OOC: Player/Character Information
OOC:
Name: Pazu
Personal LJ: otakara
Email: pazuzap[at]gmail[dot]com
Timezone: MST (GMT -7)
Other contact: AIM: Justice Pazu; Plurk: pzue
Characters already in the game: None.
IC:
Character name: Anise Tatlin
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Timeline: Just before reaching the Cheagle Woods for her duel with Arietta.
Age: 14 (13 at the start of the game)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Anise can use fonic artes, which are pretty much just your typical RPG magic spells. She excels in using offensive spells of the light and dark elements. She also carries Tokunaga, a stuffed doll that's been modified with fontech (like normal technology, but with ~fonons~) so that it can grow to gargantuan sizes and move around as Anise wills it. In combat, Tokunaga deals out punches and takes hits for her while she casts her artes.
As far as physical strength goes, Anise is above average for her size and age, but she is still easily overpowered by anyone larger or more muscular than herself. Other than Tokunaga and her artes, she carries a wand (or mace or rod or lollipop - yes, lollipop) that amplifies the power of her artes.
How would they use their abilities?: When controlling Tokunaga, Anise often rides on top of its head, making it a convenient mode of transportation that she can just shrink back down when she's done with it. Tokunaga can also be used for heavy lifting, cushioning falls, and reaching high places. Any physically demanding mission that Anise takes in this setting will likely have the labor portion done by Tokunaga.
When it comes to fighting, she'll generally only attack someone with Tokunaga/artes if they pose a threat to her or to someone she cares about... or if they burn her really badly with an insult.
Appearance: Anise is a tiny girl, standing at 5'0" and weighing 93 lbs. She has brown eyes and long black hair that she keeps in a pair of fluffy pigtails, tied with yellow ribbons. Her usual outfit is a short pink dress with almost-detached sleeves and a white tabbard over it. This is actually her military uniform, even though it looks very cutesy and impractical. Throughout the game, she gets several other costumes, but virtually all of them include her favorite color: pink.
Anise is never separated from Tokunaga, her treasured stuffed doll. This yellow doll is crudely sewn, with large stitches sticking out all over, and a pair of mismatched button eyes. Though some might find its sharp-toothed grin creepy, Anise adores it and usually wears the doll on her back, with its long arms stretched out over her shoulders. (reference images: here and here)
The general impression usually gathered from a glance at Anise would be that she's youthful, feminine, and cute. ("Childish" might pop into the minds of some, as well.)
Background/Personality:
Anise was born in Daath, on the 46th day of the Shadow Decan. (Her planet's calendar is kind of funky: there are 13 months and 765 days in a year. Which also means their months and years are about twice as long as ours.) She grew up in the slums with her parents, Oliver and Pamela. When she was 10 years old, the family moved into the cathedral.
Daath is a theocratic island nation, and the third largest country on Auldrant. It is the centre of the world's largest (and only) religion: The Order of Lorelei. The basis of this religion is the Score: a collection of prophecies foretelling the future of all who live on Auldrant. The most important Score is Yulia's Score, also known as the Planet Score, which in its final chapter tells of the very fate of the planet. The belief of the Order is that this is a prophecy of prosperity, and that if everyone follows the Score, mankind will be sure to prosper. However, the actual stone that this particular prophecy was written on was lost long ago, so for about 2000 years no one could confirm what was actually foretold.
The leader of the Order of Lorelei is known as the Fon Master, and is the only one capable of reading the Planet Score. The Fon Master is also the only one who can use Daathic Fonic Artes - techniques that vary in function and power, but can be destructive enough to vaporize everything in a certain radius. However, that isn't what the Fon Master's really known for. Ever since Fon Master Evenos brought an end to a war 15 years before the present, the Fon Master has been a symbol of peace in the world. Second to the Fon Master is the Grand Maestro, and just below him is the Commandant, who commands the six divisions of the Oracle Knights, the Order of Lorelei's military force.
