This draconic duo is Team Guardians, my submission for PMD: AotA.
For convenience, I'm also putting the profiles here in comments.
Name: Marxon Kazeryu
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Family: Markus Kazeryu (father, Dragonite), Jade Kazeryu (Mother, Salamence), Ryliss Kazeryu (younger sister, Dratini)
Species: Bagon
Ability: Rock Head
Type: Dragon
Team: Guardians (Leader, primary attack)
Rank: Normal Rank (Leader, Guardians Team)
Height: 1.82 metres
Weight: 79 kg
Hair Colour: No hair; instead, naturally-formed “helmet” is tinted silvery.
Fur/Skin Color: Ocean blue, with creamy-yellow lower jaw and belly-marking.
Eye Color: Golden (actual, reflective gold, rather than the yellow or amber sometimes miss-termed as such).
Personality: Marxon’s base personality can be most accurately described as “a guardian dragon”; usually quite gentle and kind, but quick to anger (sometimes explosively so), and very protective of those he cares about. Marxon’s trust is difficult to earn, and breaking your word to him is a surefire way to lose any hope of ever gaining his trust, and losing his trust is a one-way ticket; you’re never earning his trust again if you betray him, with very few exceptions. He is very loyal to those who have earned it from him, and can be startlingly stubborn, although willing to change his opinion if presented with evidence that validates another person’s claim. Marxon’s sense of right-and-wrong is stunningly strong, and is one of the few subjects he adamantly refuses to change his opinions on. He is honest to a fault (mainly due to being a terrible liar), but that does not mean he is tactless; if asked a question he is not comfortable about answering truthfully, he will mainly attempt to steer the conversation away from that direction.
Given his ability, many would expect him to charge into a fight recklessly, throwing out moves that would otherwise deal damage to him as well, but Marxon favours a mixed approach that utilises none of those moves, instead utilising a combination of ranged and physical moves, most of which are capable of causing an enemy to flinch, cringe or reel under them.
Interests: Marxon is into martial arts, favouring a combination style he invented himself (a mixture of ninjitsu, tae-kwon-do, US Navy SEALS hand-to-hand, and judo, mechanically), reading (especially sci-fi or fantasy novels), video games (what teenager/young adult isn’t these days?), tabletop RPGs (such as Dungeons and Dragons), and collecting crystals, dragon-themed ornaments, and buildable models. Additionally, he’s an amateur novelist, but hasn’t had much time to indulge this hobby of late.
Biography: Marxon is a Port Celestino native, who lived a quiet life on the edge of the town near the Guild, where his family runs small bed-and-breakfast. Marxon’s father instilled a sense of duty and morality into his two children (although the lessons don’t seem to have taken entirely well with Marxon’s sister), and taught them not only the art of running a business like their small but steady B&B, but tips and tricks to battling, and teaching Marxon how to use his two egg moves effectively. Marxon was signed up for a martial-arts class (specifically a group with a number of teachers who all practiced different arts in order to give each student a good chance of finding a style that suited them), where Marxon quickly started to develop his own, unique style of fighting.
Marxon’s time at high-school was turbulent (whose isn’t?) as he juggled his studies, a somewhat troubled social life, his newly-discovered interest in tabletop RPGs, and amateur writing.
Upon leaving high-school, Marxon applied for university on the mainland, but was knocked back, as the course in metalwork that he wanted to do had already been filled to capacity.
Thinking he would be able to do this next year, he turned his attention back to his employment at his family’s business…
Which is when the disasters started.
The destruction of Nanna City and the arrival of the suddenly-displaced Drani family catalysed with a slowly-growing, previously-unnoticed longing for adventure, and a desire to help those in need to drive Marxon to join the Guild and form Team Guardians with Lilia Drani, who he had developed a sudden crush for.
Appearance/Clothing: Marxon’s golden irises and angled eyes combine to give his face a distinctly predatory cast, despite his rounded snout and blunt, plated forehead. Marxon’s body is sleek, with little spare fat, corded muscles, and quite flexible, allowing him to perform vertical splits or high-angled kicks without losing his balance, although he rarely has reason to do either outside of martial arts training.
Marxon’s favoured outfit consists of a pale-blue button-up t-shirt (pocket on left breast, foldable collar), worn open over a black sports long-sleeve (three-toned grey stripes on each shoulder, shield emblem on left breast, usually hidden beneath blue shirt), black pants with two red stripes down each leg, black leather work boots, a belt pack (with lots of extra pouches), black leather fingerless gloves (sometimes replaced by full gloves), a long-chained pendent of a stylised dragon, and aviator’s goggles. This outfit has become something of the unofficial Team Guardians uniform (minus the necklace, goggles, and gloves, and the pants don’t usually have red stripes), somewhat to Marxon’s chagrin
His formal outfit consists of a white coat over a deep-blue shirt, white pants, white leather boots and gloves, and a deep-blue cape-cloak (a sort of hybrid, going over one shoulder, in Marxon’s case, his left shoulder) with stylised dragon emblem (in white) on it. A strip of white cloth replaces his goggles, and his pendent is replaced by a small quartz crystal mounted on a short chain.
