Jade Callisto Character Application

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Jade Callisto

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Username: Jade Callisto

Have you read the rules? Yes

Character Name: Jade Callisto

Character Source: Original Character

Starting Location: Erde Nona

Character Behavior:
Jade is often giddy and joyful when she is happy but fierce and cunning when playing games with others, mostly board games. She dislikes junk food very much so as she will often make more healthier foods for her friends and family. Jade can get a bit dorky when she is talking to people she is comfortable with and can get a little flirty too depending on who it is. She is often a bit ditzy sometimes though and can prove she isn't the smartest person but often studies so she can get around that flaw. Jade is very outgoing and cheerful most of the time as she tends often likes to make friends and hang out with them when she can. She is very confident in herself as a person and will flaunt her beauty as much as possible.

Physical Description:

Jade is an adult woman about 5 feet and 4 inches tall. She weighs 130 pounds and is very toned with her body. She has long violet hair with pink highlights, the same colors are present on her tail fur. She has green scales that cover most of her body that look and feel like normal skin unless she is hurt. Her actual skin is fairly peach colored, she has pink colored eyes as well as orange jewel-like scales on her face. Jade has red and orange horns on her head, next to her horns are her long cat-like ears that frame her face. She has a very long tail, about as long as her long hair but she is able to move both without any hindrance. She wears dancer like clothing akin to middle-eastern belly dancers, this consists of a black top that also extends as part of her under-garments beneath her reddish purple pants. She wears silver bracelets above her black finger loop sleeved gloves. She also wears black and white ballet shoes. Lastly she wears orange magatama around her neck and around her waist. Her posture is confident and sultry most of the time.

Character History:

As a native to Erde Nona, Jade was born a half dragon by her parents who were a young bard human male and a female dragon who was transformed into human form. However she was never raised by her parents and was abandoned at a young age as she was placed in a small orphanage as a newborn baby. For seven years Jade had been in that orphanage, raised to learn about the world by the Caregiver who taught the kids there. But at the same time Jade was the odd one out every single time for daily activities and had been relentlessly bullied by her peers just for existing. Eventually she had enough then ran away from the Orphanage, dressed in not very nice clothing as she ran as fast as she could with no idea where she was going. Eventually Jade felt like everything was hopeless as she got too far away from the Orphanage to locate it after her outburst.

Thankfully Jade was found on the road by a passing performance troupe named Callisto who saw the young half dragon all alone with no one to help her and no one to guide her. The Callisto Performance Troupe was already a big family of wanderers and outcasts so one more to the mix was no problem at all. Jade then was raised with them as part of their ever-growing family. As the years went by Jade learned many things from them such as how to sing, dance, cook and make her own clothes. They provided her with clothing, shelter, food and the most important thing anyone would ask for Love. They cared very much about Jade and made sure she was raised right, in doing so they made sure if she ever grew up enough to want to set out on her own that she would know how to defend herself properly. Jade was taught martial arts along with the ability to heal. However Jade learned to adapt her love for dancing into her martial arts, making them into her own style of Capoeira Martial Arts. Her healing ability which was often associated with magic tended to be mixed with her love for cooking food, as what better way to heal someone but with a hearty meal? That's not to say she couldn't heal without doing so, she just preferred it this way.

Eventually though Jade learned on her own of her Draconic abilities which she would use to their full extent much later on. After many years of her life in the Callisto Performance Troupe she took their name as her own last name in honor of them and because she had no idea what her real last name was. At the age of 21, Jade eventually set out on her own like her family thought she would. Jade didn't take very much with her but she had the support of her new family in her decision to leave as Jade now strives to become a famous dancer one day or at the very least make a name for herself. As time passed Jade adventured for a solid three years, traveling the world and performing at inns, taverns and the like. She was quickly taken a liking to because of her seductive like dance moves but at the same time no one tried to mess with her because she could fight back should they try to take advantage of her.

That is not to say she didn't try to seduce people into liking her either, if she meant for people to take notice of her beauty she would flaunt it because that was how confident she had become. Over these years, she not only became a well known performer, but also an accomplished adventurer who helped people and fought evil to protect others. At the age of 24 Jade eventually does wonder if she will ever settle down with someone, but then realized for now she just will enjoy her life of entertainment and adventuring, maybe flirt with a few cuties in the meantime too~ From here on out Jade Callisto aims to make the most of her life and to see where the flow of her journey will take her.

What starting Affinity does your character have? Thrifty

Abilities/Skills:

Natural Abilities:


Name: Enhanced Senses
Effect - Sense (Sight & Hearing) 1 200E
Modifiers: Ongoing (100)
Total Cost: 300
Description: Due to her naturally sizable ears and uniquely colored eyes she is able to both hear and see quite well. She can see in the dark and hear sounds from at least 150 feet away.

