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Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:26:40 GMT

❥ Character Information

Character Name: Sorey
Character Age: 17
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Healthy
Outfit: His standard clothes from the game

Character Canon: Tales of Zestiria
Link to History: Fandom wiki here!
Canon Point: Post-game, pre-credits scene
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: n/a

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:

Swordplay: Sorey has a kind of wild and reckless style of swordplay that is self-taught. He uses non-lethal ceremonial blades only and relies on blunt damage to incapacitate foes
Survival Skills: He's good at foraging, building shelter and fires, navigating in the wilderness, hunting with a bow, and traversing rough terrain.
Academics: Sorey is surprisingly learned despite having no formal education, and self-teaches himself history and languages. He also memorizes complex passages with only one look.

Canon Abilities: I'll be keeping track of some of Sorey's powers here; specifically, the ones that can interact/interfere with other characters.

Resonance: Sorey has an incredible sixth sense, referred to as 'resonance' in his canon. He can not only see spirits and the true forms of people hiding behind glamours and other magical/spiritual obfuscation, but he can also see a manifestation of an individual's doubts, trauma, and malicious intent in the form of 'malevolence,' or a dark shroud around the person in question. His spiritual intuitiveness
Shepherd/Seraphim Pacts: Every other extraordinary ability other than Sorey's resonance (listed above) is due to Sorey having a Shepherd's pact with an exceedingly powerful seraph. This pact allows him to not only act as a vessel for the spirits he's bonded with (the seraphim can literally dissolve into light and go inside his body/soul), but he can merge with them to make like a super magical girl being of incredible strength, resilience, elemental mastery and healing ability. Sorey cannot form pacts on his own; the seraph who serves as his main connection (called the Prime Lord) is the only one who can make them.
Enhanced Strength & Durability: Sorey can take a lot more abuse and dish out a lot more damage than the average human. Not to the point where he's unkillable or he can't be bested, but he can put up much more of a fight than he looks like he could. He also recovers more quickly from grievous wounds, though not from fatal ones without any intervention.
Elemental Manipulation: Sorey can manipulate the following four elements: fire, water, wind, and earth. The degree to which he can manipulate these elements varies on whether or not the elemental seraph with whom he has a pact is with him. For example, without his fire seraph he can maybe create a small ball of flame in his hand, but with his seraph nearby he can rely on their power and make a fire tornado that could burn down a city block.
Protective Domain: As a powerful Shepherd, Sorey passively generates a purifying domain. While it isn't strong enough to purify any entities that enter it, he can feel when powerful people or creatures are nearby. On the other end, creatures or people within his domain can probably sense the gentle, calm aura of a benevolent holy creature. For those seraphim that Sorey forms a pact, this domain protects them from contamination by malevolence or other evil forces.
Maotelus Pact: This isn't exactly an ability or power, but Sorey also has a pact with a massively powerful seraph that is essentially a god back home (called an Empyrean, or one of the five pillars of the world). Maotelus was polluted by malevolence to the point of transforming into a wicked entity called a 'hellion,' which caused all sorts of natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, plagues, and honestly just made people and seraphim feel like shit and likewise turn into monsters. Sorey agreed to serve as a vessel for Maotelus and be put into essentially a coma in order to help purify him and the continent he commands. I've played this in other games as Sorey being able to feel that the pact is still there, but he can in no way interact or feel any changes/differences as far as what's going on back home.

Role: Legend

Role Qualities/Attributes: Sorey's going to have those standard color-changing eyes that fit his mood, but all other Legend attributes will need to be purposefully and consciously manifested by Sorey. Attributes will include huge white-feathered and gold-tipped wings that span at least twice his height when fully opened. He'll also have a general glow/aura about him, but most concentrated around his head like the traditional holy halo from religious paintings, a near blinding silver-white light. It's all very on-the-nose Messianic Figure.

