#rpg elements

Tentative Title: My Next Life as a Villainess in a Fantasy RPG

It’s mostly the same as Hamefura but there are RPG elements mixed with the Otome Game/Dating Sim story. Magic is still mostly limited to nobles (besides some exceptions like Maria) but commoners can also get skills that are more physical in nature - like enhancing skills or weapon skills, for example. To simplify, most nobles are of the Mage Class while most Commoners can either become Fighters/Knights/Thieves/Rouge, etc. There are exceptions, though. Nobles without magic or just weak magic can become Fighters and Thieves while commoners with Magic can become Mages.

The typical six elements - fire, water, earth, air, light, and dark - still exist but there is also other magic spells that do not fit these elemental categories; these spells are classified as Null or Neutral Magic. These can be anything: illusion magic, seer abilities, telekinesis, telepathy, etc.

Also, the six main elements have subset magic: Fire has Lightning, Water has Ice, Earth has Metal and Plants, Air has Sound, Light has Holy, Dark has Shadow.

I’m still coming up with the story but what I have so far is this: Katarina is exiled in all the routes’ good ends then later returns as a Dark Mage to attack the heroine after graduation (basically, I’m mixing FL 2 into this). She is imprisoned but escapes and returns one final time as a Demon Lord and the Final Boss who is killed by the heroine. The bad ends during the first part (Academy Arc) still end with her death, so do the bad ends in the second part (Ministry Arc). The bad end of the final part (Demon Lord Arc) ends with Maria dying after killing Katarina and with Sorcier destroyed.

The eight main characters are each divided into a class corresponding to their abilities and skills. Thank you @sol-exposito, @cyclaes, @dulcito-on-ao3, @sleepyxcocoa, @logo-comics for you help with these.

Katarina Claes - Of the Fighter Class with skills in sword fighting, tree-climbing, and other physical skills. She has weak Earth magic with an affinity for Plant Magic; she later discovers that she is a dual-mage with her second element being Dark. She also gains a Beast Tamer classification with a focus on Dark Familiars.

Keith Claes - Of the Mage class with powerful Earth magic and many defense-based spells and skills; he also has decent spear-wielding skills. Despite his powerful magic, his physical strength is quite weak - he is a Squishy Wizard. He is also classified as a Summoner due to summoning Earth Elementals aka Earth Golems/Dolls.

Gerald Stuart - A Magic Knight with advanced sword skills and equally powerful Fire Magic; he is also capable of casting Lightning Magic spells. Most of his skills are focused on offense so his defense is a bit weak. He eventually becomes a Dragon Knight - a title bestowed to a powerful Fire Magic Knight who has mastered advanced magic spells.

Alan Stuart - He is also a Magic Knight but he focuses more on defense and support magic. His Water Magic is decently strong and he is capable of using Ice Magic to boost his defensive skills. While his sword skills are excellent, his offensive skills are a bit weaker than his defensive ones. He is also classified as a Bard as he can cast buff magic through his music.

Mary Hunt - She is a Hunter/Sniper Ranger who makes use of guns modified to be used with her water magic. She has some Swashbuckler traits as she uses flamboyant swiftness and agility while fighting. Her physical strength is weak but her magic, speed, and agility are strong. She also has some Druid elements with her knowledge of plants used to make potions.

Sophia Ascart - She is a Vantician Magician/Wizard due to her interest of reading books and studying magic. She is physically weak but arsenal of spells - both wind and Neutral - is vast and has knowledge about how most magic works even if she can’t cast is. She is also classified as a Runesmith as she can use runes to cast powerful AOE spells.

Nicol Ascart - He is a Swashbuckler who uses knives in battle. While not physically strong, he uses his powerful wing magic to speed around the battlefield and fight in a flamboyant manner. He is not a morning person so you better not wake him up or he’ll show a side of himself that makes it clear why he and the sadistic, black-hearted prince are friends.

Maria Campbell - She is a Healer who also makes uses of support magic to buff and empower her allies. She was originally physically weak with no offensive skills but later trains to become a Combat Medic. She is able to use Holy Magic which allows her to sense evil and purify things.

