soon enough, she crossed paths with Yuuki Tachibana, her future husband, a doctor whose trade had taken him here to Aibo.
  
  It was to this couple that Aoi was born. For the earlier part of her childhood, it was her mother who cared for her, having comfortably quit her job amidst the windfall she made through some shrewd investments during the Lost Decade.
  
  Soon enough however, their roles were reversed with her father’s early retirement to look after her and her brother. Their upbringing was perhaps odd, compelled to follow her parent’s paths in studious pursuits (both academics and certain other life skills) and yet offered no help in it at all such to ensure independence, Aoi’s social life suffered as a result, to the point that few if any would even remember her from those bygone days.
  
  Still, she was far from lonely with her father’s playful antics and the petty quarrels with Hayato that one would reasonably expect between siblings. In addition, as part of that push to make her independent, Aoi was far freer than most people of her age, being permitted to use her judgement and generous allowance as she saw fit.
  
  In 2009, Yuuki Tachibana was killed in a car crash. A freak accident they said. His old colleagues assured them that it wouldn’t have hurt, that unconsciousness, and death, would have been near-immediate. Cold comfort, they knew, but what more could they say?
  
  It was unreal, surreal, and terrifyingly real at the same time. She saw the surgeons at her house, for they too had come to pay their respects, to comfort her mother, and yet, she did not cry. Instead, she calmly poured each and every one of them a glass, for he was their friend, and unlike her, they had to deliver the news.
  
  As Aoi and Hayato cried well into that dark night, she quietly comforted them, all while coolly assessing their financial situation. After ascertaining the rather obvious financial implications (namely none, in between her salary, the fact that her now late husband already having stopped working, and several more bountiful investments during the global financial crisis), she tucked the pair into bed, and kissed them goodnight.
  
  Aoi did not sleep, she could not sleep, and she would not sleep, for as she lay awake, too drained to sleep, she heard her mother finally begin to sob. A quiet, agonizing sob, a widow’s wail that continued well into the earliest glimpses of dawn.
  
  It’s been four years now. Four years. The skies may cry, but they will not cry for four years, and most definitely not forever. Nowadays, Aoi’s head is filled with the kind of banal and ultimately inconsequential worries only any other teenager would have.
  
• Weapon Type:
  Gloves/Light Gauntlets
  
• Arcana:
  High Priestess
  _{Knowing others is intelligence;
  knowing yourself is true wisdom.
  Mastering others is strength;
  mastering yourself is true power.}
  

Spoiler: Persona (click to show/hide)

• Name:
  Faust
  _{The Penitent}
  
• Statistics:
  STR:   1
  MAG:   3
  END:   5
  LUC:   6
  AGI:   5
  
• Roles:
  Buff/Debuff (Equal)
  Random (Equal)
  _{If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.
  If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
  If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
  Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.}
  
• Weakness:
  Ice
  _{Hardness and strength are death's companions.}
  

Credits to Elf for handling of the mechanical design. I'd say I owe him for that, but I'm pretty sure he already considered me indebted to begin with

[SOLDIER First]

sheeting to post

[Dermonster]

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name:  Ryo Kamimoto
Gender/Sex:  Female
Age: 15.
Description: I said Hex Maniac in an insomniac stupor and now I cant think of anything else.
Personality: Reserved and quiet, you'd have a hard time to get this girl to say much of anything. Even her hobbies are kept secret. And yet, in the right circumstances, maybe she will talk your ear off, or point excitedly at some obscure nick knack and rattle off it's supposed odd properties. Her eyes look past you, as if seeing some other world. The faint scent of incense follows in her wake, and her hands seem perpetually dusty...

Backstory:

"This is a doll," she began, voice full of mischievousness. I took the ragged old thing. It was small, and fit into the palm of my hand. "A very special one. It's called a 'voodoo doll'. It can do all sorts of things.

I looked at my grandmother, eyes wide and sparkling. "What does it do?" I asked, in eagerness.

"If you put something of another persons physical body upon the doll, like a lock of hair, their spirit becomes intertwined in the fabric. Everything the doll experiances, so too does the body. Watch."