Role Reasoning: The 'Legend' description describes Sorey to a T; there is literally no other Role I could even consider for him, because Legend fits way too good. When he decided to be a Shepherd back home it was a very abrupt decision made under duress, and he had to learn how to balance his own personal ideals with what a Shepherd can and should do (IE: Shepherds cannot get involved in human wars even to save personal friends, but to deny their desires to save their friends can result in an idealistic dissonance that breeds malevolence, etc etc etc). It's a constant struggle he would have had to continue back in canon, and I love playing with that balance wherever I take him, of duty versus ideal. I don't have specific plans just yet, but I don't intend to have him change so drastically as to alter the Role he has, ever.

❥ Personality

❥ What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?

Through his entire journey, Sorey manages not to take the life of another person (human or seraph) with only three very specific exceptions, all towards the end of his journey. Sorey was adamant through the vast majority of the game that the only way to help hellions (and people) was to purify them and help them through their problems. It's a noble pursuit and falls in line with his pure and kind heart, but he started running into snags in this ideology when he had to come to terms with the fact that not only is he the only person capable of purification at that point in time, but that some beings either couldn't be purified, or didn't even want to be. He was then faced with the choice of whether or not to leave them as they were, or kill them. The greater good was supposed to come before his own personal ideals.

In the end, he came to the conclusion that if the only way to 'save' someone was to end their life, then he would be willing to do so. It meant forcing his own judgment and ideology onto the person or being he was 'saving,' but with his limited human lifespan and their limited resources, it was the best solution he could come up with. To this end, he and his friends killed the big brother of one of the party members to save him from a lifetime of suffering as a dragon/hellion, he and his childhood friend/soulmate Mikleo mercy-killed their grandfather when he was abducted and used by the enemy, and then Sorey by himself killed the man who was at the heart of all the tragedy of their current age.

❥ What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?

Hands down, the most important relationship in Sorey's life is his friendship/kindship/soulmate-ship/whatever-ship with Mikleo. They were raised together, two members of very different species; Sorey a human, Mikleo a seraph. Seraphim generally don't 'grow up' like humans do, but Mikleo's circumstances were unique, and he instinctually mimicked Sorey's growing patterns as closely as a seraph could. As the only two children in a village of immortal beings, the two were raised side-by-side and became inseparable to the point of seeming like two halves of the same whole to many other characters in the game. Mikleo is the person who knows Sorey the best in the entire world; they communicate without speaking, they know what the other is thinking, and they trust each other implicitly. Mikleo is the only person with whom Sorey allows himself to be a little weak, a little bratty or selfish or childish. Mikleo is the person Sorey goes to first for comfort. They have their own insecurities regarding their different species, but it's never grown to the point where their mutual affection fades. If Sorey was reincarnated as a seraph with no memories of his past life, it is absolutely one thousand percent certain that even if he didn't remember him, he would still love Mikleo with every inch of his soul.

❥ What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?

As mentioned in the first question, Sorey is very staunchly anti-murder (and violence in general), though he doesn't shy from it. The epitome of kind-hearted and caring, Sorey would rather resolve issues with negotiation and mutual understanding, though he will put evil-doers to the (non-lethal) sword if they insist upon preying on the weak or perpetuating evil acts. Sorey isn't particularly meek or timid; he's in fact pretty damn stubborn, to the point of becoming a headache for the rest of the party when the easier path would be to avoid confrontation or to take care of things more discreetly. Sorey believes in giving people the chance to do better, believes that just about everybody in the world wants to live their lives peacefully and only need the means to do so, and will give just about anybody second or third chances to mend their ways, especially if he's the one who's been wronged.

While he's had to revise some of his moral code to be a little less of a pushover, Sorey still despises taking lives if it at all can be avoided. So long as he's the only one getting hurt, he'll try appealing to a person's conscience a thousand times before giving up. If he's not the only one at risk though, all bets are off.

