Ara Culaco
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| Personal Information Name: Ara Culaco Nickname Moon striker, Ara of the Mana wave, Ara of the worldly disasters Age: 19 Gender: Male Race: Human Theme: Open up the sky Battle theme Battle theme Appearance Information Height: 5'10" Weight: 58 kg Hair color: Orange Eye Color: Yellow with black scalera Looks Image: - Spoiler:
Looks Description: Ara is a tall-ish young man with a physique built for speed. He has no overbearingly bulky muscles nor does he have any body fat on him at all. His skin complexion has always been slightly tanned despite living in the cold harshness of Gelu. His strange yellow and black eyes seem to glow and suck in light simultaneously, making them the main focus when people see his face. Neither of his parents had these eyes, so it is unknown why his are like that. He prefers to wear older style clothes like kimonos and shihakushos although even he doesn't know why. Personality Information Personality Description: Ara is a serious person, one who only ever relaxes when he is alone with friends or family. He often acts lazily to make people underestimate him, though he secretly enjoys battle and near death experiences. He is fiercely loyal to his friends and loved ones, so much so that he would willingly give his life for them. With strangers Ara is very serious, preferring to stick to professional talk. He never lets his guard down, always on the lookout for suspicious individuals. He finds it hard to trust anybody, most likely form the way his father acted. His strangely colored eyes often make people afraid of him, thinking that he's a demon or something. Although he doesn't resent them for it, he finds it hard to approach people or make friends because he fears their reactions. Around people he's more comfortable with Ara brings his guard down rather quickly. he becomes jokey and generally very sweet and kind, sometimes accidentally flirty (not that he knows that). He openly discusses his likes and dislikes, although he does find it hard to initiate conversation. Likes: Music, his friends, privacy, every season, battle. Dislikes: Arrogance, actual death, idiots, his loved ones being threatened. Catch Phrases: "Just because you prefer one season, say...spring. Does that mean the other seasons are any less beautiful?" "You say you are powerful? I say you are foolish. Power is only an illusion made by the strong to oppress the weak." "You've made a mistake. Fighting me might not be one, but hurting my friend....Is the worst thing you could've done." "Watch me tear the sky open. It's not for me though, it's for them...For you..." "Everyone I came to care about I left behind, I still regret it." "To destroy a man, give him power. To save a man, give him strength." Philosophy: Ara believes that power should be used to protect whatever you care about. In his mind he is the defender of everybody that cares about him and him them. Alignment Information Nation: Kingdom of Gelu Village: Village-less Job/Trade: Freelance mercenary Rank: N/A Alignment: Neutral good: Although Ara does good things often, he does them for people he cares about, not because he can. Often he will help people only to appease his guilt about his past, although he can't allow himself to turn a blind eye to those who desperately need help. Abilities Information Class: Expert Specialties:
- Swordsmanship (Combat): 125
- Non- elemental (Mana): 125
- Medical (Mana): 50
- Tactical weaponry (combat): 50
- Elemental (Mana): 125
Stats:
- Strength: 100
- Speed: 750
- Reflexes: 800
- Stamina: 200
- Mana: 800
- Control: 100
Combat Style: Ara is a master swordsman with focus on speedy slices and jabs to end his opponents. His focus on swordsmanship has unfortunately left him useless without a weapon. He possesses incredible speed for someone of his level of ability, although without his sword he hits like a wimp. His knowledge of tactical weaponry allowed him to use some techniques with his sword later on. Mana Style: Ara possesses a massive mana pool, far beyond average for somebody on his level. Because of this he has little control over it, preferring to use his sword to unleash pure waves of power. he can perform a few medical techniques such as limb regeneration, although will likely never master the art. Later on in his life he discovered he could control not one but 3 basic elements and one advanced element. he found his basic alignments to be: Water, Wind and lightning and his advanced element is lava, although he currently has no techniques for any of them. Special Abilities: - Spoiler:
Name: Tempo steps Class:2 Type:Activated Description:Using his ability to keep rhythm from years of mastering the blade, Ara is able to time out his steps perfectly, increasing his speed by 100 on top of his base speed. Weaknesses: N/A Techniques: - Spoiler:
