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Character Name: Natalia Koutolika Canon: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine Character Blurb: Natalia Koutolika, The Prodigy, in her home canon, is the kind of omni-competent action heroine who would be the one who always wins in combat games. In the game, she's a thorough examination of this sort of character, what drives them, and what makes them break-- and, more importantly, sets the baseline for its decidedly more openly powerful characters, like the Child of the Sun (who is also the Sun), The Wishing Boy (owner and creator of the titular Wish-Granting Engine), and Rinley Yatskaya(Rinley). Similarly, here, being an omnicompetent action hero can be useful, but it really isn't... what lets you win as a Nova Knight. Sorry, Natalia!
Her first quests are to partially unfreeze her heart, take in peaceful moments, and introduce herself to the other characters via hunting for Typhon, the golden snake of the rooftops and god-monster.
As Chuubilis is wont to do this can lead to many interpretations as arcs proceed, but we're starting from the same baseline.
Code Name: Domain: Combat Type: Any Which Way She Can, which implies a Defense Type. Blessed spears, bows and arrows, good-old-fashioned fisticuffsmanship? Given her eventual aspirations, this should probably take notes from judo and tae kwon do, as well. Not much magic in there, I think. At least, not for a while.
I'm not entirely sure what her Code Name and Domain are. Thanks to her initial character sheet, the obvious answer is something icy, but... I don't like it here. That centers her trauma, not her passions, and it's pretty clearly the passions that drive a Nova Knight.
Awakening: I think that as for her Awakening, I like the idea of her getting a chance meeting, and it turning into an absolute spiritual experience, in the worst possible sense of the word-- the kind of thing that makes you want to wander out into the desert for a while wondering what the heck that was.
Present Life: Natalia's current life is easy enough to transplant: She's a recent emigre from some place that is plenty awful, and plenty cold, and she bears the scars of both poverty and personal tragedy. It's been about six weeks since she started school as of May Phase 1. While previously, she was considered a prodigy of both mathematics and martial arts, lately she's been adrift. Her family includes her parents-- her father is a fisherman, and her mother is queen of muddling through and doing cottage industry stuff-- and her older brother, Vasili. They're all warm people-- so why is Natalia herself so cold? (grief giving rise to cynicism and apathy)
Past Life: The obvious contrast I came up with would be to make her past life a Constellation-- but an Oracle proclaimed early on that she was fated to marry an Aster. I'm fairly certain that if this is canon, they did this on the Nashira herself. Still, it feels a bit 'pat'. I think her wish was related to grief, somehow-- her spouse died before she did, likely protecting her-- and that grief is the commonality, I think, between her past life and her present.
In-Game Plans: Facing Typhon alone or with friends feels like a natural first stop if we're doing player plots; a snake that controls storms and absorbs energy by poisoning you with something that makes you forget all the things precious to you, and lining her nest with those stained-glass loves and outrages as she digests them? Yeah, that's a heck of a monster of the week! Pre-Established CR Hooks: Fellow students and classmates comes to mind first and foremost. Teachers, people who know her family and see the strange, cold child. Anyone who wants to excel in maths, sciences, or the equivalent of the SATs.
Desired CR/Hooks: She wants to thaw her heart, but it hurts. Romances, genuine friendships, people getting jealous of her, people realizing she works an extra part time job to make ends meet?
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Character Name: Natalia Koutolika
Canon: Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine
Character Blurb: Natalia Koutolika, The Prodigy, in her home canon, is the kind of omni-competent action heroine who would be the one who always wins in combat games. In the game, she's a thorough examination of this sort of character, what drives them, and what makes them break-- and, more importantly, sets the baseline for its decidedly more openly powerful characters, like the Child of the Sun (who is also the Sun), The Wishing Boy (owner and creator of the titular Wish-Granting Engine), and Rinley Yatskaya(Rinley). Similarly, here, being an omnicompetent action hero can be useful, but it really isn't... what lets you win as a Nova Knight. Sorry, Natalia!
Her first quests are to partially unfreeze her heart, take in peaceful moments, and introduce herself to the other characters via hunting for Typhon, the golden snake of the rooftops and god-monster.
As Chuubilis is wont to do this can lead to many interpretations as arcs proceed, but we're starting from the same baseline.
Code Name:
Domain:
Combat Type: Any Which Way She Can, which implies a Defense Type. Blessed spears, bows and arrows, good-old-fashioned fisticuffsmanship? Given her eventual aspirations, this should probably take notes from judo and tae kwon do, as well. Not much magic in there, I think. At least, not for a while.
I'm not entirely sure what her Code Name and Domain are. Thanks to her initial character sheet, the obvious answer is something icy, but... I don't like it here. That centers her trauma, not her passions, and it's pretty clearly the passions that drive a Nova Knight.
Awakening: I think that as for her Awakening, I like the idea of her getting a chance meeting, and it turning into an absolute spiritual experience, in the worst possible sense of the word-- the kind of thing that makes you want to wander out into the desert for a while wondering what the heck that was.
Present Life: Natalia's current life is easy enough to transplant: She's a recent emigre from some place that is plenty awful, and plenty cold, and she bears the scars of both poverty and personal tragedy. It's been about six weeks since she started school as of May Phase 1. While previously, she was considered a prodigy of both mathematics and martial arts, lately she's been adrift. Her family includes her parents-- her father is a fisherman, and her mother is queen of muddling through and doing cottage industry stuff-- and her older brother, Vasili. They're all warm people-- so why is Natalia herself so cold? (grief giving rise to cynicism and apathy)
Past Life: The obvious contrast I came up with would be to make her past life a Constellation-- but an Oracle proclaimed early on that she was fated to marry an Aster. I'm fairly certain that if this is canon, they did this on the Nashira herself. Still, it feels a bit 'pat'. I think her wish was related to grief, somehow-- her spouse died before she did, likely protecting her-- and that grief is the commonality, I think, between her past life and her present.
In-Game Plans: Facing Typhon alone or with friends feels like a natural first stop if we're doing player plots; a snake that controls storms and absorbs energy by poisoning you with something that makes you forget all the things precious to you, and lining her nest with those stained-glass loves and outrages as she digests them? Yeah, that's a heck of a monster of the week!
Pre-Established CR Hooks: Fellow students and classmates comes to mind first and foremost. Teachers, people who know her family and see the strange, cold child. Anyone who wants to excel in maths, sciences, or the equivalent of the SATs.
Desired CR/Hooks: She wants to thaw her heart, but it hurts. Romances, genuine friendships, people getting jealous of her, people realizing she works an extra part time job to make ends meet?
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