Post by Lycaona on Jun 30, 2011 7:09:02 GMT -5
Berserker
"You look tasty... Very tasty..."
"You look tasty... Very tasty..."
OTHER ALIAS[/color]: // Lycaona of Arcadia, The First Werewolf
CURRENT AGE[/color]: // 13
YEAR OF BIRTH[/color]: // Ancient Greece, before the Great Flood - Exact date unknown
GENDER[/color]: // Female
ALIGNMENT[/color]: // Chaotic Evil / Chaotic Insane
OCCUPATION[/color]: // Queen of Lycosura, murderer, werewolf
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Only other pic of her appearance I was able to fish out. <.<
HEIGHT[/color]: // 153 cm
WEIGHT[/color]: // 45 kg
EYE COLOR[/color]: // Yellow
HAIR COLOR[/color]: // Silver
PIERCINGS[/color]: // Two earrings on the ears
TATTOOS[/color]: // Marks on the shoulders
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES[/color]: // Her yellow eyes, the scars on her face, and the fact that her mouth has developed sharper teeth, a tell of the curse Zeus cast upon her.
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- Heartless
- What was once a noble, kind queen slowly turned with the passing years into a murderer that listened not to mercy, only to blood. When the time comes to do sacrifices, mercy only lowers one's efficiency.
- Arrogant
- She takes great pride in how the Pelasgians lived in huts around bonfires until she came and taught them to progress into true civilization. She often overlooks that she was also the cause of great disgrace to them when she murdered them for the sake of sacrifices.
- Irresponsible
- Lycaona will never recognize any of her crimes as worthy of the punishment she got from Zeus. In her eyes, the Lord of Olympus was an idiot that labeled her sacrifices a crime out of needing an excuse to make humans suffer. The only exception to this rule is the murder of her daughter Nyctima. When she used her to uncover Zeus, she quickly regretted doing it with one of her children instead of a commoner.
- Spiteful
- Her arrogance and her insanity have brought her to believe herself superior to most human beings to the point of looking down on them and not caring about their well being. But her true spite and hatred is directed towards someone else: Zeus. He who crushed her glory and turned her into a lowly beast. One day she will have her revenge against him.
- Primal
- Like the beast she is, Lycaona is guided by primal instincts: Hunting, eating, surviving... And those may not be all the urges she feels at a moment. Those are the only things that hold a meaning for her.
- Maternal
- Lycaona was a very prolific woman back in the Age of Gods, and had lots of children with her many husbands and male lovers, more than a normal human could ever have. It's a big contradiction, this one. She loves anyone she considers her child, and will grieve having to hurt any of them... Something she learned the hard way when she ordered murdering Nyctime to uncover Zeus. It's the only thing she's not proud of. But good luck making her talk about that.
- She was quite the looker
- Back in her day, Lycaona was the object of desire of many, which is part of the reason she had so many children, fathered by so many men. She greatly grieves what she calls a distasteful, cruel and macabre joke of the Grail, having her spirit placed in the body of a child.
LIKES[/color]: //
Meat
Specially if it is human
SPECIALLY if it is a child
Hunting
Fighting
Killing without control
Charming men
Gorgeous women
Moonlight
Her sons
...And most importantly, herself
DISLIKES[/color]: //
Zeus
Silver
Rain
Being subject to a master who doesn't like slaughter
STRENGTHS[/color]: // Having been born from a son of the king of gods and the daughter of the titanic embodiment of the ocean, divine strength courses through her veins. The divine heritage is incredibly dilluted in her due to not being the direct descendant of a god, but there is enough divine blood in her veins to still make it count a bit. While her power is around that of the average Berserker most of the time, her Noble Phantasms enhance her powers greatly during the night, making her a nightmarish opponent when the sun has set.
WEAKNESSES[/color]: // Lycaona is arrogant, haughty and not right on the head. Anything is a tasty prey in her eyes, one she will savor till the last drop of blood after she has given them a horrible and painful death. Nothing will drive her away from eating her prey after killing it, short of Command Seals or a nearby threat. Additionally, true to the mindset of any Berserker, she is bent on the One True Tactic of 'Attack! Attack! Attack!', which, admittedly, is not always the best solution. Being a pure melee servant, she needs to get close and personal to her opponent, which puts her at a disadvantage with servants that can attack from afar, and even when close, her endurance is not the best out there, which makes her a glass cannon of sorts, her attacks always being either disgrace or glory.
