DEATH WEAPON - fletcher, roger (WIP) | BETWEEN ORDER &&& MADNESS

DEATH WEAPON - fletcher, roger (WIP) Jun 25, 2013 2:35:47 GMT -5

Post by ROGER FLETCHER on Jun 25, 2013 2:35:47 GMT -5

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★ D. O. B.: December 12th

★ H E I G H T: Six feet and one inch

★ W E I G H T: 160 lbs

★ A P P E A R A N C E: Roger is a rather tall man with his height towering just over six feet. His black hair is medium-length and cut into slightly scruffy layers. Because of his lack of sleep, his eyes are usually half-closed, but the icy blue color of his irises always stand out. In contrast to his rather random personality, Roger generally likes to keep a professional appearance, especially if he has to visit the Academy. He’ll normally be seen in a short-sleeved white collared shirt with a blue and yellow tie and grey trousers. [/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ PERSONALITY[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;]★ G E N E R A L: The best word to describe Roger is scatterbrained. He’s not entirely an idiot, but it’s very difficult for him to stay focused. He often jumps from topic to topic with no real rhyme or reason, sometimes even stopping mid-sentence only to head in an entirely different direction. The swift movement of his chatter can leave others in the dust if they aren’t paying enough attention to what he’s saying. He sometimes even loses track of what he’s saying himself. Most of the time he keeps conversations light, but he has had a tendency to get nosy quickly and can be rather invasive with his questions if left unchecked. Still, it’s all part of how he likes to get to know others. Despite his chattiness, he is trustworthy. His words may sound fantastic and strange, but he doesn’t weave big lies nor does he give away secrets.

In battle it can be difficult to get Roger to focus. Oftentimes he gets easily distracted by the surrounding area, a blessing or a curse depending on the circumstances. He’ll either be more of a bother to a meister or will notice something that can be helpful. Once a soul resonance kicks in, though, he goes completely silent. It’s one of the few times his whole being will be entirely focused.

Once a person can get past Roger’s spontaneous personality, he can become a valuable friend. He may be dependent on others for reminders since he can be quite forgetful of little things for himself, but he never forgets things for others. Birthdays, meetings, anniversaries, and many other details remain locked inside his head. He’s much better at remembering things about others than about himself. He even forgets his own birthday sometimes. It only goes to show how loyal and dedicated he can be to others.

★ L I K E S & D I S L I K E S:

♥ Sticky notes!
♥ His blue ‘n yellow tie
♥ Bubble wrap
♥ Surprises

✗ Strict people
✗ Libraries
✗ Apples
✗ Broken crafting machines

★ H O B B I E S & H A B I T S:

⋆ Making disentanglement puzzles
⋆ Trying random sports (often with little success)

⋆ Littering his office with random sticky notes
⋆ Playing with his puzzles when he should be doing other things.

★ S E C R E T S & F E A R S:

⋆ Roger actually has a fantastic memory and is capable of holding a myriad of information in his head. He doesn’t necessarily need all the sticky notes and reminders, but he acts as if he does to ensure the integrity of most of his memories in case of another accident or if his condition worsens.
⋆ Roger claims he remembers nothing of his past before his accident, but that’s a lie. He can clearly remember being fiercely angry about something. He had been yelling and screaming, but he can’t even begin to understand why he would ever behave in such a manner.

⋆ Getting in another accident that causes another surge of memory loss.
⋆ Remembering his old self. With the one shred of memory Roger has left of his past, he’s not so sure he wants to go back to being whoever he was before.

★ A M B I T I O N S:

⋆ To remember his own birthday at least once.
⋆ To make an unsolvable disentanglement puzzle.
⋆ To find someone that isn’t freaked out by his quirky personality.

Roger is the product of careful breeding and high prestige. Both of his parents came from long lines of powerful bow-and-arrow type weapons, with each generation’s weapon forms more elegant and impressive than the ones before. With hundreds of years of ancestry behind him Roger was born in a well-to-do, highly strict culture. His life started in the English countryside where he and his two younger sisters could train with their parents day after day in peace. The only breaks from their regimen were summer ventures into London, usually for some social event their parents were inclined to attend.

By the time Roger was twelve, he was able to wield almost every type of bow that had shown up in his ancestry. He also was very talented at crafting practice bows (amongst other toys and gizmos that he worked on when his parents weren’t paying attention). His weapon form first showed up while he was doing his normal target practice routine. A slightly mangled version of his partial form took the place of his left hand just as he was about to fire an arrow. He missed his shot, but it didn’t matter. His parents instantly began to obsess over him. Soon he was able to transform without any difficulty, and his parents deemed him ready to attend the DWMA.

