Hydaelyn Role-Players

(04-01-2016, 03:45 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-01-2016, 03:43 AM)V Wrote: [ -> ]Not unlike a bowling ball.

An angry, racist bowling ball that's bad at physical combat, yes!

And here I was thinking the round and small, crashing into everything approach described Virara well. Inside, perhaps Liadan is not unlike a Lalafell.

When it comes to non-aetherial combat, Chiyo more or less adapts to the situation, whether she's using her fist or an axe, however, her more go-to fighting style is capoeira.

Xanadu however when she's not bursting anything to death with her magicks actually uses her staff like a bow staff or lance when she aligns it to certain elements.

With Setoh, it frequently starts with a giggle. He loves fighting more than just about anything else. He's got some skill as a conjurer, so he typically opens with a low level conjurer's spell (repose is a favorite), and then runs in. If the spell takes down his foe, he'll administer a quick coup de grace. Otherwise, it's knives and fists time.

C'kayah doesn't care much for fighting at all. His motto is "If I'm in a fair fight, I've done something terribly wrong." His style of fighting mostly revolves around getting other people to fight for him. When he does fight, it's typically ranged (he's good with a bow).

Armistead will fight if he has to, but he's very careful about picking the time and place for the fight. He far prefers to attack from the shadows, and his ideal is to strike a foe without his foe ever seeing him. If he's in a face-to-face fight, he has no problem with pulling a Sir Robin.

Khona'to style would mainly be defensive when using his spear. A lot of parries, disarms, the like. That sort of thing, providing the chance ever happened to do so.

With the bow, well, he mainly uses that to hunt game. He'd only use it in an aggressive nature if he knew a fight was completely unavoidable.

But as a Keeper, he can primarily be considered more passive then the average adventurer. Instead of combat he'd be more inclined to use his words and wit to remove himself from a volatile situation.

Ilan's style of fighting is fire, fire and more fire. Nuke 'em hard, nuke the area around 'em hard and hope that they aren't still standing by the time it's done to kick his ass since his knowledge of physical combat can best be summed up by "knows which end of the dagger to hold." It's very all of nothing for him, which is why he rarely engages in magical duels of any sort because he (willingly) doesn't have a tone it down switch. Just very intense fire and ouch. Though Black Mages tend to wield a staff or somesuch, Ilan doesn't really carry one? He has a dagger on his person just in case, but yeah. So I guess this style of fighting can best be described as Roy Mustanging the crap out of stuff without worrying about precision or any of that nonsense.

Kiyo Ikeda, my Raen, is chiefly a Summoner who uses her pets and such, but she's also trained as a rogue in case she can't rely on her magic. This all stems from a situation she was in where she was useless in battle one time because her magic failed her, so she learned how to fight and learned how to fight dirty. She ICly doesn't have any ninja training. It's straight poisoned daggers and cheap shots. Girl will kick sand in your face or sneak you if she has to. She's agile and quick but not terribly strong physically, so she uses her surroundings to her advantage.

Annnd Odessa Cassius, my lady midlander, is Ze Sniper. Uses guns and explosives if need be but generally relies on precision with her fire arms and tries to keep as much distance between herself and an enemy as possible with shoot and run tactics. She's also quick on her feet with a decent amount of strength.

Leih's style is mostly an agile lancer form. Since she's small and light on her feet, she tries to avoid as much as she can and depending on her enemies depends where she attacks. Against fighters she notice that they need a more stable footing, she goes for the legs. Shield and sword? Arms. Magic? She tries to keep close so their spellcasting is limited by the fear of harming themselves and so she can do some heavy melee hits. And when she fights beasts she tries to see what is their advantage and disadvantages against her. This is mostly from having to learn to survive and one key factor on that was gaining the skill to measure her opponents, be it in a battle or when trying to steal.

Averill's a storm. His training and expertise were earned in the wilds of Abalathia's Spine and beyond, and he lives for those savage battles. He wields his axe as comfortably with one hand as he does with two, and lashes about the battlefield possessed by a strength that's his to wield, but never his to control.

Originally it was doing everything in Verad's power not to fight, especially by threatening to unseal his skills as Eorzea's Greatest Archer Pending Certain Conditions and other chuuni nonsense or by redirecting the conflict to some other means of resolution.

This is still his go-to even after finding out he is pretty good with knives. He still has yet to actually kill anyone or do more than significantly wound. Thus far his style in that regard has been to lurk around the edges of a larger fight and wait for a critical moment before moving in to strike. 