Likes: Sweet foods (he is not naïve, but has a sweet tooth), Tabletop RPGs, video games, reading, and metalworking (especially jeweling)
Dislikes: the government (their current actions disgust him), arrogant people, sycophants (he finds them annoying and slimy), extreme cold, overly-bitter foods
Moves: Twister, Dragon Rush, Dragonbreath, Headbutt
Name: Lilia Drani
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Family: Gawain Drani (Father, Dragonite), Bronwyn Drani (Mother, Dragonite), Hyrion Drani (Younger brother, Dratini)
Species: Dragonair
Ability: Shed Skin
Type: Dragon
Team: Guardians (2nd in command, support/offense)
Rank: Normal Rank ( 2nd in command, Guardians Team)
Height: 1.81 metres
Weight: 65kg
Hair Colour: Dark blue, with one bleached lock hanging just behind her right eye.
Fur/Skin Color: Medium blue with white ventral scales
Eye Color: Heterochromic; teal right eye, emerald-green left eye
Personality: Lilia is very shy and quiet, a personality trait she’s had since childhood, but was recently badly exacerbated by the disaster at Nanna City, where she used to live. Lilia is very gentle and kindly, which might seem strange for an Exploration Team member, but when her friends or innocents are endangered she undergoes an almost frightening personality change; she will temporarily shrug off her shyness and quiet nature to become a powerful combatant, liable to go so far as unleashing Outrage on those who threaten the innocent or whose she cares about.
Lilia’s normal combat style favours supporting Marxon and her allies with Safeguard, and striking at enemies from a distance with Dragonbreath. If forced into close combat she will use Protect to get an opening to retreat. However, when Marxon gets into trouble, she is willing to use Outrage. She also has a deep-seated need to help people who need aid.
Interests: Tabletop RPGs,
Biography: Lilia is native to Nanna City, but Zapdos’ attack forced her and her family to move to Port Celestino, and she has lost contact with most of her friends. The Kazeryu family took them in, providing them with much needed shelter and food. Where Lilia’s parents have joined the Kazeryus’ employ in order to repay Markus, Lilia developed a crush on Marxon, and also an irresistible need to help others, especially those who are in a similar situation to her own.
Appearance/Clothing: Lilia is a very attractive girl, tall and slim, with a somewhat ample bust, and long, dark-blue hair. Per her species, she has a pearl attached to the point where her neck meets her chest, and two more at the tip of her tail. You’re not going to be staring at her chest much, however; her eyes are heterochromic, teal and emerald-green, and grab a person’s attention, and is further highlighted, and accentuated, by the bleached-white lock of hair just behind her teal right eye.
Clothing-wise, Lilia usually wears the unofficial Team Guardians uniform (pale-blue over-shirt, long-sleeved black undershirt, black pants, black leather work boots, and multi-pouched belt pack), along with a jewelled white-gold collar (an ancient family heirloom; her mother happened to be wearing it during the evacuation, which is why Lilia now has it), and a pendent that is worn at her belt, rather than around her neck. On formal occasions, she wears a beautiful, floor-length green dress that, by sheer chance, happened to be in Lilia’s suitcase already during the evacuation.
Likes: (To be filled in later)
Dislikes: Spicy food, politicians, arrogant people, perverts, extreme cold
Moves: Safeguard, Protect, Dragonbreath, Outrage
For convenience, I'm also putting the profiles here in comments.
Name: Marxon Kazeryu
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Family: Markus Kazeryu (father, Dragonite), Jade Kazeryu (Mother, Salamence), Ryliss Kazeryu (younger sister, Dratini)
Species: Bagon
Ability: Rock Head
Type: Dragon
Team: Guardians (Leader, primary attack)
Rank: Normal Rank (Leader, Guardians Team)
Height: 1.82 metres
Weight: 79 kg
Hair Colour: No hair; instead, naturally-formed “helmet” is tinted silvery.
Fur/Skin Color: Ocean blue, with creamy-yellow lower jaw and belly-marking.
Eye Color: Golden (actual, reflective gold, rather than the yellow or amber sometimes miss-termed as such).
