Ilbe Straits

[condor]

Ilbe Straits

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Other Names:
Epithet: "Mayday"
Height: 5'11"
Build: Lithe, athletic
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Occupation: Pilot
Bounty/Rank:– 0

Total X-Poinz: 300

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{Earned}
Character Creation: +300

Used X-Poinz: 225

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{Spent}
Trick Archer, Fighting Style E Class: 0 XP
Infernal Head Mk.III, Rank 2 Technique: -125 XP
Cable Head Mk.X, Rank 1 Technique: -50 XP
Heavy Head Mk.II Rank 1 Technique: -50 XP
Riviera, Rank 1 Equipment: 50 XP Rebate (Free w/ Character Creation)

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Personality

Ilbe is an unrestrained adventurer, driven by a seemingly innate longing for the freedom of the sky. His dream is to invent the first aircraft capable of circumnavigating the globe. Ilbe is constantly looking for ways to improve his aircrafts. He's equally interested in different ways of traveling across the globe, like the Sea Train, submersible vehicles and anything that's more interesting than a regular boat.

Ilbe believes strongly that the age of ships has passed. Their history of control and conflict has driven many islands, including his own, and therefore they must be left behind in the history books. He thinks that Revolutionaries have the right idea, that the current world order is stifling, unfair and in need of a major overhaul. He aspires to find real Revolutionaries and possibly even support their campaigns with his inventions.

Though not particularly scientific or mindful, he is creative and handy. Ilbe has a knack for understanding and deconstructing the designs of others in order to better understand them. He dislikes studying, reading and theoretical work, preferring much more to attempt to do something great rather than to talk about it. This has created a lack of shame when it comes to his work, he's always proud to have at least tried, no matter the outcome.

Ilbe is not a pacifist, but dislikes grand scale war, especially for economic interests. He is a terrible artist, and his sketches for designs and plans always come out terribly. He largely prefers colder weather, and loves to watch powerful storms have their way with landscapes susceptible to their destruction.

Appearance

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Ilbe is a lithe and athletic young man, unimposing in physical stature. He often sports thin framed goggles to block the wind, either around his neck or across his brown eyes. His dark hair is kept long to feel the air flush through it. Ilbe has a tanned skin tone stemming from his ample time spent exploring and working outdoors. His face and nose are narrow, giving him an almost sleek and smooth look were it not for some faded cuts and scars across his body, accrued from constant monkeying around with tools and parts.

Though not very interested in fashion or appearance, Ilbe does maintain a specific wardrobe. He ensures the clothes he wears are always a kind of garb that he doesn't mind getting dirty. Usually he just wears his black jumpsuit, which covers his ankles up to a sleeveless top, some boots and a shirt. When colder he pull on an embarrassingly bright knit sweater from his grandma, one of many she's given to him. These are the only clothes he's careful to keep clean.

He also wears a large, baggy belt running diagonally across his chest. Besides from basic tools, he keeps a roster of other bulky equipment on his person at most times. His clothes are often spotted with grease or torn open from hectic movement. He often wears fingerless gloves that don't limit any fine dexterous movement while protecting his palms. Generally, he's not well put together and can appear unkempt or a little greasy.

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Traits

• Inhuman Constitution

Ilbe has a natural resistance to disease, poisons and other toxins that affect his body's natural functioning and processes. This is not an immunity. Effects and symptoms from these ailments are simply dulled, take longer to take effect and exit his body more swiftly.

• Inhuman Toughness

Hardened by a life of physical labor and excessively death-defying situations, Ilbe has become an inhumanly tough individual. He's able to survive dangerous wrecks and powerful blows. His body has become very accustomed to a constant beating. 


Fighting Styles

Name: Trick Archer
Focus: Creative archery shots and unusual arrowheads for varying effects.
Class: E Class
Description: Trick Archer is ranged fighting style focusing on the user's cleverness and quick thinking. In using different arrows and shooting styles, arrows can be launched for varying effect. Different arrowheads are each considered a different technique, while the bow itself is a piece of equipment. Different techniques, or arrowheads can be combined for special effects. There is a limit on the amount of time each technique can be used per thread, varying depending on how prepared the user is for battle.

Techniques:

Name: Inferno Head Mk.III
Fighting Style: Trick Archer
Rank: 2
Description: An arrowhead designed to pierce normally, but upon contact ignites a lighter that spews a short stream of flame, intended to ignite a target.

Name: Cable Head Mk.X
Fighting Style: Trick Archer
Rank: 1
Description:– An arrowhead that attaches to the bow of the user and extends a stable line to the site of impact. The line extends up to 100 meters. This line can then be used to entangle opponents or to traverse difficult terrain.

