Royse Sidman

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Character Name: Royse Sidman
Age: 24
Canon: Original
Canon Point: "Canon point" is a bit of a fuzzy idea with OCs sometimes, but at this point Royse has been taken in by the Silverwood sect after all the events in the history section below, and has learned enough Spirit Arts to start developing her own techniques (also listed below).
Character History: Sol Sidman was born in the Prosperous Republic of Tilenda, a rich but deeply stratified nation on the planet of Meder. He grew up in a titanic urban hive, which crammed thousands of people into a single titantic structure, riddled with tunnels and vents. It was a place where local gangs often had more effective power than the police and where people rarely saw the sky. He had several younger siblings, and his parents insisted that, as the oldest, Sol should be "responsible" which, as he saw it, meant giving up everything he wanted all the time so that the rest of his family could be a little bit more comfortable.

He felt trapped. By his family. By his community. By his entire nation. Even by his own body, in a way he couldn't explain and was afraid to examine too closely. There were limited ways out of his situation. He could join a gang and try to rise up in power through that, he could get lucky and write a best selling book or something, or he could join the army. He saw the army as the best choice.

The army didn't work out great for him either, though. Sol still felt trapped, but now it was by rules and regulations and orders. He didn't have any more control over his life here than he had at home. Still, he worked as hard as he could to get what freedoms he could.

When he heard about the cyborg soldier program, Sol was initially uninterested. They turned you into a living weapon that could take on a dozen regular humans with ease, but they filled you with even more methods of control. Rumor had it the government could just shut down the body of any cyborg soldier. It didn't seem worth it.

Then Sol heard that when you got made into a cyborg, you could get them to change what you looked like, and suddenly a door in his heart unlocked. This was it. The way out. Sol practically ran to his commanding officer to see about getting transferred into the program. He spent a long time talking to doctors and signing papers. They put Sol Sidman under for the procedure, and cut away 70% of his body, replacing it with a synthetic body that looked quite different.

When she woke up, she suddenly realized what had been trapping her for her entire life. Even if she was now functionally a weapon owned by the state, she still felt much better about her situation. She picked the name Royse Sidman for herself, going forwards. While some people thought her transition was strange, she found surprising support from Captain Wymond, the star of the cyborg soldier program, a man with dozens of successful missions under his belt. What followed was not exactly friendship so much as hero worship. So it was a real shock when Wymond killed a bunch of people and stole a space shuttle.

It took a while to organize the chase (Tilenda didn't have a lot of space ships just lying around.), but they tracked his destination to the neighboring world of Astar. Astar was a very different world from Meder. While Meder is a cyberpunk hellhole, Astar is a world of extreme natural beauty. The locals have much less developed technology (most people still consider a sailing ship to be the most advanced from of vehicle.), but there is a mysterious force that envelopes the planet giving them strange powers.

Put bluntly: Meder is cyberpunk. Astar is xianxia. Some of the Astarans learned how to absorb ambient natural energy into their bodies, reinforcing them and granting them access to spirit arts. There's monsters, demons, flying swords, magic elixirs and pills, and all that stuff.

Royse was part of the expedition sent to get their spaceship back, and to bring Wymond to justice. They sent a landing shuttle to the surface and homed in on Wymond, but were in for a rude surprise. Wymond had started to master spirit arts. This gave him enough of an edge over the assault force to easily defeat them all, and even to rip their ship out of orbit.

The only survivor of the disastrous attempt to bring Wymond to justice was Royse. She was badly damaged and low on power. Her only possible hope of survival, much less completing the mission, was to learn the ways of the locals and become a spirit artist herself. Her only teacher was a local Astaran, who's language she was still decoding and who hated her guts on principle for being related to Wymond, the man who had killed her entire sect.

And at some point not too far after that, she got captured by the fae.

Canon Abilities: Oh boy here we go.

• Cyborg body - Royse's body is mostly synthetic, made of ceramics and metals and polymers. The only organic parts of her body remaining are a few organs kept in a life support capsule that takes up most of her torso. This leaves her much stronger, faster, and tougher than a normal human, able to smash through stone walls with her fists or lift hundred of kilograms into the air. The downside is that the reactor that powers her systems was destroyed by Wymond, so she's relying on the backup power. Overusing her strength/speed could cause her body to shut down, which would probably kill her.
  
• Onboard weapons - Royse has a plasma cutter built into her left hand which can burn through metal. She also has particle cannon built into her right hand that can blast holes in most things. They don't work properly though, see below.
  
• Spirit Artist - Royse's personal reactor that powers her internal systems has been ripped out. She has a backup battery, but that's limited. To make up for that, Royse had to learn how to be a Spirit Artist, someone who can pull spirit power right out of the world around them through meditation and incorporate it into their bodies while expelling impurities, gradually making them more and more powerful until, in theory, they attain immortality.
  
  Royse has a long way to go before she gets there, but she has managed to get far enough so that rather than running on electricity, Royse's body runs on spirit power instead. This makes a lot of her internal systems function wildly differently.
  
• Spirit weapons - The plasma cutter and particle cannon now are spiritual weapons. They don't do much damage to the merely material world, but they can do heavy damage to energy beings, and can disrupt the power of others, throwing any supernatural powers they might have into disarray.
  
• Spirit scanner - Royse's eyes were filled with scanning mechanisms and software. Now, they track spiritual energy. This lets her get a sense of how powerful people are (think Dragonball Z scouters), and even get a split second warning on incoming attacks by watching how energy flows through the bodies of others.
  
• Thruster Technique - By expelling spirit in a tightly controlled burst, Royse can't exactly fly, but she can accelerate herself through the air in a limited fashion, jumping dozens of feet through the sky or changing direction midair. It's energy intensive, though.
  
