Post by recon5 on Jul 28, 2009 3:09:46 GMT -7
Name: Carmellia
Nicknames/Titles: Snuffbag
Age: 250 (since becoming a Youkai)
Age Appearance: 10
Race: Youkai (Tsukumogami)
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Carmellia resembles a young human girl in the same manner as other notable Youkai. Only her unusual hair and eye colors give her away. She has a round face, a button nose, small ears, large teal eyes and short, straight aquamarine hair.
She is four feet and three inches tall and is mildly chubby, as is the case with many humans of her age and gender. Her regular attire is a sort of baggy long-sleeved gown that appears to be made of dark blue satin and is embroidered with velvet bluebells and leaves. Unusually, yellow drawstrings are threaded through the collar and sleeves as well as through the hem of the gown. She matches this gown with a dark blue bonnet that also has a drawstring.
Her clothes are actually remnants of her previous form, a snuff pouch that was handed down through several generations. This background also gives her the lingering scent of rose tobacco but it isn't particularly strong as her last few owners didn't smoke.
Personality:
Carmellia is particularly naive and sheltered and has a rather high opinion of herself, especially with regards to her fighting ability. She is always trying to one-up her teammates and enemies in battle, whether in attacking or defending, although she tends to brag more often than actually showing off. When she does pull out the stops, she does not seem to acknowledge pain, fatigue or injury and often gets incapacitated early in battle- which she then tries to cover up by bluffing if she is still conscious. Sometimes she incapacitates herself outside of battle in her rush to top others.
She also has a tendency to do exactly what she wants to do, no more and no less, even in situations where moderation or sacrifice would be critical. This includes things like sleeping on the spot even if it inconveniences others and eating anything that looks tasty even if it belongs to someone else. In truth, she isn't malicious but she does tend to be unaware of 'petty' things like personal rights. She can be persuaded to do things she doesn't really want to do if she can be convinced that she will benefit in the long run, so she isn't impossible to work with. One should just be prepared to talk well and talk a lot.
Likes:
- Classy food. She can eat practically anything but she will go for the most expensive looking stuff on the table. Good luck getting any of it from her.
- Classy clothes, especially those made of silk. While she will never give up her own gown (as she feels it is the classiest of all) she does find expensive textiles to be comfortable and will bury herself in them if she gets the chance.
- Exceptionally furry animals, for the same reason as the clothes above. She likes to snuggle up with them but will not hesitate to incinerate them if they anger her.
- Tobacco of all kinds. She doesn't smoke, but having spent at least two generations holding the stuff she has come to like its taste and smell provided it has been cured properly.
Dislikes:
- Seeing people do better than her. She will immediately try to outdo them even if it's unnecessary or dangerous.
- Being called weak, even if it's the truth. She will attack immediately, usually with bad results for herself.
- Doing favors. She finds it troublesome. However, she will do anything (or try to, at least) if one implies it is beyond her ability.
- Being used as storage. It is one of her primary abilities but since her mouth isn't as expandable as it used to be when she was a bag she obviously finds it very unpleasant.
Greatest Fear:
Being burnt. Even a small spark is enough to make her shiver but she tries her best to bluff her way through in the face of even the largest fires. If her clothes are ignited, however, she is likely to become catatonic even if the actual damage is insignificant. Illusions of fire or burning work just as well as she fears the sight more than the smell, the sound or the heat. All of those make the experience worse, though.
Ambitions/Desires:
Carmellia desires to be pampered above all else. Having started her existence as a treasured heirloom she enjoys being spoiled and expects others to serve her. She doesn't want to be a ruler or a leader as that would be too much trouble but she does dream of the royal treatment every once in a while.
Weapons:
Nothing but her body.
Abilities and Fighting Style:
Abilities:
1) Manipulating the capacity of containers. This power allows Carmellia to fit more things into a bag or a box than it should logically be able to hold without increasing its physical size. Others perceive this power as her being able to cram more things into a container than its outward size seems to allow.
The limit of this power is the strength of the container. If the weight of the contents exceeds what the container can bear then the contents will burst out regardless of whether the extra space has been filled.