Name: Scaley Hide
Effect - Protection 2 (200)
Modifiers: Triggered (100) Limited (-100)
Total Cost: 200
Description: Jade's draconic scales are pretty unique as they only unfold when triggered, otherwise they appear very clear as if part of her skin. They only trigger whenever she takes some sort of damage, protecting her from the majority of it. However it does not fully protect her as the scales are represented by the green parts of her body, the parts that are not green are not protected by scales which is why she wears clothes over the majority of it as a way to mask it for the most part.

Name: Lithe Body
Effect - Agility 3 (600)
Modifiers: None
Total Cost: 600
Description: Jade is naturally nimble due to her past experience as part of a circus where she was raised. She is able to jump, run, dodge and tumble equal to that of a Olympic gymnast.

Supernatural Abilities:

Name: Capeoira Martial Arts
Effect - Damage 4 (400)
Modifiers: None
Total Cost: 400
Description: Due to Jade's training as part of a circus she combined her love of dancing with martial arts to form her own style. That said she has enormous strength that is actually quite scary sometimes, very likely because of her draconic heritage.

Name: Medicinal Cooking
Modifiers:
Healing 2 (400)
-- Self/Other (50)
-- Finite (-100)
-- Activation (-200)
=150
Endurance 1 (100)
-- Self/Other (25)
-- Finite (-50)
-- Activation (-100)
=50
Total Cost: 200
Description: Jade has a healing ability that can heal one person at a time, however it is tied to cooking which means she needs to make food in order to heal someone with it. Thus she needs to have some ingredient reserves in store, even something as simple as scrambled eggs would work but she would need that ingredient with her to make it. Jade usually has a few portions prepared ahead of time in the form of some basic snacks such as fruit slices with honey, veggie sticks with cheese, and dried meat jerky. She can use this ability 12 times before needing to re-stock on supplies, which means that is all her uses for 1 day. This takes effect once the food is consumed, which is why she usually sticks to simple snacks so it doesn't take any longer than 30 seconds at least. She can eat her own Medicinal Cooking as well but that does count as one of her 12 uses for the day. Most of the time she can just toss her snacks over to anyone she chooses within 10 feet since they are simple snacks she prepared, however she prefers not to do that in favor of just handing them herself. Since the snacks are meant to be healthy every time they also help with Endurance once consumed, much like actual healthy snacks for someone exercising.

Name: Minor Healing Light
Effect - Healing 1 (200)
Modifiers: None
Total Cost: 200
Description: Jade can in fact heal injuries without needing to cook ingredients, however the healing she does is much less in comparison and not as fun to do.

Master Skills:

Rank 1 Dancing (50): Jade of course knows how to dance, she loves to do it after all.

Rank 1 Cookng (50): Jade knows more than the average person on how to make her own food.

How much Essence did you spend? 2000

How much Essence do you have left? 0

Were you referred by an existing member? Jay

What is your Discord name? jadecallisto
 
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Kopaka

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Hey there, welcome to the Crossroads!

Most of your abilities and character write-up look great. I just have a few observations for adjustments;

Scaley Hide
The way you describe the unprotected parts of her body in this ability would actually apply the Limited negative modifier, as opposed to Weakness, which would reduce that ability's cost by a further 25 points.

As a reminder, the Weakness modifier specifically applies to types of effects that negate the ability altogether, such as an Ice Shield being weak to Fire

Medicinal Cooking
I see your intention with this ability, however I'm afraid it may need a total rework.

- Affects Multiple is +50 Essence per rank, so it would actually cost 100 Essence for the Healing 2.

- To have the Finite modifier apply, you need to specify how many times she can use the ability before needing to replenish.

- The Activation modifier may also apply to this ability, since she does need to prepare the food and/or people need to eat it. The way it's designed now, it infers that she always has a few portions prepared, which is fine, you just need to specify that in the description.

- Finally, the description needs more work: Does it feed two people every time she uses it, or does she only have two portions prepared (If she can eat her own food, she also needs Self/Other!) Are the targets healed when they finish eating the food, or at the very first bite? Do they have to be within her reach to feed her, or can she toss the food at them (short distances) since Affects Multiple can target anyone within 20 feet of her?

Just try to get as granular as possible and I think your next attempt at this ability will go nice and smoothly! Feel free to ask for any clarifications or guidance!

The rest of it looks fine.
 

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Alright, that looks much better, we just have to figure out some essence cost details.

First of all, it needs the Self/Other modification for Jade to be able to eat her own food.

Next, modifiers are applied to effects individually, so that will change the cost considerably.

In essence, the ability should be annotated like this:

Healing 2 (400)
Affects Multiple (+100)
Self/Other (+50)
Finite (-100)
Activation (-100)

Endurance 1 (100)
Affects Multiple (+50)
Self/Other (+25)
Finite (-50)
Activation (-50)

Which would bring the total out for this ability to 425
 
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After having looked at and considered the ability myself, I agree that self/other would be more applicable on the grounds that affects multiple would imply everyone receiving the healing would be eating their meals at the exact same time, every time. However, this is also a cheaper option so it should be no trouble.
 

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Nice job sticking with it; the cooking was a particularly complex ability so it was a challenging learning curve, but, you did it!

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