Post by Terra Branford on Jan 17, 2022 19:15:24 GMT -6
Terra "Tina" Branford
"Hope is ours to carry on! "
I. BASICS
FULL NAME:: Terra Branford
NICKNAMES:: Esperkin
GENDER:: Female
AGE::19
ORIENTATION::Heterosexual
ALLIGNMENT:: Neutral
NICKNAMES:: Esperkin
GENDER:: Female
AGE::19
ORIENTATION::Heterosexual
ALLIGNMENT:: Neutral
HEIGHT:: 5'3" {160cm}
HAIR/EYES/SKIN:: Terra has shoulder blade length mint green hair. Her eyes are a sharp violet in color. Though as she slowly becomes enraged the violet emerges more and more as the Esper within continues to push outward. Her skin is paler than normal nearly snow white in coloration. In Esperkin form Terra's skin gains orchid colored hairs along all of her body. Her hands twist into claws and her hair becomes a vibrant orchid in color. Her eyes change into a deep blue and stand out as a stark contrast to the rest of her frame while in this state.
DiSTINGUISHING MARKS::
II. PERSONA
Terra is a calm, patient calculating, and confidant woman. Also she is a very hope filled woman. Her calm demeanor stems from the inner turmoil that she has dwelled on and overcome through her connections to the children of Mobliz. Helping them all get back on their feet and getting a community running after the defeat of Kefka helped this. Yet despite her usually calm demeanor she will become flustered if someone pushes attention upon her. She is unused to any form of flirtation so these situations will confuse her and leave her a little flabbergasted while she recovers.
Having to keep her cool among all the recovery allowed her to become a more calculating of a woman. Starting with her battle against Phunbaba where she would purposely draw him and his fire away from the city proper and instead of trying to outlast her opponent she would go straight for the kill upon those that meant the most destruction and devastation for those she held dear. The confidence comes from the travels alongside her friends across the World of Ruin. Her hope stretches from the belief that no matter how dark things get that she can preserve through it all and help others at the same time
When she evokes her ability and draws out the other side of her genetics her personality changes as well. While transformed she becomes intensely defensive and protective of those close to her. She is willing to do whatever is needed to defend her friends and allies. A lot of her inhibitions about killing slide away as she is in this state and will do it without hesitation. Though once she emerges from her form she feels immense sadness if she causes large scale destruction or death cause of her other self.
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III. HISTORY
A girl without a real home lost between two worlds that were at war. Daughter to the Esper Maduin and Madeyllene a human girl who had run from the cruelty of her own world. Terra was born within the world of the Espers and was raised there for the first two years of her life until the world changed. The Gesthalian Empire personally led by their Emperor invaded the World of the Espers and in that moment Terra lost both her mother and father from her life. So from the age of two years old she was trained and tested on because of her mixed heritage.
The mixed blood of her heritage allowed magic to flow freely from deep within Terra. Her formative years where alongside the only person she could call a friend. Another woman who had the spark of magic within her Celes Chere. Even with this her education and training could not fully restrain the power within. So instead of being allowed to control the powers naturally and possibly scare those of the Empire she was given a unique piece of headgear. Something known as a Slave Crown was placed upon her head and it restrained her greater thoughts. She followed the orders of her superiors without question, This lead to her first mission and her freedom from this enslavement.
Onward to the city of Narshe alongside two Imperial soldiers they fought through the defenses of the town and made it to the Frozen Esper Tritoch. Once in front of Tritoch power coursed through Terra after Tritoch made the officers vanish. She was knocked out cold and found by a man from Narshe named Arvis. The man saved Terra’s life by removing the Slave Crown and allowing her access to escape from within his home up into the caves where she managed to escape from the town militia with aid from the Treasure Hunter Locke Cole and a team of Moogles. Locke brought her to the Kingdom of Figaro where she recovered for an evening before Kefka Palazzo appeared and drove her, Locke, and their new companion out into the sands and toward the Returners base on the far side of Mount Hobbs.