Name: Heavy Head Mk.I
Fighting Style: Trick Archer
Rank: 1
Description: An arrowhead of heavy metal. This deals a more significant amount of damage and weighs down targets struck by the arrow.


Equipment

Name: Riviera
Fighting Style: Trick Archer
Rank: 1
Description: A longbow of mostly standard design. It has an especially sturdy structure, allowing for it to even be used as a close range weapon in a pinch. Its string is drawn so tight that a normal person would have a great deal of trouble to use it effectively. Only trained archers, or those with great strength can use the weapon normally.

Name: Den-Den Mushi
Fighting Style: N/A
Rank: 0
Description: A simple communicating Den-Den Mushi capable of communicating with other similar creatures. 

Name: General Toolkit
Fighting Style: N/A
Rank: 0
Description: A large belt that serves no defensive purposes. It's a little cumbersome, and contains within it a great deal of tools and miscellaneous parts.

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Background Ilbe Straits is the son of a famous linguist, Bithia Straits, who's aspired to compile every language into a single lexicon with which anybody can communicate with anybody else. Her aspirations began as very peaceful and hopeful, but it quickly became apparent that her dreams were a dangerous thing. Not only would Bithia need to venture to perilous places to take record of every language, but this also meant deciphering the long-lost language of the Poneglyphs. Before the World Government took note of the seriousness of her pursuit, Bithia left Ilbe on Baterilla island with his grandma at the age of six.

Ilbe never resented his mother's decision, and decided he must have a similarly lofty goal if he wanted to be able to face his mother once more. The last he heard of his mother was that she'd entered the Grand Line with the company of some pirate crew. Ilbe tried to study and follow in his mother's footsteps, but the quiet perusing of books was not where his heart could settle. Instead, he was attracted to the open and spacious skies, to the fantasy of harmlessly hopping from one island to another. He dreamed of a road above the storms and chaos of it all.

This goal in mind, Ilbe immediately went to work, and became a terror on the island. Notorious for his many crash landings and failed experiments. Ilbe is constantly doing odd jobs for more materials and experience in order to better improve his aircraft. Once he's confident his ship can take him to another island in the South Blue, he wishes to begin his journey. With the nineteenth iteration of the Monarch, Ilbe believes that he's finally found just that.

[Flame]

\o Hello,

Let's go through this ~

First I think I'd like a little more description of Ilbe than what you're giving in appearance. You can talk about what he likes to wear for one, the image is nice but generally its the text that matters.

Second, your second trait Mechanical Intuition isn't a trait as we consider them on the forum. For us traits are basically completely physical. Mechanical intuition is more a mental ability of your character. If you want something that fits the mechanists skillset, Inhuman Dexterity, you can flavor it for your fingers or perhaps inhuman precision, basically precise movement kind of things tend to fit well.

Third, your first technique Blaze Head Mk. III would be considered a Rank 2 Technique. Thus costing 125 XPz. This isn't actually a problem for you because I think you can still afford it by making use of the 50 Rebate you get from your Rank 1 Weapon.

Next, your glider is a bit strange. So I'm discussing it with the rest of the staff. And I'll post again when I have something more certain to say about it. But be prepared that we might need you to change some things about it, it could also just be fine as is.

And finally, this is sort of out of order but it makes more sense after my statement about #3. I'd like you to do a more itemized list for your used X-Poinz. If you want a good example of how to do this AJ's character Tally is a pretty good example. It'll also help you to keep track of your character's XPz usage as you get further along and start messing with more Rebate.

Cheers,

Flame

[condor]

Thanks for the response! I've done all the changes asked, but left the glider stuff untouched. Feel free to talk to me on Discord too if a compromise needs to reached. Let me know if there's more I can do~

[Flame]

\o Hey Condor

Based on a discussion by the staff, we're classifying your glider more of as a Rank 1 Equipment than a Tiny Vessel. Part of this reason is the idea of what qualifies of a vessel for the staff is the ability to transport multiple people at once. I'll also note that this means if you do eventually plan to get a propulsion system for it, that'll take an Equipment Quality rather than requiring you to buy a vessel (which in the end becomes cheaper for you).

Unfortunately this does mean you need to change your character in some way. If you want to keep the glider you can drop one of your techniques. Or you can remove the glider for now and buy it when you get the xpz for it.

Thanks for the patience,

Flame

[condor]

Edits made according to discussion on Discord. Thank ya!

[Flame]

Approved