親愛な雨 - Shinnai na Ame (Beloved Rain)
Nickname: 'Shiname' (SHI-nah-meh)
Age: 15
Reference Sheet v1
Reference Sheet v2 - WIP
Color - Main Body: 9C4E4E
Color - Hair: 973E3E
Color- Eyes: B55B5B
Color - Skin: FDF1E1
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Technical DetailsAbilities
- Tenacious: She can endure immense amounts of bodily harm and continue fighting, even if she is already badly wounded and bleeding out as long as her head is intact. Her unyielding resolve keeps her body together and inexplicably protects her limbs from detachment. However she still has her limits and eventually she will start breaking down until she is unable to move.
- Storm Manipulation: Her weapon can control rainfall and wind velocity as well as calling down lightning strikes. Also, she constantly generates rain wherever she goes and she can't stop it unless she is rendered unconscious.
- Rain Boost: Connected to the above, she is strongly invigorated when fighting in the rain and fights harder as a result.
- Prayer ~ The Thunderchild: There are times where she is completely desperate, this is where it comes in. She loudly calls to the skies and a jolt of lightning empowers her, sacrificing her remaining stamina for a tremendous boost in speed and offense. Her attacks are infused with electricity, her weapon turning into a pair of longer blades, and she radiates a bright glow. Using this mode exhausts her and she collapses after several seconds. Very rarely can she continue fighting afterwards.
- Electronium Eye: A glowing prosthetic replacing her left eye, bestowed by AAlbusUUmbra in an act of pity. Its miniature Electronium core grants her the ability to see in the dark. She can overclock it to emit a blinding flash but doing so is painful. Further overclocking enables multi-spectral vision and heightened perception, at the cost of excruciating agony and ocular bleeding.
Weaknesses
- Weather-dependent: She is significantly weaker when deprived of her weather thus fighting indoors or any other place with a ceiling is dangerous for her, unless she can bust a hole in the roof.
- Poor Hand-to-Hand Skills: While she can put up a fight unarmed, she's not particularly trained in doing so. The best she could do is flail madly at her opponent, doing whatever she can out of desperation. She is also bad at wielding weapons she doesn't normally handle like guns, staffs and broadswords.
- Elemental Weakness - Ice: She's soaked in water, how obvious is that? She is also vulnerable to cold environments like snowy mountaintops and arctic wastelands.
- Amplified Emotions: Her sword strengthens her indomitable willpower but it also exacerbates her temper and carelessness. Her discipline and self-awareness progressively suffers until she is brought back to her senses; either by victory, debilitating injuries or sudden emotional shock.
- Human Anatomy: Hitting her in sensitive areas hurts her greatly and drastically reduces her performance in battle. (Hint: It's her eyes and...)
- Sword of Clear Skies: One surefire counter to her is to use the strongest of the weather swords. It neutralizes all weather effects, depriving her of her main source of strength. It is wielded by one of King Loxias' loyal guardians, not specifying which one.
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Ancient Treasure: Sword of the Storm
One of the six legendary weather swords, this one representing storms. It is a
kodachi (shortened katana) that brings about rain, strong winds and lightning. It boosts the wielder's emotional capacity so great patience must be practice to control its effects. Shiname's father was a very calm and patient man who can lay waste to villages if he needed to. She on the other hand has suffered irreversible trauma and lacks his level of proficiency so there's a raincloud constantly pouring wherever she goes. However, she has unique skills to compensate for that. (
i.e. Rain Boost, Thunderchild)
Fighting Style
To compensate for her short range and lack of apparent power, she wields both the sword and the sheathe, pummeling the opponent with rapid strikes. She recklessly throws herself into a feral assault, darting around the opponent while giving him little room to breathe. She is also fond of deliberately withstanding severe hits for the sake of close combat (
and shock factor). In fact, her signature move is to use her own body to seize enemy weapons, a risky method of disarming her opponents.
STRENGTH: 4/10
Strength measures how much damage a gladiator can do, 1 being no more than scratch damage and 10 being able to destroy a city in one fell Falcon Punch.
While obviously a hard and fast fighter, Shiname has a small body that lacks punch without having something in her hands.