❥ Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

Sorey will forgive anyone if he believes the apology and willingness to change is genuine. He's the type to even go against his instincts in an effort to give someone a second chance. Because of the way he was raised, surrounded by love and adoration and encouraged to be honest and true to himself, Sorey has difficulty understanding why someone would ever lie to ask for forgiveness. He's not as naive as he once was, but the habit to trust is a difficult one to break, and one he doesn't want to besides.

Trying to determine the circumstances under which Sorey wouldn't be willing to forgive someone honestly asking for it is extremely difficult. It would change his character fundamentally, and likely not in a good way. If someone was cruel to the point of tormenting Sorey's friends and family for years and years, of their own volition because they enjoyed being cruel, maybe then Sorey would be unwilling to offer forgiveness (though he'd manage a cease-fire, mutual avoidance situation). His own Squire is the leader of an assassin's guild who had a contract out on his life, after all, and one who holds that she'll put a knife in his throat if he looks like he's going to make this Shepherd thing turn into a net loss for humanity. If he can forgive her to the point of calling her one of his closest human friends, then the threshold is pretty damn high.

❥ What would your character sacrifice to get what they want or to reach their potential? What have they sacrificed already?

One of the key sticking points of the game is sacrifice, the manner in which it can and should be offered, and what it means to individual characters. As the Shepherd, Sorey chose to sacrifice a normal life of his own selfish pursuits in favor of dedicating himself to the purification of the world. While he could have given up on his journey of purification, as he journeyed Sorey came to the realization that his world was in much rougher shape than he thought, and that to abandon his journey would mean leaving the world and its inhabitants (both seraphim and humans) in grave danger. Sorey is the type of person who is unable to ignore people in need so, for better or worse, he committed himself to his new cause alongside his companions.

While Sorey hardly hesitates to put himself in harm's way and sacrifice his own health and happiness, up to his own life, he's very reluctant to sacrifice anything of anyone else's. He's struggled in the past with the difference between trying to protect those he cares about and denying them their own right to decide what they want to sacrifice. His noble heart can sometimes manifest as being controlling, preferring to take a full burden onto himself rather than allow even his friends and family to help shoulder it with him. At the end Sorey was able to respect the wishes of his companions and allow them their own sacrifices, before executing his own final sacrifice of his ideals, his future, and potentially his life. While none of these sacrifices were to better himself and reach his potential, becoming a strong and true Shepherd is almost one in the same for him now due to the extreme ego-death necessary to fulfill a greater duty.

❥ Permissions

OOC opt-outs: I'm ok to monitor content and determine when to leave!
IC opt-outs: Ditto! I don't have specific topics in mind for this. I'll monitor and bow out as needed.
Content warnings related to the character: This canon doesn't have many sensitive topics. Depression and murder/death will come up, but not in a particularly visceral way.
Sensitive subjects related to the character: Sorey doesn't like cruelty for the sake of it and murder will be a touchy subject, but I would enjoy playing them out regardless.

❥ Player Information

Player Name: Egg
Pronouns: any
Are you over 18?: Yea
Contact(s): gonewithouta or Disc (.eggstasy)!
Link to invitation: n/a!
Current Characters: Cloud Strife & Donatello Hamato
Permissions: Here
Writing Samples: Therrre sheee gooooes

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Powers (Folkmore)

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 04:04:39 GMT

Sorey has a few powers that may affect your character, should you so choose! Please see below for details.

DOMAIN: Current Strength: Low

For characters with strong spiritual senses, they may notice that Sorey has a sort of purifying aura around him, in a bubble, anywhere from a twenty-foot radius to potentially miles. The air smells a little fresher, the water tastes a little better, the atmosphere feels safer; things like that. A domain with Low strength will only provide a sense of gentle peace and tranquility; a domain with Medium strength will feel more like a benign, clear, protective presence; a domain with High strength will feel close to that of a good-aligned demigod, benevolent and caring.

His domain strength is linked not only to his own strength, but to how many of the seraphim with whom he has formed pacts are present. Without any of them present his strength is low, with one or two his strength is more medium, and with all four his strength would be high. Other factors in Folkmore may alter this (for example, if he fully in his Legend form, his strength will temporarily be high).