Once at the base Terra was asked to join the Returners as a ‘Beacon of Hope’. But she did not have any belief within herself or her abilities to be able to help others. So after refusing the offer to join three times Terra wandered back within the base just as a mortally wounded soldier came barreling inside the base to inform of the fall of South Figaro to the Gesthalian Empire. The group split apart at this time with Terra accompanying Banon, Edgar, and his younger brother Sabin toward Narshe. While on the river toward NArshe they where accosted by the octopus Ultros who latched onto Terra’s leg. This brought about another split in the group as Sabin dove into the water to fight off the octopus which caused it to pull away from Terra thankfully. Thankfully there was no other incidents until she and the others arrived in Narshe. The regathered group of Returners turned to face the Expeditionary Forces of Kefka. Upon defeating the forces and forcing Kefka to run away . Turning they approached the Esper once more. Tritoch awoke the latent powers within Terra. Causing an explosion of magical energy around her and her to transform for the very first time into her short lived Esperkin side.
Flying in the skies she visited the city of Kohlingen and burst forth back into the air when the Esper RAmuh summoned her to his side and he helped her come to terms with who she was. It was several weeks before her friends returned from an expedition to the Magitek Research Facility and with the Magicite of her father. The resonating feeling of her fathers departed self calmed Terra and allowed her to return to her human look and yet now she was able to transform into her Esperkin side at will now. Her resolve was hardened though as the team neared the great calamity that fell the world they all knew and loved turning it into a world of despair and death.
It was inside of this world of death that Terra found her place and her humanity. The village of Mobliz is where she had wound up after the destruction of the Blackjack and Kefka’s destruction of the world. There she was the oldest person as the adults had all died to protect the children from Kefka’s Light of Judgement. So she felt some type of motherly instinct to stay there and defend the children from the unleashed horrors of the world. So this led her to fight the horror Phunbaba twice. The first time she was able to push him away from the city with ease but the second time she was still injured from her battle with him and was beaten but thankfully her friends had arrived to assist her in defeating Phunbaba. Sending the creature back to the grave of the world and recovering the Magicite that it had within its gullet.
Now that she was reunited with her friends she vowed to assist them in their quest to knock the now demigod KEfka off his pedestal. So that is what they would do. Lending her now mastered Esperkin abilities and enhanced magical prowess they made it up to against the ‘god’ and laid him low. On their way out she was told by her father that magic was vanishing from the world and she in a frantic rush transformed into her Esperkin state and flew ahead of the others to find a path for the Enterprise to escape the crumbling tower. As they got free from the tower she felt the magic beginning to drain from herself but the words of her father reverberated within her head. “You will be fine if there is something strong enough to bring out your humanity.” Closing her eyes she remembered back to those in Mobliz that she swore she would help. This brought enough for her to cling onto that as the magic fur disappated from around her and she fell onto the deck of the Enterprise exhausted she remained.
As news of the defeat went around the world Terra was dropped off on the outskirts of the small town of Mobliz. With the assurances that the door would always be open for her friends and any family that they would have in the future she departed from the group with a smile upon face. One day she was trapped within a mist that disoriented her and she was knocked out cold by an attacking monster. When she awoke she found herself in a strange land. Travelling across the land she found that she was the only one that she knew that was there.
There was one moment that she swore she had run into Celes but with her mind not being fully there she ran away. Finding herself inside of Torenstein right about the time that the town was being attacked by the being of Chaos. Alongside others she helped defend the town. It did very little to stop most of the damage that was happening but it helped stop total destruction of the town. After this she left the town behind and travelled across the lands never really staying in place for very long. As she travelled she has become closer to her magic once more just as she had before the events of fighting Kefka.
IV. AUTHOR
PLAYER ALIAS:: Svbguy
OTHER CHARACTERS:: Meliadoul Tenguile, Eillien Blaires
ROLE-PLAYING EXPERIENCE:: 10+ Years
HOW YOU FOUND US:: Returning Member
NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION::
ROLE-PLAY SAMPLE::
Terra was awakened early within the morning with the simple baying of wolves far off in the distance. She was living within the home that covered the secret entrance to the underground area that the children of Mobliz lay sleeping within. Slipping out from her bed her bare feet landing upon the wooden floor as she stretched herself out a slight bit. Arms outstretched over her forehead as she walked over beside her blade and belt. To her the baying wolves sounded much closer than they had in a long while which to her meant there was a chance that the wolves had begun to move in closer to the town. Which meant she was going to have to go out there and take care of them.