When he has fought one-on-one, it's been at the Grindstone, where he brings whatever weird crap strikes him as being a good sales pitch and marketing ploy to the fore. When it comes to a serious single combat that he can't talk his way out of, what his style will be is anybody's guess.

Evangeline fights in a strange blend of tactics and aggression. Her typical weapons are some sort of mechanical sword creation and her pouch of grenades. Examples of her stupid sword ideas are:

Flaming Sword
Really hot metal sword
Electrified Sword
Chainsword
Vibrosword
Obsidian Sword

All of which are horrible things to use longterm, but if things go well she distracts someone with a spread of grenades, and uses the novelty of her blade to get the upperhand. 


R'elend fights in a traditional style with a towershield and blade. He circles and looks for openings, using the shield offensively and defensively. I base his style off of Roman Legionaires. 


Damascus is more of a tactician than an actual fighter. If she had to she could summon a rock and throw it at someone, but if anyone went 1v1 with her she'd get torn apart almost immediately.

Raik's always been a brute force character, he'll easily break a wall or two during a fight if hes having too much fun and doesnt pay attension to his surroundings, he'll also usually just fight with his fists cause he doesnt really want to fatally harm someone during a spar cause of the massive weapon he uses, aetherically due to never mastering any certain style of magic he always goes for the overwhelming attacks or rediculously weird attacks that he hopes throws an opponent off guard.

As for Saizo, he's completely incapable of using aether attacks, and being of a more slender build he tends to try for a more agile approach to fighting while using his various custom arms, (literally arms), to switch for whichever situation hes in.

Both Raik and Saizo have a horrible habit of not going all out as well, due to pride and just enjoying the fights,

Kodie prefers shooting things until they stop moving, he's not afraid to unload as much ammo as possible, but if they manage to get close enough, he can handle himself in a fist fight. He can and will use small arms like knives if needed, but when it comes to sword, thinks of Mal Reynolds in the episode "Shindig" and that's pretty much the equivalent of Kodie's skills when it comes to sword dueling. I'd consider him a dirty fighter.

Korben is more of a brute force type of person since an axe is his main weapon, though he will also use a sword. He has no magic skills whatso ever, and lacks any ranged fighting skills. He prefers to go up close with his enemy.

She's tank in-game so I feel like I have to RP her similarly.  She uses avoidance and defense techniques until an opportunity arises to use brutal, merciless force.  Opponents tend to mistake her technique as a sign they are winning right up until their head comes off.

Hmm. I think Warren's go-to style would be pack tactics. He's rarely alone if he ends up getting into a fight, and since he's a big guy with a sword and a shield he appears to be a fairly threatening foe. By drawing attention of someone in combat and keeping it, he's able to let them get pummeled or skewered or chopped in two by someone else on his side.

In a purely one-on-one affair that isn't the Grindstone, Warren is usually reticent to get into a fight. If he absolutely has to engage, he seeks to disarm his opponents to try and get them to back down. If they are particularly spirited in their aggression, sometimes that means aiming for wrists or feet or knees. He's also not afraid to let his armor or body take what would not be a lethal strike in the hopes of landing one of his own to bring an end to things.

Orrin's combat is borne from training as a Dragoon, as such its all about finding that one exposed weak spot and putting all the force into that hit to put the threat down for good and moving on to the next one. 

Enemy and currently held weapon informs the nuances of his style, However most who have RP'd combat with Orrin can attest it usually revolves around jumping at an opponent really hard. Failing that it tends to become a flurry of blows to overwhelm and eventually crush the opponent.

(04-20-2016, 03:15 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: [ -> ]Hmm. I think Warren's go-to style would be pack tactics. He's rarely alone if he ends up getting into a fight, and since he's a big guy with a sword and a shield he appears to be a fairly threatening foe. By drawing attention of someone in combat and keeping it, he's able to let them get pummeled or skewered or chopped in two by someone else on his side.

In a purely one-on-one affair that isn't the Grindstone, Warren is usually reticent to get into a fight. If he absolutely has to engage, he seeks to disarm his opponents to try and get them to back down. If they are particularly spirited in their aggression, sometimes that means aiming for wrists or feet or knees. He's also not afraid to let his armor or body take what would not be a lethal strike in the hopes of landing one of his own to bring an end to things.

In reality this is Warrens combat style.