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MY LEGEND[/color]: // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_%28Arcadia%29
www.theoi.com/Heros/Lykaon.html
www.pantheon.org/articles/l/lycaon.html
MY HISTORY[/color]: //
Lycaona was the daughter of Pelasgus, first chieftain of Arcadia and son of Zeus and Niobe, and Meliboea, daughter of the titan Oceanus. Absolutely nothing in her could hint at the horrible person she would become in the future. Specially since her father Pelasgus made sure to give her the best education the daughter and heir of a chieftain could ever get. She was taught to fight, obviously, for a leader had to be in the first line of battle when threats from outside came to your people. And she was also taught to be a righteous, virtuous ruler, that led the tribe with justice and kept its citizens united, in times of need and in times of abundance.
But most importantly, young Lycaona was taught to love and fear the gods. For they were quick to anger, and they never forgave. Of all the gods, the greatest of them was Zeus, lord of Olympus, who was also her grandfather by fatherly line. His fists could shatter stone, from his hands coursed lightning that could fulminate even divine beings in a single stroke. He was not one you would want to pick an argument with. This got well stuck in Lycaona's head. Very well, indeed. Actually too well.
The time ultimately came for Lycaona to succeed her father. Until that point, the Arcadians had been little more than wild men in huts, enlightened by her semi-divine father to the first glints of civilization. The new chieftain would soon take it in her hands to bring her people to new heights of civilized life, and to that end, they migrated to a region of Greece which they called Pelasgus, in honor to Lycaona's father. There, the Pelasgians, as they would be called by future generations, founded what came to be the first Polis in Greece, Lycosura.
Lycaona became the queen of this Polis, and commanded that a temple to Zeus was built, as a sign of the how mankind's enlightenment was possible through him and his descendants only. Lycosura became a symbol of civilization in the young land of Greece, and Lycaona was revered as a great ruler, who gave birth to tens of sons, the exact number of which is unknown, ranging from twenty to fifty.
But alas, that prosperity was not bound to last. Pelasgus lesson to her daughter about how much were the gods to be feared sank too deeply in Lycaona's head. It did something on it, nobody knows exactly what, but it wasn't pretty. With the passing years, Lycaona's fear of the gods twisted her mind and turned her piousness in an ill obsession. The gods wanted sacrifice, and in her twisted perception, everything was a worthy sacrifice. Including her own people.
In her madness, Lycaona and her children started worshipping Zeus and the other gods of Olympus in a deranged way, kidnapping citizens first, then violating the sacred rule of hospitality and going after foreigners that came to her Polis, offering them all as sacrifice to the gods. In her madness, she couldn't understand that consuming human meat was forbidden among the gods, and thus human sacrifices were an aberration.
The Lord of Olympus grew concerned on this wake of murder in his name, and came down to Earth, disguised as a pilgrim asking to stay for a while in Lycaona's palace. The Pelasgian queen was way too happy to kill him and have him offered as sacrifice like everyone else, but the god would have none of that, revealing his identity to her and commanding her to abandon her insane spree of human sacrifices. Lycaona apparently accepted but, in her arrogance, she thought that Zeus was an imposter, and sought to prove it.
The queen secretly called some of her sons and commanded them to murder their only sister, Nyctima, and mix her flesh with that of a feast offered to the god in sign of apology. If he was truly who he was, and gods were truly banned of even biting human meat, he would surely find out what Lycaona had done. Unfortunately for her, the Lord of Olympus indeed realized that something of human origin had been slipped in his food. The wrathful god punished Lycaona and her sons for this monstrous act of arrogance and murder, turning them into abominable monsters, half human, half wolf, before setting the whole palace on fire with his lightning and resurrecting Nyctima, appointing her as the new queen of the Pelasgians.
And so it came to be, that Lycaona became a disgrace for her people, damned to live like a wild beast, eating the very human meat she tried to feed to Zeus, and being hated by gods and humans alike, until the end of her days. Both she and her children would meet their ends in the great deluge that flooded the world and washed away almost all life on Earth. The once glorious queen drowned in an ocean of divine tears, and became part of the shameful history of how the world had to be reset because of the evils of mankind.
This monstrous, pitiful excuse of a human being... I wouldn't exactly call her a Heroic Spirit... In fact, she's not heroic at all, she's an irredeemably evil villain. Wasn't the Grail supposed to only accept true heroes for servants? Oh, well, not that we can whine much about it in these times of tumult. Now can we?
As for her childish appearance... *Sigh* I blame the Grail. There was a fault in the process of making a body for this servant. That can not be a good sign.
MY GOALS[/color]: // To get revenge on the gods who punished her to live like a beast.
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Blades of Sacrifice: A pair of knives of the best quality, used by Lycaona to perform her abhorrent sacrifices. Sharpened to practical perfection, they will never lose their blade.
