This is where we need a picture of ~6-year old Haneyl with a book of fables being offered her choice of dessert or a sugary drink and answering "Why not both?" in as serious a tone as a nouveau rich princess can.
Ascensions and Transgressions: the Tales of Keris Dulmeadokht (Exalted game)
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Excuse you, she would be 7.
Things get really weird when she starts kidnapping herself.
If Yu-Shan discovers the true extent of Infernal operations, I imagine that it's going to be less "arrange a diplomatic presence" and more "send recovery teams to kill the Infernals and recapture the exaltations."
Though considering the lackadasical response to the deathknights, that may not happen. Heaven is too corrupt and stretched too thinly to really retaliate to anything less than an existential threat.
Frankly, I don't think they could do so- Lillunu's quite heavily defended, and the Sidereals were only able to pull off the 'lock Solar Exaltations away' thing because they had easy, unguarded access to Lytek's offices.
The Sandman
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I misread that as "Lytek's orifices" for a moment. It was a bizarre mental image.
Why do you think she locks her human body up in her tree when she goes full dragon?
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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She already lives in a swamp and has green as her primary color motif. I think it's too late.
I don't think she'll pick up a Knight form later.
What she got out of fairy tales is apparently that the Princess gets to have all the things and the Dragon gets to light people on fire and take all the things.
Two great flavors that go perfectly well together in Haneyl's imperialistic mind.
Speaking of princesses, has Keris picked up the ability to sing and command woodland creatures to do her bidding? Seems like it would be rather crucial to her whole "evil disney princess" schtick.
Well, perhaps more pertinently a knight is just a human wearing armour, and as a princess she's not at all prepared to be told she can't have armour. She's going to have the best, most expensive armour that's far better than anyone else's armour. It's going to be made of orichalcum and covered in flowers and emeralds and you'll be able to see her glowing green eyes through the visor and...
Vali: "Yeah! And if anyone threatens her and she doesn't deserve it, I'll smash their face in."
Haneyl: "Wonderful! You need armour too! My little brother has to be the best little brother-knight! And provide all the masculinity that Rathan is lacking!"
Rathan: "I will have you know that my armour is prettier than yours, and when I take my helmet off women and men go weak at the knees as my mass of hair comes spilling out and I bishie sparkle. If that's not masculinity, what is?"
Zanara: "I have armour too!"
Vali: "Zanara, your armour is a blasphemous and weirdly sexualised thing of coral, pearl and opals that looks like a living statue and men who look at it go mad and mutate into tentacle monsters."
Zanara: "... what's the problem?"
Not really. See, Haneyl's thing is basically that she's early modern absolutism and imperialism, meets Disney. So she's not going to make an ogre like Shrek - if she makes ogres, they'll be hulking knights she feeds raw meat to and sends out to crush people who don't pay taxes.
Basically, what happens if you merge the idea of a guard dog and a man at arms.
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The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Now I'm imagining him as demonic Reinhard von Lohengramm.
"Well, for one, it's hard to lead an army when they start going mad and mutating every time you turn to give them orders."
So just Disney, then?
So mob enforcers, then. Which would play into how underneath all of her cultured mannerisms the primal image of an authority figure she patterns herself on (courtesy of Keris) is a Nexan crime boss.
Realistic Disney. She's what would happen if actual royalty was given the kind of power they get in Disney movies.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
I was thinking more along the lines of the IRL Disney corporation, but that works too.
Here is how to imagine Rathan.
Rathan looks to be around 13-14 at the moment. Rathan does not look like a real 13-14 year old boy.
Rathan looks like what 13-14 year old girls who read a lot of shoujo manga wish 13-14 year old boys look like, with just a pinch of "also looking enough like what the 13-14 year old girls wished they looked like" that means that the girls simultaneously want him to be their boyfriend and also want to be him.
The 13-14 year old boys who see him are left in about the same state as the girls, because it seems the things the girls are reading include yaoi.
Honestly, "Kaworu with long red hair" is a pretty good approximation, which explains why he is also Shinji-bait.
(Unfortunately for Rathan, he has assertive and domineering sisters and thus is a bit scared of girls. That is probably natural when your sisters are Echo, Haneyl and Calesco, because they are scary girls.)
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Amusingly, this was exactly how I was imagining him. Kaworu-kun truly is the bishie to end all bishies!
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A couple of questions for @Aleph
1. Is Keris going to let her Souls out into Creation, or just Malfeas?
2. Is T's advice going to result in Keris picking up a parenting Style, or at least trying to?
3. Is Keris going to put 2 and 2 (namely, her souls growing into demon lords that look like teenagers) and realize that they're probably going to grow into something beyond Demon Lords?
1. Is Keris going to let her Souls out into Creation, or just Malfeas?
2. Is T's advice going to result in Keris picking up a parenting Style, or at least trying to?
3. Is Keris going to put 2 and 2 (namely, her souls growing into demon lords that look like teenagers) and realize that they're probably going to grow into something beyond Demon Lords?
Amusingly, given both Echo's human form and Calesco's true form take notably after their other mother, the two of them look a bit... Rei-ish.