RESONANCE:

Sorey has extremely sharp spiritual sense of his own; he can tell non-humans from humans even if the spriritual/fae-like/divine creature is in disguise. In particular, his spiritual sense is the empath type. He can sense weakness of heart, emotional turmoil and general negativity. If your character has any extreme trauma or conflicting feelings, he'll be able to see its intensity almost like a dark shroud around their person. 'Evil' might also manifest in this way, but not if the evil person is completely committed to their cause and convinced of its righteousness one hundred percent.

Please fill out the below permissions if you would like Sorey to be able to sense things about your character in any way!

THANK YOU!!!

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PERMISSIONS

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:14:28 GMT

PLAYER

NAME: Egg
CONTACT: gonewithouta
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Evenings & Weekends, US EST
BRACKETS/PROSE: Brackets preferred, can switch to prose as necessary
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: graphic animal torture & death (cats specifically)

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes! He's a lovey boy
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure, but he doesn't really like fighting, even for practice
RELATIONSHIPS: Pretty married to Mikleo tbh but I'm down to explore ideas
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Not a lot. Maybe ppl can sense that his soul is tethered to like five others of varying strength, but his mind is pretty average. He can sense lots of ghost-adjacent stuff
MAGICAL INFORMATION: Hella magic, please see his powers entry and msg to discuss more details!
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Normal body aside from the magical stuff
CW RELATED TO CHARACTER: This canon doesn't have many sensitive topics. Depression and murder/death will come up, but not in a particularly visceral way.
SENSITIVE SUBJECTS RELATED TO CHARACTER: Sorey doesn't like cruelty for the sake of it and murder will be a touchy subject, but I would enjoy playing them out regardless. He's naive but doesn't really have any triggers. He's slow to anger also.

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: ye
THREADHOPPING: YE
FOURTHWALLING: non
NOT INTERESTED IN: crack

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: He's 5'10" with fluffy brown hair and green eyes. He's usually in his normal Shepherd getup, in most of his icons; sometimes he'll forego the white cloak and just have the blue button up with the black tee underneath. His hands have small callouses and tiny scars, but from having an active life rather than a hard one. He always has on his orange feather ear cuffs. His Legend form has a brilliant white/gold halo (less like a defined ring and more like the visual effect of bright light emanating from behind a mass) and massive silver wings that seem to operate more like tongues of fire than feathers. His eyes also completely fill in with bright, beaming gold light (sclera, iris, pupil, all of it). Art to come soon hopefully!!!
AURAL: His voice is boyishly enthusiastic, warm, and welcoming. I usually think of his english voice as I write him.
OLFACTORY: Smells like books, old dust, and Boy
DEMEANOUR: Calm and content; exuberant when he's interested in something

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SONG - IC CONTACT

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:07:03 GMT

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Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:22:04 GMT

Player: Egg
Age: 30s
Contact: gonewithouta
Current Characters: n/a

Character: Sorey
Canon: Tales of Zestiria | Endgame (prior to epilogue)
Age: 17

Background Information: This is a pretty dang good summary over here, but I am glad to go into more detail.

Personality:

Sorey’s often described as very pure-hearted and devoid of malevolence. While in the general sense that would mean he’s innocent and free of any negativity, what this means in terms of Zestiria is that he understands himself fully and won’t allow himself to be swayed one way or the other away from his convictions. Using ‘purity’ in this case is more or less saying that he’s true to his own heart. He listens to himself, to his desires and he allows himself to follow his heart freely.

It’s pretty fortunate that he’s a remarkably good kid, then. Sorey was raised in a very caring village and was never lied to about his origin or how he was different from his family, so he’s very accustomed to honesty and sincerity to the point where when Alisha tried to explain to him the troubles of the world, he couldn’t quite understand. War? Famine?? Police brutality, what, abuse of power what? Since I'm taking Sorey from the end of the game he's become much more familiar with the more negative aspects of human society, but that doesn't mean he understands the motivations of truly corrupt people.