She took a small scissors and clipped one strand of hair from my head and tied it to the head of the doll. Enraptured, I could only watch as she lightly stroked the cloth face of the doll, and I could almost feel the gesture happening upon my own cheek.

"Amazing!" I breathed.

__________________________________________________________

"Stupid girl, playing with dolls at school?" The teen in front of her jeered at her. "What sort of child are you? No wonder you don't have any friends! All you do is read those ratty old books and play with 'magic'" He put air quotes over his words.

I stood, fuming, in the middle of the hallway. The voodoo doll was clutched in my hand, giving me reassurance. "This doll is a precious keepsake, and it keeps me safe!" I rhetorted.

The boy snorted. "Childish, Childish! How dare you walk in these halls and spout off to everyone you see about your dumb mystic crap! I'll take that doll and force you to join the rest of us in this harsh reality." His hand reached out, and my eyes widened into saucers.

"Get AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed, and raked my hand over his face. Several oozing scratches were the result, and he jerked back in pain. I took off down the hall, crying.

____________________________________________________________________

At dusk, I put the dried blood in my fingernails into a tiny glass jar. I tied the jar arount the dolls neck, and left it to hang from the ceiling.

The next day, The boy didn't show up to class. The next hour, We were informed of a tragic car accident that left a student completely paralyzed.

In the next month, her parents never figured out why she had suddenly turned into a recluse.

And in three years, nobody remembered the bright young girl who shouted gibberish every day, and only knew the mysterious loner with purple hair and a chilling stare.

_______________________________________________________________________________________

Weapon: A book! Useful to cast spells and in a pinch it's probably heavy enough to give a concussion.

Arcana: Moon.
The celestial bodies are of great importance to the old ones. They will answer your call!... Right?

Spoiler: Persona (click to show/hide)

Name: Cthulhu, the Dreamer.


Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 1
Magic (MAG): 6
Endurance (END): 3
Luck (LCK): 6
Agility (AGI): 4

Roles:
Ice (Learn Bufu damage spells)
The frozen depths hold unknown terrors. What great need are you burdened with, that you dare unearth such horror?

Ailment (Learn spells that inflict statuses on your opponents)
The old ones inspire fear and worship in many forms. Witness his gaze, and become other.

Equal.

Weakness: Light
Who you are in the dark is not in question, but to bring to light what horrors lie would be most unwise.

[Sl4cker]

work in progress sheeps

Spoiler: Stand User (click to show/hide)

Name: 惨め希 幻滅 (Mijimeki Genmetsu)
Gender/Sex: Male/Male
Age: 16
Description: He very usually wears a very thick, light green woolen sweater that's just slightly too big for him. He decorates it with various black pins he seems to just randomly stick on it, with designs like skulls and crossbones and devilish-looking faces, things like that. He wears loose black shorts that reveal most of his skinny legs, and a pair of sneakers colored completely dark green. His entire outfit thus shows he either knows or cares very little about fashion.

He's quite thin and tall, with black hair and brown eyes. He usually has a rather neutral expression on his face.

Personality: Mijimeki is pretty cold and silent, just observing other people he hangs around. He doesn't say much when he does speak, and he usually does it in a very calm and matter-of-fact fashion. Sometimes he keeps silent even when people try to talk to him.

Mijimeki is often described as a cynic, and he doesn't exactly disagree with that notion. But, all in all, when he does talk it's usually to make a pretty good point, as he is quite knowledgeable on many things, especially history.

He's often not afraid to speak his opinion on most matters, even if he knows people probably wouldn't agree with him. In combination with that, he also has a strong sense of justice.

Backstory: Mijimeki was born to two loving parents in Aibo City. He grew up watching shounen anime, and was a very happy child. No one really knows how he became like he is now - you wouldn't even think they were the same person. He still likes shounen, though.
Weapon: Guns. He knows how to use them.
Arcana: Hanged Man

Spoiler: 「Scary Monsters」 (click to show/hide)

Name: Monster (Frankenstein's Monster)

Weaknesses: Fire

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 5
Magic (MAG): 3
Endurance (END): 8
Luck (LCK): 2
Agility (AGI): 2

Roles: Physical (Primary)
Electric (Secondary)

[Powder Miner]

I have a question, how many spoilers?

