Deus Ex Machina: The Xenogears Tale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONA SHEET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Player Information ------------------ Name or Alias: Shiohisa Age (optional): 18 Sex: Female E-mail address: Shiohisa@aol.com ICQ/AIM/Yahoo! Pager/etc. (if applicable): Shiohisa , seidetsukai Character Information --------------------- -Name: Shoshana (Sho for short) -Age: 18 -Sex: Female -Occupation(s): Works as a repair person whenever she finds the time, sometimes works as an information infiltrator or message carrier. -Substitutes which Xenogears Character? (if applicable): none -Birthdate: November 22, V-480 -Height: 5'5" -Weight: 110 lbs -Eyes (colour and shape): violet-blue, almond-shaped eyes lined with black kohl -Build: slim but a little muscular, well-toned, radiates teenage health -Complexion: soft medium-light beige tone, she doesn't really tan--she gets sunburned instead. -Facial Features: oval-V shaped face, eyebrows look straight (but she insists that they aren't), she has a slender nose and thin lips. She can put on a good poker-face, but has the kind of face that shows a lot of emotion. -Identifying Marks: has a long, thin scar from her left collar bone down to the right side of her lower ribs -Hair (colour and style): dark crimson hair, most bangs (uneven and a little unruly) fall to the left, hair is long and tied halfway with a red embroidered rope with tassles at the end. -Voice: not very 'stereotypically' female-sounding, but a little indifferent-sounding with that feminine-whispery-tone -Dress/Attire: Usually in her self-made armor and clothing. Her gold-colored body armor is small, wrapping around her upper body and exposing her chest. Underneath the armor, she has a black one-piece, swimsuit-like suit with a medium-length drape around the hip area. Also sports black thigh-high leggings and black upper-arm length gloves with leather belt straps here and there. Wears light, hard, white boots. When not in usual dress, she wears an airy, white, simple long-sleeve shirt and slightly loose white pants. -Jewelry (if any): a small, thin golden hoop earring on her left ear; a golden stud on her right ear that has a little chain clipping onto her earlobe. -Weapons/Tools (if any): wields an oversized falchion sword, good with her hands for delicate work and carries a small roll of thin, sharp wire for emergency purposes -Armour (if any): a faded-like golden color, it's a self-made, upper body armor. It's light and efficient for blocking light attacks. It is lined on the inside for more comfort. The chest area is open and the top bends upward to form an open collar. The back does not have any openings. -Personality: A reality kind of person, Sho likes to have fun and tends to avoid hostile situations. She feels a lack of confidence and courage in threatening situations, hence the avoidance. She hates to be treated as a lesser person and has a tendency towards vengence and grudges. Sho has a lot of self-doubt and has a big habit of holding in her true feelings. Her younger life was full of a lot of regrets and guilt and she sometimes tend to do things more for herself than others. She is scared of anything with more than four legs and she has a personality disorder where she has a wild fear of men who show interest or any kind of intimacy (she blushes red easily and starts to babble!). Sho feels she can't ever be happy but keeps on striving for something even she doesn't know. She is a very loyal person who fears betrayal but can be too trusting. Lives for the present and waits for the future. Very sympathetic and compassionate but can be quite the opposite. Likes logic. Can be very vicious and cries in unlikely situations. She can be quite stubborn as well. -Background and History: Sho's mother gave birth to her alone under a young tree that was next to the sandy beach and the sea. She grew up there in a little well-kept cottage next to the protection of a large slab of metal sticking out of the sand. Her father avoided her most of her life and she was bullied often by her siblings, thus she cries easily in such situations. Wanting to become a stronger person, she created a kind of self-centered, cold exterior during her teenage years. When she left home, her mother gave her the red embroidered rope with tassles that Sho ties her hair with. Curious about the world and wanting to meet other people, she set out in a totally random direction with an excited fear in her heart. In her early teen years, there had been a bad man who had wanted to marry her and she was so afraid that she tried to drown herself but was saved by mysterious woman who agreed to teach Sho a style of fighting under the caution that if Sho learned it, no ordinary man will ever marry her because they would fear her. Feeling that she did not want to be involved in relationships anyway, Sho agreed and learned the style but had left before being able to master it. She has very limited knowledge of other cities or places besides Aveh. Shoshana doesn't know the existence of Solaris nor Ethos, but has a knowledge of the existence of Kislev. Her only friend is an orphan puppy that followed her home and she named it Etoile. As for the long scar on her chest, it is from an operation from when she was very young... -Birthplace: Under a tree near the sea and the beach on the very southern part of the continent of Ignas, directly south from Aveh. -Mother: Ofaniel -Father: Juron -Siblings: 3 older brothers, 1 older sister, and 1 younger brother -Mate: none, doesn't think it's possible with her disfunction -Children: none -Other relations: the mysterious woman who taught Sho her fighting style which has no name, a black and white husky-like puppy called Etoile. -Secondary Skills: Good at repairing certain things, learns how to read people sometimes and can grab things with her toes with some effort. -Abilities/Disabilities: Can be manipulative. A clean and silent (but sometimes very vicious) fighter, Sho is good in combat only at a close range and does quite well with hand-to-hand combat although sometimes she can fight dirty. At a state of extreme mental excitation, she is occasionally able to project a form of destructive energy through her falchion. Sho doesn't have a very long stamina and tends to use most of her energy immediately for most damage. She can tolerate pain but doesn't like it. Many times, she feels too scared (or shy?) to ask for help from others and may depend on herself way too much. When she is not using her falchion, she can use her wire strings as a tool or a weapon to cut through things. Easily frightened by anything with more than four legs (a great disability for running away) Her puppy, Etoile, is sometimes a disability for her because she has to protect/watch him as well. Sho sometimes has a hard time remembering things. Absolutely cannot cook decently. -Hobbies: Drawing things she sees, traveling, over-asking questions and speculation, making people laugh/smile, silently obsess over her personality disorder, and play with Etoile. -Current residence: nowhere for too long -Current Life Conflicts: Her personality disorder, constantly thinks about how her mother is doing, constantly wondering what she is going to do next, men, her lack of knowledge of things most people know about (such as Ether, Solaris, etc. this causes her a lot of trouble and confusion). -Other notes: Thinks people like to tease or be around her just for the thrill of seeing her facial expressions when she reacts to certain things. Sho is so innocent, isn't she?! ^_^; -Gear name: does not have possession of a Gear as of yet. -Gear description: XXX -Class: XXX -Primary function: XXX -Weapon(s): XXX -Abilities/Disabilities: XXX -How your character acquired the gear: XXX