Name: Mana wave Class: Class 2 Type: Mana Sub-Type: Offensive Specialties: Swordsmanship: 100 Availability: Open Requirements: 700+ base mana Description: Using the sword as a medium the wielder is able to fire a wave of pure mana at their foe. This wave has no elemental properties, but is rather explosive. Training: 650 words Cost: 100 mana Name: Mana wave: Oppressive disk Class: 3 Type: Mana Sub-Type: Offensive Specialties: Swordsmanship: 100 Tactical weaponry: 50 Availability: By request - must be taught by Ara. Requirements: 700+ base mana Description: Whilst spinning his blade by it's chain, Ara releases a smaller mana wave, which takes the shape of a disk. If Ara throws his blade then pulls it back immediately, the disk is launched at the foe. Ara created this technique himself and whilst it lacks the explosive power of the normal mana wave, it makes up for it with a cutting edge. Training: 700 words Cost: 50 Name: Protection of the reaper: Bone body Class: 1 Type: mana Sub-Type: Offensive/Supplementary hybrid Specialties: Non-elemental Availability: Closed Requirements: Non-elemental: 125 Medical: 50 Description: By reaching inwards with his mana, Ara forces his body to mass produce calcium, before forcing it out of his body from his eyes and his mouth. The calcium in liquid state then forms around his face, forming a demon-like mask. This mask looks like a grinning human skull with two froward-facing horns and red stripes going down over each eye meeting in the middle of the head. This mask has the effect of making him stronger as well as offering good protection for his head . +400 strength once the technique is activated. - Spoiler:
Training: 1100 Cost: 200 mana 50 mana to maintain per post. Causes damage and pain to the user. Name: Mana wave: Crushing fang Class: 1 Type: Mana Sub-Type: Offensive Specialties: Swordsmanship: 125 Non-elemental: 100 Availability: By-request - must be taught by Ara Requirements: Speed: 900 Reflexes: Must be higher then speed. Description: Another variant of the mana wave created by Ara. This time Ara fires a mana wave from below his foe and then, using his speed, fire another one from above so the two waves meet on top of the foe. This technique has twice the explosive power of the mana wave since it is two mana waves. Training: 1200 Cost: 200 mana 50 stamina Name: Mana wave: First and last Class: 2 Type: Mana Sub-Type: Offensive Specialties: Swordsmanship: 125 Availability: Open Requirements: Speed: 1000 Description: The wielder begins by charging their mana into a sheathed blade. When their blade is charged, they unsheathe their sword with an upwards slash, immediately sending out a very fast moving mana wave. This is often used to initiate a fight. Training: 600 Cost: 100 mana Name: Restoration: Healing of the selfish Class: 4 Type: Mana Sub-Type: Supplementary Specialties: Medical: 50 Availability: Open Requirements: Control: < 200 Description: By simply pouring their mana into their wounds, the user can heal very serious damage to themselves. The only downside is that they cannot use the technique on another individual and they struggle to regrow lost limbs quickly. Training: Cost: 75 mana Inventory: Name: Mūn setsudan ha Type: Sword Specialties: Swordsmanship: 75 Appearance: - Image:
Mūn setsudan ha or as Ara calls it Mun, is a long black blade with a long chain attached to the hilt. The hilt is black with red diamond shapes embedded in it. Class: 2 Special Abilities: Ara can fire waves of his magic from the blade or store it inside the sword to release at his command. He can store 200 mana in the blade safely. He can store more but 50 mana leaks out until only 200 is stored. Each blast of mana costs 100 mana. He can also lengthen the chain to throw the sword with by using a technique that comes with the sword. - Chain technique:
Name: Chains of the moon.Class: 2 Type: Sustained activated Description: By focusing on sending his magic into the chain at the hilt, Ara can change it's length at will. While doing this he can throw the blade or use it like one would a flail, albeit a bladed flail. While using Chains of the moon Ara can still release waves of power although they are weaker since more power is being used to extend the chain. Specialty requirements: Swordsmanship 125 Tactical weaponry: 50 Origin:This blade has been with the Culaco family for generations, originally wielded by the first Culaco. This weapon was mainly an heirloom, rarely used in combat unless the Culaco family heir had nothing else to use. Normally it was considered disrespect to use such an heirloom as a weapon. As such it was passed down to each heir of the family. Even when the Culaco family had lost it's noble status hundreds of years ago, it was still passed on to the first born son of the family. As such, Ara would have received it anyway, even if his father hadn't gone completely insane. It was just, as luck would have it, the first blade he had grabbed to escape