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Title: Kei Tsz Fung (Moved to Character Creation)
Post by: MonsterManic on February 28, 2017, 01:28:02 PM

CHARACTER

Name: Kei Tsz Fung

Age: 20

Species and Gender: Male Human

Symbol: The Chinese character 紀 (Translates to Kei), magenta strokes on a chocolate-color background.

Occupation: 4th Year Beacon Student

Appearance: Kei is a slim, 5'11 Asian male, with typical Asian characteristics: straight black hair, dark grey eyes and yellow skin. He is slightly athletically built and with no obvious muscle at first glance. His face is straight and serious, often foreboding, and he often wears glasses. Several things that stands out about Kei is his distinctive lack of strength in his left arm, the obvious bulge along the back of his spine, as well as a permanent scar on his left hand, which he covers with a fingerless glove most of the time. He also wears a jade lucky charm, part of the Yin-Yang pattern, around his neck.

With a fit yet slender frame, Kei's combat attire focuses little on armour and mainly on mobility, as he cannot shoulder any heavy weight. He wears an altered, sleeveless cheongsam (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7vHVKwQi69ValhzjZWl-gMXEB-zKXa2FTyuXesGdLyDqVqMku) with red dragon patterns on a black background, designed for ease of movement, over which he drapes a grey Chinese tunic, implanted with light, thin armour plates for extra protection. He also wears twin pieces of magenta-colour thin, flexible Kevlar sleeves which start from his wrists and end above his elbows. On his back he has a metallic spine implant with a slot for his weapon sheath, a result of an injury he suffered when he was on a mission. Similarly, he wears loose, Chinese silk trousers and combat boots. Within one of the boot's soles is a hidden picture of his family.

Inside his clothing he has an assortment of items he keeps hidden, which are not limited to but normally include a standard switchblade, 5 dust vials to recharge his weapon (1 of each Dust type), small First-Aid kit, a tool kit to make repairs to the spinal implant, and a one-use flare gun. Over the years Kei has learned to keep said things close by when there is no team to support him. He also has a slingbag which carries extra Dust, food and water.

History: Kei was brought up by a family which treasured it's Asian ancestry and traditions. He was thus taught to respect his elders and follow in their footsteps, and subsequently learned both the Chinese language and culture. Kei still has a good enough grasp of the Chinese language to speak it somewhat fluently. This "style" of his was beat into Kei at such a young age that it has become second nature and he still follows the old cultural traditions even at Beacon. Alongside this, Kei was taught the way to write calligraphy, which he later learned was basically his semblance.

Following his father's wishes, as obedience was one of the main pillars of Chinese culture, Kei was trained at a relatively young age at the art of war, albeit taking a more modern way than the old ways of combat. The Chinese had little respect for firearms, even though they invented gunpowder, and Kei was instead taught the usage of a rapier instead of the traditional spear or sword, practicing sparring with his father. However, even Kei's parents recognised the limits that home-training could go, and enrolled Kei at Signal Academy.

At Signal, Kei was regarded as the "odd one out", with his traditional Chinese clothing and ways making him stick out like a sore thumb. However, this also garnered him much attention, and he was frequently surrounded by people, most of which he befriended, for he had a likeable nature that endeared him to most. It was at Signal that Kei forged Huàbî, or Paintbrush, a simple rapier with no special functions. Because of his training with his parents, Kei actually got pretty good with the weapon, and was one of the best in the class because of it. He also had pretty decent grades, all things considered as English wasn't his first language.

Graduating Signal and following into Beacon Academy, Kei was assigned to Team BLAK, a first year team, and sent on a search-and-destroy mission for their initiation. The team was excited and possibly a bit too rushed. The Grimm they were send to kill was an just-matured Beringel, which should have been just the right challenge for the team, yet not enough to endanger the students.

