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Your Name/what you go by: Francy
AIM/E-mail: sunny revision/sparkingly@gmail.com
Your character's name (last, first): Jay
Series your character's from: Tales of Legendia
Background info on your character: So, there's this island. Except the island's really a ship from outer space. The Legacy is home to hundreds of people and monsters (well duh it's an RPG) and one day a pair of people crash landed on its shores. Enter Senel Coolidge and Shirley Fennes, who soon become the center of attention on the Legacy, especially Shirley since she gets kidnapped every five seconds. BUT this isn't about them. It's about Jay, who later joins their party!
You first meet Jay in the main town. Senel is just walking around and wondering how the hell he can reach Shirley to rescue her (surprise she was kidnapped!) when he runs into a very strange boy. Said boy then proceeds to get everyone to think Senel was causing problems, got the Bantam Bouncers (sort of the town's security) on his ass, and then proceeded to cheez it. Why? He wanted to see how tough Senel is. The next time you see him, Senel's entire party except for Norma is hating him in the face since because of him, Shirley got kidnapped again. Will and Chloe were going to meet up with someone who would give them information, and Senel and Norma follow them. Of course, Senel is quite surprised to see the brat who got him jumped at the town there. Jay offers to give Will and Chloe a ride to the island to meet with the informant, and the two follow in another boat. And... then Jay and Senel get into a boat race. And surprise, Jay is really the informant, plot twist, etc.
ANYWAY. It turns out Jay is bff with otters Oresoren, a race that had earlier helped Senel's group. Because Senel was cool with them, Jay decided to help the group out. Thus, Jay became the group's strategist, without you know. Actually being in the group. Because teamwork is for chumps. He helps the group by giving them plans to infiltrate places in order to save Shirley, and other fun stuff. And then the war with Vaclav (who kidnapped Shirley) began, and he helped plan that too. BUT. His otters buddies wanted to fight with Senel oh no. And because otters > people to Jay, he agreed to fight with Senel in their place. Yay new party member!
So they defeat Vaclav, new crisis occurs. The whole reason Shirley got kidnapped a million times was because she's the Merines, the ruler of the race of the people of the water. But surprise, after Fenimore (Shirley's friend) is killed, the Merines in her is awakened. And the water people are like, ha ha fuck you Senel we don't have to pretend to be nice anymore. SO NEW WAR, EXCEPT WATER VS LAND. But Senel becomes all baaaaw I don't want to fight them baaaaw I killed Stella baaaaaw Shirley. And Jay is basically the only member of the group who stays practical and blunt about what they have to do, and that they may have to kill Shirley. So yeah, a rift forms between the two of them. Jay even goes as far to say that if no one else will, he'll kill Shirley himself. This makes the others to think that he's coldblooded, but Grune comments that "no one wants to do something they don't want to" and everyone gets all nooo Jay. And then Senel finally grows a pair and he and Jay make up. They save the world, etc. etc.
Anyway, Jay was raised on the Legacy since he was very little, unlike the rest of the party who mostly only spent a few years or less there. Because of that, he loves the ship v. v. much. He even says that he doesn't care what the hell happens to the mainland, as long as the Legacy is okay. He was raised by ninjas, and their training was kinda, um. Very tough. And it hurt. A lot. And that made to be kinda... emotionless? BUT. Then the Oresoren took him in, and he grew to care for them very deeply.
Jay is... a douche bag. He's extremely sarcastic, blunt, and-- well, he's just an asshole. To put it simply, he doesn't sugarcoat things. At one point Moses said something along the lines of, you aren't as smart as you thought. Jay then replied with, "hearing that from you makes me want to die." Nice kid, huh? He sees things in a logical way, and doesn't like to cut corners just because he doesn't like something. If it has to be done that way, he'll do it, no questions asked. He actually THINKS before he acts, something that has saved him and the party many times. He basically just doesn't like barging into somewhere without a plan, which... everyone else did a lot before he joined them. So, of course his information gathering skills are top class.
He's still a kid, though. He likes challenging people because whenever he meets someone who is good at the same thing he is, he just has to see who's better. He likes pointing out people's stupidity, usually when it comes to Norma and Moses. ESPECIALLY Moses. Jay has like, eternally burning epic RAEG for Moses or something. And he can be extremely annoying at times, although he's one of the more serious members of the group. And he does actually care about them! He just has a really crappy way of showing it.
Sample post:
It has been a total of seventeen hours and fifteen minutes since I've left the Legacy. From the looks of the surrounding area, civilization has not progressed much; most of the housing consists of huts, caves, and an inn. However, there does seem to be a rather elaborate cathedral that does not really go with the rest of the layout of the island, as well as a mansion. Both seem to be private property, however, and the person who runs the cathedral looks likely to shoot you in the face rather than let someone in. A fine choice to run a church, hm?
There are also a few more key characteristics of this island:
Cursed Springs - Apparently, anyone who falls into one of the cold springs that's not near a set of sparkling statues would be given a cursed form. When hit with cold water, they'll transform into something (???), and hot water reverses the effect. If Moses shows up, I should push him in one and hope that he comes out mute...
Berries - Each colors has a different effect, it seems. So far I've only figured out what red, orange, yellow, and blue does. Maybe if I feed the rest to Moses, I'll be able to learn more about their power?
Moe Note - A notebook that makes whoever's name is written in it fall in love. I haven't actually seen it myself yet, but I've heard its phenomenon has occurred many times already. Why in the world someone wouldn't see a pattern with this is beyond me. It's not like someone writing down names in a book and then you find yourself confessing to a stranger is suspicious or anything, I'm sure it happens all the time. Maybe Mos-- oh, no. Ew. That's one experiment I can do without.
The most bizarre information I've obtained is that the island is apparently living. I highly doubt this is another Stella incident-- Even more, there seems to be a completely different Nerifes here, I think. There isn't much I could gather about this particular subject, for as it seems like the residents don't know much about it either. The majority of the population believe this is an entirely different dimension. I would like to think that this is impossible, but stranger things have happened. Maybe I should go pay the library a visit...
... I guess this could be worse. I could have to deal with that stupid bandit and the rest of them. Perhaps I-- ah, wait. That looked like an Oresoren. Please, wait up! I need to ask you a ques-- it's naked?
A new discovery: Otters are just like the Oresoren except with no decency.
A list of things your character might have on them after they got snatched up and put on this island:
- Dagger
- Eres
- Paper to write... stuff... on