DURABILITY: 7/10
Durability measures how much damage a gladiator can take as well as how much endurance they have, 1 being able to take only a few hits before they're down and 10 being able to survive getting hit by a nuclear bomb... to the balls.
Size and fragility do not correlate well with Shiname due to her tough skin and robust sinews.
SPEED: 7/10
Speed measures how fast a gladiator's reflexes are as well as how fast they can run, 1 being stationary and 10 being able to beat Sonic the Hedgehog in a race.
Shiname is a swift and agile fighter who uses flurries in battle. However, there is no mention of her having superhuman speed or anything.
DEXTERITY: 6/10
Dexterity measures how accurate a gladiator's strikes are as well as how graceful and agile they are, 1 being a living wrecking ball and 10 being gifted with flawless accuracy and coordination.
Shiname has the dexterity to execute rapid attacks and agile maneuvers, but she wastes momentum with her wild and unrefined fighting style.
INTELLIGENCE: 6/10.
Intelligence measures how cunning and tactical a gladiator is, 1 being a brute who just charges into the fray and 10 being a mastermind who exploits every flaw in an opponent.
Despite being an emotional train wreck, Shiname seems more than capable of using the environment around her to ruin an opponent's day.
ABILITIES: 11/20
Abilities determine how powerful your gladiator's superpowers and equipment are, 0 being devoid of any abilities and 20 being able to wield many high-level abilities like banhammers and nuclear laser beams.
Shiname's kodachi packs a sting on its own, but its incredible power over storms makes it an incredibly powerful spellsword. Her Electronium Eye also grants her the ability to see in new ways, and take the ability to see from others in a single flash.
TOTAL POINTS: 41/70 (Above Average)
Total Points determine just how powerful your gladiator is- no gladiator should fight an opponent more than 2 classes apart from them, unless if the underdog gets some sort of Deus Ex Machina. 5-29 is underpowered, 30 is rudimentary, 31-34 is weak, 35 is simple, 36-39 is below average, 40 is average, 41-44 is above average, 45 is strong, 46-49 is powerful, 50 is scary, and 51-70 is overpowered.
Shinnai Na Ame's mystical blade in addition to the difficulty involved in putting her down is absolutely stunning, and her Electronium Eye allows her to stay a step ahead of the game.
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Narrative DetailsPhysical
Shiname is short and underweight like a child, but her meek appearance hides her surprising durability. Fueled solely by willpower, she strains her body beyond its natural limits until she has completely exhausted herself. She can survive near-fatal injuries long enough to finish her battle or receive medical attention. Small wounds close faster than normal, and exposure to rainwater affects larger ones to an extent. Her light weight allows her increased agility and she can jump twice her height. The strangest property her body possesses is how difficult it is to rip her limbs off. Even if a longsword were to slice through her arm, the muscle surrounding the broken bones refuses to fall apart any further beyond a few millimeters. The only way to truly tear her limbs off is to leave large gaps, which can be done by chainsaws, portals and cellular damage. When her body is exhausted and incapable of further action, it shuts down to enter a radical metabolic change. All efforts are put into recovery and she is completely incapable of fighting (even if she wanted to). In extreme cases she falls into a comatose state that lasts at least 3 days. This is also what happens when her Thunderchild mode runs out.
Psychological
Shiname is generally naive and innocuous unless provoked or engaged in combat. However, her emotions are volatile and prone to violent outbursts with the influence of her sword only making things worse. Having spent most of her life in harsh struggles, she really appreciates the rare moments of peace. Her usual activities include relaxing, admiring the outdoors view and the occasional chit-chat. She is still looking for revenge as a second priority and becomes upset at anything closely related to Mr. Big Boss. Strangely enough, she is unnerved by jet-propelled weapons because she broke her arm playing with Alfa's sword when she was a little girl.
In combat she disregards for her own safety for the sake of victory, resorting to anything and everything to make up for her diminutive stature and lack of strength. She lacks discipline and coordination but makes up for it with her demeanor. Her adamant stubbornness also helps her fighting, creating a rigid sense of sharpness beneath her meager face. Sometimes she comes up with very clever ideas early on but, as the battle progresses, she loses her self-control as her emotions take over.
