Community Created Characters

We need 2 more males to balance it out. If there are more characters coming, I hope they are males.

Also, there's already a shield character which is jin with his advancement. Yes, it is not actually a "Shield" but the concept is based of that, he got the concept of one.

However, I would like to see the spear class come into play, with the usual lancer hair style. Also the caster/mage don't look bad either. Both are original and can play a role that haven't been played yet.

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Hey, to clarify, this is done out of pure fun and obviously don't expect them to be forwarded to Lion Games (although it would be cool)
Share thoughts in comments, would love to hear any criticism.

Additionally leave a comment on what weapon you would like to see with a soulworker (try think outside of the box)
If I like the idea I'll pick it up and try work with it.

Notable mention: Yagyu4k works pretty actively on character reworks. Make sure to give him support for his hard work and motivate him
Lily Rework: Here
Haru Rework: Here

These characters I tried to design in mind with new and old content. As well as the raid concepts I have been designing with Yagyu4k [Special thanks to you]. If you are interested in reading this new raid concept click the link below:

Future Raid Concept

Introducing Kuyo Shirigaki:

The spear based Soulworker build off melee and momentum

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Soul Weapon: Soul Spear

Depending on the attack, the soul spear adjusts it's appearance. With Slash based attacks, the Soul Spear transforms into a Naginata, with jabbing/thrusting attacks, the Soul Spear adjusts to an ordinary spear.

Character name : Kuyo Shirigaki
Age: 19

Kuyo, son of the head of the Shirigaki clan, was born solely to lead his clan after his fathers passing. His father whom died at a very early stage of Kuyo's life left him scarred and left with the burden of ruling over the Shirigaki clan. Kuyo always believed doing what he was expected to do would make his father proud and would be exactly what his father would have done in his position. By the age of 14, Kuyo had already managed to maintain peace between some of Japan's notable clans, such as the Yuma clan.

Kuyo's arrival causes him confusion with the meeting of Shiho:

"Have I met you? I'm sure I know you"

Because of the way Kuyo was given power at such a young age, he refuses to be bossed by SFL higher ups and does things in his own manner, not letting anything get in his way. This usually leads to Kuyo being noted down as "Reckless and disobedient" by Captains and Generals of the SFL.

This high and mighty behaviour Kuyo has for himself and his clan is shattered by his inability to save Catherine from being victimised by the NEDs cruel tests. Scarred by being forced to end Catherine's life and unable to save her ended up making him more obedient with the SFL. However, this was at the cost of him behaving 'Zombie like' as the judgement which had always been correct in the past failed to save Catherine, so he follows the SFL thinking "they know best". At this point Kuyo is extremely terrified of making his own decisions and doesn't want to lose anyone else, he feels weak and inferior in every single way to his peers. Luckily, with the support of his operator, Chloe, she is able to build Kuyo's confidence once again and allow him to make the right decisions. From this event Kuyo realises that he should not only follow one judgement, but many to create a perfect operation.

After Kuyo's encounter with Ravan, Kuyo chooses to bring Ravan's defeated body back to the SFL for investigation. This was from Kuyo's judgement that Ravan may become a useful ally in the future, whenever that may be.

During his battles with the blood soulworkers, he has an honorable and respectable response to his victory for each, instead of treating them as lower beings. During his battle with Nita, she chooses to use her Blood Nova. After seeing such a display of dedication Kuyo realises the the blood soulworkers are putting their all into helping Abel achieve his goal of meeting his mother figure, Suzie. Because of this realisation, Kuyo later chooses to destroy the device to kill all blood soulworkers putting everything on the line just to preserve his humanity and to protect Nita, Naran and Abel.

During the beginning of the encounter with Suzie, Kuyo mutters the words "You'd make a strong ally to hammer that pig"

Kuyo's behaviour with most of the other soulworkers is respectable and neutral, apart from his small conflicts with Lily Bloomerchen and his hostility to Iris Yuma, a member of the opposing Yuma Clan. However, shortly realises with overtime interaction with her, that she never cared about the Yuma Clan, she just wanted to live her life how she wanted to, and not be bosses around. Kuyo is respectable to her opinion on the clan matter but also calls her foolish for abandoning her clan in such a way.

