Lucca Ashtear

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Eek
Contact: eeknsqueekn
Age: 36
Current Characters: None.


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Lucca Ashtear
Age: 17
Canon: Chrono Trigger
Canon Point: Post-game, non CronoCross connection, Epoch ending.

Background: (Entry From the Wiki)

Personality:

Lucca is energetic, curious, fiery, studious and upbeat. She calls herself an inventor, the latest in a line of inventors that can trace themselves back hundreds of years. She wasn't always a tomboyish tinkerer, in fact she would have become a very different person had it not been for a terrible accident that befell her mother when she was five. She devoted herself studying her father's machines after that, to ensure that no one else got hurt. After that, her then-awkward relationship with her father transformed once they developed something more in common. (Her mother's accident was corrected later due to some creative time travel though the memory still remains; one of many paradoxes the story is built upon.)

She puts a lot of stock in her technical skills, almost to the point of fixation. However, if you'll talk to the townspeople, they tends to say that her inventions "never work right." That's something of an exaggeration, however it is true that her inventions tend to dramatically (and sometimes explosively) fail due to her exuberance superseding her sense of self-preservation. She's prone to technobabble, leaving many people staring blankly at her. This isn't because she tries to show how smart she is, but because she honestly cannot find any simpler terms to put it into. She also tends to blather and "fill the air with words" when embarrassed or flustered.

While not really a pyromaniac, after personally casting flames from the power of her own will for so long she's kind of forgotten that humans and other living creatures are instinctually afraid of fire, and tend to panic when it suddenly appears out of nowhere. This can, and often does, get her into trouble, startling her friends with a sudden blast of fire when all she was doing was preparing lunch for instance. For what it's worth, the flames she casts do not harm her or her friends, but whatever catches ablaze as a result doesn't take sides and can indeed harm them. She tends not to think about this either, and is prone to overkill when using it to solve a problem and then dealing with the fallout later. Usually the blaze is easily extinguished... usually.

Also on the smaller scale, she tends to accidentally set small things she's holding ablaze with her magic when she gets angry, upset or nervous; she doesn't mean to do it, it just happens. All the emotional energy has to go somewhere, after all.

She has a special affinity for robots, and considers robotics a specialty of hers. The idea of creating an artificial creature that can move and think (and maybe even feel) resonates deeply with her. Some of her creations can be a little... clunky... by others' standards, but she actually paves the way for robotics in her world for the next thousand years or so. She'd be the first to mention this... because she's seen it herself. Her travels into the future have shown extensive advances in technology that are all based on her own designs back in the past.

As mentioned before, she has a habit of boasting on her technical skill and brain power, though she does have her insecurities. She always knew she was "the smart one" of the group with girls like Marle and Ayla around, and that only played up the fixation on her mental ability because she thought that she wasn't--isn't--all that pretty or appealing by comparison. The fact that her childhood friend ultimately became engaged to Marle doesn't help, either. But, she's happy for them. No, really.

She's also more of a hormone-soaked teenager than she seems. She's been known to hide romance stories behind the technical manuals she pretends to read. She just doesn't have a clue how to explore this aspect of herself yet; the most she's done is stare and blather stupidly... and then go to extinguish the book she was holding when it catches fire.

Abilities:

Ray guns: Lucca fights with two weapons. Her primary one being a long-range ray gun, usually of her own design. Wondershot, her current and final weapon in the game, deals damage on a random multiplier and runs on solar energy. She also carries a light machine mallet for up-close headbashing.

Explosives and Gizmos: Depending on the circumstance, she can use limited amounts of napalm, explosives and a hypno beam on foes and ill-meaning monsters.

Fire Magic: She's also an extremely powerful fire mage. Much of the origins and nature of magic in her world are unspoken, but the power to use elemental fire magic was unlocked for her by a mysterious creature at the very end of the time continuum. This is described best as simple pyrokinesis, fueled by will and emotion and loosely gathered into "spell" levels. Fire 1 can set a tree ablaze. Fire 2 ignite a large house. Flare, her post powerful spell, creates a firestorm that could burn down an entire forest, however it's extremely taxing. (Out of all of her friends, her spells were far and away the most expensive to cast in terms of MP.)

As mentioned above, her own magic flame isn't dangerous to herself or her friends but do harm her target. However, any "collateral damage" fires that occur don't bother to take sides, and burn just like normal fires do.

Alignment: Peromei. Hope and determination were what kept her going during those battles against Lavos and the shockwaves It sent through time.

Other: Nuffin! 8D

⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: With these babies, she can hear a frog croak in the next kingdom!

Emotion Sample:

The Varens bookstore is a common stop for Lucca, and it's not unusual to see her inside. This particular morning, however, she's there extremely early. Before the store is even open, before the sun is even up, she's there and pressing her face against the glass, frosting it with a gold tinge in her excitement.