Roger was instantly disgusted by the students at the DWMA. Some of them were motivated and disciplined like he was, but the egos and outrageous personalities (not to mention the rudeness and stupidity) of his fellow students left him nauseated and annoyed. One of his younger sisters, Jane, was sent to the DWMA a few months after he arrived, but even she couldn’t relieve him of all of his disdain for the population around him. Jane had become quite competitive and often felt a need to prove to Roger that she was better than him. To Roger, all she had done was turn into one of the other obnoxious idiots that surrounded his daily life.

Soon Roger had a reputation at the DWMA as one of the most irritable and frightening weapons on campus. His fuse was very short; rarely a week could go by without a “Roger Episode” where he would have a fit of furious shouting at some poor student who had managed to tip his anger over the edge. His parents encouraged him to come home so they could prevent him from slandering the family name with his distasteful behaviour, but he refused. Their concern only fueled his need to find a partner as soon as possible. That way his parents would leave him alone and his little sister would quit teasing him about being a loner weapon.

This wasn’t his most brilliant tactic, but it got his family to leave him alone enough for him to start building himself up as a weapon. His first meister helped him achieve his first ten souls before finally quitting because of his temper. Another meister was able to hold on for seven souls before quitting. Soon a pattern of jumping from meister to meister had developed for Roger. He couldn’t stick with one before too long before he drove them crazy with his overbearing personality. His last meister, a young man named Gaius, somehow managed to bear Roger’s temper long enough for the two to develop a resonance. Both had very high levels of skill before becoming partners, and after a year of managing to work with each other, they proved their rocky relationship was enough for both of them to overcome. They took out a fox witch, thus promoting the pair to Promeister and Death Weapon status. Roger was twenty-two when he finally managed the achievement.

A few months of inactivity went by. Roger grew to despise his boredom - being the Death Weapon for Europe had seemed like such an exciting title, but it felt like he was more of a bureaucrat than anything else. He desperately wanted to go back into the field and fight, but his meister had split ways after they had been promoted. Finally Roger was able to work up the determination to drag Gaius out for one more fight. There was a witch causing trouble in Wales, and Roger didn’t trust anyone else to get the job done. Lucky for him, Gaius was in the area investigating a few cases for Lord Death. Roger was quick to find his old meister, but Gaius was reluctant to go. One witch was plenty for him, but Roger wasn’t satisfied. He broke out into one of his angered fits until he was finally able to force Gaius to go with him.

Roger had grossly underestimated the witch’s power. As soon as they found the witch, Gaius understood the severity of the situation they were in. He tried to convince Roger to turn back, but Roger was having none of it. He needed to do something, get off his feet and prove to the weapons of his family what he was capable of again. Gaius couldn’t understand Roger’s motivation and couldn’t convince Roger to leave, so he was left with no choice but to abandon Roger or die by the witch’s hands. Gaius chose the latter, leaving Roger to fend for himself as his own punishment for Roger’s stubbornness.

It was a miracle Roger survived. He was found washed up a few miles down the coast of Wales, barely breathing and suffering from severe head trauma. He spent a month in the hospital in a comatose state before finally waking up to a brightly-lit room and the echo of his heartbeat on the monitor. His memory was a blank slate, wiped completely clean of anything before he awakened. After a few weeks of rehabilitation for other injuries he had sustained along with tests and examinations from the doctors, Roger was diagnosed with a severe case of Retrograde Amnesia.

With nothing to help him remember who he was before his accident, Roger’s personality was left to redevelop in the few months of his recovery. Nothing was in his head, so he became nearly child-like in his curiosity. He had to know everything about anything around him, even if it meant asking strange or silly questions. The habit stuck with him even after he grew confident in his new personality. He also lacked the understanding of the prestige and power of his own family. They visited him and often tried to convince him of how powerful he was, but he didn’t take it as seriously as he used to. It was just another fact about himself that floated around in the back of his head without much relevance to him.

When Roger finally returned to Death City, it was like his entire self had made a 180 degree turn. He was kind and energetic and rather jumpy, but he could never understand why others who had previously known him were so quick to flinch away from him. All of his previous temper and frustration had dissipated, leaving many of his old acquaintances quite confused about him. His ex-meister never reappeared either (not that Roger could even remember him anyway). Without a meister and a lot of his skills either forgotten or unattainable without a partner, Roger agreed to let his two younger sisters (who had both developed into strong demon weapons) assist in the task of managing the European region. His title of Death Weapon had become an honorary symbol rather than a real rank for him to hold, but Roger didn’t mind. His sisters took over the position with gusto, leaving Roger to ignore them and take on his own future without being disturbed by their competitive natures.