Personality: Marxon’s base personality can be most accurately described as “a guardian dragon”; usually quite gentle and kind, but quick to anger (sometimes explosively so), and very protective of those he cares about. Marxon’s trust is difficult to earn, and breaking your word to him is a surefire way to lose any hope of ever gaining his trust, and losing his trust is a one-way ticket; you’re never earning his trust again if you betray him, with very few exceptions. He is very loyal to those who have earned it from him, and can be startlingly stubborn, although willing to change his opinion if presented with evidence that validates another person’s claim. Marxon’s sense of right-and-wrong is stunningly strong, and is one of the few subjects he adamantly refuses to change his opinions on. He is honest to a fault (mainly due to being a terrible liar), but that does not mean he is tactless; if asked a question he is not comfortable about answering truthfully, he will mainly attempt to steer the conversation away from that direction.
Given his ability, many would expect him to charge into a fight recklessly, throwing out moves that would otherwise deal damage to him as well, but Marxon favours a mixed approach that utilises none of those moves, instead utilising a combination of ranged and physical moves, most of which are capable of causing an enemy to flinch, cringe or reel under them.
Interests: Marxon is into martial arts, favouring a combination style he invented himself (a mixture of ninjitsu, tae-kwon-do, US Navy SEALS hand-to-hand, and judo, mechanically), reading (especially sci-fi or fantasy novels), video games (what teenager/young adult isn’t these days?), tabletop RPGs (such as Dungeons and Dragons), and collecting crystals, dragon-themed ornaments, and buildable models. Additionally, he’s an amateur novelist, but hasn’t had much time to indulge this hobby of late.
Biography: Marxon is a Port Celestino native, who lived a quiet life on the edge of the town near the Guild, where his family runs small bed-and-breakfast. Marxon’s father instilled a sense of duty and morality into his two children (although the lessons don’t seem to have taken entirely well with Marxon’s sister), and taught them not only the art of running a business like their small but steady B&B, but tips and tricks to battling, and teaching Marxon how to use his two egg moves effectively. Marxon was signed up for a martial-arts class (specifically a group with a number of teachers who all practiced different arts in order to give each student a good chance of finding a style that suited them), where Marxon quickly started to develop his own, unique style of fighting.
Marxon’s time at high-school was turbulent (whose isn’t?) as he juggled his studies, a somewhat troubled social life, his newly-discovered interest in tabletop RPGs, and amateur writing.
Upon leaving high-school, Marxon applied for university on the mainland, but was knocked back, as the course in metalwork that he wanted to do had already been filled to capacity.
Thinking he would be able to do this next year, he turned his attention back to his employment at his family’s business…
Which is when the disasters started.
The destruction of Nanna City and the arrival of the suddenly-displaced Drani family catalysed with a slowly-growing, previously-unnoticed longing for adventure, and a desire to help those in need to drive Marxon to join the Guild and form Team Guardians with Lilia Drani, who he had developed a sudden crush for.
Appearance/Clothing: Marxon’s golden irises and angled eyes combine to give his face a distinctly predatory cast, despite his rounded snout and blunt, plated forehead. Marxon’s body is sleek, with little spare fat, corded muscles, and quite flexible, allowing him to perform vertical splits or high-angled kicks without losing his balance, although he rarely has reason to do either outside of martial arts training.
Marxon’s favoured outfit consists of a pale-blue button-up t-shirt (pocket on left breast, foldable collar), worn open over a black sports long-sleeve (three-toned grey stripes on each shoulder, shield emblem on left breast, usually hidden beneath blue shirt), black pants with two red stripes down each leg, black leather work boots, a belt pack (with lots of extra pouches), black leather fingerless gloves (sometimes replaced by full gloves), a long-chained pendent of a stylised dragon, and aviator’s goggles. This outfit has become something of the unofficial Team Guardians uniform (minus the necklace, goggles, and gloves, and the pants don’t usually have red stripes), somewhat to Marxon’s chagrin
His formal outfit consists of a white coat over a deep-blue shirt, white pants, white leather boots and gloves, and a deep-blue cape-cloak (a sort of hybrid, going over one shoulder, in Marxon’s case, his left shoulder) with stylised dragon emblem (in white) on it. A strip of white cloth replaces his goggles, and his pendent is replaced by a small quartz crystal mounted on a short chain.
Likes: Sweet foods (he is not naïve, but has a sweet tooth), Tabletop RPGs, video games, reading, and metalworking (especially jeweling)
Dislikes: the government (their current actions disgust him), arrogant people, sycophants (he finds them annoying and slimy), extreme cold, overly-bitter foods
Moves: Twister, Dragon Rush, Dragonbreath, Headbutt
Name: Lilia Drani
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Family: Gawain Drani (Father, Dragonite), Bronwyn Drani (Mother, Dragonite), Hyrion Drani (Younger brother, Dratini)
Species: Dragonair
Ability: Shed Skin
Type: Dragon
Team: Guardians (2nd in command, support/offense)
Rank: Normal Rank ( 2nd in command, Guardians Team)
Height: 1.81 metres
Weight: 65kg
Hair Colour: Dark blue, with one bleached lock hanging just behind her right eye.