"C'monnnnn, open already... the next book in the Throne of Martens is out today! I've been waiting for months to see what happens to the Wyvernmaster family! And if the North will ever stop snowing in the caravan to the king! I gotta see what happens!"

By this time, she's worked up so much excited heat that the awning above is starting to slowly smolder. "... ...Why do I smell burning?"

She looks up.

"Oh... OH!"

She steps back and casts around or a way to put the fire out--her magic can only really kill fire with more fire. She finds a rain barrel and dunks her scarf in it, smacking out the flames the old-fasioned way. She huffs and puffs at the end, still holding the soot-stained scarf.

"Aw man... Now winter is coming on any chance of my getting one of those books..."

Questions: Nah.

Age: 17
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Purple
Height: 5'4"
Amulet:








Appearance:
Contact: eeknsqueekn

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Out-of-Character Information

Name: Eek
Are you over 15?: Yup.
Time Zone: EST
Personal Journal: eeknsqueekn
Reliable Method of Contact:
Plurk: EekNSqueekn
AIM: Ickychips
Other characters in the game: Gordon Freeman trustycrowbar

In-Character Information

Name: Lucca Ashtear
Game/Series: Chrono Trigger
Teacher/Student/Other: Student
Canon Point: Post-game, non-ChronoCross connection
Age: 17
Grade Level/Class Taught/Job: Junior
Dorm or Living Arrangement: Dorm

Personality: Lucca is energetic, curious, fiery, studious and upbeat. She calls herself an inventor, the latest in a patriarchal line of inventors that can trace themselves back hundreds of years. She wasn't always a tomboyish tinkerer, in fact she would have become a very different person had it not been for a terrible accident that befell her mother when she was five. She devoted herself studying her father's machines after that to ensure that no one else got hurt, and her then-awkward relationship with her father transformed once they developed something more in common. (Her mother's accident was corrected later due to some creative time travel though the memory still remains; one of many paradoxes the story is built upon.)

She puts a lot of stock in her technical skills, almost to the point of fixation. Unfortunately, some of her inventions tend to dramatically (and sometimes explosively) fail due to her exuberance superceeding her sense of self-preservation. She's prone to technobabble, leaving many people staring blankly at her not because she tries to show how smart she is but because she honestly cannot find any simpler terms to put it into. She also tends to blather and "fill the air with words" when embarrassed or flustered.

She's also an extremely powerful fire mage. Much of the origins and nature of magic in her world are unspoken, but the power to use elemental fire magic was unlocked for her by a mysterious creature at the very end of the time continuum. This is describes best as simple psychokinesis fueled by will and emotion, loosely gathered into "spell" levels. Fire 1 can set a tree ablaze. Fire 2 ignite a large house. Flare, her post powerful spell, creates a firestorm that could burn down an entire forest, however it's extremely taxing. (All of her spells take the most magic points out of her friends.)

While not really a pyromaniac, after personally casting flames from the power of her own will for so long she's kind of forgotten that humans and other living creatures are instinctually afraid of fire and tend to panic when it suddenly appears like that, magical or not. This can, and often does, get her into trouble. Keep in mind that her own casted flames don't harm her or her friends, but whatever catches ablaze as a result can indeed harm them. She tends not to think about this either, and is prone to overkill when using it to solve a problem and then dealing with the fallout later. Usually the blaze is easily extinguished... usually.

Also on the smaller scale, she tends to accidentally set small things she's holding ablaze with her magic when she gets angry, upset or nervous; she dosn't mean to do it, it just happens. All the emotional energy has to go somewhere, after all.

She has a special affinity for robots, and considers robotics a specialty of hers. The idea of creating an artificial creature that can move and think (and maybe even feel) resonates deeply with her. Some of her creations can be a little... clunky... by others' standards, but she actually paves the way for robotics in her world for the next thousand years or so. She'd be the first to mention this... because she's seen it herself. Her travels into the future have shown extensive advances in technology that are all based on her own designs back in the past.

As mentioned before, she has a habit of boasting on her technical skill and brain power, though she does have her insecurities. She always knew she was "the smart one" of the group with girls like Marle and Ayla around, and that only played up the fixation on her mental ability because she thought that she wasn't--isn't--all that pretty or appealing by comparison. The fact that her childhood friend ultimately became engaged to Marle doesn't help, either. But, she's happy for them. No, really.

She's also more of a hormone-soaked teenager than she seems. She's been known to hide romance stories behind the technical manuals she pretends to read. She's bisexual and she realizes this, having a soft spot for serene, graceful women and swordsmen with long hair. She just doesn't have a clue how to explore this yet; the most she's done is stare and blather stupidly.

Backstory: (Entry from the Wiki)
Over the course of the game, she, her best friend Crono, and several other people from over eons embarked on a time-traveling quest to find a way to defeat a creature known as Lavos, a parasitic alien that had literally been sucking the planet dry for millions of years right below their feet. She herself is credited with building the first "Gate Key" that allowed them to use dormant temporal portals. She learned to use fire magic at the End of Time (More of an eternal place than an instant, really) and grew to be an incredibly-capable magic-user.

