Guess who's back?
And better than ever

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After the incident a year ago, Rhami and

played great skill in archery that would still baffle many especially when you take in account her age when she led an army and entered the gladiator circuit. With four more years of experience under her belt and training once more with her former teacher, Luxias, Rhami has found her abilities to have been further honed and improved. As to how much her skills have been perfected since her disappearance is still rather unknown, but what is known is that she's definitely at tiptop shape and is ready for any challenge that's thrown at her.


A big change to her fighting style is the lack of a quiver. Finding that it was in her way more often than not as the arrows usually spilled whenever she rolled or dodged, she had opted to ditching it altogether. Instead, to every fight, she only carries less than ten arrows to a fight which improved her mobility immensely. She now holds her arrows with her bow hand or have Astor carry some of them, firing them with a new type of grace and speed that surpassed her previous level. She is able to run a whole lot more, dodging and shooting in a fight with a steady hand and a sharp eye.


However though, she does not usually bring a quiver to fights, that doesn't mean she had not abandoned it completely. In some cases she will bring a quiver, though the maximum number of arrows it could carry is contains no more than thirty arrows and causes her to be less likely to dodge effectively.


A big downside to being an archer, and one she still has trouble in dealing with is still close combat fighting. Though during her training, she did take the time to learn some ways to fight back and spar with Astor which makes her a little better than before, mostly regarding to attacking back. Still, she's not very good at melee fighting or even defending against it and can only hold her ground for so long before she tries to retreat and shoot her opponent somehow. It's not any particular sort of style and is more of a free style fist fighter.


She also has trouble with any sort of individual that's fast or clever enough to beat her or separate her from her bow. She particularly dislikes opponents who can easily close the distance between them to attack, especially if they're fast enough to not allow her to react quickly enough to defend herself or shoot an arrow to disable them.


One of Rhami's unique skill is shooting five arrows in quick succession making it seem that she was shooting only one. Her Rapid Shot, as she calls it, has only one warning; if her pullback arm becomes blurry for a few seconds then that's when it's best not to wait around and instead to dodge immediately. She tends not to use this certain skill anymore since the quick draw makes her arm sore if she uses it often. It also gives her opponents a big opening to attack as immediately afterwards one use her arm usually cramps up and she has to shake back some feeling into it.


Another of the archer's interesting abilities is her high pain tolerance. This is a skill that mostly manifested from the punishment that her had body endured over the years. It's pretty hard to believe that she's still in one piece, considering everything she had to go through which includes a war. Though that doesn't mean she can't feel the pain as she still does, but she can choose to ignore it and keep fighting, which is more than the average person is capable of. She can keep herself from passing out or giving into it, but that doesn't mean she can't feel the fatigue of fighting for am extended amount of time or losing a lot of blood.


However that's not all. To round it all off, she is a brilliant tactician, using her connection with Astor, her great awareness, resourcefulness and quick thinking to using the environment to her advantage, she could formulate a plan to beat any opponent they find themselves to fight against. No matter who or how powerful they are, or how invincible they are or seem, Rhami's belief is that there is always a way to beat anyone. So far it has proven to be true. So far.


Still, sometimes she can overlook a certain detail, or underestimates an enemy, or her plan is just too risky and ends up in blowing it up in her face. She is not perfect, and will make mistakes. Just keep an eye on any slip-ups.


Her weakness and strength is Astor and the bond that they share. If he gets hurt in any way shape or form, then she also experiences it as well and this holds true for him as well.[/spoiler]

simple pet is a great injustice to his true worth to Rhami. Being her longest enduring partner, he has been with her since the very start, present through all the hurt and loss that she has experienced in her life. Hurt him and you're going to regret it the next second.


However there is more to him than people would even realize, including himself. Relayed to him by Luxias, who made clear a few things, he is not just a simple battle falcon or even a falcon at all. His soul is actually a reincarnation of an ancient elemental spirit who was close ally of Luxias; one of the first to die by Ubris' hand when he turned rogue eons ago. Luxias took his ethereal remains and have him reborn anew into a new body she designed to be malleable.


However, though in a new body, he still retained his ability to cloak his body with an explosive energy. His whole body glows blue and any physical contact he has with an object will cause the volatile energy to explode. It does not hurt him, but it is very dangerous to everyone in the current vicinity (even those he doesn't want to hurt) and will daze him for a good few seconds. By extension he could also manipulate that energy into constructs he can use and shape into whatever he likes. However it's only single use as it will still explode if touched by anything other than Astor himself.


He also kept his ability to shapeshift (though he only found that later on). He can change his form as long as he had seen it before, well at least before the soul merge as after that process he found that he cannot shapeshift as freely as he had in the past. Since part of his soul resides in Rhami, he can only transform when she is touching him in some way; the physical contact acts as a sort of catalyst even if they were only barely touching. He could also stay in that form however long he likes, but he can't change it if Rhami can't help him activate it.


Astor's greatest ability however, another that he retained from his past life is his Telepathy. It is the main reason why the pair are formidable as a team, allowing them to converse with one another in mentally in a distance. Though after the incident he is now unable to communicate with anyone else besides Rhami. Unlike before he cannot hear what anyone else is thinking, or intrude on their thoughts, or sense what they're feeling or their presence as he used to.


Since the merge he found him relying on his transformations' heightened senses for a leg up.


Much like Rhami, his main weakness and strength is the bond he shares with Rhami. If she gets hurt in any way, he will also feel it as if he was Rhami, and the same is true when he gets hurt as well. [/spoiler]

things that changed with her, one of them being her bow. Entirely new, it's made with a much sleeker design with carvings of feathers etched into the coal black wood along the limbs, almost to shaping them to be like wings.

Not only armed with a new bow, but it also has a new ability. With one word and a quick jerk, it could shift into two different lengths; long and short. The long bow form is as its name suggests. It allows Rhami to shoot more precisely at longer distances, extending the size of the bow to nearly Rhami's height, however it just falls short by a small margin. The short bow mode allows her more freedom to move around, being able to shoot quicker and dodge without having to trip on a larger sized bow.

It also folds much more neatly on her back as it has a shorter size that is the length of her shoulder right across to her hip on the opposite side.

Its main power is still the same however. With a single word, the bow can enchant any of Rhami's arrows with different properties, which also causes the color of its feathers to be changed according to what they do. Her normal arrows has the color of bright blue and black. However unlike the last bow, it is not able to mix different enchants in the arrows and they can only have one single property.

Speaking of which, below is the list of arrows that she had used so far in the past and to be clear, new arrows can be made at any time, at any point and are not limited to that on this list. Everyone is free to make up their own, these are just for reference and ideas.[/spoiler]