These are just several headcanons I have of Nicol in @azure-wolf-227’s Hamefura RPG AU. I love this version of Nicol; he’s not as boring as his original creators made him as. Also before we get started on the headcanons I have for him, here is his character card:

Nicol has always wanted to go apesh*t. He just couldn’t due to several factors:

First: his family. They were already facing so many hardships and he didn’t want to burden them with any more trouble. The feeling of being wary of not burdening his family though gets (majorly) relieved off of him when he and Sophia become friends with Katarina. 

Second: exhaustion. Being the only friend of your younger sister, being properly educated to succeed your father’s place as Prime Minister, maintaining a good reputation among nobles, and protecting your younger sister should have repercussions to your energy levels. Again, this thankfully gets (somewhat) resolved after he and his sister become friends with Katarina. 

Third: never truly had a chance to do so. Sure there were a few moments where he did slip up in front of *ahem* certain guests, but those thankfully leave his victims unfortunate souls fairly traumatized. 

Fourth: he subconsciously buries it. Due to how long he has been suppressing his troublemaker urges, it is almost a habit for him to do so. The only time he can’t subconsciously bury those feelings is when he doesn’t get enough sleep or if he is so full of rage that he snaps and breaks loose. 

During Nicol’s baby and toddler years, he was a quiet troublemaker. If you took your eye off of him for one second, you wouldn’t be able to find him until around an hour later, surrounded by a ton of broken items and the room in total chaos. 

Under normal and safe circumstances, Nicol is the tired mom that is actively trying to get her children out of trouble.  

He and Geordo became friends and bonded over tolerating with stupid noble stuff. They both often vent/rant to one another about wanting to throw said stupid nobles out the window. 

Nicol’s hat was a gift from Sophia in the original Fortune Lover plot, but in Hamefura, it was a gift that both Katarina and Sophia picked out for him.

In Fortune Lover, Nicol decides to join Maria's party in order to gain enough political power and respect to protect his family, most notably, his younger sister Sophia.

In Hamefura, Nicol decides to join Katarina's party in hopes of being able to stay by Katarina's side and protecting her.

One of his most powerful moves in the game is where he casts down a swarm of knives and uses his throwing knives or daggers to create devastating harm towards the enemy.(thank of it as mash-up of Zhongli's meteor attack combined with Yondu with his whistling and moving arrow)

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Cthon

Developer: Gravity Games Publisher: Gravity Games Rrp: £3.99 (Steam), $4.99+ (Itch.io) Released: 31st December 2016 Available on: Steam and Itch.io Played Using: Mouse and Keyboard Among the dark reaches of space lie long dead civilizations of the past. Each has their own tragic story to tell, but some are far more terrible than others. This is something you've come to realize yourself as you run from the creatures that stalk the halls of the Pythos colony and the ancient ruins underneath it. Creatures that died long long ago and have been brought back into some semblance of misshaped life. The question is, what the hell happened here? Cthon is a first person shooter with procedurally generated levels and some light RPG elements to it. The game itself utilities 2.5D like that of the original Doom and System Shock. It also controls similarly to the aforementioned Doom, as it doesn't allow the player to look up or down, jump or crouch. Its clear that the developer has drank deep from the well of H.P Lovecraft in the design of this game. It has a very... eldritch feel to it, especially in design of the later levels textures. On top of that the ambient music, created by Burning_Mir, is fantastic providing a real sense of tension.

At the start of the game you get to choose between three classes, for the most part the changes between them are minor, such as an increase to grenade damage or a slightly higher firing rate. But those minor changes do mean something, at least in the early stages of the game before things start getting a lot more challenging and the upgrades make some of the flaws less meaningful. Throughout the game you will only have three weapons which are your trusty plasma rifle, a grenade launcher and an energy knife. You swap between your three weapons by using the mouse buttons [left click] is the plasma rifle, [middle mouse] is the energy knife and [right click] is the grenade launcher. The first click selects the weapon its the second click that fires.