Sorey has come a very long way from that innocence, but the roots of it are still deeply entrenched in his personality. He’s caring to a fault, preferring to listen to people’s troubles to the inconvenience of himself rather than to pretend like he doesn’t care. He cares way, way too much, saying that if he sees someone in trouble he can’t just not help them. It ends up getting him into heaps of his own trouble since he also has a hard time telling people in need ‘no.’ It’s not out of any desire to be liked or out of a fear for confrontation so much as it is just his nature.

This nature of his conflicts sharply with his duties as a Shepherd, a title he takes very, very seriously; even moreso now that he's got to think about being the vessel of Maotelus, too. The Shepherd’s purpose is to purify hellions and quell malevolence to return the world to its most peaceful state, but the Shepherd absolutely is not to involve himself in the affairs of human society. It’s not that he can’t interact with people, but more that he’s not allowed to take a side, even passively. If there’s a political conflict, even if it will end in bloodshed, he has to bow out of it. The idea is that the Shepherd can only help people help themselves; create an environment in which humans can thrive on their own. In this way, the Shepherd is socially set very far apart from people, taking an outsider’s role instead of one active in society and the community. The role is very much big picture, especially where he's at now.

Sorey has trouble with that. While he’s good at looking forward to the future, he’s also a human and as such is very rooted in the present. He had to work on denying himself the ability to solve the immediate problems and instead focus on the root of the matter. He still has a lot of trouble with it, even with how far he's come, though he's gotten better at stopping to think first. Following one’s heart is all well and good provided one’s heart doesn’t have philanthropic ADHD.

Actually, the kid tends to get overeager about a lot of different things. He’ll wear himself out quickly because he doesn’t know how to limit himself (or really even take care of himself, at times). There are multiple occasions where he’s just plain forgotten to eat because he’s been so engrossed in whatever he’s doing. This focus and enthusiasm carries over to his passion for anthropology, legends, folklore and basically anything having to do with history. While Sorey does care very much about humans and seraphim and takes his responsibilities extremely seriously, he really only ever lights up when the topic of discussion is about archeology. Thankfully, his job as the Shepherd takes him all over the world so he gets a lot of opportunities to explore.

There are downsides to the whole "strength in one's own convictions, too perfect too pure" schtick though. The most obvious is that Sorey tends to shoulder a lot of burdens on his own, because he thinks it's duty or because he doesn't want to trouble other people. He's fine being hurt or tired or for his vision to slowly deteriorate if it means his friends are happy and achieving their dreams!!!! Also, nobody told him this (factcheck: many people have told him this) but having unwavering belief in one's own convictions is very, very similar to being bullheaded. Almost indistinguishable. Sorey gets an idea in his head and it doesn't matter how many times people run up against it with opposing arguments; if he doesn't want to change his mind, he damn well won't. This can make him seem somewhat spoiled and stubborn when his viewpoints are conflicting with someone else's.

Being kind and sympathetic are great traits but when they swing too far in that direction they can quickly become 'gullible' and 'a doormat.' Sorey's a sharp tack so he doesn't usually get bought in by obvious con men, but someone he likes or trusts telling him a lie? If it holds even a bit of water, he'll buy it. He'll fuckin' preorder that shit. Sorey doesn't know how to withhold trust from people, instead deciding to throw in whole hog if he's decided they seem like a good person. His lack of caution is a source of exasperation to everyone who travels with him, so his companions can sometimes end up more like his handlers.

Abilities & Inventory: Most of Sorey's abilities are due to his Shepherd pact; some of them will be cut off with the absence of the seraphim he has a pact with, which I would like him to gain/lose if those characters are apped or dropped. Please see below:

Always Present

Resonance - Sorey has exceptionally high resonance naturally, which is kind of like a sixth sense. He can see spirits and can tell when someone is using a glamour, unless they're exceptionally powerful.
Enhanced Strength & Durability - Thanks to the pact, Sorey has strength and durability above that of an average human. He's still just a susceptible to wounds, illness, and death, but he won't break his back being dropped off a ten story building; probably just be bruised. His strength is maybe only just about double an average human's, he's nowhere near a Superman level.
Flames of Purification - Sorey can use a silver flame that burns away 'malevolence,' or a kind of spiritual darkness that causes people to become twisted into monsters. This will not be commonly relevant and he can't like, cure demons or something like that.

