Sparks flew across the ship's bridge. The air, was heated, tingled with the scent of death as the blades of Salforge and FLLFFL clashed under the eerie glow of the overhanging Kingdom Hearts. The shadows had eclipsed Arcadia into darkness, and the world's doom was ticking closer and closer as the Emperor's power fell the world's meager resistances. Alas, his rise wasn't yet, and to the solemn night there was none but the friction of steel against steel, as Salforge, the mercenary and FLLFFL, the empire's general saw it through in their bitter enmity. To their side on the spacious bridge, there stood a woman poised in her graceful stature.
Name: Ciel Odine
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Out of a fairy tale. Ciel has a face you expect to see brushed among the paintings of an old fairy-tale book or described through the pages of stories and tales of old lore: Fair, Delicate, Timeless. Her features are drawn gentle in her soft-oval visage with a smooth jaw-line and small perky nose. She has a rather clear and light-creamy complexion that is really, ever interrupted by the healthy rosiness that paints her petite full lips and cheeks when she exercises or in the rare occasions of embarrassment. Her hair falls into a myriad of silky long curls to the middle of her back, hugging her feminine frame and adorning her forehead with rather long side-swept bangs. The shade of her hair is the softest ice blue one could imagine, appearing almost like liquid frost, as if it was carved from ice. She has a wide pair of piercing blue heavily lashed eyes, that seem to invoke intimidation often more than wonder. The truth is, many would agree that Ciel is rather pretty, if it wasn't for the cold and serious expression she wears all the time.
Ciel keeps a very healthy and perfectly toned physique, always training and exercising on a regular fashion to always be in top shape. Although she has started her physical training quite early in her childhood, it is hardly noticeable in her svelte and shapely figure, and if there was any indication to her athleticism and nurtured muscles, it wouldn be her spring and flexible body. Don't be a fool to think it doesn't show though, a careless punch could earn you more than just a simple headache. If it wasn't this time, and this world, one would easily imagine her heading the Greek amazons into a hunt.
Her outfit is sleek and practical as she would have it consisting of a mid-night 3/4 sleeved round neck blouse and black form-fitting pants along with her leather black half-boots. The only accessory she has, is a simple silver bracelet around her left wrist in the shape of tiny snowflakes and a black leather glove on her right hand.
Faction: The Empire
Personality:
Shrewd, serene and rather haughty. Through her appearance she is thought beautiful yet the judging eyes never miss the mysteriously colder exterior of her persona. Ciel's attitude is poised, straight forward and honest to the point of harsh truthfulness, appearing to almost lack in any compassion and empathy. She doesn't hesitate in saying what's on her mind and acts upon her own philosophy and beliefs all the time even if it strikes the people around her as peculiar and strange. However, that doesn't mean she doesn't have a sense of morality and good manners. She would never betray her morals or act out of line to those she truly respects. She is not quick to lose her calm and patience so easily, and prefers to speak calmly and politely even when needing to be strict. Although these characteristics had led people in believing that she is a rather cold and uncaring individual, they have never been more wrongful for they truly miss the signs of her real personality beneath this layer of frost.
An extreme sense of loyalty and strength of will are deemed as her greatest qualities. She never gives up nor does she ever back out easily especially when a friend is involved. She'd always put her friends above her needs, despite most of her actions that would otherwise imply her negligence of such bonds. Contradictory to popular belief, she is perfectly capable of smiling and laughter, and even sparing kind words to complete strangers, much to everyone's confusion. The extent of such paradoxical actions leaves people to wonder about what she truly hides behind this mask of ice.
Weapon:
- Mabataki Akari - Flickering Light: a long rapier with a slender, sharply pointed blade. Said blade is approximately 110 cm in length, made up of a durable and sleek-looking alloy. The smooth and silvery luster of its metallic surface shows the care and tending Ciel has been giving to it over the years since it was a gift from her uncle. Inscribed upon the very bottom of the blade are the words he sought suitable to give her "Reveal thy light, and I shall dance in its Radiance". The hilt is a light bluish-silver in color having a sweeping design of many intricately and beautifully entwined snow-flakes that spiral once around the black handle attaching to the very end of the Rapier where the round blue crystal rests acting as the pommel.
Originally very light in weight, the rapier after all is a weapon made for speed and sharpened slashes rather than power, but since then it has been modified and enhanced to withstand the extreme heat of Ciel's power and also to give it a strong channeling effect that couples well with her attacks. Thanks to her Cousin's abilities, her rapier was allowed to be enhanced in strength and cutting power to a point where its likes didn't without losing the lightness a weapon of such sort should have.
Abilities:
Light Manipulator: Ciel is capable of manipulating Light. She can do this by actively controlling the photons that emit it and simulating their properties into other particles, enabling her a rather wide array of abilities stemming from this process. She can redirect it, bend it, Focus or scatter it, absorb it within herself and even generate it. By absorbing Photons and light particles, Ciel can to an extent generate her very own light and use it depending on the amount she has stored. Her advantage and power are greatly increased in lighted areas where she can use any other source of light in her immediate area as a fuel for her defense or attacks.
