Post by Jeanne d'Arc on Mar 19, 2013 16:29:53 GMT -5
Saber
"This war is wicked from the inside, I, the maid of Orlean, will purify this landscape for the glory of the Lord"
"This war is wicked from the inside, I, the maid of Orlean, will purify this landscape for the glory of the Lord"
OTHER ALIAS[/color]: La Pucelle, The Maid of Orlean, The Chosen by God, The Saint
CURRENT AGE[/color]: She died early, she was only 18
YEAR OF BIRTH[/color]: 1412
GENDER[/color]: Female
ALIGNMENT[/color]: Lawful/Good
OCCUPATION[/color]: Part of the Counter Force / Saint
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HEIGHT[/color]: 159 cm / 5' 2"
WEIGHT[/color]: 44 kg / 96.8 lbs
EYE COLOR[/color]: Blue near purple
HAIR COLOR[/color]: Blonde
PIERCINGS[/color]: None
TATTOOS[/color]: None
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES[/color]: Being virgin ? /HEADSHOT
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[li]Pious
- That was expected wasn't it? Jeanne could be defined by her faith. She led armies just to accomplish the will of God, she could have led a simple life, she could have married and she could have children, but, just because of a divine call she let this life right behind her. She fight only for God. All mornings you will see her praying, before eating, before fighting and just before going to sleep she WILL be praying.
[/li][li]Bold
- Well, to lead an army against troops who are supposed to be superior by number and power and still be assured that you'll win ask you to be a little crazy. And to have balls.
[/li][li]Kind
- Behind her role as a counter guardian and her status of warrior and saint she is still a little girl who is not even really out of puberty. Her faith was also what make her so "special" wherever she was everyone said that they never saw someone that caring about the people and who always try to help no matter what. Maybe it's because she, after all, came from the people.
[/li][li]Fire phobia
- After being burnt alive on a stake it's easier to develop this kind of fear. She will not yell everytime she will be facing fire, bu honestly it will take all her will power to stand against big fires without crying. That's also why she hate to use her Noble Phantasm as well since one of them is highly based of fire.
[/li][li]Cool Headed
- She had to face armies, if she wasn't calm in battle she would have died quickly, really quickly, and listening to the "voices" that leads her in battle would have been really hard if she never learned how to analyze a battlefield.
[/li][li]Protecting
- Her Master is someone really special according to her. She will literally protect him or her with her life as she knows that humans are fragile so she will ask him/her to step away from the fights, she will also be delighted if her master is a good christian.
[/li][li]Not that chivalrous
- She is more a fanatic fighter rather than a knight even if she has a high honor she is not restrained by some kind of codes other than her own faith.
[/li][li]Regretful
- When she died, it was the first time she felt fear, she felt like everything she did was nothing. She feared death, she didn't wanted to die like this but she knew from the start that someone like her could only finish his life like this. She never regretted what she have done, she just hated herself for letting France behind and most particularly Gilles which saw her dying, her final words were for him and God.
LIKES[/color]: God
France
French People
French Heroes
Her Master
Gilles de Rais
Kindness
Her Counter Guardian work
Lilies
Churches
DISLIKES[/color]: What Gilles became.
English people (even if she do not thinks that they are all evil she just have a harsh time with them)
People who see themselves as gods of even greater than gods
Heretics
Fake priest (Yes Kotomine this one's for you)
STRENGTHS[/color]: She is a recent heroine however she is rather powerful in combat her counter guardian and international heroine giving her somehow a lot of power. Her Revelation skill is really useful as its use are varied. Her faith is also what protect her, not making her a tank but helps her a lot to face her enemies. She also relies on powerful NPs.
WEAKNESSES[/color]: Well, her Aegis of Faith can be easily crushed by someone with a high Divinity skill, she is also really stubborn, sometimes she could let herself die in battle rather than flee because her enemy is what she hate the most. As she rely on powerful NP she must use lot and lot of prana and as a Saber class she can't be sustained by a weak magus even if she as somehow a great magical power inside her.
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MY LEGEND: L'histoire d'une jeune femme[/color]
MY HISTORY[/color]:
"JEANNE ! JEANNE !"
I raise my head, I can hear a voice, a familiar voice between the cries, the mockery, the one who are yelling... I can't see everything, the smoke already began to spread in my lungs, I breathe heavily, it's hard, it's harder than it never was. A part of me wanted to cry, to cry really bad, but I never managed to let a tear falling from my eyes until I saw him.
"G-Gilles ? Que fais-tu ici ?" (Gilles ? What are you doing here ?)
"-Je suis désolé Jeanne ! Je suis tellement désolé, j'ai essayé de te sauver, mais ils ne m'ont pas laissé ! Je... Je n'ai pas assez d'argent pour payer !" (I'm sorry Jeanne, I'm so sorry, I tried to save you but they didn't let me ! I... I don't have enough money to pay !"
I gave him a smile, a sad one, why did he even tried to save me ? I knew that I would eventualy die like this. I knew that, being a woman and telling people that I was hearing angel's voices was the best way to be treated as a witch. Deep, inside of me, I knew all this.