Contingent Upon Castmates

Elemental Manipulation - Sorey's manipulation over the four elements (earth, wind, water, and fire) will depend entirely on whether or not the corresponding seraph castmate is in the game. His manipulation over the elements will be likewise fueled by dreamotion energy, but he won't be able to do it at all without the castmate in the game.
Armatization is a merging of seraph and Shepherd into the same body which will only need the castmate, but the use of any higher attacks/artes/elemental manipulation will require dreamotion energy.

Inventory: Sorey will arrive with his clothes, a few medicinal gels (can treat lacerations, burns, and small bone breaks), his favorite book the Celestial Record, and his ceremonial sword (which is dull-bladed).

Suitability & Plans: I have a couple friends here I've been wanting to play with, but Sorey is a very easy character to play without much outside prompting. He's friendly and curious, and very much enjoys exploring and getting into other people's business. He really only needs an interesting setting to get involved.

Reading the premise, I also thought it was very fitting. Sorey's story (mostly) ends with him falling into a deep sleep for hundreds of years in order to purify the spirit inhabiting his world. Having him in a game that continues along the vein of everything being a dream and it being a world of those asleep was interesting.

Test Drive Sample: TDM Sample

Questions: None so far!

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Powers (Song)

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:47:55 GMT

Sorey has a few powers that may affect your character, should you so choose! Please see below for details.

DOMAIN: Current Strength: Low

For characters with strong spiritual senses, they may notice that Sorey has a sort of purifying aura around him, in a bubble, maybe like twenty feet or so. The air smells a little fresher, the water tastes a little better, the atmosphere feels safer; things like that. A domain with Low strength will only provide a sense of gentle peace and tranquility; a domain with Medium strength will feel more like a benign, clear, protective presence; a domain with High strength will feel close to that of a good-aligned demigod, benevolent and caring.

RESONANCE:

Sorey has extremely sharp spiritual sense of his own, particularly of the empath type. He can sense weakness of heart, emotional turmoil and general negativity. He can also usually tell who is nonhuman, and he can see ghosts, spirits, gods and the like. If your character has any extreme trauma or conflicting feelings, he'll be able to see its intensity almost like a dark shroud around their person.

Please fill out the below permissions if you would like Sorey to be able to sense your character in any way!

THANK YOU!!!

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Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:13:07 GMT

It starts with armatizing with Dezel, though it doesn’t really.

Where it really starts is as early on as a couple weeks. During his entire Shepherd’s journey, Sorey has never been in a position where he couldn’t do anything. He’s always managed to find a solution to the problems he’s run up against or, barring that, he could find the truth and a way to continue on with his journey. There haven’t been many idle moments; on the contrary, Lailah has to frequently tell this kid to relax, because he’s pointedly pushing himself and everyone else to fix the world ASAP.

These young’uns.

So when Sorey shows up in DF, he’s okay for like, a month. Maybe a few more; he can’t get rid of the malevolence because it causes issues, because Allen said not to and that trying to do so would cause internal strife, etc etc. Sorey goes ‘it doesn’t look like it’s hellionizing anybody so I guess we should leave it alone.’ He and Mikleo p much exclusively make that decision, and Dezel is like ‘well what the fuck do I care I’m dead HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME’ so more or less, all of them agree that in the interest of keeping the peace, they need to leave the situation alone, for now.

Mark the start of Sorey’s worrying.

He’s told that time doesn’t pass back home which he believes about 75%; no reason to doubt anybody and reports with people who’ve gone back home coincide, but he’s just worried, okay, he worries. And Sorey has never had much to worry about before now, so he has no methods of coping with it besides just trying to reassure himself over and over again.

