Laughing Damned Fool

From Lavosbyssals

Contents 1 Basic Character Information 2 Attributes and Abilities 2.1 Attributes 2.2 Abilities 3 Advantages 3.1 Backgrounds 3.2 Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies 3.3 Health and Essence 3.4 Merits and Flaws 3.5 Combat Statistics 3.5.1 Charms and Combos 3.5.2 Defense Statistics 3.5.3 Soak 3.5.4 Combat Statistics 3.6 Charms, Knacks, and Combos 4 Personal Information 4.1 Appearance 4.2 History 4.3 Trivia 4.3.1 Musical Themes 4.3.2 Opinions

[edit] Basic Character Information

Name: Laughing Damned Fool (Alek Tessen)
Caste: Day
Concept: Cheerful Killer
Motivation: Establish something worth keeping.
Anima: Prayer strips and chains, between two seals.

[edit] Attributes and Abilities

[edit] Attributes

Physical: Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3
Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 3, Appearance 3
Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 2

[edit] Abilities

(Denotes Favored or Caste Ability.)
Dusk: Archery 0, Martial Arts 5, Melee 0, Thrown 0, War 0
Midnight: Integrity 1, Performance 2, Presence 2, Resistance 1, Survival 0
Daybreak: Craft 0, Investigation 2, Lore 1, Medicine 2, Occult 0
Day: Athletics 5, Awareness 3, Dodge 5, Larceny 3, Stealth 3
Moonshadow: Bureaucracy 0, Linguistics 1, Ride 0, Sail 0, Socialize 0

[edit] Advantages

[edit] Backgrounds

Allies 2: Other urchins and street trash he grew up with, some of which have found themselves in high or low places.
Artifact 3: Devoted to two artifacts:

• Blackout, an Amulet of Shadow Walking.
• Crow Bite, a pair of Gauntlets of Distant Touch.

Contacts 3: The same pool of people as his Allies rating - Alek didn't exactly make a ton of friends, you know.
Manse 2: The temple ruins he was sent to the in the East. Generates a Ghostwalker Gem.
Resources 1: Looting, contract pay, and odd-jobbing, minus the fact that he spends his money like it's going out of style.
Whispers 1: Alek occasionally gets help from the dead.

[edit] Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies

Willpower: 7
Virtues: Compassion 3, Conviction 2, Temperance 2, Valor 4
Limit Break: Foolhardy Contempt
Intimacies:

• None!

[edit] Health and Essence

Health: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, Incapacitated, Dying, Dying, Dying, Dead
Essence: 2
Personal Essence Pool: 13
Peripheral Essence Pool: 23 (32)
Experience: 11/11

[edit] Merits and Flaws

None!

[edit] Combat Statistics

[edit] Charms and Combos

• Athletics
  • First Athletics Excellency
  • Raiton's Nimble Perch
  • Crouching Gargoyle Stance
  • Mist Over Ice
  • Spider Pounce Technique
• Dodge
  • First Dodge Excellency
  • Flitting Shadow Form
  • Uncanny Impulse Evasion
• Martial Arts
  • First Martial Arts Excellency
  • Solar Hero Style
    • Fists of Iron Technique
    • Sledgehammer Fist Punch
    • Dragon Coil Technique
    • Solar Hero Form
    • Hammer on Iron Technique
    • Lunging Phantom Method
• Combos
  • Crimson Star Ride: 1 Willpower, 11+ Motes
    • First Martial Arts Excellency
    • Fists of Iron Technique
    • Hammer on Iron Technique
    • Lunging Phantom Method

[edit] Defense Statistics

• Join: 5
• Dodge: 6
• Parry: 5
• Mental Dodge: 5

[edit] Soak

• Unarmored
  • Standard: 3B/1L/0A, Mobility 0, Fatigue 0

[edit] Combat Statistics

• Crow Bite (Gauntlets of Distant Touch)
  • Unarmed: Speed 5, Accuracy 13, Damage 3B, Defense 12, Rate 3, Drains 2m
  • Projectile: Speed 5, Accuracy 13, Damage 3B, Rate 3, Range 70
• Unarmed
  • Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 10, Damage 3B, Defense -, Rate 1
  • Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 10, Damage 6B, Defense 8, Rate 2
  • Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 11, Damage 3B, Defense 12, Rate 3

[edit] Charms, Knacks, and Combos

[edit] Personal Information

[edit] Appearance

Alek stands in at an unimpressive 5'8" or so, and is lithely muscular. In life, he was tanned in life, and had blond hair - in death, he's gained something of a pallor, and his blond, shoulder-length dreadlocks have turned white. Likewise, his blue eyes have gone gray. He had a wide, wicked grin already, and death seems to have only made it somewhat sinister, teeth growing slightly pointy.

Alek dresses in heavy black boots, equally dark pants, thick and well-made for a great deal of labor with a strange, soulsteel belt buckle with a stone set in it, and a charcoal button-up shirt with short sleeves, which he wears unbuttoned and open. He also has a pair of fingerless black gloves, laced with soulsteel. He has body tattoos in a (now somewhat stark contrasting) black, across his body, tracing along the arms and legs, crossing over the shoulders. The back is a done in an equally tribal design, forming both a dragon and the high realm for "Daana'd Bless the Ring".

[edit] History

To be completed later.

[edit] Trivia

• Token straight man, it seems.
• Alternate concept: "Spectral Street Urchin".
  • Additionally, "for justice" can be suffixed to either concept and it likely would still work, depending on how you define that word.
• Conceptually based on the previous Solar version, best known for the Burning the Shadows remake and Teahaus. Apparently those other games were, you know, good influences on him.
• If his appearance and combos weren't enough of a hint, Alek, like his previous incarnations, will likely be using various fighting game references for stunt fodder. Don't hate me, Lavos.
• If you're thinking Alek's a bit on the goofy side, remember that he's fifteen, been Exalted for all of about three weeks, and freed from dying in obscurity after a dead-end life as a beggar in Nexus. You'd be acting a bit silly too.
  • Yes, I'm sure he'll get more serious with age, or at least when he limit breaks.

[edit] Musical Themes

• Standard: "Desperate Youth" - The Retrosic (Nightcrawler)
• Introspective: "We Gave Until We Bled" - Terrorfakt (Teethgrinder)
• Aggressive: "Fear In Motion" - :Wumpscut: (Music For A Slaughtering Tribe)
• Fighting: "Suck A Sage" - Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival)
  • As a Circlemate: "Joker (Arranged Mix)" - Satoshi Ise (The King Of Fighters XI)

[edit] Opinions

• Gan Ning: "Lunars are weird, and the fucker's got something against a good drink, but hell if turning into a lion's not a good way to get you point across, even if he fancies boys."
• Kiwi: "I think he's older than me. Wonder why he's like that? Is it a livin' thing?"
• Sarien: "Weird fucker."
• Smoke: "Alright, he ain't a kidnapper. And? He's an odd one, and his hair's the weirdest thing I've seen since I got high on Bright Morning and went wandering in Firewander. I think it was Firewander...."