Roger spent the next year figuring out a way to support himself. He was well aware that that there was little chance of him going back out on the front lines while he was still recovering, plus he could barely manage to manifest his weapon form on his own. He tried teaching and training at the Academy, but he was even less focused than his own students. He finally rediscovered his old skill of craftsmanship. Although he couldn’t remember the names of the tools or techniques he used, the muscle-memory was still there. He was back to making similar toys and random gizmos just like he had done as a child. Remembering some of the weapon forms of the students he had worked with, he figured out he had the talent to make fake versions of many of weapons forms. Soon he found his own little niche with the Academy: making practice weapons for the meisters to work with. When he isn’t trying to develop those tools, he’s usually taking random walks or messing around with puzzles. He often loses sleep while trying to solve an especially difficult puzzle.

⋆ Composite Bow

★ W E A P O N D E S C R I P T I O N:

⋆ Roger is a compound bow, a complex weapon type that reflects the evolving heritage of the weapon line in his family. The main parts of the limbs, pulleys, and string are all silver, while most of the detailing and decorative parts are more brass-like. Arrows for the bow are made from energy from his soul wavelength and tend to have a shimmering gold color (which could affect stealth if he is in a dark area). If he and a meister resonate well enough, the color of the arrows will change to reflect the meister’s soul wavelength. The bow uses a levering system to bend the limbs, thus helping the user adjust to the rather strong stiffness of the bow. Because the weight of the draw on the bow is moved away from the user’s hands by the pulleys, a meister can hold a draw and take more time to aim their shots. This doesn’t mean every shot is perfect, though. Since a meister has more time to hold a draw and less weight dragging on their grip, the bow becomes much more sensitive to tiny errors, especially tipping to the left or right. Roger’s weapon form requires a high level of accuracy and skill in order to obtain the best performance, so he is ill-suited for beginners.

⋆ Roger’s partial form is awkward at best. Most of his left arm will turn into the composite bow form while he can use his right hand to pull wavelength arrows. He dislikes it as he has a lot of difficulty steadying his left arm enough to make a good shot. Most of his archery skill comes from actually being able to hold on to the bow instead of being part of it. Despite his best efforts at practice, he still has trouble with his partial form.

★ T E C H N I Q U E S:

⋆ Considering Roger consumed the soul of a fox-witch in order to become a Death Weapon, it’s strange that he’s still as scatterbrained as he was before. Still, the soul managed to enhance many abilities for him aside from his own mind. The most noticeable ability for him was his hearing. As soon as he took in the witch’s soul, he noticed a major difference in all the sounds he could hear. In some cases, he could even pick up the echoes of other weapons as they paced around in their soul rooms. With his advanced hearing, he can easily detect enemies and give himself enough time to come up with a rough plan to deal with them, a luxury that he appreciates very much. The witch also specialized in fire spells. Because of that, Roger has also gained the ability to be fire-resistant. Flames and heat don’t bother his body or his weapon form unless they reach temperatures close to that of the sun.

⋆ Fire Tip - Roger can ignite the tips of his arrows if a meister is at least decently suited to him. This makes him effective in wooded or dry areas, especially if his meister wants to force an enemy out into the open by setting their shelter on fire. The strength of the flame usually depends on how well Roger’s wavelength matches up with his meister’s wavelength. Since the flames are produced with soul wavelength, though, they tend to last at about one minute max before they disappear from whatever they’re burning, so a meister has to make sure that the shot really counts before using this technique. (Cooldown: 3 posts)

⋆ Clever Shot - With Roger’s advanced hearing, he can often locate an enemy that is far away. That knowledge allows him to use an extra skill he received from the witch’s soul: he can trace and hit an enemy without the meister aiming. This means that even if an enemy is around a corner, all the meister has to do is fire the shot and the arrow will find and strike the enemy on its own. The limit is about two hundred meters, and the meister has to be absolutely certain that Roger has pinpointed the location and plotted the path for the arrow to take before actually firing. Roger tends to dislike using it mainly because any fault in accuracy on his part could give away his position to the enemy and only cause more trouble. (Cooldown: 4 posts)

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[b]bleach[/b] - ryuusei kenzaki, [i]fletcher, roger[/i]

★ N A M E: Drasi

★ C H A R A C T E R S: Naomi Allaway, Caroline Lang, Rowan Whelan
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DEATH WEAPON - fletcher, roger (WIP)

Post by ROGER FLETCHER on Jun 25, 2013 2:35:47 GMT -5

Post by POWER on Sept 1, 2013 22:27:28 GMT -5