his home with. It was unclear why he had grabbed it first, although Ara would like to believe it was fate. It is unclear who made the blade, or how many were made in the first place. It was obviously made with a few techniques in mind, like the chain technique Ara had possibly re-invented. This blade is said to have been made with a bone of the reaper embedded in the hilt as the core of it's magical properties. This blade also corrupts the wielders mana slowly, making it discolored and corruptive, killing all plant life around it. Ara has never checked to see if there is a bone in the hilt, although he assumes it to be true since he can't explain the blades abilities otherwise. The blade is also partially sentient, and latches onto it's wielders mana. This has no real effects apart from making it so only it's selected wielder can use it. Materials used: As mentioned before it is said that a bone from the reaper itself is embedded in the hilt, although this is still unclear. What is for definite is that the blade is made of a kind of stone and not metal. This stone has most of the properties of steel in that it can conduct mana, although it is far stronger and is said to be unbreakable. Requirements: Swordsmanship: 100 Tactical weaponry: 50 Availability: Less then 10 though possibly more than 3 Total Price: 1250 Past Information History: - Child years:
Ara Culaco was born the first child to Rechazo and Amie Culaco. When he was 4 years of age his mother fell pregnant again, this time with Ara's younger identical brother Yeager. Although this time there had been complications with the birth, and his mother had become very sick.
Ara's father had tried everything he knew to save Amie. He'd tried every method he knew, he'd even tried contacting the worlds best healers. None ever replied. As his mother's health had worsened, Ara had noticed his father's growing darkness. even at a young age he could see his father was heading down a bad path.
His father had started his magical tutoring when he was 7, secretly hoping to mold him into a brilliant healer so he could save Amie, who's health had waned dramatically. imagine his fathers ire when after all of the tutoring on the human body, it turned out Ara could only heal himself with massive results. He could heal a few cuts and gashes on other people, but that was it.
At the age of 10, Ara's father had introduced him to the world of blades and immediately Ara had found himself mystified. Rechazo had been a decent swordsman, but ultimately he wasn't anything special. This made Rechazo wonder why his son was so good at wielding any bladed weapon. It seemed Ara had massive natural talent with a blade. His training in using a blade continued until he had mastered the art at 13 through nonstop practice.
- The way of the sword:
Training to master the blade requires many things from an individual. It requires sweat, hard work, determination....and blood. The way of the blade is a path many wish to follow but few master. It involves both accepting the blade as a part of yourself and in essence rejecting it's existence. To master the blade is to master your own limbs, and Ara wished to walk down that path.
He had always shown a natural talent for the sword, progressing leaps and bounds in each training session. He found that having a blade with him made him feel safe, made him feel powerful. He quickly found himself to be faster, smarter, calmer and more mature then most people his age, or even older. More quirks popped up, like him finding sword-fighting to be like meditation.
- Leaving home:
As the years had passed Rechazo, Ara's father, had become less and less kindhearted, spending most of his waking moments researching healing and mana, believing Amie could still be saved. Speaking of Amie, she had fallen so ill she had pretty much slipped into a constant coma, dying slowly with each passing day.
No matter how hard he'd tried, Ara couldn't find a way to improve his proficiency in medical magic. It was like his body rejected the idea of healing another person. Many times had he gone to the best healers he knew, begging and pleading for tutoring, but none seemed to know why he couldn't heal others very well.
As his father's mental conditions had worsened Ara had noticed strange goings on. Sometimes red lights would flicker beyond the basement door and sometimes they would glow brighter then the sun. Sometimes he could hear his father's voice murmuring strange words in gibberish, often before another flash of red light.
Rechazo had always been a bright man and a kind father, which was why nobody expected him to do something unthinkable. Sometime when Ara was 15 and Yeager was 11, Rechazo had gone off into the nearby town. This would have been normal, if Rechazo hadn't snapped that day. The usually kind father had sacrificed all of the towns inhabitants in the mad quest to heal his wife and Ara's mother.