NOBLE PHANTASMS[/color]: //
Lycanthropy - Curse of the Silver Beast
Rank: A
Type: Support
Range: None
Max Targets: Self
Lycaona's sins were punished by Zeus in the form of a terrible curse that made her abandon her human form and adopt that of an anthropomorphic, man-eating wolf. Contrary to popular belief, however, the curse was not permanent. Lycaona could go through moments of lucidity and humanity until the light of the full moon fell over her skin. When that happened, her body metamorphosed into that of the terrible beast, becoming stronger, hardier and possessed by the insatiable need to eat human meat. Then, when the moon set and the sun rose on the horizon, Lycaona returned to her human shape, remembering the disgusting actions she was forced to do. As time passed, and the Pelasgian queen started losing what little humanity she had left, she learned to control the transformation to the point of not needing the light of the moon to turn into the terrible werewolf, but could still remain transformed only until the sun rose.
This Noble Phantasm will activate automatically whenever Mad Enhancement is active and it is night. Those two conditions must be fulfilled, no exceptions. It can't be activated during any time in which there is natural sunlight, nor eclipses, since the light of the sun remains dominant over the light of the moon. When it is activated, Lycaona's eyes turn a deep blood red, her extremities develop claws and a more canine shape, her body fills with fur, a wolf tail grows above her backside and wolf ears grow above her head. In this state, her Strength is boosted by a single '+', stacking with the boost from Mad Enhancement. Additionally, Lycaona gets a boost to her regenerative capabilities, being able to heal her wounds somewhat faster than a servant with her Endurance rank. Once active, Lycanthropy becomes active until the sun rises, at which point Lycaona will return to her normal state.
This Noble Phantasm will activate automatically whenever Mad Enhancement is active and it is night. Those two conditions must be fulfilled, no exceptions. It can't be activated during any time in which there is natural sunlight, nor eclipses, since the light of the sun remains dominant over the light of the moon. When it is activated, Lycaona's eyes turn a deep blood red, her extremities develop claws and a more canine shape, her body fills with fur, a wolf tail grows above her backside and wolf ears grow above her head. In this state, her Strength is boosted by a single '+', stacking with the boost from Mad Enhancement. Additionally, Lycaona gets a boost to her regenerative capabilities, being able to heal her wounds somewhat faster than a servant with her Endurance rank. Once active, Lycanthropy becomes active until the sun rises, at which point Lycaona will return to her normal state.
CLASS ABILITIES[/color]: //
Mad Enhancement - B
Lycaona was already insane when she started performing human sacrifices, but when she was forced to live as an amalgam of beast and human her mind finished breaking up completely, overwhelmed by bloodlust and the desire to devour human victims. When her special ability as a Berserker is activated, Lycaona returns to this state of mind, obtaining a full rank up in all of her stats in exchange of having the mentality of a wild, untameable beast, which will happily rip the guts of anything that looks fleshy with her bare hands and teeth. Only a powerful master could keep her leashed, but this requires lots of prana, and when stacked with Lycanthropy, the cost can easily reach prohibitive heights. Moreover, while Lycanthropy switches itself off during the day, Mad Enhancement will be permanently active after it is first activated. Berserkers must be handled with caution, but this one must be handled with even more caution.
SKILLS[/color]: //
Battle Continuation - B
The ability to keep going after one's body is ready to give up. In Lycaona's clouded mind there is no place for pain, and even after sustaining grievous wounds, she will keep on fighting to the very end. However, a human body, no matter how strong it is, is not made to keep working after enduring such punishment and as a consequence, her Endurance has taken a severe hit.
Instinct- B -> C
The ability to sense the most favorable outcome during combat. Lycaona, having been turned into a hybrid of human and beast, has obtained the spirit of the hunt, innate in all wild predators. However, shall Mad Enhancement be activated, it will go down by a full rank permanently due to many of her thought processes being locked away.
Mental Pollution - A
Lycaona's greatest asset, caused by her fluctuation between being a human by day and turning into a man-eating wolf by night. Her wild beast mentality is so single minded and attached to its primal instincts that practically no kind of supernatural mental influence can affect her. However, this is a double edged sword. Her distorted, animalistic mind is unable to understand anyone but the most insane people. Only the insane can comprehend the insane.
Divinity - E-
Being the daughter of a demigod and the daughter of a titan grants divine blood to Lycaona. However, the divinity in her veins is, simply and clearly, limited, and this already low value is lowered even further by the curse she got from Zeus, and the fact that she hates the Lord of Olympus with all her heart.
STRENGTH[/color]: // B -> A/A+
ENDURANCE[/color]: // C -> B/B+
AGILITY[/color]: // C -> B/B+
MANA[/color]: // C -> B
LUCK[/color]: // E -> D
NOBLE PHANTASM[/color]: // A
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FACE CLAIM[/color]: // Assassin - Fate/Apocrypha
OTHER CHARACTERS[/color]: // None yet
MISC. INFORMATION[/color]: // Reserved to become Archard Achille's servant. Also, she may be the ancestor of Painis Cupcake. `-`
THEMESONG[/color]: // Howling Moon
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