Unfortunately, two years before the start of the game's events, Fon Master Ion died from illness at age 12, leaving no one capable of reading the Planet Score. To remedy the problem, Grand Maestro Mohs and Commandant Van turned to the science of fomicry, or cloning. As Ion approached death, they created seven replicas of him, and after choosing the most suitable replacement, discarded the others in a volcano. The chosen replacement secretly took the place of the deceased Ion, and no one was to know of the real Fon Master's death.
...And this is where Anise actually comes in. Everything would be ruined if somebody realized that Ion was a totally different person, and while he could fool any acquaintance, there remained the danger of someone close to the original Ion catching on. To prevent this, Ion's most trusted Fon Master Guardians (attendants and bodyguards) were dismissed, promoted, moved around, and new Guardians, Anise Tatlin included, were appointed. One of her predecessors, Arietta, had been very close to the original - she loved him, even - and could not understand why she was no longer allowed near him. She blamed Anise for this, believing that she had stolen Ion from her, and the two quickly became bitter enemies.
The new Ion was physically much weaker than the original, but he had a strong will and formed his own beliefs about the Score and the world. Grand Maestro Mohs, however, was not very fond of Ion's ideals. While Ion favoured a more open view of the Score, believing it to be only one of many possible futures, Mohs was adamantly opposed to any reforms to the Order, firmly believing that following it was the one and only way for mankind to attain prosperity, and that deviating from it would be an unthinkable sin. Ion may have been the Fon Master, but Mohs had a few cards up his sleeve. One of these was Anise.
Years before Anise became a Guardian, her family had fallen deep into debt. Her parents would donate and share money and food that they couldn't afford to give away, and they were always falling for scams that plunged them into a debt that no honest job could hope to pay off. Mohs came to the couple with an offer: if they enrolled Anise into the officer's school and had her become a knight, he would shoulder their debt, and the Order would provide them with a new home and an education for their daughter. They hastily agreed, but the deal was, as one would expect, too good to be true. Oliver and Pamela were given a newer, safer home, but to keep it they were to work at the cathedral for no pay. When Anise was appointed Fon Master Guardian (a promotion which was also made possible through Mohs' influence) she was forced to act as Mohs' spy, reporting all of Ion's movements to him. If she refused? Mohs' unsuspecting hostages, her parents, would be the ones to suffer.
Despite working for Mohs behind the scenes, Anise supported Ion's ideas for reform, and tried her hardest over the next two years to help him achieve this goal. Ion was a very gentle person who just wanted to make as many people happy as he possibly could. Anise couldn't help but like him, and it's strongly suggested that she had developed a crush on him, despite her vehement denial of the notion, and her pursuit of other men.
Said "other men" included nobles, wealthy soldiers, kings - anyone with a massive fortune to be married into. Anise wanted to free herself and her family from Mohs, and the only way to do that was to pay him off. Of all the get-rich-quick schemes she attempted, the most realistic one, and the one she put the most effort into, was to marry into money.
Anise's main reason for joining the party and traveling with them was Ion. As his attendant, it was her job to accompany and protect him during peace negotiations, aid missions, everything. She essentially believed that most of the world's problems would be solved if people just listened to Ion.
Upon meeting Luke and learning that he's the future Duke Fabre, she fell head over heels in love with his money and decided she wanted to marry him. He gave her the cold shoulder most times, and even outright insulted and rejected her at others, but Anise refused to give up. Even when he started insulting Ion, an absolute taboo when Anise is concerned, she still struggled to keep up her maiden-in-love image. After he accidentally destroyed a town, killed 10 000 people, and then whined that it wasn't his fault, however... she finally let her front down, and revealed her hatred for him. Over the course of the following events, he was able to gradually earn back her trust, and along with it, her "love."
Somewhere down the road, they did battle with one of the God-Generals, the masked boy Sync. After being defeated, he revealed that he and Ion were both replicas. Ion implored Sync to work with them, but Sync responded by killing himself. So that was a pretty definite “no.” Anise, having learned the truth, felt no ill will for being lied to. She still cared about Ion more than anyone - and after all, she was lying to him, too.