<---is still playing Persona 3

There won't be any spoilers for 3, but I'd watch out otherwise.

Also, oh hell I think I forgot to mention because it was 12:43 in the night when I finished this: if possible, I'd like to avoid characters being too edgy. It's fine to have issues and stuff, but there's a point where things would start to inhibit my ability to move things along.

[Bluexdog]

Spoiler: Erin (click to show/hide)

Name: Erin Kahn
Gender/Sex: Female/female
Age: 16
Description: Link a small scar on her right eye
Personality: Erin is a bit of a loner, she can get along well with others but she has trouble making friends. She can be a little cold sometimes (Especially to guys) but like any other issue it can be dealt with by spending time with the individual.

Backstory: Erin was born in Abio to a middle class family, her father is American and her mother is Japanese (she takes after her father in the looks department) she has a younger brother that's 8 years old and adorable as she would say (Think male nanako) they had a very happy home life. when Erin first entered high school at age 15 she didn't have many friends but she did make a few. 2 months later she entered a relationship with a crush of hers. The two got along really well until a one of them got into some rather unhealthy practices. Erin's boyfriend got in with the wrong crowd, he started smoking,drugs, etc. one night the guy took a little to much of a drug and got high. in his state of intoxication he went to Erin's home. a few minutes later he hurt her, she still has a scar. after that event she developed a fear of Men/boys. Now looking on the bright side again: Erin was a good cook thanks to her mothers lessons. She hopes to one day become a world famous chef/baker

Weapon: Knives
Arcana:  Judgement

Spoiler:  Dido (click to show/hide)

Name: Dido the betrayed History

Stats: 20 points to give out at level 1. Must have at least 1 in each stat. I don't recommend complete minmaxing, I don't think the system will reward it.
Strength (STR): 5
Magic (MAG): 3
Endurance (END): 5
Luck (LCK): 3
Agility (AGI): 4

Roles: Lightning(Prime) heal(Second)
Weakness: Ice

[kilakan]

I hope that me having not played or heard anything about Persona prior to this is gonna be a problem, cause I wiki'ied it and it seems absolutely awesome.  Also sort of reminiscent of Jojo's Bizarre adventure which I love... at least with the stands/persona's themselves I suppose.

Name:Ken Norio

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 16
Description: A tall boy, with a strong jawline and the beginnings of an exceptionally masculine appearance.  He is obviously adopted due to his tanned-white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes not to mention that he already stands a head and a half over his adopted father.  His hair falls in tight curls about his head, with the start of a nearly white stubble growing on his face. 

Personality: Ken is extremely hard working, quiet and honorable individual.  He prefers the company of people who enjoy silent contemplation or who are willing to do all the talking for him.  Due to the knowledge that he is an orphan, Ken strives to make his family proud in everything he does and has already begun training to become a police officer like his adoptive father whenever his school work gives him the free time.  He is a vegetarian, who strives to protect the lives of all animals, insects, birds and people who are weak and defenseless. 

Backstory:  Ken was raised by an adoptive family with multi-generational roots in law enforcement, he spent his childhood wandering around the locale police station learning and watching his adoptive father at work.  School life for him however has always been difficult, an outsider by appearance he found it hard to make friends.  Instead he dedicated his time to sports, where the teamwork and camaraderie let him fit in and he could prove himself based on skill and not simply appearance.  Even still, he has frequently gotten into fights with his peers when they tried to pick on the outcasts of the school.  As such, he is stuck in a sort of limbo, resigned to the social outcast of the school but invaluable to the sports team due to his physical prowess.

Weapon: Axe

Arcana: Tower (+agi -lck)

Name: Sigmund (Post Lycanthropy curse if possible)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stats:
Strength (STR): 6
Magic (MAG): 2
Endurance (END): 5
Luck (LCK): 2
Agility (AGI): 5

Roles: Almighty, Passive (Equal)
Weakness: Fire

[Powder Miner]

By the way, I forgot to place the weakness question into the persona sheet; please put what element you're weak to in your sheet.