Slipping out of her silk pajamas she pulled her usual travelling gear on as it provided her the best defense against the wolves should they be near the town. Reaching into the Relic bag she kept she grabbed a pair of Genji Gloves and a Merit Award slipping on the gloves to protect her hands and the award was slipped into her pocket as she gathered her cloak and slipped outside of the home. A deep fog was covering the peninsula this early morning and it unnerved her as the last times this fog had rolled in had accompanied the beast Phunbaba but seeing as he had been vanquished by her friends a long time ago she should not have this fear. Yet the fear still lingered within the back of her mind that she would run into the beast and without her magic and Esperkin form she felt as if she was naked.
Drawing the unenchanted Save the Queen from her hip she glanced around as the only noise was her footfalls and of her sword as she moved it in front of her. The soft ringing of the nimble blade cut through the fog was a slightly reassuring sound as the baying of the wolves was heard once more. This time it sounded as it the wolves where all around her. Which was strange as she was less than a few hundred yards from her home. Turning she noticed that there where no distinguishable monuments as the fog had intensified to the point where she could not see anything but the five feet in front of her. :: What I would not give for a Tornado spell right now. Help move some of this fog aside and allow me to see in front of me. Stupid clown… Had to take that away from all of us… ::
Her mind was racing as once more she heard the baying of the wolves closing in on her position. Tightening her grip on her hilt she took in a deep breath as the sound of rushing footsteps headed toward her from her right side. Spinning in that direction she had but a moments notice before something very large impacted into her sending her spiraling into a nearby tree. With a sickening thud she felt herself begin to lose consciousness. As she did she heard a figure mumbling something in a language she did not understand as the blood trickled from the back of her head.
OTHER CHARACTERS:: Meliadoul Tenguile, Eillien Blaires
ROLE-PLAYING EXPERIENCE:: 10+ Years
HOW YOU FOUND US:: Returning Member
NOTES FOR CONSIDERATION::
ROLE-PLAY SAMPLE::
Terra was awakened early within the morning with the simple baying of wolves far off in the distance. She was living within the home that covered the secret entrance to the underground area that the children of Mobliz lay sleeping within. Slipping out from her bed her bare feet landing upon the wooden floor as she stretched herself out a slight bit. Arms outstretched over her forehead as she walked over beside her blade and belt. To her the baying wolves sounded much closer than they had in a long while which to her meant there was a chance that the wolves had begun to move in closer to the town. Which meant she was going to have to go out there and take care of them.
Slipping out of her silk pajamas she pulled her usual travelling gear on as it provided her the best defense against the wolves should they be near the town. Reaching into the Relic bag she kept she grabbed a pair of Genji Gloves and a Merit Award slipping on the gloves to protect her hands and the award was slipped into her pocket as she gathered her cloak and slipped outside of the home. A deep fog was covering the peninsula this early morning and it unnerved her as the last times this fog had rolled in had accompanied the beast Phunbaba but seeing as he had been vanquished by her friends a long time ago she should not have this fear. Yet the fear still lingered within the back of her mind that she would run into the beast and without her magic and Esperkin form she felt as if she was naked.
Drawing the unenchanted Save the Queen from her hip she glanced around as the only noise was her footfalls and of her sword as she moved it in front of her. The soft ringing of the nimble blade cut through the fog was a slightly reassuring sound as the baying of the wolves was heard once more. This time it sounded as it the wolves where all around her. Which was strange as she was less than a few hundred yards from her home. Turning she noticed that there where no distinguishable monuments as the fog had intensified to the point where she could not see anything but the five feet in front of her. :: What I would not give for a Tornado spell right now. Help move some of this fog aside and allow me to see in front of me. Stupid clown… Had to take that away from all of us… ::
Her mind was racing as once more she heard the baying of the wolves closing in on her position. Tightening her grip on her hilt she took in a deep breath as the sound of rushing footsteps headed toward her from her right side. Spinning in that direction she had but a moments notice before something very large impacted into her sending her spiraling into a nearby tree. With a sickening thud she felt herself begin to lose consciousness. As she did she heard a figure mumbling something in a language she did not understand as the blood trickled from the back of her head.