We can take a look at Guilty Gear to compare the difference in how adult Rathan and Vali look in terms of their expression of masculinity. Vali is rather more like Sol, while Rathan is more like Ky. Sadly, Zanara considers colour-changing eyes, a hat that eats people, red-leather clothing and an electric guitar as your weapon to be an entirely appropriate mode of dress - at least until they get bored of it.
(Honestly, when it comes down to it Keris and her souls basically make up a fairly good roster for a fighting game. And unlike most fighting games, there's always an in-character reason for the characters to fight in the story mode.)
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"And then Haneyl and Vali had a three-round 1-on-1 cagefight in the middle of a massive arena, because it was Validay [1]."
[1] Upon realising that Keris has seven demonic souls and the week has seven days,Haneyl an anonymous source voted that the days of the Kerisian week be named appropriately.
[1] Upon realising that Keris has seven demonic souls and the week has seven days,
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Kek, Echo is Rei from Nobody Dies.
I'll assume that Haneyl is Asuka then.
I'd play the shit out of Krisity Fighting Arena.
And I would totally play Rathan or Haneyl because they're tied for my favorite souls.
But Haneyl has a horrific problem there. If she takes the 7th day, it means she's last. And also things are out of order, so no one remembers what order the days are meant to come in.
This problem can only be solved by Echo vandalising all the printing presses so the calendar days are ordered by age order.
Haneyl has a strong mid-range game with powerful fireball projectiles and a good mix-up close range game, but you have to manage both her Hunger gauge and her Fuel gauge since most of her powerful attacks burn both meters and her normals aren't so strong. Also, her air-game is weak, although she has fairly strong anti-air tech. Fairly beginner friendly, though, because of her relatively high skill floor and that she has some fairly easy multihit attacks. Just be aware that her fireballs are mid-ranged projectiles and you're not going to be out-ranging Calesco players.
Rathan, by contrast, has a much better air game and several strong air-to-ground attacks, but he's a more defensive and harder to use fighter because he relies a lot more on combo-breaking and his Stance mechanics, where you adopt a given stance which auto-counters specific kinds of attack. Not for beginners, because until you've memorised most of the other characters and how they play anyone half-way decent will just subvert your current Stance if you use it.
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Echo & Calesco FTW. Best characters. Much fun. Very fight. : 3
(Though ironically not that fun to play against each other.)
(Though ironically not that fun to play against each other.)
Kek, Echo is Rei from Nobody Dies.
I'll assume that Haneyl is Asuka then.
Honestly, considering both my and @Aleph's involvement in ND, yeah - the fact that the Kerissouls sort of turned into the Ree Mk2 is perhaps less surprising than it should be. It's not a 1:1 map, of course, and even the Rei-Echo similarities are rather marred by how much less narrative respect Echo gets than Rei, but... yeah.
And no, Haneyl is not Asuka [1]. Haneyl doesn't look like a tsundere. She's trying to pass as an ojou-sama. If they got caught in an Elloge High School AU [2], Haneyl would want to be the Student Council President... actually, she'd want to be Satsuki Kiryuin. The fact that she's not really cold, dignified, and her natural accent is 'Nexan street' just like Vali's is something that shames her, because she embodies some of Keris' neuroses about people judging her because she talks like a poor Nexan.
[1] That's Asarin, who's basically a bunch of tsunderes thrown into a blender and coalesced into a demon lord.
[2] Hmm, I need to write that as Elloge's geomancy Charm - the ability to declare that a certain area is a certain genre.
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Nobody Dies was pretty cool, I steal the fuck out of those cool "I have come" speeches that the angels gave.
As Chiming Minaret aptly demonstrates here:
Hmmm, the closest I can Evangelion character I can think of would be Hikari, but Hikari doesn't really have any similarites with Haneyl and isn't actually an ojou-sama at all, like even less so than Haneyl (I don't even think she classifies as one actually), so I'll take your word for it.
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1) If I wasn't intending to use the Enlightenment 6 demon-lord wolfpack that I've put the better part of two in-game years buttering up and winning over to be loyal to me, I wouldn't have bought the Charm. That said, Haneyl at least will probably have an internship with Sasi to learn things like "subtlety" and "tact" and "not alerting every Dragonblood within a hundred mile radius whenever she interacts with a human population larger than a village". And Keris will be careful how she uses them, obviously.
2) Check out her character sheet, yo. She's already got one.
Strife and conflict in a group can rip it apart. Thus it is not only bleeding hearts who see the wisdom in harmony and cooperation. This Style is used to smooth other disputes, put feuds to rest and end squabbling among families or organisations and ensure everyone at least tolerates one another. It may not be used to favour one party over another.
1: +1 to maintaining oneself as a neutral arbitrator and refusing to take a side.
2: +1 to resolving arguments by appealing to common Principles between the parties.
3: Ignore 1 point of MDV when urging a group to cooperate against a common enemy.
1: +1 to maintaining oneself as a neutral arbitrator and refusing to take a side.
2: +1 to resolving arguments by appealing to common Principles between the parties.
3: Ignore 1 point of MDV when urging a group to cooperate against a common enemy.
4) "A couple" =/= "3".