He and Mikleo get in a fight over an old problem that wasn’t quite a problem anymore on the polluted planet. Mikleo and Dezel get sick, through the negligence of mortals, and Sorey feels terrible about it.

He and Mikleo make up, more or less, though things are still tense. Sorey does an awful lot of reflection on what it means to be human among spiritual companions who used to be worshiped as gods. It was so much easier to be cavalier about seraphim when he was raised with them bc they’re just normal dudes, ok, they’re just wind and water and earth and fire and lightning personified, nothing weird about that. He was never lonely in Elysia and never made to feel out of place, and he’s always had Mikleo who is just Mikleo, even if he’s also water.

Cue the handholding planet, and armatizing for the first time for something other than completing a purpose. Well, it happened a little earlier than that too, with Mikleo on the ship, but the purpose of that was to make up so it technically had a purpose.

Now Sorey is on this handholding planet and he doesn’t just armatize with Mikleo for a dip in the ocean, but he does it with Dezel, and even Zaveid. Just for FUN. Just to experience the world like they do, not for killing anything or getting from one place to another or purifying hellions. Just 100% wonderful, awesome being with another person and sharing feelings and joy and such. HE LOVES IT. He loves it a lot. He worries for a split second that it’s using the Shepherd powers for his own gain, but ultimately decides that’s nonsense and just lets himself enjoy it. Flying around with Dezel and Zaveid and swimming with Mikleo is like. The best fucking things ever.

DEZEL AND ZAVEID END UP FIGHTING, WHICH. Okay which Sorey is completely unsurprised by and honestly expected. He would’ve been more shocked if they hadn’t fought, even if he doesn’t like that they did. But he would rather they be true to themselves so if this is what they gotta do, then. At least it’s out of their systems. He heads over to Dezel to heal him, armatizes to conserve supplies and discovers a little more of what he did before about why Dezel is so close to hellionizing without a pure vessel. His heart isn’t just broken, the goddamn thing is near SHATTERED. Sorey decides hey, I can handle this, I can do this for him and not only makes a foolhardy promise (“I will bring you back to us, to Rose, I swear”) but he also tries to take the burden of Dezel’s sorrow into himself.

Instead he just kind of manages to pull all of that emptiness and anxiety into himself, and doesn’t even help Dezel all that much with it because hey, even special soulbonding magic powers don’t make heartache go away, imagine that.

And then Sorey is also terribly worried about Zaveid, because he was giving off those “haha it’s okay I’m a spare I’ll just stay away while you have Dezel,” and Sorey is like NO NO THANK YOU NOPE PLEASE DON’T DO THAT. Zaveid is just so old and he’s a wind seraphim, who are wont to just drift away when they feel they’re done anyway so he’s clinging pretty tightly to him because he’s positive that Zaveid would just up and leave the group if Sorey really did bring Dezel back. Sorey DOES NOT want that. He doesn’t want to lose another person, not even for something as benign as him moving on.

Add into that how worried he is for Mikleo, being a water seraph without any water surrounded by malevolence, and the almost-fight they have AGAIN when he suggests Mikleo stay behind where he’s happy and safe, and hahaha it’s like the aqueducts all over again. Mikleo isn’t your fucking fanboy tagalong, bitch!!! He’s your PARTNER. Well, Sorey is a worrier and when he sees the person he loves most in this world getting hurt or sick over and over, he worries. Normally he wouldn’t be so stupid, but he’s getting pretty nervous at this point.

Cue them leaving the handholding planet and Sorey is not doing well. He’s back in this cold, sterile environment with one wind seraph lowkey hinting at leaving, the other wind seraph relying on him (in his mind) to bring him back home, and Mikleo, who has his own worries and troubles. Sorey is ashamed of himself for being unable to handle his own stress and anxiety when it seems like everyone else can. He’s forgotten that literally the entire party doted on him back home and that’s largely what helped keep him steadfast and true.