When it comes to the combat... well Doom this ain't. This isn't a game for running and gunning, its a much more tense and thoughtful affair where each combat is actually a real risk, but sadly one you usually must take. That being said it doesn't mean that the combat gets a free pass, I will freely admit that it does feel somewhat unresponsive and that the weapon swapping could have been more intuitive. I've mentioned upgrades several times I suppose I should actually tell you something of them. As you play through the game you'll find items that you can pick up (or buy at a dispenser) that land in your inventory [I]. These items are upgrades that, once activated, can make your weapons and armour more potent or in a few cases increase your health and movement speed. The upgrades are modular and each one you add changes the look of your weapon (or HUD if you upgrade your armour) slightly. You can activate upgrades from within your inventory. Each one uses a unit of power and so it can become a juggling act trying to work out whether to upgrade your rate of fire, damage or armour.

At the start of the game your inventory starts with only one space, which is occupied by an upgrade, and one unit of power. Expanding your inventory's space and power is a matter of finding or buying framework nodes (space) and circuitry cores (power). Along with the various upgrades, health packs and ammo that litter the levels you can also find Nanites. Nanites are the currency for this game and are what allow you to purchase upgrades, ammo and health at the dispensers you find in the levels.

This is a game for those of us who love games like System Shock over those that want another Doom. If I'm honest its not a game you'll want to play through over and over because once you've completed it, that’s it, its over.

For the sake of shortening my information(and preserving my sanity), I will be doing 2 different headcanons(and cards) of Katarina: Bakarina and OG Katarina. Bakarina will be the Hamefura version of Katarina while OG Katarina will be the Fortune Lover version.(in that version of Katarina, I will be discussing her role as the Final Boss) Now, let’s begin with my headcanons for OG Katarina in @azure-wolf-227’s Hamefura RPG AU. Also, thank you @dulcito-on-ao3 for helping me with figuring out OG Katarina’s design!

She learns that she has plant magic some time before she gets engaged to Prince Geordo, during a magical aptitude test that she was required to take some time after her 8th birthday.(Her magical aptitude was one of the reasons OG Geordo decided to get engaged to her) 

OG Katarina cares about her loved ones. She is protective of them and will do anything for them.(especially her mother) 

OG Katarina wants to be engaged to Geordo because she likes him and she wants to use the political power when she becomes queen to protect her mother.

The players do not know that OG Katarina loves her mother and has a strong desire to become queen to protect her, though it is vaguely hinted that OG Katarina does love her. 

OG Katarina thinks Geordo owes her his “love,” because she is a refined lady and has powerful and rare magic.(“Why doesn’t Geordo love me? I specifically requested it!”)

When Geordo and/or Keith begins to fall in love with Maria, Katarina bullies and harasses her whenever the group rests. It isn’t until near the climax that she begins to target Maria during battle. 

Sometime during their journey, the group is tasked to investigate a specific inn that is suspected of illegal experimentation on monsters. The group disguises their investigation as a “much needed break,” at a well-reviewed inn that is a highlight for many noble adventurers. 

While the group is resting, Maria accidentally eavesdrops on an argument between Geordo and Katarina about Maria. Eventually, Katarina reprimands Geordo for not being loyal to her and exclaims how she doesn’t understand why he cares about Maria. Depending on his level of affection for you, he will either exclaim all the good points about Maria or just exclaim all of Katarina’s bad characteristics. This causes Katarina to break down in tears and flee to her room. 

While Katarina is at her lowest, a powerful demonic entity will manipulate Katarina into giving him permission to possess her body, in exchange for enormous amounts of power to get revenge on Maria, to which she accepts. 

Sometime during the middle of the night, the group investigates the inn, and realizes that not only was the inn guilty of illegal experimentation of monsters, but is also a cult for a powerful demonic entity named Balam. The cult is responsible for the hardships of the group by releasing its experiments into Sorcier for the purpose of “spreading their holy message,” and is looking for the perfect vessel

The group gets caught by the “head of the cult,” and fights him, though strangely enough, Katarina mysteriously disappears sometime during the battle. 

Once the head of the cult is defeated, he is saved by a now-possessed Katarina, and eventually begins to wreak chaos. 

Katarina becomes more calculating and cunning during this battle, as she has the guidance and power of Balam.  