Due to Kuyo practising with a Naginata in his family dojo for an extensive time in his life, his experience with pole weapons is already "impressive".

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Here is a few things I need you to clarify with a few suggestions, keep in mind this is my opinion:

-Is he 19 or 14 when he enters the void? / I think it'd be better if he is 19 when he enters, that'd make him the eldest which would correlate with his role/

-Where's the backstory, before the void? For background, my idea would be how everything in his previous life was a simulation of the role he is fated to take. Every achievement and recognition he achieved at young age fed his ego that eventually he took pride of. Also, Usually there's a personality that stands out before falling into the void, might want to give some thought into that while working on his personality.

-His personality, I have an issue with it: You named him to be "Reckless and disobedient" because of his leadership at such young age which contradicts the responsibility and personality of a leader. Someone who is raised as a leader is the one who is the most matured and make the most rational decisions. All of his life has been a simulation of the job that he will eventually occupy. It would not be rational to give the lead of a reputable clan to someone that could turn out like that. I would recommend change his reputation.

-Addition to his personality: As I mentioned before, there is a trait that stand out in all soulworkers. As I remember, we got: Sorrow(Stella), Passion(Jin), Anger(Iris), etc. (Can't remember the other 3, I might've switched one of those though). From what I've read it seems like the most fitted one would be Pride. After all, he is a leader, he should carry the clan's pride in his shoulders. This would change the "reckless and disobedient" to "self-aggrandizement yet confident and reliable." However, that's merely my suggestion, but I do think this is best since it correlates more with his role, trait, and overall personality.

-Perhaps, change his first name? Here is my reasoning on why I think it should be changed:

For most of the characters, their names actually have a meaning and they live it up to its name:

Jin: Stands for "Gold" in Chinese.

Erwin: Stands for Handsome and fair

Haru: Means "Day" in korean, "Spring(Season) in Japanese.

Stella: Means "Star" in Latin

Lily: Represents Purity and Innocence.

Iris: The "Goddess of Rainbow"

Hope this can help you. Stories well thought throughout are always a good read. Feel free to tag me or quote me if anything.

as for personality trademark... a source of idea could be the 7 deadly sins or the opposite of them as some of the existing class alrdy possess some of it

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as for personality trademark... a source of idea could be the 7 deadly sins or the opposite of them as some of the existing class alrdy possess some of it

As much as I like this idea, the previous 6 classes do not follow that concept or pattern. Starting it would result in completing it which would be 7 additional characters which is very unlikely.

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as for personality trademark... a source of idea could be the 7 deadly sins or the opposite of them as some of the existing class alrdy possess some of it

As much as I like this idea, the previous 6 classes do not follow that concept or pattern. Starting it would result in completing it which would be 7 additional characters which is very unlikely.

not exactly to copy the idea and implement it blindly but you can surely alrdy see traits of pride, wraith, greed and small part of gluttony in some characters' personality if you go through all their dialogue while doing quest... using the 7 deadly sins or 7 virtues as part of personality creation concept plus... since it's community creation classes, so there's more fun to it that expecting it to be really implemented

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My idea is assassins/shinobi class. I've read your character design of the spear guy adnd you said something that he can also be a kind of assassins. imo spear is not really suitable to be the assassins' class since it is mostly the class that fight on the frontline so i suggest make a separate class for assassins/shinobi.

Assassins/Shinobi class will be interesting. A class which focus a lot on speed (both move speed and atk speed) which focus on moving around and killing at very fast pace. Its might be a bit similar to the spear but im thinking of a class that focusses more on moving, evading and finding right opportunity to attack. Weapon is most probably knives. His main drawbacks are low base hp.