• Brain Computer - Royse has a computer system built into her body to help manage all of it. It warns her of danger, monitors her internal systems, and also has a wifi signal so she can text your phone with her brain.

?? Personality

• Green
  
  Royse came from a place that was all smog and concrete. Everything in her world was artificial. Plants only existed in carefully designated spaces, and only survived if there was someone who's job was to take care of them. There are places on Meder that are quite beautiful, but the urban hive she grew up in was not one of them. It was not a life style that lended itself well to nurturing the human spirit.
  
  Then she found her way to the world of Astar. Astar has all kinds of climates and situations, just like Meder, but it was more sparsely populated, less industrialized, and several degrees warmer on average. Compared to the manufactured environment she grew up in, the part of Astar she had landed on was impossibly verdant. Grassy fields, massive bamboo groves, and towering forests blanketed the land, making only the barest concessions to human civilization. At first, Royse found it intimidating, but the longer she stayed there the more she started to feel like maybe a literal jungle was a better place to live in than a concrete jungle.


• Dead
  
  Royse is stranded on an alien planet.
  
  It's a planet inhabited by people who are not that different from her, ultimately, but it's still utterly cut off from the world she grew up on. Thanks to the destruction wrought by Captain Wymond, Royse has no way of going back home, or even of contacting her home. All the people who came on the mission with her are dead. She is one of two Mederans on the planet and she plans to kill the other one, if she can. On top of that, she's had to completely reinvent who she was to survive here. She couldn't just be a soldier who followed orders anymore. Royse could no longer be Corporal Sidman, obedient soldier. She had to become Royse Sidman, Spirit Artist.
  
  And spirit artists who don't understand themselves can only climb so far up the ascent to immortality. If Royse wants to have ANY hope of catching up with Wymond, she has to essentially abandon her former self and rebuild herself from scratch. Corporal Sidman of Tilenda is, for all intents and purposes, dead and gone. Someone much more potent has replaced her.


• Friendly
  
  Royse is a naturally gregarious person. She deals badly with isolation or boredom and makes friends everywhere she goes. She likes being around other people. The people of Astar wouldn't have guessed it from when they first met her, though. She spent her first month or two on Astar in shock, both from her injuries and from being dumped into a completely alien culture. On top of that, her built in computer took a few weeks to full translate the local language to the point that she felt like she could speak it comfortably. At the time, anyone who met her would have met a gaunt, silent, unnerving creature that almost never spoke.
  
  Being unable to just talk to people save about the most basic of subjects was a deeply disturbing experience for her. If anything, now that she feels comfortable talking to people again she's actually swinging around towards MORE talkative than she might have been before her incident, to a point boardering on annoying.


• Pride
  
  When she found herself stranded in a land that had never invented wifi, Royse couldn't help but look down on the local culture as barbaric. As a civilized and wise person from an enlightened society, she was obviously smarter and more capable than any of these backwater hillbillies, with their "magic powers" and "new age hippie bullshit." (her exact words)
  
  It took her a while to recognize that Astar's civilization was not necessarily more primitive than her own, it had just developed along a different path. Spirit Artists could do things that were flat out impossible for anyone on Meder. Until she was able to swallow her pride, Royse had trouble advancing as a spirit artist simply because she didn't believe, in her heart of hearts, that being a spirit artist was a real thing worth actually pursuing.


• Fall
  
  Royse felt nothing but hero worship for Captain Wymond. He was talented, good looking, charismatic, and had stood up for her during the early days of her transition. She spent a lot of time thinking about how cool he was and fantasizing about him in various situations.
  
  Then he killed a bunch of people on an insane quest to become a living god.
  
  Watching him fall from grace like that hurt a lot. Wymond hadn't done anything to her personally, but she still felt betrayed. She had seen him as a guiding star. A distant goal to work towards. Maybe if she worked hard and put in the effort, she could be as cool as he was some day and...also kill a bunch of people. Her personal life trajectory no longer had a clear destination as Wymond stopped being someone she felt like she could emulate. Her quest to defeat Wymond isn't just because she wants to save the world from him, it's also because she blames him for letting her down personally.


• Child
  
  Royse's childhood was not happy, as I alluded to up above. She grew up feeling trapped on all sides, and that informed how she would think about choices for the rest of her life. Growing up in a city where no one had any prospects, surrounded by a family that constantly demanded more and more from her without giving anything back in return (or so she felt), in a BODY that felt like it was weighing her down so she couldn't live, Royse now values personal freedom more than anything.
  
  Every choice she makes going forwards is making up for that stifling childhood by giving her as much control over her own life as she can get. No one likes feeling like they have no control over their life, but it is extra irksome to Royse as it reminds her of bad times from her youth.


• Flower
  
  Hey, let's not beat around the bush here and say it in straight forwards English: Royse is a trans woman.
  
  She grew up thinking she was a man while surrounded by people who ALSO thought she was a man, and it made her miserable for most of her life. It left her filled with wretched self loathing that she buried down underneath a layer of sarcasm and cynicism, staying emotionally detached from everything. She never had any stable romantic relationships because she couldn't really imagine someone loving her when she didn't love herself. She had kind of grown resigned to the body she had been born with until a chance of getting a new body was dangled in front of her. Then, suddenly, she needed it like she needed to breathe.
  
  Combat cyborgs are living weapons, functionally owned by the government, but she chose the name Royse because it was based on the word rose. She felt like she was blooming and beautiful for the first time in her life, and didn't want the reality of working for the army to make her ever forget that.

?? Fae Court

List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• CHOICE 1: Spring


• CHOICE 2: Autumn


• CHOICE 3: Dawn

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
1) No, they will retain their canon abilities.

?? RP Samples

TFLN from a while back and the Pixie Led TDM