Arifeth

Personal Info
Name: Arifeth
Alias: N/A
Age: 16 human years
Gender: female
Sexuality: asexual, reluctantly panromantic
Personality: She's naive, but knows it and has difficulty trying new things due to the fear of causing a disaster. She is very kind and wants to be a healer or a scout. She knows she's not ready, and she hasn't found a mentor. Despite her social inabilities, she is rather happy go lucky and optimistic. This can change if she is overwhelmed by something such as a stressful, high stakes environment or a deadline.
Interests: any healing information she can get her claws on, reading, flying
Dislikes: large insects, cold, mistakes (both her own and those of others)
Fears: freezing to death, magic, humans

General Appearance
Height: 20 feet (will be 32 when fully grown)
Scales: her scales are small, rounded, and are typically either color changing or cream colored
Eyes: blue
Appearance: Arifeth is a mostly cream colored dragon, with light grey stripes on her neck, back, and tail. Her underbelly is a lighter yellow color than the rest of her scales. All of her scales can change color, but generally the only ones that do are the base color scales (the scales that aren’t stripes or her underbelly). Arifeth also has a few areas of light brown fur on her wrists, tail tip, head, and neck, and furry light yellow ears that can move in a similar way as a cat’s. The fur serves no functional purpose. Can usually be seen carrying a leather shoulder bag full of basic medical supplies and other useful items.

Tribe Information and Status
Tribe: lightwing
Inheritance: lightwing
Rank: trainee
Family: Avrae (mother)(NPC)
Mate: none
Hatchlings: none

Skills and Abilities
Strengths: Arifeth has shown some talent in healing and scouting, and is more observant than the average dragon. She is also skilled at flying, and can out-maneuver most non-skywing dragons.
Special Abilities: Like most lightwing dragons, she can use a light breath ability that functions like a projectile. It reaches 20 feet before dissipating completely, and becomes less powerful the farther it travels. a point blank shot would cause significant 2nd degree burning and could cause eye damage if aimed directly at the face, while at the edge of the range it would be more like a mild sunburn. this ability can be used once every 3 posts unless the battle takes place in direct sunlight, in which case it can be used every 2 posts. She can modify her light breath to heal injuries. Instead of a projectile, this functions more like a blowtorch's flame (if sticking your cuts in a blowtorch flame would actually heal you haha) and reaches about a foot away from her mouth. She hasn’t developed this ability very much, and has only successfully healed minor cuts, bruises, and burns. She can use this ability as rapidly as she wants, but if she uses it to heal a lot of injuries in a short period of time (about 15 minor injuries) or if she heals one major injury (like a broken bone or something) it will take anywhere from 4-6 hours to 'recharge'. Recharging is done automatically whether she tries to or not, though she doesn't even know her ability has a limit due to lack of practice and experience.
Weaknesses: if she attempts to heal a major injury with her ability, it can backfire and make it worse. This happens more commonly the more pressure she is under and the more severe the injury, and is also more likely to happen if she tries to rush the healing process (this may become less prevalent once she gets more experience). She has also had trouble trying to heal herself with this ability.
Combat Style: Arifeth is mainly suited to group combat, providing support with her healing ability and cover fire with her light breath. if she is alone in combat or unable to use her abilities for some reason, she will attempt to flee or hide. if this fails, she will use her claws, teeth, and any objects she can turn into improvised weapons to defend herself. if she is totally out of other options, she will fight dirty but she won't like it. fighting dirty is a last resort only.

Background
History: Her father was killed by his magic crazed friend when she was small, and she never quite recovered. Neither did her mother. She doesn’t like talking about what happened, and she doesn’t like being around magic. The reason why she fears freezing to death is because her father’s friend used ice magic. Other than that, her life has been pretty average.
RP Sample: Arifeth soared through the trees, taking in the lush scenery of the jungle. She stopped to rest on a large branch, and gazed down at the ground. A small bird was hopping about and pecking at the ground. It took her a few moments to realize that the bird was injured, and she swooped down to examine it. The bird tried to hop away, but failed. Its wing was hurt, and after thinking about what happened to the last random creature she had tried to help with her healing ability, she decided it would be better to take it home to care for it. She carefully picked up the bird, and flew off toward her home.

(yes I am aware that deciding the actions of another character is strictly forbidden, but the bird is an NPC)

Hey there Arifeth. Just a few things to add in before I can give you your first approval.

Strengths:

Arifeth wrote:Her light breath ability is pretty average offensively speaking.

You need to elaborate more on her light breath ability. How far can her light breath go (e.g 5 feet)? How often can she use it (e.g once every two posts)? What does it do, if it isn't modified to heal injuries? Also, this should go into special abilities, as not every dragon has the ability to breathe light.

Combat Style:

Arifeth wrote:she won’t fight at all if she is alone unless she is totally trapped. When with others she will provide whatever support she can

Combat style is how your dragon fights, not what she will do in combat. When she's trapped, how will she fight? Will she kick out with her legs, or scratch the other opponent's face, or play dirty, as in flinging soil into the opponent's eyes? Please elaborate on this as well.

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Bump when edited.

just to clear things up, for two posts to pass for one player, does that count all player's posts or just theirs?

also how do you bump something?

was going to put that in the last question but forgot (oops)

To bump something, you post "bump" on a topic.

Arifeth wrote:just to clear things up, for two posts to pass for one player, does that count all player's posts or just theirs?

I don't quite understand what you're asking about. When you say "two posts to pass for one player", do you mean approval from two mods?

sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough there. what I was meaning was if a dragon has an ability that can be used once every two posts, does that mean every two posts the owner of the character posts or do other player's posts count toward that too?

Two of the owner's posts.

bump

Special Abilities:

Arifeth wrote:She can use this ability as rapidly as she wants, but if she uses it to heal a lot of injuries in a short period of time (about 15 minor injuries) or if she heals one major injury (like a broken bone or something) it will take anywhere from 4-6 hours to 'recharge'. Recharging is done automatically whether she tries to or not, though she doesn't even know her ability has a limit due to lack of practice and experience.

"She can use this ability as rapidly as she wants" - nope. Please put a limit to this. Maybe twice per post? Also, if she doesn't heal a major injury, how long will it take for her to recharge, if recharging is going to take place in the first place?

I don't really understand the question. one major injury is roughly equal to a bunch of small ones, and healing one major one or a bunch of minor ones will fully drain her ability, which will take the same amount of time to replenish no matter how she spent it. maybe I wasn't clear enough or maybe I'm just missing something, I don't know. I'll put a limit on the speed though.


also thanks for being patient with me I'm a noob and I really appreciate the feedback

Umm, no, I was asking if she needed to recharge after healing one minor cut. Also, you need to put in how often she can use healing lightbreath. Something like "twice per post" or "once every three posts".

ohhh ok I'll clarify that but it'll probably be tomorrow

Moving to declined due to over 2 weeks since an update. Contact me if you wish to take it out and continue.