In a nutshell, the first two thirds of the game deal with trying to stop a war being pushed by Mohs. Once Mohs was finally revealed for his warmongering, he was relieved of his position as Grand Maestro and arrested. When this happened, Anise experienced a great lot of relief, and while she did not talk about her connection to him as a spy, she did finally reveal the fact that she and her parents were deep in debt.
Unfortunately, Mohs suddenly came back one day, having been rescued by another God-General. He captured Anise’s parents, held them hostage, and demanded that she bring Ion to the volcano, Mt. Zaleho, to read the Planet Score. While the amount of strength required to read the Planet Score was much more than Ion possessed, Anise felt that she had no choice, for her parents’ sake. Even with Arietta and her own friends trying to stop her, and her trying to lead them to stop the reading, Ion read the Score, revealing a prophecy of destruction for the world. He died soon after, thanking Anise for caring for him with his last words.
Anise was wracked with guilt for having lied to Ion for so long, and for having led him to his death. Everyone else was quick to forgive her, except for Arietta, who swore vengeance. Anise’s conflict with Arietta was a long-running theme in the game. Their arguments were very childish in nature, but the malice between them was genuine. Arietta believed that Anise was responsible for Ion’s change in personality, and that she was trying to keep them separated. Anise, after learning the truth about Ion, came to understand Arietta’s position and started to feel bad for her. But at that point, Arietta and Anise had both done too much damage to turn back and stop fighting, and with Ion’s death, their conflict escalated to a duel to the death.
Meanwhile, Mohs and the God Generals got together and made their own New Order of Lorelei, with Mohs as the Fon Master. Sync, as a replica of the Fon Master, acted as the Scorer. ("Wait - didn't he die four paragraphs ago?" Why yes, but he got better.) When faced with Anise, he used his Ion-like appearance to upset her, out of cruelty. While Anise hated him as an enemy, her greatest fear was to witness Ion’s death a second time, and so she felt a lot of hesitation in regards to fighting against Sync.
After a bunch of other stuff happened, Largo brought word of the place and time for Anise's duel, and it was off to the Cheagle Woods! It was there that Anise would have fought Arietta, but instead it's to the Thor with her!
Personality:
Anise is a two-faced little girl. She usually acts cheerful, and tries to depict herself as an innocent, honest girl. Sometimes she tries a little too hard to push this act, though, which garners suspicion from the more perceptive of people.
When scared or infuriated, she may reveal her hidden nasty side. At these times, she can be downright scary: vulgar, vengeful, violent. This side to her is usually only revealed in battle or in heated discussions (in her canon, pretty much any time someone insults Ion) although she is much, much less likely to drop her cute act if in the presence of a wealthy male like Luke or Jade.
Anise loves playing the damsel in distress, and when something bad happens, she's happy to use it as an opportunity to coax someone into being her knight in shining armor. Conversely, when she's actually upset or hurt and feeling genuinely vulnerable, she tries her hardest to hide it from others - once again, with an over-acted cheerful front.
She loves money, and will do anything to get her hands on it. Anise has her heart set on marrying... well, basically any single rich man. She has no problem with flirting with older men, even if they're two or three times her age. To date, no man has returned any affection to her, and the usual reaction is pretty much "Haha that's very cute but uh no." Anise is not easily deterred, however.
Beyond that cute exterior and that greedy-bitch middle layer, she's actually a very sweet girl, deep down. Deep, deep down. She loves her parents, and she loves Ion, and though she'd never ever admit it, she cares about Arietta and Sync, too.
Anise is nosy. It may come from her history as a spy, or from her attempts to weasel her way into the lives of wealthy men, or it could just be that she loves knowing everyone’s secrets. Most realistically, it’s a mix of all three. It’s not uncommon for her to ask awkward or uncomfortable questions with a straight face, or more likely a bright smile. Though she tries to play it off as childish innocence, she really just loves teasing people.
