DEUS EX MACHINA PERSONNEL FORM The Hunter Name: Chizoba Omiata
Nicknames: Zoba
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Category: Mist
The Weapon Name: Chiranjivi
Nicknames: Ranji, sometimes Ran
Type of Weapon: KatarFormer species of weapon: Vetala (Hindu mix of vampire and ghoul)
Gender: Male
Personalities:Hunter - Chizoba is mostly good-natured, though also more than a little superstitious and rather private by nature, tending to keep to herself. She feels no need to rebel against authority just for the sake of rebelling, but likewise, she is confident enough in her own skills and opinions that she will not blindly follow when her instincts tell her to use a different method. She tries to be diplomatic with others, but it doesn't always work, and when she suffers from foot-in-mouth syndrome, she usually just sighs and gives up trying to explain herself rather than make things worse by insisting. She very rarely holds grudges, but she will quite willingly seek both justice
and vengeance for wrongs done to her.
When she is not focused on her tasks and her fights, Zoba's two favorite hobbies are food and the written word. With food, she loves seeking out food she enjoys - good food, but often simple food too. No food is too strange for her, nor is she afraid to try anything, but she's not quite as good when it comes to cooking. Certainly she can boil water, but she gets distracted from the actual cooking fairly easily, which leads to ruined dishes and disappointments. Because of that, she does her best to avoid cooking anything complex whenever she can, while still answering her love of food.
Her joy in the written word is much the same... she has little skill in writing prose or poetry, and yet she loves both and wants desperately to be better at it. When she became a hunter, she left behind her vague hopes of being a famous author, but occasionally the urge still takes over, and she leaves in her wake simplistic and useless poetry. Knowing she's not nearly as good as the authors she adores, she tends to hide her writings away. Her name is never on them, and if confronted with them in public, she will disavow knowledge of them.
Weapon - Ranji is terrifically straightforward, sometimes sarcastic, and glories in battle. It is to his great annoyance that Zoba wishes to be something more than a simple fighter, for he sees the rest of her jack-of-all-trades calling as procrastination and silliness. The world is black and white, and he knows precisely which side he's on, regardless of what Zoba may or may not think about any given situation. Despite all of that, or perhaps even because of it (who can fathom that intractable mind, after all), Ranji has a thread of affection for Zoba... particularly when she gives back as good as she gets, when she stands up for herself against harsh words and returns them to him twofold.
Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter? (If your character participated in the original Hunter metaplot, then you've already written a solo that explains their reasons! Just link to that with a brief (2-3 lines, max) summary.
If not: all Hunters are human, chosen from among ordinary humans for their extraordinary ability to detect "evil beings". This abilty has affected them their entire life. The original solo guidelines are here: while, as a quest character, you do not have to write a solo yet, you should keep those guidelines in mind! Use them to develop your character's past, and their reasons for signing their life away to become a Hunter.)
Hunter - Zoba's family has always been the superstitious sort. She grew up on a vast library of old wives' tales, on disgusting concoctions to heal all ills - concoctions that no self-respecting doctor would ever prescribe, on being reminded to take special care of mirrors as often as she was to look both ways. These old wives' tales and superstitions were beliefs handed down for generation upon generation, with no solid link to reality and many of them completely missing reality by miles, but to Zoba they were fact, because she believed as she was taught to believe.
And she grew up special, seeing what her family spoke of, knowing for certain what her family only believed without hard evidence, seeing and knowing the creatures of FEAR for what they were. And more than anything else, Zoba grew up revering her grandmother as the one with all knowledge of the world. And so, as her grandmother reiterated, over and over, year after year of Zoba's life, that it was up to her to save the world, to protect all those who couldn't, to destroy the monsters before they destroyed the world, those words wormed their way into Zoba's consciousness.
When the choice came, there really was no choice.
Weapon Ability Pockets of Instability: (Headlights) The weapon is capable of blasting out uneven pockets of shockwaves, causing the ground around to quake - sometimes faintly and sometimes with more force. The resultant uneven footing can cause the opponent to fall back or miss a blow entirely.
Physical Description: Eye Colour: EggplantHair Colour/Style: Old Velvet (base color) with tips of
A Moment in Time. She wears thick dreadlocks that tend to fall to the base of her shoulderblades, with several of the dreadlocks caught up to form a topknot.
Skin Colour: Chocolate TruffleClothing Style/Colours: (All Hunters wear a standard 'uniform': a white coat trimmed with gold with their class sigil on the back. They also always wear a colorful scarf/sash as part of their uniform. No matter what, these two items of clothing must be included in your Hunter's design!) Chizoba tends to wear clothing influenced by or inspired from African traditional clothes. She prefers brightly colored outfits, but I'm quite happy to leave the specific clothing design to the artist's opinion of what looks best, and would very much like the clothing to utilize
this palette.Extra: References:
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