Ara had found out the next time he went to the town, to find it empty...Deserted. He had gone home to ask his father where the townsfolk were to find him standing above the corpses of two men holding a bloody dagger. Ara had asked why he had killed them only to discover that his father had killed the entire town off too just to try healing Amie.
Ara hadn't taken well to that, and had picked up the nearest sword on the shelf next to him. Before Rechazo could blink Ara had vanished and re-appeared at the doorway, just as Rechazo's left hand fell to the floor. Ara had ran that night, not knowing if his brother was safe. - Don't fear the reaper:
Throughout his life, Ara had been fascinated by one thing beyond swords, the reaper. Truth be told his fascination for the reaper also stemmed from a certain special blade, though his reaper fascination was far less practical then swordplay was.
He'd read many books written on the reaper, learnt as much as he could. He'd even dug up some of his fathers more....extensive research. He'd learnt many things about the reaper though not one seemed to mention his powers nor how they manifested. He'd even come across some ancient Sosarian texts about a similar figure, one that he'd dubbed as the "Origin reaper", a creature of amazing power and terrifying ability. They believed this creature to claim the souls of the corrupt and the pure.
He'd taken strides to achieve similar power, though nothing crazy. A few deliberately botched healing's and the occasional mana mutation using the family blade. For a long time he'd thought that his father was trying to achieve the same but alas, he wasn't.
- On the road:
After leaving home, Ara had discovered that it was hard to learn to control your mana by yourself. All he could really do was direct it to parts of his body and outwards in large quantities. He discovered pretty quickly that he could release waves of it from his sword and control the size of said waves.
He also discovered that he could heal himself better than anything, having lost his right arm in a battle with another swordsman once. It had taken around a week or so but he discovered he could regrow his arm at full capacity.
While on the road for years Ara started working on his own techniques, although he had never gotten far with his control. He never really made contact with many people nor did he ever get into many serious fights.
- Elemental affinities:
In his travels, despite his lack of mana control, Ara found that the air became charged when he brought forth his mana. Naturally he did research into this and discovered the ability to call forth lightning and wind too.
He trained in controlling the two destructive forces of nature, barely succeeding before hitting another roadblock, water manipulation. Although not really a problem as such, he yet again had to struggle to keep the fluidity of water in control. Water proved harder to control then wind and lightning simply because of how fluid and flexible it was, constantly changing.
Upon achieving control over water, Ara noticed that his blood started to feel warmer, sometimes bordering on boiling hot. Thinking he had control over fire, that is what he tried to summon forth...
So imagine his surprise when instead lava bubbled up out of the ground, shooting up in a scorching column. This would prove a problem, since advanced elements were said to be impossible to truly control, especially if you had control like his. So Ara instead embraced the destructive nature of lava, eventually earning himself the moniker of "Ara of the worldly disasters". Family: Amie Culaco - Status: Comatose Rechazo Culaco - Status: Living Yeager Culaco - Status: Unknown Friends: Roleplay Sample - Spoiler:
"There isn't much here is there? Great, I'm lost aren't I?"
These were the thoughts of one Ara Culaco as he wandered aimlessly through one of the many frigid forests of Gelu. From the beginning he'd had no true destination in mind, only to keep moving and to find his own place in the world. So far that had been working for him, surviving by doing odd jobs for people. He didn't like mercenary work much anymore, he'd started wanting to find somewhere to settle or at least to call home.
The frigid wilderness around him seemed to almost move away from his blade, sheathed at his hip. Yet another reminder of the dark nature of how he'd ended up in this situation in the first place. There weren't many things he regretted, he'd found out that life was too short for regrets, but everyday he regretted leaving Yeager with their father. At first his only thought had been to get himself out and ever since he'd been plagued by how selfish that had been.
So since then he'd taken to helping everybody who really needed it, as a way to atone for the mistake he'd made with leaving Yeager behind. It was a badge he carried around with pride, to be a defender of those in need. Often had he promised himself he'd go back to get Yeager, but he knew that was wishful thinking. God knows what had happened by now, or even if Yeager knew what their father was doing. All he knew was one thing, that incoming wall of white was strange...
"Oh Goddammit!" He shouted, aware now that the incoming wall was in fact, an avalanche and that he was far too close to it to escape now. So as he was swept off of his feet quite literally by the wave of pure whiteness he could only think one thing.
"I hate my life..."
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