However, accidents happen. Due to one of his teammate's mistakes, someone from Atlas who had transferred into Beacon, Kei was knocked into a critical swipe from the Beringel, which raked Kei's spinal cord, literally hollowing out the marrow and critically injured him. Despite this, the mission was completed successfully, but Kei was paralysed from the neck down, and had a severely injured left arm upon returning to Beacon, much to his parents's dismay. Fortunately, the person who had caused Kei to get injured called in a few favours and, after extensive surgery, managed to get Kei a mechanical spine powered by Dust implanted into his body, which managed to restore Kei's movement to a good degree. However, his left arm couldn't be fully healed, and to this day is still much weaker than his right. Moreover, Paintbrush was given a mechanical upgrade as compensation. However, due to this incident, Kei suffered small mental trauma and refused to trust his team. As such, the team disbanded. Kei has since progressed through Beacon as a lone Huntsman, with drastic changes from pre-incident and post-incident. He still keeps in contact with his old teammates and parents, but rarely speaks first.

Personality: Quiet, silent, tranquil, Kei isn't anti-social, he simply is the kind of person to let discussions flow past him like wind. With Chinese as his first language and English as his second, when he does speak, he occasionally slots in a Chinese word when he doesn't know the English word for it, or when he simply wants to swear at someone. (Basically, I get to use Chinese characters when RPing as Kei) He is patient and accesses any situation at hand before taking any sort of action, being a natural decision-maker. When in the midst of a conflict, he stays back and listens, rarely giving his own opinion unless asked. However, he is incredibly secretive of his failed mission, and will clam up if asked. Due to his spine implant being the difference between life and death, he will protect it at all costs, even putting it before his own team. As a result, he has been viewed as selfish, but those who do don't know the importance of the implant.

Between pre-incident and post-incident, Kei has gone through a vast change. Pre-incident, Kei was a likeable, if slightly strange, person, open and trusting. Post-incident, Kei still has mental trauma from the accident, and has a distrust of teams, trusting only himself and as a result being more quiet and preferring to be alone on missions.

Aura and Semblance: Kei's Aura glows magenta, and he is capable of using his Aura for a wide variety of things, the strongest of which is a strength boost. However, he cannot use his Aura for detection at all. He has an average Aura pool for a 4th year. 

Kei's Semblance is Calligraphy Control. When using his Semblance, Kei's aura glows brighter and focuses around his hand and lance. Using a specific lance, the Ink Lance, by channeling his Aura through the Ink Lance, he can draw Chinese characters in the air (like glyphs) in the way the Chinese would write a character, except Kei is swishing a lance around, which temporarily grant him specific boosts. The Ink Lance simply acts like a paintbrush, "painting" the words in thin air. Kei channels his Aura through the lance to create the "ink." Since the Ink Lance is infused with a Foci to make Kei's Semblance work, he does have to swap to the Ink Lance and preferably back again, which takes precious time.

Kei can draw five characters, all of which come out as magenta-colored:
速 (Speed): Increases Kei's movement and attack speed. Does not increase reaction speed. Slower than Ruby's semblance.

應 (React): Increases Kei's reaction speed. Slightly slower than a Speed Glyph. Does not increase movement speed.

保 (Defend): Powers up Kei's Aura to better deflect attacks. Example: Non-defended sword hit does 10% aura. Defended sword hit does 8%. (Basically, attacks only do 2/3 damage)

攻 (Attack): Powers up Kei's strikes by 1/3rd of the original damage. Does not increase speed of attacks, nor does it affect any damage done by dust effects.

破 (Destroy): Drives Kei into a rage, allowing him to temporarily ignore distractions including pain and increases his natural strength, but not his base rapier damage. Basically, gives him a massive shot of adrenaline. And drugs.

The more complicated the Chinese character, the longer it takes to activate (Kei still has to write the word). Each character's buffs last around 10 seconds, and a cast of any buff takes 5% of his stamina. It takes Kei 4 seconds to activate Attack, Speed and Defend, 6 to activate Destroy, and 8 to activate React, and he is vulnerable during that time, as he has to "paint" the word. Moreover, he cannot use more than one buff at a time, and he cannot cast this on allies. After a buff has expired, he cannot recast a buff within 30 seconds.
(He can write other Chinese characters, but they serve no purpose apart from looking pretty. Very pretty, like calligraphy.)

