Basic Information (Required) Full Name: Alistair Edwin Coen Age: 34 Gender: Male Race: Ailor Main Ambition: Knowledge and excitement in life. Alistair enjoys his knowledge and is a big combat fanatic, he collects manuals and books and warfare and combat and seeks more to his collection. Alistair also wishes to achieve a high military stature, prove himself to his brothers and atone for his sins as a Marked. Skill Information (Optional) The following is optional when filling out your character application, though mandatory when registering a Special Permission, or when your character has been trained by one of the Military/Magic Schools. Please use a Bullet Point list. Try to keep the information as simple and confined as possible. This information mostly pertains to combat/magic education and training to declare a skill level. School: Viridian Order Level: Warrior (Pending review to Paladin) Source: Attended Viridian Castle to be trained as a knight/ Visual Information (Required) Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Dark brown Hair Style: Shaved sides, pulled back top tied off at the end. Skin Color: Light tan. Clothing: Purple black vest and jacket, gold trim and black trousers with dark leather boots. Height: 6’0 Weight: 195lb Body Build: Muscular. Weapon of Choice: Paladin, trained and mastered swordsmanship and the halberd. Preferred weapon, the longsword. Personality and Abilities (Required) Personality Traits Creative/Unorthodox: Alistair has read many books on the Nicoloan fight style and incorporates the philosophy of outside the box thinking into his life quite prominently. This causes him to use dirty tricks or find clever ways of utilising his surroundings. Pushover: When not engaged in military conflicts, Alistair, is a pushover. A man rather keen to leave his warrior personality on the battlefield and enjoy engaging and mixing with the people of regalia unhindered by his military past. Loving: Coens are very protective of their own and very loving of those they consider their own, Alistair is no exception, he loves his family and his friends and would go to extreme lengths for them. Someone who has struggled with friends as a child causes him to be overprotective of his family and family but more so his friends, taking his family for granted but his friends something one must work for. Generous: A bad habit of his is his kind heart, he will not go so far as to give money to the poor, but he will not ignore the calls of distress from a stranger. He will offer himself wholly to his family and help with anything he can. He’s always disliked this about himself. Thinking it contradicts the image he has strives and works for himself he disguises this trait with his stern demeanour and devout Viridian involvement. Though he would have acted with or without his Viridian involvement anyway. Merciful: Alistair’s training as a knight and it’s teaching from the code have left him a merciful man. Alistair will not add insult to injury and only do what he must when asked, he is not the type to go overboard in the sense of ruthlessness. Over Thinker: With his creativity, this spells bad news for individuals who get in his way. He will often plan far ahead in arguments and even battles while running as many tactics as he can in his head to win both domestically and military. This will put him under a lot of stress at times. Sometimes the stress causing him to think more and cause headaches and bouts of anxiety. Social Dunce: Alistair is not a keen conversationalist regardless of how much he may enjoy the conversations he engages in. Alistair can easily misinterpret conversations either by not fully understanding the context or drifting off in conversation and missing the context altogether. Brave: Alistair is a man willing to sacrifice himself for the wellbeing of others and face danger head on so others don’t have to. As a knight Alistair has been conditioned to take punishment and conflicts head on without turning back. Diligent: Alistair’s loyalty to his knightly duties, friends and family knows no bounds. The lengths he will go to are extreme and equal for each point, at times, causing him internal conflict as to who he sides with. He believes that anything he does for the Empire will benefit his family in the end. Though at times he simply is unable to see his loved potentially hurt, even if it is for the better. Strengths Athletic: Alistair keeps his body in the best physical shape possible, he exercises intensely often and spars as often as his life permits. His athleticism broadens his combat capabilities greatly allowing him to perform feats standard warriors would struggle to do. Clever/Imaginative: Having spent a good portion