Name: Pazu
Personal LJ: otakara
Email: pazuzap[at]gmail[dot]com
Timezone: MST (GMT -7)
Other contact: AIM: Justice Pazu; Plurk: pzue
Characters already in the game: None.
IC:
Character name: Anise Tatlin
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Timeline: Just before reaching the Cheagle Woods for her duel with Arietta.
Age: 14 (13 at the start of the game)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Anise can use fonic artes, which are pretty much just your typical RPG magic spells. She excels in using offensive spells of the light and dark elements. She also carries Tokunaga, a stuffed doll that's been modified with fontech (like normal technology, but with ~fonons~) so that it can grow to gargantuan sizes and move around as Anise wills it. In combat, Tokunaga deals out punches and takes hits for her while she casts her artes.
As far as physical strength goes, Anise is above average for her size and age, but she is still easily overpowered by anyone larger or more muscular than herself. Other than Tokunaga and her artes, she carries a wand (or mace or rod or lollipop - yes, lollipop) that amplifies the power of her artes.
How would they use their abilities?: When controlling Tokunaga, Anise often rides on top of its head, making it a convenient mode of transportation that she can just shrink back down when she's done with it. Tokunaga can also be used for heavy lifting, cushioning falls, and reaching high places. Any physically demanding mission that Anise takes in this setting will likely have the labor portion done by Tokunaga.
When it comes to fighting, she'll generally only attack someone with Tokunaga/artes if they pose a threat to her or to someone she cares about... or if they burn her really badly with an insult.
Appearance: Anise is a tiny girl, standing at 5'0" and weighing 93 lbs. She has brown eyes and long black hair that she keeps in a pair of fluffy pigtails, tied with yellow ribbons. Her usual outfit is a short pink dress with almost-detached sleeves and a white tabbard over it. This is actually her military uniform, even though it looks very cutesy and impractical. Throughout the game, she gets several other costumes, but virtually all of them include her favorite color: pink.
Anise is never separated from Tokunaga, her treasured stuffed doll. This yellow doll is crudely sewn, with large stitches sticking out all over, and a pair of mismatched button eyes. Though some might find its sharp-toothed grin creepy, Anise adores it and usually wears the doll on her back, with its long arms stretched out over her shoulders. (reference images: here and here)
The general impression usually gathered from a glance at Anise would be that she's youthful, feminine, and cute. ("Childish" might pop into the minds of some, as well.)
Background/Personality:
Anise was born in Daath, on the 46th day of the Shadow Decan. (Her planet's calendar is kind of funky: there are 13 months and 765 days in a year. Which also means their months and years are about twice as long as ours.) She grew up in the slums with her parents, Oliver and Pamela. When she was 10 years old, the family moved into the cathedral.
Daath is a theocratic island nation, and the third largest country on Auldrant. It is the centre of the world's largest (and only) religion: The Order of Lorelei. The basis of this religion is the Score: a collection of prophecies foretelling the future of all who live on Auldrant. The most important Score is Yulia's Score, also known as the Planet Score, which in its final chapter tells of the very fate of the planet. The belief of the Order is that this is a prophecy of prosperity, and that if everyone follows the Score, mankind will be sure to prosper. However, the actual stone that this particular prophecy was written on was lost long ago, so for about 2000 years no one could confirm what was actually foretold.
The leader of the Order of Lorelei is known as the Fon Master, and is the only one capable of reading the Planet Score. The Fon Master is also the only one who can use Daathic Fonic Artes - techniques that vary in function and power, but can be destructive enough to vaporize everything in a certain radius. However, that isn't what the Fon Master's really known for. Ever since Fon Master Evenos brought an end to a war 15 years before the present, the Fon Master has been a symbol of peace in the world. Second to the Fon Master is the Grand Maestro, and just below him is the Commandant, who commands the six divisions of the Oracle Knights, the Order of Lorelei's military force.