"Gilles... Merci..." (Gilles... Thank you...)
"JEANNE ! N'arrête pas de croire ! Si il ne veulent pas croire en toi alors je serai le seul ! Je t'en prie, ne meurs pas comme ça ! Je crois en toi Jeanne ! Je crois en tout ce que tu as fait ! Tu n'es pas une sorcière !" (JEANNE ! Don't stop believing ! If they don't wan to trust you so I'll be the only one ! I beg of you, don't die like this ! I believe in you Jeanne ! I believe in everything you've done ! You're not a witch !)
I remembered everything. The first time I prayed after hearing that our country cas in the hands of the English, I prayed so hard God, I wanted him to grant me power, power to release France. Then, a day after, this was the first time I heard voices, back in Domrémy, when saint Catherine, Marguerite and the Archangel Michel asked me to be pious and to release France from the hands of those English people. I remember when I talked of those things to my uncle and when he and I joined the army. The soldiers were laughing that a woman wanted to fight for her country, they never believed me so I was forced to go back to my family.
One again I wanted to bend fate, I knew things that nobody knew, I heard those voices keep telling me to fight, so I came to duke Charles' propriety in Neufchâteau. He was sick and I prayed for him, he said I was a healer, he wanted me to keep praying like that and suddenly began to trust me. So I asked him in return a simple thing, to give me an escort so I could go to see the king and help him to defeat the English.
Then I came to Chinon where I could meet the king. He tried to fool me to see if I was what I claimed to be but the voices told me that he was hiding in the crowd, dressed like a farmer and that the one on the throne was nothing more than one of his servants. I told him about everything, how he'll be sacred in Reims, how I was going to release France from the English and that Paris and Orléans would be the first cities to be free. I wanted an army but they just sended me with only a small group of supply. They then gave me a true sword and an armor, I dressed mostly like a man but I never hide my gender.
My brothers joined me to Orléan, I owned a white banner on wwhichh I wrote Jesus Maria the motto of the mendicant order. I helped as I could, by cheering the people of Orléans, I also helped the generals who were more than skeptical at first.
It was my first battle, I'll never be able to forget what I saw, alongside Gilles wich joined me on this battlefield we fought. I saw blood, blood everywhere but not mine, the voices told me how to keep my life safe, how to dodge, parry and attack. I never saw the color of my own blood since I wasn't harmed at all. I killed many soldiers even if I didn't wanted to. Then we managed to make Orléans ours wich never happened before my arrival.
Then a big party was launched but even though, I prayed, thanking God from granting me so much power. This night I talked with Gilles all night along, he was a great man, he still is. Is more than a brother, he is a true friend.
Then we came back to Reims, where Charles became finally a true king. That was also when I heard the voices again, telling me to check under Saint Catherine of Fierbois' altar. I found Charles' Martel sword which was said to be a lost sword, I asked if I could keep it, they told that for "La Pucelle" it was a great artifact, I smiled at them, thanking them.
I wanted to convince the new king to take Paris back but he didn't listened to me. The voices told me that I needed an army in order to free the city however, and for the first time I ignored them. I fought, desperately, Gilles still with me, as ever I wasn't harm at all by their attacks but the little army that I managed to rise was easily defeated. Furthermore the king had forbidden anyone to launch a new attack since the country had no more money to go to war.
Upset by his remarks I decided to make my own army with Gilles and my fellow comrades, I trained them to fight and acted as the most charismatic leader they ever had. However since we were little our fights weren't that glorious and the victories were few. I understood that, without money I wouldn't go that far.
But then, when I wanted to go to Compiègne to help my comrades when we came back they captured me, they took me to a fake trial, yelling at me that I was a witch, I tried to defend myself, however they never left me a lawyer. I was judged even before the very start of this comedy.
And now, I close my eyes, feeling the wooden cross resting on my breast that a English gentleman gave me "So some of them actually liked me..." I thought, and, be seeing the crown, I understood that even them knew that it wasn't fair. So I opened my eyes again, looking at Gilles and smiled, tears pouring from my eyes for the first time since all these years :
"Tu sais... Je n'ai pas envie de mourir, vraiment pas... On se retrouvera là haut, hein ?" (You know... I don't want to die, I don't want to at all... We'll see each other up there, okay ?)
And I closed my eyes again, hearing Gilles yelling at them to deliver me, the flames starting to eat my very body...
MY GOALS[/color]: She do not have a goal for the grail, just being alive a second time and maybe having the opportunity of living a normal life would be heaven for her.
NOBLE PHANTASM[/color]:
La Pucelle : The Crimson Holy Virgin and the Sacred Cherubim
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Fortress
Range: 1-99
Max Targets: More than 300 persons
This Noble Phantasm is in reality an embodiment of how Jeanne led her life and for what she fought. As she became a Counter-Guardian she won a power she would never expect. This somewhat "unlocked" her magical potential as for Archer.
Because she is a Saber and because she never actually had a magical education she can't call more than a subspecies of her Reality Marble which is crystallized as a holy sword filled with sacred flames brought by her own power and the one from God and his Cherubims which are the celestial creatures more linked to saints. She then, just need to say the name of the Noble Phantasm to release a violent amount of flames who will strike before her in a cone-like area. Everything who is taken in those flames will be reduced to ashes.
