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[swordhardy]

Name: Sou
Age: 28
Contact info: sousou#4755 on discord, bigwoof

Character: Rokurou Rangetsu
Canon: Tales of Berseria, Character Wikia.
Canon Point: Postgame
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A, regular old canon.
Character age: 22

Canon Abilities/Powers:

• Enhanced senses/Daemon abilities. As he describes to Velvet, upon turning into a daemon, Rokurou found all of his senses to be sharper than ever. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. It's all pretty great. Thanks daemon powers! ★ As a yaksha, otherwise known as war daemon, this is meant to send him into a thrall on the battlefield. I’ll estimate that they’re at least twice as sensitive/strong as a human’s normal senses, with touch and smell being among the strongest. He’s also gotten stronger as a daemon, though a lot of that does have to do to his own daily efforts.

• Endurance/Durability. On that note, Rokurou is much hardier than your average human. Daemons have innate endurance for hard travel and durability in harsh weather and intense temperature. It tends not to bother them. Velvet is able to run around in a snowstorm in skimpy clothing, and Rokurou doesn't seem to much mind running around sunny hot beaches in layers upon layers of armor and kimono.

• Swordsmanship/Dual wielding. A student of the Rangetsu style, which focuses on two kinds of styles—the longsword, and two short swords. Rokurou's studied both, but in his quest to overcome his brother and his mastery with one long sword, Rokurou's gone after mastering the dual blades. Regardless, he's really skilled with both. And knives. Really, slicing stuff is his thing. As far as swordsmanship goes, he's pretty top notch.

• Artes. There are three kinds: martial (base) artes, hidden artes, and mystic artes. They're basically fancy attacks that can include elements, special skills, or are rooted in a certain element. Fancy moves with his fancy swords. Martial artes are basic skills and wouldn't require any nerfing. The same goes for his hidden artes, mostly, though I'd say they'd be nerfed enough not to cause any major destruction. In Rokurou’s case specifically, all of his base artes are non-elemental, so think of your average dude using a sword. All of his hidden artes, however, are elemental, and his affinitity tends to be earth. Mystic artes are the most powerful, more or less, and he won't be able to use his in game.

What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:

Ohhh boy, this is a fun one. Rokurou, in his human life, had way too many negative emotions. The biggest culprits would be pride, envy, and a bad inferiority complex. Seriously—human Rokurou was a dick.

People generally don't turn into daemons unless there’s a lot of darkness in their heart. Rokurou's change stemmed from deep animosity and envy toward his eldest brother and the sick desperation to finally defeat him. On that same scarlet night that Velvet was betrayed, Rokurou met the most humiliating defeat at his brother's hands and fell into despair. Depression from realizing that, even after years of training, he was still nothing but a light workout to Shigure. All of his effort was for nothing. That all the planning, lies, and deceit he engaged in to fish for a reason to attack Shigure hadn’t mattered; Rokurou was still the same weak little boy in his brother's eyes, barely even a challenge let alone a threat. If that much—after a battle that left Rokurou crying, shaken, and shattered, Shigure hadn’t even broken into a sweat.

The dark feelings burned hot in his chest and, shortly after, they boiled over and Rokurou was overcome with daemonblight as he lay rotting in prison. A situation he had brought himself into all on his own—thanks to all of his lies, need for validation, desperation to beat Shigure, and stark realization of his own pathetic cowardice landed him at that lowest point. The fault was one hundred percent his, and all of those sick, disgusting feelings knotted up up up until they simply died along with his humanity.

Once he becomes a demon, most of his lingering bitterness and hatred simmer away. There are elements of it that show up when he meets Shigure again, but by the time he faces his brother in their final battle … instead of snapping and rushing headfirst into attacking, Rokurou shares a drink with the man. By the end of the game he seems to have moved on from a lot of it, but it's still a huge part of his past.

How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:

Once upon a time, just meeting his brother would hike him to an instant ten. That mix of pride and envy prompted him to do some really terrible things in order to give himself an advantage in fighting Shigure when he was human (not to mention, he had to do it in a way that validated the attack, so he spread lies about his brother to boot). Come postgame, he's made peace with his brother, finding his own path as a swordsman, the fact that he'll never be the head of the Rangetsu clan, and his own talents as a swordsman.

He can look back now and realize that a lot of what he did was stupid as hell, though when asked about it, he refuses to have any regrets. So that instant ten has dropped to about maybe a three; I think he'll always strive to be better, but he's accepted that Shigure was just the better one between them, period stop.

... Of course, this would still be super fun to play with, given the chance.

What is their greatest virtue?:

Commitment. Rokurou Rangetsu always pays his debts, no matter how much the other person may not care about it!

Eizen mentions that even though Rokurou's become a daemon, a lot of his old notions and beliefs probably haven't gone away. While Rokurou does a lot of bad stuff (with the Berseria crew and without), he ultimately still follows his family's code of bushido. It's suggested that while Rokurou's a lot like how he used to be when he was human, there's a certain level of removal that comes with being a daemon. He will pay his debts and be utterly devoted while doing so. He'll protect the weak without needing to be asked. Commitment is just the straight up Rangetsu way, and he considers himself to be a man of commitment, whether it's to those ideals of protecting or applying himself to a goal. Who else wound spend all day swinging a sword? And then continue all night swinging a sword, just to get stronger? Not me.

He's a guy that goes after what he wants and keeps at it. While he can be morally questionable at the best of times, applying himself or dedicating himself to something is definitely one of his better traits.

How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:

Eight? Nine? Commitment is more or less a motto for him at this point, and the family code and bushido matter to him even when he's a crusty evil daemon. He pledges his help to Velvet at the beginning of the game when she helps bust him out of prison, despite how she really doesn't care. He's well aware of when he owes someone and he's strict with himself about paying that back somehow. If someone helps him, it just matters to give it back.

I don't say a ten, however, because he isn't above using loopholes to justify doing something else if he wants. When he runs into his old master, the man insults him, and though he'd previously pledged to serve him Rokurou ends up killing him instead. The crew naturally calls him out on this shit, and Rokurou just shrugs and explains that the promise to serve Count Capalus had been made when he was human, and since he's a daemon now, it doesn't count anymore. And then someone calls him out on just wanting to kill the guy (which is true).

Items:

• Kurogane Stormquell, sword that chills on his back.
• Stormhowl, another sword that chills on his back.
• Obsidian short swords, short swords that chill at his waist.

That's it. He's bringin' swords, boys.

Samples:

• TDM (Log & Network Examples)
• Inbox Thread (Prisma)