Unfortunately, two years before the start of the game's events, Fon Master Ion died from illness at age 12, leaving no one capable of reading the Planet Score. To remedy the problem, Grand Maestro Mohs and Commandant Van turned to the science of fomicry, or cloning. As Ion approached death, they created seven replicas of him, and after choosing the most suitable replacement, discarded the others in a volcano. The chosen replacement secretly took the place of the deceased Ion, and no one was to know of the real Fon Master's death.
...And this is where Anise actually comes in. Everything would be ruined if somebody realized that Ion was a totally different person, and while he could fool any acquaintance, there remained the danger of someone close to the original Ion catching on. To prevent this, Ion's most trusted Fon Master Guardians (attendants and bodyguards) were dismissed, promoted, moved around, and new Guardians, Anise Tatlin included, were appointed. One of her predecessors, Arietta, had been very close to the original - she loved him, even - and could not understand why she was no longer allowed near him. She blamed Anise for this, believing that she had stolen Ion from her, and the two quickly became bitter enemies.
The new Ion was physically much weaker than the original, but he had a strong will and formed his own beliefs about the Score and the world. Grand Maestro Mohs, however, was not very fond of Ion's ideals. While Ion favoured a more open view of the Score, believing it to be only one of many possible futures, Mohs was adamantly opposed to any reforms to the Order, firmly believing that following it was the one and only way for mankind to attain prosperity, and that deviating from it would be an unthinkable sin. Ion may have been the Fon Master, but Mohs had a few cards up his sleeve. One of these was Anise.
Years before Anise became a Guardian, her family had fallen deep into debt. Her parents would donate and share money and food that they couldn't afford to give away, and they were always falling for scams that plunged them into a debt that no honest job could hope to pay off. Mohs came to the couple with an offer: if they enrolled Anise into the officer's school and had her become a knight, he would shoulder their debt, and the Order would provide them with a new home and an education for their daughter. They hastily agreed, but the deal was, as one would expect, too good to be true. Oliver and Pamela were given a newer, safer home, but to keep it they were to work at the cathedral for no pay. When Anise was appointed Fon Master Guardian (a promotion which was also made possible through Mohs' influence) she was forced to act as Mohs' spy, reporting all of Ion's movements to him. If she refused? Mohs' unsuspecting hostages, her parents, would be the ones to suffer.
Despite working for Mohs behind the scenes, Anise supported Ion's ideas for reform, and tried her hardest over the next two years to help him achieve this goal. Ion was a very gentle person who just wanted to make as many people happy as he possibly could. Anise couldn't help but like him, and it's strongly suggested that she had developed a crush on him, despite her vehement denial of the notion, and her pursuit of other men.
Said "other men" included nobles, wealthy soldiers, kings - anyone with a massive fortune to be married into. Anise wanted to free herself and her family from Mohs, and the only way to do that was to pay him off. Of all the get-rich-quick schemes she attempted, the most realistic one, and the one she put the most effort into, was to marry into money.
Anise's main reason for joining the party and traveling with them was Ion. As his attendant, it was her job to accompany and protect him during peace negotiations, aid missions, everything. She essentially believed that most of the world's problems would be solved if people just listened to Ion.
Upon meeting Luke and learning that he's the future Duke Fabre, she fell head over heels in love with his money and decided she wanted to marry him. He gave her the cold shoulder most times, and even outright insulted and rejected her at others, but Anise refused to give up. Even when he started insulting Ion, an absolute taboo when Anise is concerned, she still struggled to keep up her maiden-in-love image. After he accidentally destroyed a town, killed 10 000 people, and then whined that it wasn't his fault, however... she finally let her front down, and revealed her hatred for him. Over the course of the following events, he was able to gradually earn back her trust, and along with it, her "love."
Somewhere down the road, they did battle with one of the God-Generals, the masked boy Sync. After being defeated, he revealed that he and Ion were both replicas. Ion implored Sync to work with them, but Sync responded by killing himself. So that was a pretty definite “no.” Anise, having learned the truth, felt no ill will for being lied to. She still cared about Ion more than anyone - and after all, she was lying to him, too.