She can also use it to amplify her physical attacks increasing the damage done to her opponents or, even cause them severe burns. She can shift and shape them into projectiles or weaponry or any other construct, and control a number of them at once for her bidding. This comes in as a very handy and deceptive attack, able to work in silence and without the target's immediate awareness, at which point Ciel might target vital spots greatly weakening her opponent, or even successfully end their lives. By bending the light about herself, she can achieve invisibility, or change the appearance of items or herself into another through manipulating the spectrum of light or dabbling with their coloring. This also extends to casting illusions projected out of light that might mislead her targets, or relay information to allies when she is elsewhere. However, they are not fit for combat situations and can be so easily dispersed by simple touch.
By focusing and intensifying Light energy, Ciel can exude and shoot out immensely intense and heated beams of light that can pierce and melt through almost anything, even reflective surfaces. At their finest point, they can incinerate whatever they come in touch with rendering it a great ability that Ciel would use as a shielding force or a handy attack to deal with large numbers. By exerting enough focus and stimulating the emission of Photons, Ciel can also create lasers and add them to her arsenal of already formidable attacks.
Swordsmanship Proficiency: Since her childhood, Ciel received a strict and dedicated training in swordsmanship as per her choice. This cultivated in her along the years a great sense of well-timed reflexes and a natural aptitude for the ways of the sword. The result was an exceptional capability in wielding bladed weapons, allowing her to operate with precision and skill in delivering her strikes and thrusts. She regards it with a great sense of respect, and sees it as an art more than a way to kill, the reason why she exercises it with a lot of passion and proficiency. This nurtured in her a strong self-discipline and patience to rival a master of such art.
Ice Magic Conjurer: Although she had received formal training in the arts of magic during her years of apprenticeship, Ciel doesn't consider herself a magician despite her thorough Knowledge of the field. Having chosen to direct her skills towards her natural ability in Light, she had ever rarely delved more than needed into the branches of magic, save for one. Blizzard and Ice magic. According to Master Yen-Sid, Ciel had an uncanny aptitude towards this branch of arcane, coming only second to her skills with Light Manipulation. Her extent of control and knowledge allows her to conjure it, shape and form it as well as freeze the things she comes in contact with or are in her immediate vicinity. As every practitioner knows depending on the size and amount the spell requires, an equal amount of energy/mana must be paid as well as the time in order to summon it. Since no human being would ever have an endless energy/mana nor the required mind focus, one would have to be mindful with how they use their spells, lest they exhaust themselves before realizing.
Even in the moon light her face was pristine as it always is, and yet her gaze held the fight with intense interest, watching and waiting for the inevitable outcome. An outcome she believed in wholeheartedly. Ciel's silent respect for her companion's skills was only ever exceeded by her faith in him, doubts had no place when it came to her bond with Salforge. However, she knew that she won't be able to watch him any longer for her own battle beckoned, one that has been overdue for sometime.
Chains clanked to the ground as Justice rid himself from his restraints. The once prisoner had settled in his murderous vibe, the lust for the kill latching to his very presence like his very shadow. For him it wasn't merely business. To kill was only a natural instinct, an unquenchable need to take lives. A need that demands to be filled. And all the ferocity of this need was directed at her.
"
If I can't do away with him, then you'll have to take his place." He said, and she could hear the insanity that coursed through the edges of his voice.
Ciel remained silent, her gaze was quiet and intense, like the calm before the storm. The frigidness of the air lingering about her seemed detached from all the heated atmosphere on the bridge, as if all the worlds could fall apart and her icy exterior wouldn't even break. She knew that she wasn't facing a human being, it was a monster uncaged. Chains sprouted from his figure and hovered about him like planets around their sun, before they interconnected and started spinning about him speedily.
"
This Empire can conquer reality if it has to, but i'll see to it that the cycle of death never stops." He said, his gray eyes filled by nothing except blood lust. The echoes of his laughter resounding in the darkened skies.
"
Your very presence repulses me" She said, the poison dripping in her voice, the contempt in her blue eyes unmistakable, "
The Trail of Blood this Empire has shed, I will put an end to it." Soft white light started to emanate from her, like an ethereal cloak, it wrapped her svelte form in pearly radiance. Near her right hand, the air shimmered as that mild glow grew in length, outlining a translucent shape with rapid intricateness, as if it was drawn by an artist's invisible paint brush. Soon enough the handle of her rapier, Mabataki Akari, was materialized in her grip, its sharpened blade catching the light majestically in the somber night.
"
And you," she uttered, a slight smirk curved in her lips, "
I shall put an end to your senseless murder." She pointed the menace of her blade at him, the wind scattered the icy blue locks out of her face, leaving the cold shivering hostility bear down at her foe.
"
Come, let me rid the world of your existence."
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