(Note: She's post-canon, but the continuity that dovetails into Chrono Cross has not occurred. So no mysterious baby, no orphanage, no bridge dropped on her.)

In-Character 1st person sample:

[The feed shows an upper-teenage girl with purple, cropped hair and ENORMOUS glasses.]

Hi guys! This is Lucca. I think I may have just put the finishing touches on the brand-new automated pokemon-groomer!

[She proudly waves back to... some sort of tube-studded contraption in the back. Are those spikes? On a roller? And robot hands?]

So! Who wants to go first? I'm 100% absolutely almost positive it'll work this time!

In-Character 3rd person sample:

Machine shop! Lucca's favorite class. But whereas the other would-be welders this session are sporting heavy shirts, gloves and flame-retardant aprons, Lucca has on a small tank top, shorts and a welder's mask.

Of course, she's also welding with her BARE HANDS. Literally, laying hands on the metal and frowning in concentration against the light as sparks fray out from under her palms. She saw no reason for the silly protective gear--her own magic is harmless to her.

As the other students shuffle and keep a radius around her, she pushes the mess of metal onto its side. Suddenly it's not a heap of metal, but a large bowl with legs and controls... it settles to the ground, legs folding under it, and she climbs in and presses a button.

There are shortened shrieks of surprise as the Magitech Mini lurches fully upright, stumbling like a two-ton toddler and knocking over a storage rack.

"WHOOOO! IT WORKS! IT REALLY WORKS! Whooa, careful! OUT OF THE WAY!"

The robot spins and jerks, suddenly losing control, and crashes into a fellow student's art project that looks like an enormous cucco. Lucca is thrown around in the cockpit, and once she finds her glasses she notices the unfortunate angle that she'd crashed into the chicken statue.

"Uh..." She peers over the rim of the control pit, down at the unfortunate art student. "Sorry. Didn't mean to... violate your chicken. Eheheh, I'm sure there isn't much damage! It'll be easy to fix! After all, he, y'know, didn't even fire..."

Player name: Eek
Character Name: Lucca Ashtear
Character Canon: Chrono Trigger
Canon point: Post-game, original variant without segues into Chrono Cross.

Background: http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

Abilities: Extensive magi-technical and mechanical skill with a focus on robotics and mecha. Able to make magitek weapons, swords, pistols, bows and energy rifles. Skilled fighter and sharpshooter, all self-taught by necessity. Strong fire-magic skill; can potentially set half a continent on fire if she really had to. Can combine abilities with others, blending magic and swordplay or melding spells to double the attack power.

Personality: Lucca is energetic, curious, fiery, studious and upbeat. She calls herself an inventor, and she and her father Taban had been attempting to build a better mousetrap since she was five. Unfortunately some of her inventions tend to dramatically (and sometimes explosively) fail due to her exuberance superceeding her sense of self-preservation. Although, she would defend herself in saying that it was just a harmless prototype every time. She can be quick to become inflamed when her skills are put into question. She's prone to technobabble, leaving many people staring blankly at her not because she tries to show how smart she is but because she just can't find any simpler terms to put it into. She also tends to accidentally set things on fire with her magic when she gets angry, upset or nervous. Usually it's easily extinguished. Usually.

She has a special affinity for robots, and considers robotics a specialty of hers. The idea of creating an artificial creature that can move and think (and maybe even feel) resonates deeply with her. Some of her creations can be a little... clunky, but others' standards, but she actually paves the way for robotics in her world for the next thousand years or so. She'd be the first to mention this... because she's seen it herself.

Over the course of the game, she, her best friend Crono, and several other people from over eons embarked on a time-traveling quest to find a way to defeat a creature known as Lavos, a parasitic alien that had literally been sucking the planet dry for millions of years right below their feet. She herself is credited with building the first "Gate Key" that allowed them to use dormant temporal portals. She learned to use fire magic at the End of Time (More of an eternal place than an instant, really) and grew to be an incredibly-capable magic-user. As such, she doesn't tend to realize just how much fire freaks everyone else out.

She has a habit of boasting on her technical skill and brain power, though that's half genuine confidence and half using her intelligence as a refuge of self-worth. She always knew she was "the smart one" of the group with girls like Marle and Ayla around, and that only played up the defense mechanism because she thought that she wasn't--isn't--all that pretty or appealing by comparison. The fact that her childhood friend ultimately became engaged to the former doesn't help, either. But, she's happy for them. No, really.

She's also more of a hormone-soaked teenager than she seems. She's been known to hide romance stories behind the technical manuals she pretends to read. She's bisexual and she realizes this, having a soft spot for serene, graceful women and swordsmen with long hair. She just doesn't have a clue how to explore this yet; the most she's done is stare and blather stupidly. That's what the romance books are for, see.

RP Sample: http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/43205.html?view=927685&posted=1#cmt927685

Notes: None.