Shinnai na Ame (or 'Shiname') was a daug
hter of a retired weather-swordsman who became an umbrella maker. One day a visitor came in and wrecked the place, brutally murdering everyone. Shiname survived and swore unrelenting vengeance from that day on. Over the years, her journey transformed her from a lonely stick child into a fullbody wanderer. At some point, she identified the murderer known as 'Mr. Big Boss', the villain that's obviously evil and ruins innocent lives for leisure. He was located in a city called New Meridian where the two had a MASSIVE showdown. The resulting clash was so intense that it threatened to tear the city apart. Suddenly, FLLFFL and a bunch of other gladiators intervened, driving Mr. Big Boss away and bringing Shiname to the brink of death. Afterwards, she was brought into the Rock Hard Gladiators system under AAlbusUUmbra's jurisdiction. She still seeks Mr. Big Boss to this day, hoping to settle matters once and for all.
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0: Prologue
Once upon a time, there was a swordsman. He wielded the Sword of the Storm, one of the six legendary weather swords. He was fearsome, he was kind and he retired to settle down in the middle of a rainy forest. He made custom umbrellas for a living and all of his customers were RHGs. Some of them were recurring visitors to the household since their orders took months to create. He was also married to a mild-mannered woman and raised a daughter,
Shinnai na Ame or
'Shiname' for short. They lived happily ever after, or so they thought.
1: Devastation
One rainy afternoon, Shiname was in her room when a strange visitor came. He wasn't like any of the previous guests and he's definitely not interested in commissioning a custom umbrella. She was curious about the loud arguing in the living room and peeped through the doorway. Her father felt that he possessed evil intentions and strongly suggested that he should leave the premises immediately. The visitor refused to comply and attacked him (and his wife) without prior warning. To make matters worse, the daughter was dragged out of her room and forced to watch her parents get brutally murdered right before her eyes. Then, she herself was left to die with a deep wound to the torso. Poor girl was only
seven years old.
2: Indignation
After the visitor has left, she managed to stay alive through immense fear of death, long enough to pull herself together. As she tearfully mourned the loss of her parents she found her father's mystical sword lying around. When she held it her sadness intensified, leaving her in a state of depression for a whole hour. Grief turned into rage when she realized that she can now
hurt people, and she really wants to hurt one particular person right now. At that moment she swore to dedicate her whole life to getting revenge.
The next day she went on a rampage like a child desperately searching for a lost object. Her anger is so strong that a vicious typhoon followed her wherever she goes, wreaking havoc in her wake. Without any guidance, she blindly wandered into a nearby kingdom ruled by King Loxias. The young king knew that she was nothing more than a child with a tantrum and hesitated on killing her outright. He lured her outside with a decoy and decided to put her on trial when she grows older and becomes more amiable.
3: Peregrination
When she calmed down from her rampage, the storm following her was now perpetual rain due to her shattered emotions. She is going to kill the unknown murderer and nothing was going to stop her and so she left Stickpage behind to embark on a mad quest for vengeance. Her journey had a rough start, already in the first town outside the border of Stickpage she found herself in trouble and she had absolutely no fighting experience. Within minutes she promptly found herself beaten up to a pulp, inside an abandoned shack. The experience shattered her broken psyche further but her resolve remained absolute. Picking herself up, she marched onwards through every other unfortunate incident thrown at her. Through this grim tenacity she found out that the man she was after was called 'Mr. Big Boss'. He was known for wreaking misery on every unfortunate soul in his path and ruining innocent lives, especially children. The hunt was on and she will find him no matter how long it would take her.
4: Transformation
As the years pass by, she was becoming different from the lonely orphan who couldn't even defend herself from a group of bandits. She survived countless close calls and learned through trial and error. From experience she grew up to become fierce and learned to take advantage of every opportunity she can. She developed her own fighting style, it was fast and savage like a ferocious badger. Her body, once meek and fragile now turned resilient and steadfast from enduring numerous wounds. However the most notable difference from her old self was in her appearance. Every time she looked in the mirror, she noticed that she was gradually looking different than she last recalled. No, this was not puberty; rather she lived outside of Stickpage for so long that her stick form faded away and became fullbody. Still, this didn't stop her from continuing her journey.
