Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)
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				Title: <strong>Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Daril</strong> on <strong>19-05-2015, 07:01:39</strong>
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				OOC Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=229377.0)<br>IC Thread Floor 1- ? (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=228968.0)<br><br>Note: Although I'm including the profile template in this post, character profiles should not be posted to this thread until after the character has been approved.&nbsp; If you are interested in playing a new character, please discuss it in the OOC thread first.<br><br><div class="codeheader">Code: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);" class="codeoperation">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[b]"Real" Name:[/b]<br>[b]Screen Name:[/b]<br>[b]Age:[/b]<br>[b]Biography:[/b]<br>[b]Personality:[/b]<br>[b]Appearance:[/b]<br><br>[b]Preferred equipment type:[/b]<br>[b]Play style:[/b]<br></code></pre>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Daril</strong> on <strong>19-05-2015, 07:02:34</strong>
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				<strong>"Real" Name:</strong> Sara McMillan<br><strong>Screen Name:</strong> Artemis<br><strong>Age:</strong> 20<br><strong>Biography:</strong> Sara is a student from Canada studying at a Japanese university.&nbsp; While not a major otaku, her interest in Japan is partly due to watching anime while growing up.&nbsp; Her area of study is (actually I still need to decide on this part).&nbsp; She has several friends at the university she attends, one of whom is responsible for introducing her to Sword Art Online.<br><strong>Personality:</strong> While not a top tier student, Sara is reasonably intelligent.&nbsp; She likes to enjoy herself, but also has a practical side.&nbsp; While generally considered rather assertive by Japanese standards, she's still too modest to be comfortable with group bathing.<br><strong>Appearance:</strong> Sara is about six feet tall with a statuesque build, long blonde hair and blue eyes (in other words, she gets <em>a lot</em> of attention in Japan).&nbsp; She is proud of her impressive bust, but also annoyed by it.&nbsp; She favors a white and blue color scheme.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/91/SaraM.png)<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Naked Sara/Artemis</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c3/SaraNude.jpg)</div></div><br><strong>Preferred equipment type:</strong> Spear (possibly a glaive or halberd later on?)<br><strong>Play style:</strong> Sara likes to use the long reach offered by her weaponry to good effect.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>SmilingFox</strong> on <strong>19-05-2015, 17:14:49</strong>
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				<strong>"Real" Name</strong>: Sarugaki Naoko<br><strong>Screen Name</strong>: Acacia<br><strong>Age</strong>: 17<br><strong>Biography</strong>: Naoko's entire life seems to revolve around video games, often by necessity if nothing else. Born sickly, she was always behind the curve when it came to developing. She walked late, and spoke later, but took to reading and writing quite well for a sickly child. Unable to participate in things like sports, and too independent to fall in with many social clubs, she turned to video games to escape from what she viewed as a cruel and unfair world. Though she's known she is gay since puberty, she's kept such a fact entirely to herself. Lacking close friends to confide in, and worried about what her rather traditional parents would say, she is instead content to mostly just fantasize and sneak candid looks at others. She gets along well with her father, who works hard to provide for her family, but her mother makes it no secret that she'd have preferred a more traditional daughter.<br><strong>Personality</strong>: While she doesn't dislike grouping up with others, she views being able to stand on her own as something praiseworthy, and tends to respect those that really put the effort into learning the games she plays. To her, it's not about numbers but skill, being able to tackle challenges beyond one's level and gear is the sign of a true pro. She pushes herself hard and is super critical of her own actions, though she tones it down and doesn't hold others to her standards. People that mock her for playing games, the people who say 'it's just a game' or 'get a life' annoy her to no end. To her, video games are her life. Outside of SAO, all she has waiting for her is more doctors appointments and boring days alone at school. She can be cold and distant at times, but most of that is a lack of confidence. She often doesn't know what to say, or how to act, and is instead content to follow and observe in social situations.<br><strong>Appearance</strong>: <br>(http://gelbooru.com//samples/93/a6/sample_93a6013b479639ed34b174c0ace6783a.jpg?232037)<br>(Without the cat-ears, most of the time) For the most part, she wears light clothing that doesn't limit her mobility. Most often the majority of the weight she carries comes from her numerous pockets and pouches on her belt, containing every useful item she can think of 'just in case'. She's thinner than she should be, mostly due to a lack of exercise rather than any sort of dieting, and as such she isn't as happy with her bust as she could be. Her legs are her best feature, but even they are rather slender and elegant, rather than the fit muscular ones she'd love to have. She dyes her hair to remove herself further from her real world self, partly out of fear that anyone from the real world will recognize her. It's a stupid fear, but she clings to it along with the hope that she may strike up a romance at some point. (Or rather, that a romance may fall in her lap. She's far too cowardly to go looking for one.)