Combat Behavior: In combat, Kei likes to start things off by casting one of his five buffs and gain an edge over his opponent. He is a expert at using everything to his advantage, be it terrain, weapons or fighting style. As such, he is very versatile and capable of adapting on the fly, able to change tactics at a moment's notice, aided by his semblance. Paired up with his variety of lances, Kei is very hard to take blindsided. He is very nimble with his rapier-lance, using the dust within to great effect to either engage in direct combat, or even altering the terrain. One of his favourite ways of engaging is to lodge one of his Dust lances within his enemies, eject said lance, then swap to another, allowing the Dust to do it's work. Of course, he has his weaknesses. He finds it hard to safely engage a gunslinger without proper support, and he has a limited amount of lances he can use. His Semblance also takes time to set-up, and he is open to attack at that time. However, overall Kei is a powerful duelist, with less of a hit-and-run style which you would see from a lance-user and more of a rapier-based style, quick, strong, tanky or nimble depending on the type of situation, and can easily fit most roles on a team. Unfortunately, he still retains some mental trauma, and thus this versatility is locked away for now.

Overall:
+Well-rounded fighter
+Adaptable and flexble
+Different combat styles depending on Semblance and weapon
-Almost no range capability
-Weak left hand means single-wield weapon allows less options
-Semblance leaves him wide open
-Limited Dust Lances reduces long-term combat effectiveness
-If you damage his spine implant, he WILL die. (Potential loophole here...)

WEAPON

Name: 畫筆/Huàbî (Translates to "Paintbrush")

Primary Form: Paintbrush is a 50 inch-long rapier/lance hybrid. It takes the shape of a normal lance, with a cone-guard to protect the hand, and a modified handle which originally came from a rapier. The lance is made of tempered steel with a hollow core, to lighten the lance and to store dust. Running along the side of the lance are miniature vents for the dust to come out of. The lance itself is capable of either detaching, or forcibly ejecting for a ranged attack of sorts. When ejecting, the lance is normally shot out with enough force to bury 1/6th of it's length in a tree, standing 2 meters away from said tree. Paintbrush is capable of swapping its lance section for several varieties. These separate lances are stored in a rotating sheath, similar to Raven Branwen's own weapon, at Kei's back, horizontally placed and slots into a section on Kei's metallic spine. The rotating sheath holds up to 12 lance variants, each designed similarly with the same hollow core.

Simplified: Rapier/Lance with multiple lances. Can be ejected and swapped.

Storage Form: Paintbrush's storage form simply consists of Kei detaching the steel lance, returning it to the sheath, and hooking the hilt on his belt. When needed, Kei can simply connect Paintbrush's hilt to the sheath, select his preferred lance, and unsheath his new variant of lance from the sheath sideways. Whole process takes 5 seconds from sheathing to swapped lance.

Tertiary Forms/Dust Variants: Paintbrush's lance variants are divided into 3 categories: Dust Lances, Steel Lances, and Ink Lances. The sheath on Kei's back holds the following:
1 Steel Lance (The original, hollow-core tempered steel lance)
1 Ink Lance (The requirement for Kei's Semblance). Infused with a tuned foci for Kei to channel his Semblance.
10 Dust Lances (2 Fire Dust , 2 Electric Dust, 2 Kinetic Dust, 2 Ice Dust, 2 Combination). The dust (powdered form) is stored within the hollow core.

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Fire Dust lances allow the lance to ignite for extra burn damage. Kei also uses the eject function to drive the lance into the enemy and internally burn them.

Ice Dust lances create a jagged, sharp layer of ice around the lance, for extra laceration damage. This also makes the lance more cumbersome. Kei uses the eject function to use this as a range option, however it is not reliable at all.

Electric Dust lances electrify the lance and electrocute enemies touched by it. Kei can eject this lance and electrocute enemies from within.