2) Carmellia herself is a sort of magical container with an unknown maximum capacity. She can store objects by swallowing them and can spit them out in the exact same condition they were in when they entered (including not being covered with spit). This preservative effect extends to perishable objects such as food although using her as a refrigerator is iffy for obvious reasons.
It must be noted, however, that objects which are supposed to change state may do so normally and Carmellia fully experiences any unpleasant effects thereof. This obviously means that she will not swallow explosives and any such items.
3) She can fly like just about all other Youkai.
Fighting Style:
Carmellia's primary attack is a blast of magic power from her mouth. She can only charge and fire the shot while her mouth is open but she can move and fly while charging. The longer she holds the shot the larger and more powerful it becomes, but the process is dangerous as it is possible to detonate the shot while it is in her mouth. When this happens it will usually remove her from the battle until her head (and anything else that she loses in the blast) regenerates. The weakest shots can do minor damage to Youkai of Carmellia's power level and medium damage to fairies, and she can spit out harmless but painful 'mini-shots' to distract or punish others.
She is quite capable of hand to hand combat and her raw strength and agility are enough to overwhelm the average adult human. She isn't quite as tough as other Youkai, though, so she tends to engage those from a distance.
Spellcards:
1) [Vault Sign: Gensokyo In An Iron Box]: An astral treasure chest materializes, drops on the ground and opens to suck in all magical attacks in a wide cone in front if it. When it has absorbed the equivalent of one spellcard it will close and detonate with the combined power of all the attacks it absorbed. Carmellia herself cannot move the box and is completely vulnerable to the final explosion.
2) [Treasure Sign: Sentiment of Fathers and Sons]: Carmellia's biggest stick. The card causes her to vomit a massive beam of magic accompanied by a sprinkling of smaller shots. The card has a long charge time and can be interrupted by attacking her before she fires. This causes any magic she has already gathered to detonate immediately with unpleasant (read messy) effects. If she successfully fires the beam she will have to regenerate her mouth afterward and will not be able to continue fighting.
3) [Vault Sign: Crysanthemum Chest]: A mid-level barrier card. A translucent pink astral box forms around Carmellia to block attacks up to the equivalent of one casting of Fantasy Seal. The box is stationary and will leave her vulnerable if it cannot block all the shots targeted at her.
Strengths:
- Determination: As long as fire is not involved Carmellia will attempt to continue the fight at all costs even with massive injuries. After all, the best don't give up easily.
- Cunning: She is surprisingly capable of maneuvering others into doing her bidding- if it's not too troublesome for her- and she is good at worming her way out of obligations.
- Fast regeneration from minor wounds: Small cuts and scrapes (anything a human would not need stitches for) and second degree or lower burns heal almost instantly (i.e. in the same sentence or paragraph) but anything worse heals at the normal rate for Youkai (e.g. four to five posts or the entire duration of a battle).
Weaknesses:
- Abrasive personality: She is difficult for most to work with due to her selfishness, arrogance and lack of consideration, and her attitude can grate on even her most devoted friends.
- Easily manipulated: She is far from as smart as she would like to believe, and is particularly vulnerable to sweet talk. Her predictable personality also makes her a reliable pawn for friends and foes alike.
- Poor team player: While she can take good enough care of herself in battle, she can't be expected to watch out for others at all. That's not to say she deliberately avoids saving people. She simply does what (she thinks) is best for herself.
- Extreme overconfidence: She underestimates everyone and overestimates herself, meaning that tactics are simply not a consideration.
History:
Carmellia began life as an embroidered coin bag that was given to a man on his sixteenth birthday. The man's fortunes dipped towards the end of his life, and being a smoker he used the bag to keep his leaf when he could no longer fill it with gold or silver.
His children were better off and they kept and used the bag in the man's honor. Somewhere down the line the smoking stopped but the bag became one of the family's heirlooms and was treated with care and reverence for several more generations.
Eventually someone was careless enough to lose the bag and the magic of Gensokyo allowed it to gain life as it lay in the open. While the Youkai had little memory of her past it shaped her character extensively. She took the name 'Carmellia' after picking it up from human conversations she overheard and since then she has spent her days trying to find someone who will pamper her as her owners did.
