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Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - McBeefâ„¢ - 12-11-2014
As the title says, what things is your character horrible at, yet they try to do anyway.
Example, maybe your character tries to cook, but every dish ends up in flames.
Perhaps they consider them-self a songstress, but can never sing in key.
Maybe they think they're a tough guy, but get beaten in every fight.
These aren't things your character is simply bad at, most characters have no skill in certain areas. These are about things your character keeps doing anyway.
As for Evangeline, she seeks love constantly, but sabotages every relationship
She yearns for a revolution, yet only manages to create racy tabloid stories.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Steel Wolf - 12-11-2014
Friendly as Steel is, she is terrible at keeping people to her side for any great length of time. Several moons of an adventurer's life where companions are swapped in and out randomly, and her continued flame held for her slain husband make attachments a challenge. Doesn't mean she doesn't try to make it happen.
Same with relationships. She hasn't really "formally" gotten back in to the dating scene, and becomes an awkward turtle when paid a genuine compliment. She's looking to keep at it, though. She needs someone who can withstand the Roehugs. XD
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Berrod Armstrong - 12-11-2014
Berrod cannot knead a proper batch of dough to save his life. He either adds too much water, or too little. The right amount of water NEVER gets put in. The same goes for butter. He's also terrible at knowing when to add a bit of flour. It's  always just a horrible mess.
Yet, he keeps trying because he wants to be able to bake a gods-damned loaf of bread someday.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Zyrusticae - 12-11-2014
T'rahnu wants to write, but her handwriting is atrocious and her prose tends to be impenetrable to anyone who isn't from her particular neck of the woods (she likes to use a lot of flowery language and metaphors - blame her mom for that one).
Actually, her writing being so bad is part of why I don't bother writing an IC journal for her.
She also thinks herself highly attractive and carries herself in that manner, even though her particular combination of hard muscles and androgynous frame mean she actually has niche appeal (which the gals actually tend to appreciate better than the guys). Absolutely no amount of discussion on this subject can dissuade her.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Maril - 12-11-2014
Nailah is very good at cooking - Over a fire. The results are more questionable once you put her in a proper kitchen, and she is generally speaking not bothered by the mess she leaves in her wake. She's bad at keeping her own room - partically because she doesn't really know what to put there, and /where/ to put things, so she has a lot of piles of her belongings about on the scarse assortment of furniture and the floor.Â
She's not good at commitment to relationships, so much that she will seek to avoid people who declare any sort of love for her. She doesn't like the notion that someone might be expecting her home for dinner.Â
Also, she can't fight - these days she's trying to learn how to use stabbers, but she is mediocre at best and doesn't know enough to effectively win a fight. Her strategy for fights generally involve one step, called running.Â
Oh, and she has very little idea of how to maintain friendships. She internally panics when one of her friends are feeling sad. Being all like "Uhm.. So.. do I.. pat their shoulder? does that work?"
She is improving slowly on some areas, as she's surrounded herself with people these days, as opposed to her earlier days of wandering alone.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Zhavi - 12-11-2014
Zhi is such a dork when it comes to gambling. She knows she's not super good, really, but once she sits at the table she just can't help herself. She wins juuust enough to keep coming back for more.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Dogberry - 12-11-2014
For all of his bluster about being a man of the sea, and life as a whaler, Dogberry has a hell of a time catching a fish. He just doesn't have the patience. Doesn't understand much about bait use.
Also, he is allergic to carbuncles. It's an aetheric thing, and as such leaves him woefully inept at any kind of summoning.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Miryn - 12-11-2014
For a trained knight, Miryn has a sad history of getting her ass kicked a whole lot.
Not that great at courtly manners, either.
Bad with animals. She and her war chocobo held a business-like relationship.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Melkire - 12-11-2014
It doesn't matter how many times Osric picks up a skillet, his meals will always be the culinary equivalent of cyanide.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Oscare - 12-11-2014
Give Oscare healing tools or healy magic and a patient and the patient would've been better off dying.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Unnamed Mercenary - 12-11-2014
Franz has learned the hard way that he's not very good at alchemy anymore. He tried to keep up with it for a little bit, but found he botched more crafts than not. Still, when no one is looking, he still tries. All that knowledge is there, but he'll end up spilling chemicals, or mixing something too hard, overheating things, etc. Don't. Trust. His. Alchemy. It's for the best.
He's also starting to realize he is absolutely terrible at trying to cheer people up, despite trying so hard.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Roen - 12-11-2014
Anything that involves studying out of a book.
Roen has never been good at book study. Even cooking, she cannot follow recipes, but has been taught hands on. She does things intuitively rather than following written instructions, much to the dismay of her childhood nannies and teachers.
Not much has changed since.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Lillini - 12-11-2014
Noxaelius thinks that he's good at taking care of his chocobo...that she's living a happy life with alcohol to drink and "boundless exercise" (she can run off around the neighborhood whenever she wants). Little does he know, she always gets rid of the alcohol he gives her out of pity for him and is actually quite lonely running around by herself. Good thing she has a real caretaker now.
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Hutarin - 12-11-2014
D'ly can't fish. At all. Its pretty much guaranteed that she will either get tangled in the fishing line, loose/ruin the bait, only catch kelp, or all of the above...
RE: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect - Verad - 12-11-2014
Eorzea's Greatest Archer, Pending Certain Conditions.