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Fate/Frontier signups!
The time for joining is now! All players for Fate/Frontier, post in here with your character outline so that I know who all is in.
This does NOT mean that anyone who isn't teamed up yet is out of the game. There's still time! Not many of you are left, so here's a recap!
Dalten is offering a depressed-businessman-turned-magus Master!
Llama is offering a sexy world war II fighter pilot as Rider!
Shini has a Servant in, and an idea for a Master whose Servant is their direct ancestor!
BF has a trillion Servants offered and three Masters offered, but hasn't confirmed any teamups yet!
Chris has the biblical Joshua as General, but no confirmed Master for him!
Don't think of the below as a full-on app - I am not going to be approving or rejecting based on thoroughness of content. I trust you guys well enough. Just give me an idea of what you're going for. However, No signup will be accepted for a Master or Servant unless there is also a signup for their Servant or Master. To keep things organized, if your Servant/Master has already posted their signup, post yours as a reply to theirs.
Also important: If you want to really sink your teeth into the world backstory for your Master histories, I've written up an AU history of the Holy Grail War here.
Required for Everyone:
-Name
-Gender
-Approximate apparent age
-Personality
Required for Masters:
-Degree of magical familiy heritage
-Competence as a magus
-Backstory leading up to the Holy Grail War
Required for Servants:
-Class
-Fighting Style
-Attitude towards the Holy Grail War
Bonus points for Servants:
-Noble Phantasm
-Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magical Energy, Luck, and Noble Phantasm ranked from E to A+
-Angst-filled AU historical backstory
This does NOT mean that anyone who isn't teamed up yet is out of the game. There's still time! Not many of you are left, so here's a recap!
Dalten is offering a depressed-businessman-turned-magus Master!
Llama is offering a sexy world war II fighter pilot as Rider!
Shini has a Servant in, and an idea for a Master whose Servant is their direct ancestor!
BF has a trillion Servants offered and three Masters offered, but hasn't confirmed any teamups yet!
Chris has the biblical Joshua as General, but no confirmed Master for him!
Don't think of the below as a full-on app - I am not going to be approving or rejecting based on thoroughness of content. I trust you guys well enough. Just give me an idea of what you're going for. However, No signup will be accepted for a Master or Servant unless there is also a signup for their Servant or Master. To keep things organized, if your Servant/Master has already posted their signup, post yours as a reply to theirs.
Also important: If you want to really sink your teeth into the world backstory for your Master histories, I've written up an AU history of the Holy Grail War here.
Required for Everyone:
-Name
-Gender
-Approximate apparent age
-Personality
Required for Masters:
-Degree of magical familiy heritage
-Competence as a magus
-Backstory leading up to the Holy Grail War
Required for Servants:
-Class
-Fighting Style
-Attitude towards the Holy Grail War
Bonus points for Servants:
-Noble Phantasm
-Strength, Endurance, Agility, Magical Energy, Luck, and Noble Phantasm ranked from E to A+
-Angst-filled AU historical backstory
Master
-Gender: Male
-Age: 32, occasionally looks considerably older
-Personality: Ward seems like your basic hard-boiled private detective: gruff, savvy, wise-cracking, badass as fuck, and iron-willed. His dirty little secret is that he didn't quite get boiled all the way through. He learned a lot of blind, Emiyaesque idealism from his late father, and jaded as he is, he clings to a surprising amount of it deep down, which isn't actually very good for his mental health considering the shit he's seen. He has and will always have a sense of compassion and vulnerability at his core, and it makes being a hard-boiled detective, and a magus at that, very painful at times.
He'd have a drinking problem if this weren't Prohibition. He might still have a drinking problem if speakeasies didn't prefer not to invite detectives inside. He settles for a cigar habit.
-Degree of magical familiy heritage: Fairly respectable but unfamous magus family.
-Competence as a magus: Moderate, very specialized on alchemy and alteration of certain materials.
-Backstory leading up to the Holy Grail War: Ward became estranged from his family in his late teens after his grandfather ratted out his father to the Mage's Association for breaking several secrecy-related laws in order to help townspeople. He did, at least, have time to inherit old dad's magic crest. Inheriting also an abiding optimism that most people are basically decent, he served a short tour of duty towards the end of the Great War and went on to become a police officer in Chicago for about seven years, both occupations in which that sense of optimism took a violent and unruly beating. He moved to Highgate, with its comparably high rate of magical crime, to enforce the law his own way on a more private basis.
He's lived here several years, now, long enough to be pretty protective of the place. He also knows what the Holy Grail War is, and he's not too happy it's coming. Resolving to bring any homicidal Masters to justice personally, Ward is participating in the War with no particular interest in actually winning it.
Servant
Gender: Female
Apparent Age: Mid/late 20s.
Personality: "Beautiful, valiant, generous, and supremely unchaste." She's quick to take offense and quick to forgive. She falls in and out of love and/or lust at the drop of a hat. She has absolutely no sense of shame whatsoever and is a giant showboat. She has a good heart despite her ferocity, and is very protective of anyone she takes a shine to, particularly the ladies.
Class: Saber
Fighting style: Saber is very good at dodging, blocking, and avoiding injury in general. She's a classically trained duelist and specializes in speedy strikes. She prefers to cripple rather than kill, because what's the fun in winning if you can't lord it over an opponent? She'll often try to leave if she's losing rather than fight to the death, and departing at first blood no matter who's on the winning side is not out of the question.
Outlook: Saber views the war as an excellent adventure and a second stab at glory. She died (relatively) young, as many heroes do, and is delighted to be wandering around breaking hearts and breaking noses just like the good old days.
Stats:
Strength C
Endurance B
Agility A
Magical Energy C
Luck A
Noble Phantasm B
Class Skills
Magic Resistance A
Riding B
Noble Phantasm:
Saber was a minor magus in life. Her personal theme is the mouth. Every spell she casts comes from her lips, one way or another.
Tancrede
A compelling contralto melody that clouds the mind of her opponent. Any corresponding stat lower than hers is lowered by two ranks for as long as the song stays in their head.
True Flamberge
By breathing on the hilt of her sword, Saber imbues it with the power of fire. As she fights, the blade becomes hotter and hotter until it can't touch ordinary material (and some extraordinary materials) without causing it to burn or melt.
Heroine's Heart
By kissing someone, Saber can both heal them with a mana transfer (not nearly as effective as the famed mana dragon, but good in a dramatic pinch) and leave a mark on them that allows her to track them down afterwards.
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