Nicknames/Titles: Snuffbag
Age: 250 (since becoming a Youkai)
Age Appearance: 10
Race: Youkai (Tsukumogami)
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Carmellia resembles a young human girl in the same manner as other notable Youkai. Only her unusual hair and eye colors give her away. She has a round face, a button nose, small ears, large teal eyes and short, straight aquamarine hair.
She is four feet and three inches tall and is mildly chubby, as is the case with many humans of her age and gender. Her regular attire is a sort of baggy long-sleeved gown that appears to be made of dark blue satin and is embroidered with velvet bluebells and leaves. Unusually, yellow drawstrings are threaded through the collar and sleeves as well as through the hem of the gown. She matches this gown with a dark blue bonnet that also has a drawstring.
Her clothes are actually remnants of her previous form, a snuff pouch that was handed down through several generations. This background also gives her the lingering scent of rose tobacco but it isn't particularly strong as her last few owners didn't smoke.
Personality:
Carmellia is particularly naive and sheltered and has a rather high opinion of herself, especially with regards to her fighting ability. She is always trying to one-up her teammates and enemies in battle, whether in attacking or defending, although she tends to brag more often than actually showing off. When she does pull out the stops, she does not seem to acknowledge pain, fatigue or injury and often gets incapacitated early in battle- which she then tries to cover up by bluffing if she is still conscious. Sometimes she incapacitates herself outside of battle in her rush to top others.
She also has a tendency to do exactly what she wants to do, no more and no less, even in situations where moderation or sacrifice would be critical. This includes things like sleeping on the spot even if it inconveniences others and eating anything that looks tasty even if it belongs to someone else. In truth, she isn't malicious but she does tend to be unaware of 'petty' things like personal rights. She can be persuaded to do things she doesn't really want to do if she can be convinced that she will benefit in the long run, so she isn't impossible to work with. One should just be prepared to talk well and talk a lot.
Likes:
- Classy food. She can eat practically anything but she will go for the most expensive looking stuff on the table. Good luck getting any of it from her.
- Classy clothes, especially those made of silk. While she will never give up her own gown (as she feels it is the classiest of all) she does find expensive textiles to be comfortable and will bury herself in them if she gets the chance.
- Exceptionally furry animals, for the same reason as the clothes above. She likes to snuggle up with them but will not hesitate to incinerate them if they anger her.
- Tobacco of all kinds. She doesn't smoke, but having spent at least two generations holding the stuff she has come to like its taste and smell provided it has been cured properly.
Dislikes:
- Seeing people do better than her. She will immediately try to outdo them even if it's unnecessary or dangerous.
- Being called weak, even if it's the truth. She will attack immediately, usually with bad results for herself.
- Doing favors. She finds it troublesome. However, she will do anything (or try to, at least) if one implies it is beyond her ability.
- Being used as storage. It is one of her primary abilities but since her mouth isn't as expandable as it used to be when she was a bag she obviously finds it very unpleasant.
Greatest Fear:
Being burnt. Even a small spark is enough to make her shiver but she tries her best to bluff her way through in the face of even the largest fires. If her clothes are ignited, however, she is likely to become catatonic even if the actual damage is insignificant. Illusions of fire or burning work just as well as she fears the sight more than the smell, the sound or the heat. All of those make the experience worse, though.
Ambitions/Desires:
Carmellia desires to be pampered above all else. Having started her existence as a treasured heirloom she enjoys being spoiled and expects others to serve her. She doesn't want to be a ruler or a leader as that would be too much trouble but she does dream of the royal treatment every once in a while.
Weapons:
Nothing but her body.
Abilities and Fighting Style:
Abilities:
1) Manipulating the capacity of containers. This power allows Carmellia to fit more things into a bag or a box than it should logically be able to hold without increasing its physical size. Others perceive this power as her being able to cram more things into a container than its outward size seems to allow.
The limit of this power is the strength of the container. If the weight of the contents exceeds what the container can bear then the contents will burst out regardless of whether the extra space has been filled.