Fur/Skin Color: Medium blue with white ventral scales
Eye Color: Heterochromic; teal right eye, emerald-green left eye
Personality: Lilia is very shy and quiet, a personality trait she’s had since childhood, but was recently badly exacerbated by the disaster at Nanna City, where she used to live. Lilia is very gentle and kindly, which might seem strange for an Exploration Team member, but when her friends or innocents are endangered she undergoes an almost frightening personality change; she will temporarily shrug off her shyness and quiet nature to become a powerful combatant, liable to go so far as unleashing Outrage on those who threaten the innocent or whose she cares about.
Lilia’s normal combat style favours supporting Marxon and her allies with Safeguard, and striking at enemies from a distance with Dragonbreath. If forced into close combat she will use Protect to get an opening to retreat. However, when Marxon gets into trouble, she is willing to use Outrage. She also has a deep-seated need to help people who need aid.
Interests: Tabletop RPGs,
Biography: Lilia is native to Nanna City, but Zapdos’ attack forced her and her family to move to Port Celestino, and she has lost contact with most of her friends. The Kazeryu family took them in, providing them with much needed shelter and food. Where Lilia’s parents have joined the Kazeryus’ employ in order to repay Markus, Lilia developed a crush on Marxon, and also an irresistible need to help others, especially those who are in a similar situation to her own.
Appearance/Clothing: Lilia is a very attractive girl, tall and slim, with a somewhat ample bust, and long, dark-blue hair. Per her species, she has a pearl attached to the point where her neck meets her chest, and two more at the tip of her tail. You’re not going to be staring at her chest much, however; her eyes are heterochromic, teal and emerald-green, and grab a person’s attention, and is further highlighted, and accentuated, by the bleached-white lock of hair just behind her teal right eye.
Clothing-wise, Lilia usually wears the unofficial Team Guardians uniform (pale-blue over-shirt, long-sleeved black undershirt, black pants, black leather work boots, and multi-pouched belt pack), along with a jewelled white-gold collar (an ancient family heirloom; her mother happened to be wearing it during the evacuation, which is why Lilia now has it), and a pendent that is worn at her belt, rather than around her neck. On formal occasions, she wears a beautiful, floor-length green dress that, by sheer chance, happened to be in Lilia’s suitcase already during the evacuation.
Likes: (To be filled in later)
Dislikes: Spicy food, politicians, arrogant people, perverts, extreme cold
Moves: Safeguard, Protect, Dragonbreath, Outrage
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A fairly good pair of profiles all around, but I would highly recommend giving the version you've put in your comments section some spacing to make it easier to read. But anyway; on to proper critique; I quite like the way you've bound their backstories together and their overall designs; and although I personally find it hard to believe that someone could be making their own fighting style worth any merit at 21 I'll let it slide given Marxon's teaching and all. I would highly recommend fleshing out Lilia's interests though seeing as it is currently a single word in comparison to Marxon's paragraph of information; which makes Lilia seem quite a flat character by comparison.
Oh, and just little nit-pick: Why does Marxon wear goggles? He can't fly yet and probaby won't be able to any time soon, so they don't really serve any purpose. I mean, I guess he could be wearing them in some sense of fashion, but it still strikes me as a bit odd.
But I digress; otherwise the profiles are all well and good; should work well in the setting. So welcome to the AotA, I suppose; see if you can't join us in our Steam group's chat sometime.
Oh, and just little nit-pick: Why does Marxon wear goggles? He can't fly yet and probaby won't be able to any time soon, so they don't really serve any purpose. I mean, I guess he could be wearing them in some sense of fashion, but it still strikes me as a bit odd.
But I digress; otherwise the profiles are all well and good; should work well in the setting. So welcome to the AotA, I suppose; see if you can't join us in our Steam group's chat sometime.
Sorry about the likes thing. I really couldn't think of anything to put in there for now. On that note, I will flesh her interests out. My original version (which was lost due to poor judgement) had them listed, but I'm having a bit of trouble remembering them all.
As to Marxon wearing goggles, they're both a fashion statement and utility; he can put them over his eyes during a sandstorm or in intense sunlight in order to protect his vision. There's also a lot of good memories with those goggles, so he also wears them for sentimental value.
As to Marxon wearing goggles, they're both a fashion statement and utility; he can put them over his eyes during a sandstorm or in intense sunlight in order to protect his vision. There's also a lot of good memories with those goggles, so he also wears them for sentimental value.
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