of his time reading fight manuals and adventure novels Alistair’s imagination is quite vivid and wild, topped off with his wit and usually clear mind this makes for a valuable tool in verbal and physical combat. Unorthodox: Alistair is very unorthodox in his way of thinking, he thinks very outside the box and this affects how he handles and resolves issues making hard to predict and hard to counter if any were to go against him. Weaknesses Aspergers: Alistair has Asperger’s syndrome, he is not aware of this and likely never will be. Despite possessing a high intelligence he tends to take things literally, and can be very stubborn. He has good social skill, though this is learned and will sometimes struggle reading scenarios and people. He is also quite clumsy, his combat is unhindered by this through his training but out of combat he can sometimes trip, knock into people and knock things over without realising. Post Traumatic Stess: Alistair has partaken in many battles and his time as a Marked has weighed down on him significantly, Alistair struggles to sleep properly, his mood can easily become irritable, he often feels alone and isolated and often feeling as if know one supports him. On top of this the guilt of his sins make him feel less than everyone else a times, as if he doesn’t deserve the things he has in life this is reinforced by his constant badgering from his older brother Osric who reminds him of this whenever they meet. He keeps this to himself and rarely speaks of it, if at all. Linguistically dense: Alistair is very prone to misinterpreting pieces of information in conversation as well as having a hard time keeping up with double entendres and even innuendos. This makes Alistair very cautious sometimes when speaking and inadvertently insulting people. Stamina draining fight style: Being a fast and fierce fighter Alistair uses up much of his stamina quickly, he is able to fight comfortably for 5 to 7 minutes before fatigue sets in, slowly decreasing his speed and power of his attacks. Life Story (Required) Birth/Childhood Alistair was born 271AC to Willard and Guinevere Coen. Alistair discovers the challenges he faces socially, unable to sufficiently lead a life of politics. Alistair struggles through his education, barely passing. Alistair shows promise as a warrior, spending his time practicing by himself, fighting with his brother, Osric, the fights become violent. Alistair becomes close with his brother William. Teen/young adult Alistair’s relationship with Osric becomes disruptive and violent, getting into needless arguments and often being beaten by him. Osric is sent off to the silverwolf mercenary group. Alistair is sent off to the Viridian Order Alistair excels in his training, melding well with the ranks and showing talent and skill. Alistair graduates a knight, ecentually winning the grand tournament at age 29. Adult years Partakes in the ranger crisis, gaining reputation as a skilled fighter. Alistair fight in the Qadir war, joining Cedric, Thomas and Tristan on a mission and fought hard and excellently. Alistair partakes in the Hadravian war, saving the Chancellor in the process. Alistair becomes rivals with Jared Silverhand. Alistair and Cedric have a brief affair with one another, still remaining friends for years to come. Alistair is partakes in the Freya Lo crisis. Alistair is captured by Lo forces, attempting to join their forces and later betray them, he fails and is issued a guard escort. Alistair is approached by the Marked Cedric, Alistair having nothing more he can do and nothing else to lose he joins Cedric, becoming a marked. Alistair cause mayhem as a marked, taunting and pillaging supply lines and severely injuring his cousin. Alistair is tied down by William, being assigned Osric as he legal guardian.
I am reviewing this dude! Add 1-2 sentences to life goals, just briefly explaining why he wants those two things and what is driving him. Stern is mispelled. 10-12 minutes is a bloody long time, longer than most combat roleplay would ever go. If you want to make it a crippling weakness, make it more like 5-6. Colour all changes in blue and tag me when you're done! Review In-Progress!
Edit: Added special permission of Expert Level warrior as Paladin per the combat changes in roleplay. Tagging the Lore Staff who approved my application. Hi Jared :) @LumosJared
Made severe edits to this Character app, requesting re-review. @MantaRey @Walrusaur_ @LumosJared @TyrolleanEagle @Suzzie
The only issue I see are the weaknesses Overthinking and Risky. The issue here is the former is practically impossible to roleplay out while the latter is a selective weakness. Remove and replace these and tag me once you're done!
