Faust Smith

[Faust]

Name: Faust Smith

Age: 27 years

Gender: Male

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 134 lbs

Hair Color: Dirty Blonde

Eye Color: Grey

Build: Skinny, athletic

Appearance:

When his top is off he has a firm six pack and his arms are muscular, thin muscle albeit, but muscular all the same. His hair is collar length, thick and silky smooth. His face overall is thin, stern and tan much like the rest of his body. His everyday clothes seem oriental when being looked at, but an embroidering on the inside of each would reveal that it was from a travelling tailor by the name of Raxxis. When in the mood he likes to walk about in his custom light armor which he smithed himself.

Personality: He is of a pagan religion, trusting that there is no god, but in the presence of other seriously spiritual people he plays as though he were of the same religion as them. He is not shy, but he is quiet, usually only speaking when spoken to. He has a knight complex when it comes to loyalty and he has no remorse when he is forced to injure others. His oath to himself states that if you deserve to be knocked out, then you don't deserve respect in any other manner, but that. His goal in life is to become a blademaster and he practices every day to accomplish such.

Opinion on Mortheos’s ruling: "He's a great man, if he is strong enough to conquer then he must be wise enough to rule." - Faust

History:
Faust was born into a family of blacksmiths as his last name suggests. He was of a lower class, but wealthy for what it was worth in things other than money.

He was put into a blacksmith apprenticeship at a young age, but was interrupted when he was taken away by the King's Men and trained in the ways of the sword. He was exceptional and quickly rose through the ranks until he became the top of his class. He was the one to slaughter others that were failures in the eyes of the Generals. He was specially trained by his leaders and taken aside to test a new style. He was awarded honour man by his trainers when his work was completed.

He was not evil at heart, he was simply loyal to a cause and the cause that fate had left him with was his own ideals. The King would be one to give ideals for more power so Faust would be one to join the King in his conquest. When he graduated from the King’s evaluation he was released back to his family where he continued his apprenticeship. During his apprenticeship he crafted his own armor and sword. These would be his stylus and the blood of many would be his ink, this was his signature upon the world.

He crafted weighted training armor and a weighted sword during his apprenticeship. He continued on his goal to become a blade master even after he needed it no longer. He wanted to prove himself to some higher power and this was his quest, this was his canvas.

He now resides in the City of Archum, making an attempt at raising his rank amongst the lowly scum that he was risen by. This is his geas and his chance to make a mark in history.

Fighting Style/Technique: Platinum Sword, a quick and graceful style. The warrior uses a longsword without a shield allowing double-handing. The warrior begins training with bulky and obnoxiously heavy armor to gain strength when it comes to battlefield movement. The warrior also trains with a greatsword to improve arm strength and attack power.

Strengths:
- Training with heavy armor transfers to the use of light armor when in real combat, increasing speed.
- Training with heavy swords transfers to the use of a light weapon when in real combat, improving attack power and speed.
- Grace of the style makes for more accurate strokes

Weaknesses:
- Stiffness from heavy armor training causes less flexibility due to stronger muscle build.
- Due to a sickness from his childhood his knees are weakened rendering himself unable to perform low striking attacks without enduring unbearable amounts of pain.
- Every move MUST flow with the next or else there will be a massive loss of balance, resulting in vulnerability.

Special Notes:
-Virtuoso Blacksmith
-Trained heavy fighter
-Translated light fighter
-Custom Armor and Sword
-Graceful fighter
-Honour-man Warrior Graduate
-Butcher during training
-Specially trained
-Wants to be a Blade master

[Grothier]

Your strengths and weaknesses are a little off in balance. Your strengths are solid, while the weaknesses still depend on a certain state to be considered weaknesses in battle.

For example, your character may not be suffering from stiffness, may not overpower a strike and may have a good flow in attacks. These aren't considered solid weaknesses.

You can add a stronger weakness or try to balance it out a little, and I will approve you. For the rest, everything seems fine.

[Faust]

There that should be better, I just think you misunderstood them. I tried again to make them a little less ambiguous. How bout now?

[Grothier]

Well I don’t think I misunderstood. The thing is, I have to think of an eventual situation of battle. As I do not know how you write and act in a fight, I have to be sure the weaknesses and strengths are well solid. When I look at yours, I see three strong strengths: good speed, good attack power, and accuracy. When I look at your weaknesses, all three can have one situation in which they are not there.

You see, less flexibility is a weakness, but he may not always be stiff from the heavy armor training. You have the loss of balance, but at the same time you have the speed to compensate for an eventual loss of balance, as well as this is not a weakness at all times, since there are more strikes he hits than strikes he does not hit, because of your accuracy strength. A flow in strikes is always an issue in a fight, this means the third weakness is a continuation of the second, since it is related with the heavy strikes that cause loss of balance.

Your strengths and weaknesses are well balanced, since you compensate the weaknesses with the strengths. But, when thinking of an eventual battle situation, I need at least one weakness that drops your guard a little more. I have to try to avoid possible overpowering of a character. There has to be a hole in your defenses, even if this hole is erased IC, through training and character development.

I am sorry for delaying your character approval. It is really just a safety measure, since I can't predict if you are a reasonable writer during a fight.

[Faust]

Ah, I see what you mean now.

I assure you that the lacking of flexibility is a solid one because he was trained not to be flexible. Much like in music, if you tap your foot in the wrong way when keeping beat then you will naturally begin to land with your toe instead of your heel. He was trained in heavy armor and as you know, heavy armor can be very stiff and restricting. The constant training in the armor has caused his muscles to react as if he were wearing armor even if he is not. No further training would be able to fix this even if he trained for the rest of his life. It's just how his body was built.

I do think that his second listed weakness is lacking though so I will agree to change that. I can't think of anything more than that to equal his current so I'll just modify that to like perhaps a childhood injury or something to that sort.

I completely understand your attempt to prevent overpowering. Mayhaps I could send you a basic RP fighting rule list if you need. That would probably help. You can trust my experience when it comes to RP fighting and the like.

[Grothier]

Approved.

Looks great now. Understand that I was merely guaranteeing an eventual safe battle situation. I only insisted because I cannot yet take conclusions on your role-playing. However, I can indeed see you are not new to this, so thank you for bearing with me.

Good Luck!