Since this Noble Phantasm is a real gap of prana Saber can't use it more than twice a fight, and even with that she could use it twice a fight only if her master as a lot of prana to give her. It's exhausting for her physically and mentally. Furthermore, it's a fire based Noble Phantasm she really don't like to use it since she is afraid of fire.
Because she is a Saber and because she never actually had a magical education she can't call more than a subspecies of her Reality Marble which is crystallized as a holy sword filled with sacred flames brought by her own power and the one from God and his Cherubims which are the celestial creatures more linked to saints. She then, just need to say the name of the Noble Phantasm to release a violent amount of flames who will strike before her in a cone-like area. Everything who is taken in those flames will be reduced to ashes.
Since this Noble Phantasm is a real gap of prana Saber can't use it more than twice a fight, and even with that she could use it twice a fight only if her master as a lot of prana to give her. It's exhausting for her physically and mentally. Furthermore, it's a fire based Noble Phantasm she really don't like to use it since she is afraid of fire.
Jesus Maria : The Banner of Faith in Wich Lies the Hopes of the World
Rank: B
Type: Support
Range: 1-50
Max Targets: All Jeanne's allies
The banner who gave French armies hope and will to fight, as this is more a symbol of hope and faith rather than one of fighting this banner embody the concept of "never giving up for God", when she summons it, the banner radiates of a pure divine light wich protect everyone from harm. They cannot be killed until the banner is removed.
However, this does not stop injuries, if someone is stabbed, well, he does not feel pain anymore and move like it was nothing but he is still harmed physically. So, this can be used when someone is about to die to keep him or her virtualy alive, this works even for servants. But, when the banner is removed the effect stops, so if Saber or someone else was going to die they actualy really die unless someone has healed the injuries from that time.
This NP lasts as long as Jeanne have enough magical energy to keep it activated.
However, this does not stop injuries, if someone is stabbed, well, he does not feel pain anymore and move like it was nothing but he is still harmed physically. So, this can be used when someone is about to die to keep him or her virtualy alive, this works even for servants. But, when the banner is removed the effect stops, so if Saber or someone else was going to die they actualy really die unless someone has healed the injuries from that time.
This NP lasts as long as Jeanne have enough magical energy to keep it activated.
CLASS ABILITIES[/color]:
Magic Resistance - Rank B -
In addition to the "starting" rank of this ability as a Saber she also have a enormous faith that helps her to fight against magic since piety of this God and Sorcery don't mix very well. Cancel spells with a chant below three verses. Even if targeted by High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, it is difficult for him to be affected.
Riding - Rank C -
Well, she learned who to ride a horse but honestly this wasn't what she liked the most. She can "ride" all the modern vehicles like bikes or cars but don't expect her to steal Medusa's pegase or to make a plane fly as well as the best of pilots.
SKILLS[/color]:
Revelation - Rank A -
A Skill equivalent to "Instinct". Instinct is a sixth sense regarding battles, but "Revelation" accommodates all matters related to the achievement of a goal (for instance, choosing the most suitable path while traveling). Because there is no basis (so she thinks), it cannot be explained well to others. But, since it's not totally like Instinct the effects are somewhat different. For example, she will not be able to sense the danger coming as Saber. And if the goal she wants to obtain is not "killing this servant who is fighting me" she'll not be helped in fight.
Aegis of Faith - Rank A+ -
She is probably one of the most (if not the most at all) saint known, her sacrifice for God as been admired by everyone and even some English people thought that killing her was one of the biggest mistakes that could have been done. Her piety was literally what helped her to continue fighting even if this was too hard for all men. It's not a divine protection, however it will somehow protect her from harm, it will not stop a Noble Phantasm at all but at least she will be less injured in battle, as if a divine grace was protecting her.
Charisma - Rank B -
The natural talent to command an army. Joan's figure participating in the assaults hoisting a flag raised the morale of the soldiers to the limit and united the troops. Thanks to her charisma, it is possible to make others believe in the contents of the "revelations" without basis. It's higher of what a general or a military officer should have but she is the heroine of France, her tale is maybe one of the most famous ever told across the world.
STRENGTH[/color]: B
ENDURANCE[/color]: B
AGILITY[/color]: A
MANA[/color]: B
LUCK[/color]: C
NOBLE PHANTASM[/color]: A+
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FACE CLAIM[/color]: Jeanne d'Arc/Ruler , Fate/Apocrypha
OTHER CHARACTERS[/color]: None
MISC. INFORMATION[/color]: I know I mostly took her stats from apocrypha, however I think that she kinda deserves them, let's face it, she is the most famous Saint of all time, she is really known over the world, she is in Europe and most of all she is a part of the Counter Force. Yes she is a heroine from recent history, but she got everything to "power-up" her. I lowered her mana stat because A was way too much but I think that having the "support" of God and being a counter-guardian helps to have a mana level to B.
By the way I'm French so excuse me if a make a lot of spelling mistakes, I try my best to avoid them !
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