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=== The Black Wolves ===
=== The Black Wolves ===
* [[Fei Fong Wong]]: Kim's Fei. Emeralda knows that Fei and Kim are connected somehow. They have to be.
* [[Fei Fong Wong]]: Kim's Fei. Emeralda knows that Fei and Kim are connected somehow. They have to be.
* [[Elhyam van Houten|Elly]]: Emeralda is sure that Elly and Fei are close, just like Elly and Kim were. She is not entirely sure why Elly was Elly.
* [[Elhyam van Houten]]: Emeralda is sure that Elly and Fei are close, just like Elly and Kim were. She is not entirely sure why this Elly is also Elly.
* [[Leon Albus]]: Leon was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Rode a puffy dragon, Muni-Muni. Who is also cute.
* [[Leon Albus]]: Leon was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Rode a puffy dragon, Muni-Muni. Who is also cute.
* [[Lily Keil]]: Lily was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Also, she has a dog. Emeralda likes Dog. It appears to be mutual.
* [[Lily Keil]]: Lily was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Also, she has a dog. Emeralda likes Dog. It appears to be mutual.

Revision as of 23:46, 18 February 2019

Emeralda Kasim
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IC Information
Full Name: Emeralda Kasim
Gender: Female
Age (Birthdate): Unknown (Appears 10) (June?)
Hometown: Unknown
Hair Colour: Green
Class: Artificial Life Form
Role: Drifter
Bounty: 0 Gella
OOC Information
Theme: Xenogears
Major Group: None
Minor Groups: Black Wolves
Player: User:Prism

An artificial being built to rise above organic humanity, Emeralda Kasim is a child out of time and a blasphemy against God. Built by someone she remembers only as 'Kim' to be his surrogate child, Emeralda was left offline for thousands of years for reasons she no longer remembers before being reawakened in the modern era. Emeralda is inexperienced despite her chronological age due to spending most of it shut down or still under construction; while she sometimes acts older than she appears, other times she's as immature and childlike as she looks. She believes Fei Fong Wong to be Kim, her 'father' and creator, and tries her best to help him - though she's not always sure how. As a creation of molecular machinery, Emeralda is not an organic being but a living ARM with unusual powers considered by many to be disturbing, unnatural, or cursed. Because of this, some groups consider her not a person but an object, and one that must be controlled or destroyed. Emeralda seems largely oblivious to this lingering threat.

Background

Powers and Abilities

Artificial Life Form

Emeralda is not a naturally occuring life form at all, but a constructed being made in the distant past - a living ARM.

Very few people understand the true nature of Emeralda's form. What is easy to see is that she is capable of reshaping her own body into various shapes - tools, or even weapons. She can make parts of her body rigid, or unnaturally flexible. In extreme situations, she can even flow like water. Though this may resemble the liquid metal form and body-shifting of a Hyadean, it is something different, as either Emeralda and any Hyadean can see.

Despite her diminuitive size and appearance, Emeralda is extremely heavy, and has the strength to match her density. More than that, she is extremely tough; she's difficult to disable and even harder to actually kill. It's not impossible, but she can recover from what would be, in a human, mortal injuries. She does not appear to have vital organs or particularly vulnerable locations. Despite that, Emeralda's durability is not infinite, and if she takes enough damage, she shuts down for self-preservation and recovery in much the same way as a human goes unconscious.

Emeralda also either has access to Ether or some artificial mimicry of it; the difference is mostly academic. That a machine can use the same energy as sorcery is a testament to the skill of ancient technologists; that a machine can choose to do so on its own is absolutely terrifying to a number of modern Filgaians.

Mentally, though, Emeralda is about what she appears to be: an extremely curious preteen girl. She seems to have as much free will as any natural-born being on Filgaia.

Tools

  • Large Etherstone: Emeralda carries an ether stone salvaged from Crescens. It was originally part of the Ether Amplifier and assists her in controlling energy over a wider area.
  • Reinforced Bar: A crowbar and lever is always useful, and it's one of the few tools Emeralda prefers to carry instead of making out of her body. Emeralda's is made from Gear structural alloy, so it can stand up to the abuse she puts it through.