In a nutshell, the first two thirds of the game deal with trying to stop a war being pushed by Mohs. Once Mohs was finally revealed for his warmongering, he was relieved of his position as Grand Maestro and arrested. When this happened, Anise experienced a great lot of relief, and while she did not talk about her connection to him as a spy, she did finally reveal the fact that she and her parents were deep in debt.
Unfortunately, Mohs suddenly came back one day, having been rescued by another God-General. He captured Anise’s parents, held them hostage, and demanded that she bring Ion to the volcano, Mt. Zaleho, to read the Planet Score. While the amount of strength required to read the Planet Score was much more than Ion possessed, Anise felt that she had no choice, for her parents’ sake. Even with Arietta and her own friends trying to stop her, and her trying to lead them to stop the reading, Ion read the Score, revealing a prophecy of destruction for the world. He died soon after, thanking Anise for caring for him with his last words.
Anise was wracked with guilt for having lied to Ion for so long, and for having led him to his death. Everyone else was quick to forgive her, except for Arietta, who swore vengeance. Anise’s conflict with Arietta was a long-running theme in the game. Their arguments were very childish in nature, but the malice between them was genuine. Arietta believed that Anise was responsible for Ion’s change in personality, and that she was trying to keep them separated. Anise, after learning the truth about Ion, came to understand Arietta’s position and started to feel bad for her. But at that point, Arietta and Anise had both done too much damage to turn back and stop fighting, and with Ion’s death, their conflict escalated to a duel to the death.
Meanwhile, Mohs and the God Generals got together and made their own New Order of Lorelei, with Mohs as the Fon Master. Sync, as a replica of the Fon Master, acted as the Scorer. ("Wait - didn't he die four paragraphs ago?" Why yes, but he got better.) When faced with Anise, he used his Ion-like appearance to upset her, out of cruelty. While Anise hated him as an enemy, her greatest fear was to witness Ion’s death a second time, and so she felt a lot of hesitation in regards to fighting against Sync.
After a bunch of other stuff happened, Largo brought word of the place and time for Anise's duel, and it was off to the Cheagle Woods! It was there that Anise would have fought Arietta, but instead it's to the Thor with her!
Personality:
Anise is a two-faced little girl. She usually acts cheerful, and tries to depict herself as an innocent, honest girl. Sometimes she tries a little too hard to push this act, though, which garners suspicion from the more perceptive of people.
When scared or infuriated, she may reveal her hidden nasty side. At these times, she can be downright scary: vulgar, vengeful, violent. This side to her is usually only revealed in battle or in heated discussions (in her canon, pretty much any time someone insults Ion) although she is much, much less likely to drop her cute act if in the presence of a wealthy male like Luke or Jade.
Anise loves playing the damsel in distress, and when something bad happens, she's happy to use it as an opportunity to coax someone into being her knight in shining armor. Conversely, when she's actually upset or hurt and feeling genuinely vulnerable, she tries her hardest to hide it from others - once again, with an over-acted cheerful front.
She loves money, and will do anything to get her hands on it. Anise has her heart set on marrying... well, basically any single rich man. She has no problem with flirting with older men, even if they're two or three times her age. To date, no man has returned any affection to her, and the usual reaction is pretty much "Haha that's very cute but uh no." Anise is not easily deterred, however.
Beyond that cute exterior and that greedy-bitch middle layer, she's actually a very sweet girl, deep down. Deep, deep down. She loves her parents, and she loves Ion, and though she'd never ever admit it, she cares about Arietta and Sync, too.
Anise is nosy. It may come from her history as a spy, or from her attempts to weasel her way into the lives of wealthy men, or it could just be that she loves knowing everyone’s secrets. Most realistically, it’s a mix of all three. It’s not uncommon for her to ask awkward or uncomfortable questions with a straight face, or more likely a bright smile. Though she tries to play it off as childish innocence, she really just loves teasing people.