2) Carmellia herself is a sort of magical container with an unknown maximum capacity. She can store objects by swallowing them and can spit them out in the exact same condition they were in when they entered (including not being covered with spit). This preservative effect extends to perishable objects such as food although using her as a refrigerator is iffy for obvious reasons.
It must be noted, however, that objects which are supposed to change state may do so normally and Carmellia fully experiences any unpleasant effects thereof. This obviously means that she will not swallow explosives and any such items.
3) She can fly like just about all other Youkai.
Fighting Style:
Carmellia's primary attack is a blast of magic power from her mouth. She can only charge and fire the shot while her mouth is open but she can move and fly while charging. The longer she holds the shot the larger and more powerful it becomes, but the process is dangerous as it is possible to detonate the shot while it is in her mouth. When this happens it will usually remove her from the battle until her head (and anything else that she loses in the blast) regenerates. The weakest shots can do minor damage to Youkai of Carmellia's power level and medium damage to fairies, and she can spit out harmless but painful 'mini-shots' to distract or punish others.
She is quite capable of hand to hand combat and her raw strength and agility are enough to overwhelm the average adult human. She isn't quite as tough as other Youkai, though, so she tends to engage those from a distance.
Spellcards:
1) [Vault Sign: Gensokyo In An Iron Box]: An astral treasure chest materializes, drops on the ground and opens to suck in all magical attacks in a wide cone in front if it. When it has absorbed the equivalent of one spellcard it will close and detonate with the combined power of all the attacks it absorbed. Carmellia herself cannot move the box and is completely vulnerable to the final explosion.
2) [Treasure Sign: Sentiment of Fathers and Sons]: Carmellia's biggest stick. The card causes her to vomit a massive beam of magic accompanied by a sprinkling of smaller shots. The card has a long charge time and can be interrupted by attacking her before she fires. This causes any magic she has already gathered to detonate immediately with unpleasant (read messy) effects. If she successfully fires the beam she will have to regenerate her mouth afterward and will not be able to continue fighting.
3) [Vault Sign: Crysanthemum Chest]: A mid-level barrier card. A translucent pink astral box forms around Carmellia to block attacks up to the equivalent of one casting of Fantasy Seal. The box is stationary and will leave her vulnerable if it cannot block all the shots targeted at her.
Strengths:
- Determination: As long as fire is not involved Carmellia will attempt to continue the fight at all costs even with massive injuries. After all, the best don't give up easily.
- Cunning: She is surprisingly capable of maneuvering others into doing her bidding- if it's not too troublesome for her- and she is good at worming her way out of obligations.
- Fast regeneration from minor wounds: Small cuts and scrapes (anything a human would not need stitches for) and second degree or lower burns heal almost instantly (i.e. in the same sentence or paragraph) but anything worse heals at the normal rate for Youkai (e.g. four to five posts or the entire duration of a battle).
Weaknesses:
- Abrasive personality: She is difficult for most to work with due to her selfishness, arrogance and lack of consideration, and her attitude can grate on even her most devoted friends.
- Easily manipulated: She is far from as smart as she would like to believe, and is particularly vulnerable to sweet talk. Her predictable personality also makes her a reliable pawn for friends and foes alike.
- Poor team player: While she can take good enough care of herself in battle, she can't be expected to watch out for others at all. That's not to say she deliberately avoids saving people. She simply does what (she thinks) is best for herself.
- Extreme overconfidence: She underestimates everyone and overestimates herself, meaning that tactics are simply not a consideration.
History:
Carmellia began life as an embroidered coin bag that was given to a man on his sixteenth birthday. The man's fortunes dipped towards the end of his life, and being a smoker he used the bag to keep his leaf when he could no longer fill it with gold or silver.
His children were better off and they kept and used the bag in the man's honor. Somewhere down the line the smoking stopped but the bag became one of the family's heirlooms and was treated with care and reverence for several more generations.
Eventually someone was careless enough to lose the bag and the magic of Gensokyo allowed it to gain life as it lay in the open. While the Youkai had little memory of her past it shaped her character extensively. She took the name 'Carmellia' after picking it up from human conversations she overheard and since then she has spent her days trying to find someone who will pamper her as her owners did.