He’s forgotten that Lailah’s guidance is PIVOTAL to his success as a Shepherd, and that’s whY THE FUCK THEY HAVE PRIME LORDS AT ALL, YOU DOLT. Sorey’s a kid who has literally been in the Fleet longer than he’d been a Shepherd back home, and it shows in his inexperience when balancing the stress of being a Shepherd who cannot Shepherd any of the shit he’s supposed to.

In the emptiness of space, Sorey starts to panic.

He knows something is wrong. He’s losing sleep. He’s not as cheerful as he usually is. He’s worried, constantly worried, and that just makes him even more afraid that he’ll start to generate his own malevolence. He can’t let it come to that; not when he’s got no way to protect the seraphim from him.

He fixates on his flaws and his shortcomings and forgets who he is, a little bit, in favor of looking at himself as an enemy from which he needs to save his friends. He remembers all the stories of Fallen Shepherds from the trials and temples and thinks that if he can just save them from him, he’ll be good. So he starts avoiding them.

Keeping his distance from Zaveid is easy enough since he’s on another ship, even though Zaveid is the one who reaches out to him later (at the behest of Mikleo). Staying away from Dezel and Mikleo is harder, but Sorey manages to bury himself in work or going to other ships to keep his distance. When they show up at another system embroiled in bitter rivalries, steeped in malevolence, Sorey knows he can’t go anywhere near them or he might get even worse. He holes himself up in his ship while the others go out until he can’t stand it anymore.

He calls Nightingale looking for a way to sever the pacts. It would be better for them to be on their own, for him to find them vessels and worshipers, than to risk being with him. He tries to sell it as just being curious, or in a ‘worse case scenario’ sort of way, but Nightingale sees right through him.

She pushes him to tell Mikleo and Sorey, in his panic, shoves her away. He scares himself with his reaction and takes off for the planet, praying that the Fleet leaves the system soon so that they’ll at least be okay, even if he’ll be stranded.

Annnnd the rest is history

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Tue, 26 Apr 2016 03:22:18 GMT

Natalie - woman (young) - water
Kyme - man (Gramps' assistant) - water
Medea - woman (middle-aged) - water
Loanna - woman (young) - wind
Myrna - woman (middle aged) - wind
Shiron - male (young) - wind
Taccio - man (old) - water
Mason - man (dead af) - fire
Lawrence - man (middle-aged) - fire
Cynthia - woman (young) - earth
Ed - man (young) - earth
Shaun - man (middle-aged) - earth
Melody - woman (young) - fire
Moymor - man (young) - water

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CR Chart

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 02:45:23 GMT

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Powers

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:34:52 GMT

Sorey has a few powers that may affect your character, should you so choose! Please see below for details.

DOMAIN: Current Strength: Low

For characters with strong spiritual senses, they may notice that Sorey has a sort of purifying aura around him, in a bubble, maybe like twenty feet or so. The air smells a little fresher, the water tastes a little better, the atmosphere feels safer; things like that. A domain with Low strength will only provide a sense of gentle peace and tranquility; a domain with Medium strength will feel more like a benign, clear, protective presence; a domain with High strength will feel close to that of a good-aligned demigod, benevolent and caring.

RESONANCE:

Sorey has extremely sharp spiritual sense of his own, particularly of the empath type. He can sense weakness of heart, emotional turmoil and general negativity. He can also usually tell who is nonhuman, and he can see ghosts, spirits, gods and the like. If your character has any extreme trauma or conflicting feelings, he'll be able to see its intensity almost like a dark shroud around their person.

Please fill out the below permissions if you would like Sorey to be able to sense your character in any way!

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IC CONTACT

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:38:31 GMT

...this is the neatest thing I've ever seen. I want one for home so bad.

-Right! This is Sorey, please leave me a message so I can get back to you!

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HMD

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 02:49:22 GMT

before you start: yes they are that gay. ok proceed

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Application - Drift Fleet

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:56:11 GMT

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