Gear: Crescens

Emeralda pilots Crescens, a Solarian-made Gear.

Crescens was made as a test machine some time ago. Designed as an attempt to integrate nanomachines into AEROD-like devices, but usable in melee instead of at long range, it was extremely difficult to control and mothballed. Emeralda acquired it almost by default when it was found that her nanomachines could interface with and direct Crescens' nanomachines, rendering her able to control it by instinct.

Crescens is an unusual Gear in both design and equipment. Physically, it is a mostly-humanoid Gear aside from the fact that it has no arms; its shoulder pods contain additional thrust systems. Instead, it has large 'wings' that attach to its head. With the aid of nanomachine-derived musculature, the five-pinioned 'wings' are capable of moving in a manner disturbingly similar to a human hand, giving the Gear the ability to grip and strike. The 'wings' are capable of detaching for brief periods and moving around Crescens, though they lack extended independent operation.

Additionally, the nanomachine systems render Crescens capable of minor self-repair. The speed of the repair is not suitable for mid-combat regeneration, but it does make the systems require much less in the way of maintenance, and replacing armour pieces is very easy as they will be integrated automatically.

Crescens also contains an Ether Amplifier. Solaris did not expect Emeralda to be able to use it because she is a machine, but she successfully activated it on her first deployment. This drastically increases the power of Crescens from its expected level, as - like Vierge - the Gear is primarily oriented around its Ether power.

Unfortunately, Crescens can only mount lightweight armour without interfering with its mobility and hover systems, and is more fragile than most Gears. It also is not capable of using many standard systems or equipment between its nanomachine musculature and lack of arms. Finally, the difficulty of its control leaves it almost unable to be combat piloted by anyone but Emeralda.

Tools

  • Wing Bit: Crescens' wings can, for short periods of time, detach and maneuver independently, allowing her to act at a distance or give herself (or an ally) a lift or boost.
  • Power Magic Circuit: Crescens' Ether Amplifier can be briefly overclocked to increase its power. Doing so repeatedly is likely to overload the system.

Relationships - The Distant Past

  • Kim Kasim: The only person Emeralda can clearly remember. Kim Kasim was her loving creator and father, and the single most important person in her life.
  • Elly: A redheaded woman who Kim was very close to, but Emeralda cannot remember many more details than that.
  • Myyah Hawwa: ...???

Relationships - The Modern Day

The Black Wolves

  • Fei Fong Wong: Kim's Fei. Emeralda knows that Fei and Kim are connected somehow. They have to be.
  • Elhyam van Houten: Emeralda is sure that Elly and Fei are close, just like Elly and Kim were. She is not entirely sure why this Elly is also Elly.
  • Leon Albus: Leon was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Rode a puffy dragon, Muni-Muni. Who is also cute.
  • Lily Keil: Lily was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Also, she has a dog. Emeralda likes Dog. It appears to be mutual.
  • Noeline: Noeline was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. She liked Emeralda's sass.
  • Riesenlied: Riese was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Also a dragon?
  • Josephine Lovelace: Josephine was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. Owns a large cannon. Emeralda didn't say much to her.

Not The Black Wolves

  • Mysterious Man: He spoke to her before she was sent from Solaris, and said things, most of which Emeralda didn't understand. She didn't like him very much...
  • Rattan: The Solarian assigned by the mysterious man to watch her - and to abandon her, to try to get a reaction from Fei. Emeralda knows him only as a voice from his Gear.
  • Ida Everstead-Rey: Ida was one of the people who was there when Emeralda woke up. She shot Emeralda with an EMP, but Kim said it was OK so Emeralda forgives her. ...mostly.

Logs and Cutscenes

Chapter 1, Act 1

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Chapter 1, Act 2

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Chapter 1, Act 3

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Chapter 1, Act 4

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Chapter 1, Epilogue

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Chapter 2, Act 1

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Chapter 2, Act 2

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Chapter 2, Act 3

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Chapter 2, Act 4

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Chapter 2, Epilogue

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Chapter 3, Act 1

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Relationships