<br><br><strong>Preferred equipment type</strong>: Naoko makes use of light armor for maximum mobility, preferring to avoid hits rather than blocking or parrying. She uses a dagger for much the same reason, and is always over prepared before leaving town, a habit she picked up early and carried over into SAO. No matter what she expects to find on a journey or quest, she's always sure to bring healing items, antidotes, and myriad other useful but situation items.<br><strong>Play style</strong>: Naoko has two main methods of fighting. The first, employed when she encounters a new monster for the first time, is a very cautious and evasive type of combat style. She'll harass a monster with damage while keeping her mobility up, attempting to bait it into using all of its attacks. Once she gets a feel for how a monster functions, what its tells are and how to dodge each attack, then she'll switch to properly killing it. She's a perfectionist, and will often grind the same monster until she has it completely memorized and can kill it without taking damage in return, if at all possible.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>catherinehellfire</strong> on <strong>19-05-2015, 22:33:09</strong>
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				<strong>"Real" Name:</strong> Catherine Mori<br><strong>Screen Name:</strong> Moonlight<br><strong>Age:</strong>18<br><strong>Biography:</strong> Catherine was adopted by a relatively wealthy Japanese family on their trip to the U.S., as they couldn't have kids of their own. As she grew up the other kids stayed separate from her because of how different she was, though they got used to her after a few years and she made a couple of friends.&nbsp; She never was very popular but as long as she had her friends she learned not to care,even though her friends were really just taking advantage of her for her kindness and her family's money.&nbsp; She stuck more to her books throughout school and could either be seen following her friends around or in the library and she was well known for her high grades in school.&nbsp; As she had never played a Virtual MMO or really any video games, her friends came up with a plan.&nbsp; At the end of the school year they came up with an offer, since they could never get her to play video games with them, they told her that if she got an MMO and played it for a month to give it a chance, they would give her money, she accepted, the game she chose, SAO.<br><strong>Personality:</strong>Catherine is shy at first, but after she gets to know someone she is kind, caring, and a loyal friend.&nbsp; She believes that love and friendship are the most important things and would give up anything for someone she considers a true friend.&nbsp; She is quite intelligent, but when it comes to other people she is quite naive and it is easy for people to take advantage of her for her kindness and her deep want for more friends.<br><strong>Appearance:</strong>Real Life:<br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://www.porjati.ru/uploads/posts/2013-12/thumbs/1388469595_533649.jpg)</div></div>Game:<br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://lohas.nicoseiga.jp/thumb/1791974i?)</div></div><br><strong>Preferred equipment type:</strong>She will typically use armor which is medium but with some pieces removed for movement speed.&nbsp; She uses a short sword and a heater shield as weapons <br><strong>Play style:</strong>She made her character to be fast but defensive when needed and is meant in a party to be able to distract and annoy monsters.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sword Art Online: Yuri Edition (Character Thread)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Lynnette</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 23:33:22</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/ifxOBj9.jpg)</div><strong>"Real" Name:</strong> Aiko Yamahara<br><strong>Screen Name:</strong> Achima<br><strong>Age:</strong> 21<br><strong>Biography:</strong> Aiko has always been a typical A-grade child. Highly intelligent, studious, and following the normal cultural norms, being a polite and withdrawn person. While it wasn't too hard to keep up in the earlier years, it became more tedious in her later years though. Things didn't just fall in like it was supposed to be common knowledge anymore, hence studying became a more central part of her life. Dead set on pleasing her parents and doing well in school, most wake hours were spent working on schoolwork, before she eventually burned out completely and ended up staying home for a long time, till it eventually left her attendance at a point of which she could no longer could graduate, and hence had to re-do a year. It was during this while that she picked up video games, mostly as a way to make time pass until the next semester.<br><br>When the new semester started, She picked up on school again quite well, playing video games every now and then to calm down from the stress of daily life, which was what it kept on being. After graduating high school, she moved from home and went on to college, studying engineering.<br><br><strong>Personality:</strong> Aiko's personality largely depends on who she's talking to. She can be a bit awkward socially, not being the most sharing person there is, preferring to keep things to herself. Not in an egocentric manner, but more so that she just doesn't like to share her personal problems and the likes. She's undoubtedly intelligent though, both on a school-level and as far as video games goes.<br><strong>Alternative images:</strong> LINK TO ALBUM (NSFW) (http://imgur.com/a/8ZSxc)<br><br><strong>Preferred equipment type:</strong> Medium/light armor with straightswords and bucklers, or heavy armor and tower shields with straightswords.<br><strong>Play style:</strong> During the beta, she relied on a PvP type build relying on heavy-cooldown hard-hitting abilities, though wanting to try something new, she went over to a counterattack-based build, built around using a buckler for easy parrying and straight swords for damage output. Besides this, it's built to be just strong enough to use tower shields should the situation demand it.
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