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ZFair
09-28-07, 04:17 AM
Name: Alexander ‘Alex’ Fair
Age: 17
Race: Human
Hair Color: Jet Black
Eye Color: Azure Blue
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 171 lbs
Occupation: Wanderer/Mercenary

Personality: Even though Alex isn’t the most complicated of persons he is neither the most simple. He is a person that tends to behave and act differently depending on the circumstance or position.

If we want to describe Alex as a person, it can be easily and safely said that Alex is a kind person at heart, not to mention a sincere and helping young man – this being a true virtue in such a young mind. Always helping the needed, always saving that little girl over at the road and even so enlisting in the resistance against an invading group of bandits that plan to attack the nearest village. A normal person would assume that he is a hero, a more sophisticated one would probably say that he wishes to be seen by others as a figure to be remembered and that he always tries his best to do what he thinks is correct, and a sage would most likely say that he is a naïve man that someday he wants to be received as a hero and would most likely prefer to die in a poetic, almost melodramatic way.

Surely, being young and inexperienced in how life works could be the main reasons of why Alex is a naïve young man – but the real reason is that Alex’s mind only knows one way of life, and that is the one that is mostly spoken in legends, fairytales and stories told by old people wishing to amuse children with fake stories about their days of adventure, romance and swords.

Even though he knows about this, he still wishes to commit to his cause and will, forever until his dying breath, live by his morals – protect the needed, help those that ask for it and vanquish the evil. Sure it may sound childish, but not to Alex.

But, he is not always that kind-hearted boy that everybody loves or hates. Sure the tide and adrenaline of battle change one’s personality to that of a rash, quick and brave person and Alex is no exception to this rule. Whenever he is in battle defending what he believes in, his kind-hearted attitude quickly diminishes and the only thing he thinks about is the heat of battle – he is a person who is in constant search for stronger opponents and for a way to improve himself.

He is not a quiet person, not really. He is, in fact one of the most easy-going and sociable people you would ever hope to find on the planet and beyond. Always there to give a good laugh or to help a dear friend. He is by no chance a cold or calculative person – another fact that makes him naïve. He is a person that respects and protects those he cares about.

If you only needed a few words to describe him, they would be – honest, brave, courageous, happy, righteous, carefree, easy going, a good friend and a good figure of kindness.

Skills:

Swordplay: A professional swordsman would be a big word to describe Alex’s skills with a sword – but it can be said that he is, in fact, too damn good with one! Even thought he can’t compare to those brave and famed knights of the land, he is pretty good with a sword, especially the bigger ones. Always on constant training.

Athletics & Acrobatics: He is fast. He is agile. Too much for the average man to be able to keep the pace with Alex. He is likely to be able to sprint a complete mile before having the need to catch his breath and he is able to leap from one building’s roof to the other, of course the must not be that apart from each other…

Magic: An avid user of all sorts of magic. Even though his swordplay is way much better than his magic, he is always striving to learn more about it and perhaps a new skills or two.
Fire: He is able to create small amounts of fire. However he is able to control any amount of fire – be it fireballs, a torch, a fireplace, a wall of fire…
Water: Even though he is still not able to create water out of thin air, he is capable on controlling small amounts of it.

Equipment

Claymore Sword: A blade made out of pure steel and as big as Alex’s size stands as Alex’s favorite weapon. It’s weight isn’t that big and it is most likely that any human would be capable of using it.

Armor: Even though he is a mercenary, Alex doesn’t really carry that much armor with him. Maybe the money is the problem? The only armor he is seen with are his clothing, an iron pauldron on his right shoulder and an elbow pad made of iron on his right elbow.

History: Been suffering from amnesia for a month.

((Actually his story will be explained with the course of the RP. Believe me… He isn’t really that type of guy who is all goody-goody and saves the world. Nope, there is more to it.))

Letho
09-28-07, 10:05 AM
A couple of clarifications are needed.

In Swordplay, "pretty good" should mean that he is slightly above average of the skill of an average soldier. This is the usual limit we put on all level zero character.

In Athletics & Acrobatics, don't overdo it and go Matrix on us and start shouting "THERE IS NO SPOON!" and leaping from one skyscraper to the next in a single bound. ;)

With magic, I need you to limit the amount of fire he can control. Because the way it's worded now, you could pretty much take control of a massive forest fire and burn entire cities. So something like the size of a camp fire would be a good limit for now.

I'll let it slide that there's no history. You seem like a prospective writer that will work it out as he goes.