This fight is the ultimate game-changer and is the other factor that determines whether you get a good end or a bad end.(the other being your affection points)

In order to get the Good End, you must use your teamwork skills and make sure that you and your party minimize the destruction and deaths of people as low as possible, while finding a way to exorcize Katarina. 

To get the Bad End, you have to keep your HP somewhat low, allow numerous citizens to die, and leave numerous surrounding buildings collapsed and decimated. 

And now, for the endings themselves:

Good Ending: Balam is exorcized by Maria using her light magic. After the battle, Geordo/Keith exile Katarina for attempting to injure and kill many citizens, as well as for the damages caused during the battle. Geordo/Keith then confess their feelings to Maria, thus officially beginning their relationship. 

Bad Ending: After seeing multiple citizens being killed, as well as Maria being heavily injured, Geordo/Keith snap and kill Katarina.(via different methods) Horrified by their actions, Geordo/Keith run away, leaving Maria heartbroken. 

The good ending is considered to be the canon one by the developers. 

I will not be posting anything this week, as I will be busy with extracurricular activities. I will probably scroll around Tumblr, but I will not be adding anymore characters during this week. Thank you for your patience.

In the meantime, I have a comic that I sort of made in a rush.

Hello again! Thank you for all the likes and reblogs, they're all appreciated! I’ve got to say, Maria is quite the fun character! I love her color palette(I’m weak for pink ok?) so coming up with a costume for her was quite fun! As of right now, Maria's card is my favorite! Here are my headcanons of Maria in @azure-wolf-227’s Hamefura RPG AU.

Because she didn’t have enough money to hire someone to make a high quality medic uniform, Maria crafted her own by modifying a newer dress and using scraps of outgrown clothes.(this is why her outfit is similar to the one in the OG Hamefura universe with some modifications) Her medical kit, on the other hand, was provided for by the Magic Ministry.(If you are wondering why the Ministry is being stingy with Maria, their finances have been pouring into...er....more urgent matters....) 

Maria decides to become an adventurer in both universes to support her mother and to try to make her proud.  

In Hamefura, Maria has a sarcastic and witty side of her, and can be surprisingly pessimistic at times. This side of her is mainly shown towards the capture targets, namely Geordo.(he annoys her the most) In Fortune Lover, on the other hand, this side of her is never shown due to her not having other friends and she felt that she needed to please the capture target, thus she felt she couldn’t be sarcastic around them because they could think of her as rude. 

Both versions of Maria are reserved, but the degree of it varies.

In order to conserve her magic, Maria uses light magic for emergencies only. If it is possible, she will use the tools in her medical kit to fix injuries. 

Maria has a special “attack” she can use on her enemies. The attack involves her saving up enough light energy, and then suddenly releasing all of her light/healing magic. This helps heal her teammates while temporarily stunning/blinding her opponents. However, she becomes drained after this attack, so players have to use it wisely. Additionally, the effectiveness of the attack can depend on how much magic Maria has released and saved. 

Maria at first cannot create energy swords, shields, or force fields, due to the fact that she only trained herself to heal others rather than actually applying it to the battlefield. 

Maria is physically weak in the beginning, but with the help of the capture targets, she becomes stronger throughout their journey. 

If her relationship with a capture target reaches a certain level, there will be a cutscene where she and the capture target eventually come up with ideas to combine their magic to create more effective attacks, which the player can use if both their HP and magic is high enough.(I also added Bakarina because I can see Maria doing this with her and Bakarina being confused as to why but goes along with it)  

Geordo: Geordo and Maria both combine their fire magic and light magic to create a supernova(a ginormous star that explodes) that can burn and blind the enemies, while healing party members. 

Keith: Maria distracts the opponent by blinding them with her “flash bomb,” while Keith manipulates the dirt/clay beneath to create omnidirectional Earth walls that can crush the enemies. 

Alan: Alan creates a “floating river” surrounding the battlefield that protects allies while blocking enemies, while Maria uses her power move to create multiple refractions, stunning the enemies. 

Nicol: Nicol creates a wind barrier that can hurt the enemies while protecting them, while Maria combines it with her light magic to heal all party members inside the barrier.