nevercravetherose

OOC
Player/Contact: Kaysper, contact at

kaysper and Kaysper#5562 on discord
Other Characters: N/A

IC
Name: Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore
Canon: Tales of Arise
Canon Point: Immediately Post Del Fharis Castle
Age: 19

History/Personality:
Wiki Link! Though since the history section doesn’t fully extend to her canon point, a quick recap:

During the end of the Elde Menancia arc, the group manages to get the earth master core from Dohalim with only a small amount of emotional break downs, boss fights, and political upheaval.
The group then travels to Mahag Saar, aka the Wind Realm. Along the way they meet up with the Water Lord, Vholran, who proceeds to curb stomp the entire party. Shionne tries to defend Alphen and block a sword with her body; this goes about as well as can be expected. Alphen barely manages to drive off Vholran, Shionne barely manages to survive.
Once reaching the Mahag Saar capital, Niez, Alphen punches out a rebel leader who smack talks Shionne and his friends. After being sent on a wild chase by said rebel leader, Shionne is forced to admit her goal; to get rid of her thorns by assembling all the master cores and creating the Renas Alma. She also finds herself growing closer to the party in the process.
The wind lord Almeidrea makes an appearance, does a bit of mass murder in Niez, everyone gets a fresh layer of trauma, and then chase Almeidrea across the sea by boat. Before confronting Almeidrea, Shionne and Alphen share a heart to heart. They even hold hands!
After confronting Almeidrea and getting the wind master core. Vholran makes another appearance; the resulting fight causes Alphen’s mask to shatter, returns his memories, and his ability to feel pain, much to Shionne’s dismay. That bit of trauma leaves her unable to fight back, and she gets abducted by Vholran.
The party then does a lot of soul searching, before going on an asskicking rescue mission into the water realm and storms Del Fharis Castle. They find Shionne in the castle chapel, and after one action sequence manage to snap her out of her BSOD.
The group finish storming the castle, fight Vholran with much better results, and assemble all the master cores to create the Renas Alma. Then everything goes pear shaped, the Renas Alma is stolen (though the group still hangs onto the fire master core) and Shionne finds herself with a fresh set of Maiden powers and a new set of questions.

Would you consider your character to be heroic? Why or why not?: Thanks to her curse and the way it forces her to keep her distance, Shionne has gotten an odd attitude towards heroics.

Namely, she tries to pretend that she doesn’t care about people, their opinions, or helping them, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. Most good deeds Shionne does, she tries to write off as having an ulterior or selfish motive; her claim for the first half of the game is that she’s helping other people because it helps HER. Yet for all of that, she still does the right thing and has an altruistic streak she tries to hide. She lies to herself about being heroic and puts up a prickly front to try and convince others of the same… But that doesn’t change how she acts; she won’t refuse people in trouble, she’ll keep vigil over someone she cares about, and if someone is injured she heals them without a second thought.

At her canon point, Shionne has also just learned that she does in fact care about other people, and just how horrific it is to be completely isolated. She’s slowly beginning to learn how to express her feelings, and how to act more honestly on that care and heroic nature.

Powers/Abilities: Artes List

EXTRA NOTES:

The game also keeps it nice and frustratingly vague on what being a Maiden entails; presumably it’s highly dependent on being around the Sovereign, and mostly acting as a counter balance for those abilities, plus invoking and balancing astral energy. It also has the bonus of keeping Shionne’s thorns mostly in check, and limited to only hurting people who touch her.
Shionne’s curse of thorns also prevents her from dying, except by old age. Given what a game breaker headache this is, I’d like to nerf that completely.

Inventory:

One fire master core embedded in her body. This allows Shionne to summon a sword made out of fire. It also potentially (headcanon territory ahead!) gives a boost to her fire arts, giving them an extra punch.
One magitek rifle and a small hyperspace arsenal of ammo and bombs.
An emergency supply of snacks.

Coterie: Salamanders, because healer.

Samples:
TDM 1
TDM 2