Kinetic Dust lances do not give the lance any special powers. However, when ejected, the dust gives the lance much more force, allowing the lance to fly much further than usual. This can also be used point-blank to skewer enemies.

Combination Dust lances are very volatile, as they are a mixture of every dust, and thus Kei does not use this for combat. However, when ejected, Kei can remotely detonate the dust within for a elemental explosion.

All the listed lances above (apart from Combination) have a active duration of up to 3 minutes. They become used up after that duration and become regular Steel Lances.

History: Forged in the time he spent in Signal Academy, Paintbrush has gone through a massive modification from pre-incident to post-incident. Along with the spine implant, as compensation, Kei's Paintbrush was also given a massive rework, from a simple rapier into the rapier/lance hybrid that Kei now uses. (Fun fact: Kei actually writes with the thing like a pen)

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: Timeworker on March 01, 2017, 07:33:35 AM

Hey I really like the way you've balanced the semblance but! Since this semblance is very similar to Weiss's, can he use it on other people to give them a buff?

EDIT:
Also add more weaknesses cause right now he doesn't have enough for the amount of strengths he has.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 07:36:01 AM

Quote from: MonsterManic on February 28, 2017, 01:28:02 PM

...and he cannot cast this on allies.

If so, he would become even more valuable on a team. But of course, mental trauma is a thing. (More to balance the semblance than anything else.) Maybe when he gets over that obstacle, it could be an option...

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: nathan67003 on March 01, 2017, 07:37:02 AM

I think I've seen that in a manga, but with kanji.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 07:39:15 AM

Kanji? Oh, you mean Japanese text with Chinese characters.

Rest assured I mean the CHINESE language, not Japanese. I don't speak Japanese, but I do speak Chinese. Also have no idea what manga you are referring to.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: nathan67003 on March 01, 2017, 07:56:20 AM

Ooooh, cool. Exotic bilingual XP

Also, it's, uh, (japanese romaji) Unique Cheat (http://m.mangatown.com/manga/konjiki_no_moji_tsukai_yuusha_yonin_ni_makikomareta_unique_cheat/)

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 08:04:34 AM

Nathan: Ah, I see. I guess it could technically be confused with one other, but Kei actually writes the words out, not just saying it. Also, cool manga!

Time: Nerfed casting time and stamina drain. Also, note that this is a 4th year. I should be allowed a bit more leeway as to stronger semblances?

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: Timeworker on March 01, 2017, 08:11:59 AM

Sorry to cause confusion,
The semblance was fine! No don't change the semblance it was perfectly balanced.
It's his combat behaviour that needs balancing by adding more weaknesses.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 08:15:48 AM

Ohhh. Ok, will change as soon as I have time. IRL beckons... :(

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: nathan67003 on March 01, 2017, 08:23:25 AM

Wait, you have a life?

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 08:32:02 AM

To my dismay, yes...
More specifically, schoollife. T_T
On another note, could we return to the topic at hand? Specifically, criticism if you have any?

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: nathan67003 on March 01, 2017, 08:34:31 AM

Aaah, yes. The only life I'm familiar with.

You'll make it through. Plus, hey, Nol'idj.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 08:40:45 AM

Uhhhhhhhh, what? What?

What?

Explain yourself so I know you didn't just swear at me in some strange-ass language.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: nathan67003 on March 01, 2017, 08:47:45 AM

XP

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: The Mythic Scribe on March 01, 2017, 11:32:57 AM

The first thing I thought when I read his semblance was how the Samurai Power Rangers 'suited up' by drawing their respective symbols in the air. Kei pink ranger confirmed?

And hey, cool. Vietnamese here! I think my name written in Chinese would be 河.

Title: Re: Kei Tsz Fung (Feedback appreciated)
Post by: MonsterManic on March 01, 2017, 11:45:20 AM

Huh. Never thought of that. Quite sure Pink Ranger doesn't exist though? Oh well, I'll get Kei to sign up.

Also, my Chinese name written out is 紀. Coincidence..........? I'll let you decide.