-It is very hard, or almost impossible to hit him (whether mobs or players) bcs of the fast movement, but if one manage to do so he can die pretty fast (bcs of low hp)

-I'm thinking that he have skills such as

• dematerialzing and appearing behind the enemy
• becoming invisible for 1s
• quick sidestep with low cooldown (like erwin's backstep skill but much faster)
• forming clones/dummy for 1-3 sec which can confuse the enemy (by aggro the mobs?)
• switching place with mobs (or other players? lol this will be funny)
• he can have buff like increasing move speed or evade? or perhaps stamina regeneration
• i cant think of any ultimate skills but maybe something like throwing giant shuriken? xD or maybe summoning clones to form combo attacks

-Im mainly inspired by kurisu's skills(from bandit highway). There is a skill where he disappear then reappear to attack, and then disappear again to form series of attack. Will look cool if there is a character that can do that

-In solo district, he will move around and mobs will just try to follow him. Using skills like dematerializing, invisibility and dummy, he will make the enemy confuse and strike them when they off guard.

-In a party, he will focus more on moving around and when he finds an enemy stunned, paralyze or in armour break situation, he will strike and deal high dmg.

-Im also thinking that he will deal 2x dmg if he strikes from behind the enemy and hitting infront will reduce dmg. so his main task is to go behind the enemy.

-Advancement maybe can include a bit like ninja/shinobi with addition of weapons such as shuriken and kunai

-This will probably be the hardest class to master but will be deadly once one knows how to use it. If a player is not good with stamina and sf management, this character can be very hard to use.

The main thing to think about this class is how he will look like at high lvl. for ex at lvl 55, if he uses good gears he might have almost same hp/def as other characters which will make him too strong. If there is a way to keep his drawbacks (mainly hp), i think its a very fun class.

Well thats just my opinion. what do you guys think of it?

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Yes the spear is supposedly having a design kit around the assassins playstyle but that is because I prefer to mess around with different weapon combinations whilst still making sense. A spear is more light armoured movement whilst a weapon such as a Halberd would be more heavy frontlining.
I can see a lot of the skills and some of them do take shape but I have to keep in mind about not using too many skill slots on mobility. If I do the character will be very limited to killing methods and would be deemed boring by most.
The hard to hit feature is something I tried to place in both the Archer class [Airi] and the Lancer / Spearman [Kuyo] but the problem is I dont want to straight up steal the evade feature that makes Erwin so unique, especially in terms of PvP

Don't get me wrong I 100% understand where you are coming from, I have to try of think of several factors when going through these which is
-Will the character struggle too much in levelling with that kit
-Will the character have a variety of attacks
-Will the character fit the role they are intended to play
-Will the character be enjoyable end game
-Will the character be unique

Of course it will reach a point where items from other characters will be used as inspiration to create other kits. Right now I wanted to keep a sort of freshness and made the [Kuyo] the assassin playstyle because we already have a frontliner [Haru] and technically [Jin]. Which is part of the reason I made the shielder [Anya] because Jin is more pseudo-tank than actual tank.

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well, I'm just giving my personal ideas and its okay if you don't agree with me. I still think its cool to have a char that will do other thing other than just attacking

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My idea is assassins/shinobi class. I've read your character design of the spear guy adnd you said something that he can also be a kind of assassins. imo spear is not really suitable to be the assassins' class since it is mostly the class that fight on the frontline so i suggest make a separate class for assassins/shinobi.

Well thats just my opinion. what do you guys think of it?

I agree that spear class is not really suit for assassin. He is mostly a front liner, however he can be an assassin with some adjustments, I suppose.

Also, now that I think about it, I have yet to see a spear class in a game. I've seen a "Lancer" however. Same type of weapon, slightly different. Spear is smaller than a lancer providing more flexibility than a lance. A Lance is heavier than a spear, but a spear can be used for mostly anything: whether is throwing, piercing, or stabbing, you name it.

When I started reading I immediately got the picture of Lancer from Fate Series, but I guess that's not what Vitae was trying to show us(?).

I still don't get the picture of how the class would turn out game-play wise. Perhaps, Vitae can show us a video or a design that would look alike?

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When I started reading I immediately got the picture of Lancer from Fate Series, but I guess that's not what Vitae was trying to show us(?).

Actually I had it in mind when making. The lancers in the fate series I've always seen as more mobility than front liner, which is why I categorised it as assassin based class.

Well, Lancer does have mobility from Fate: UBW and any other, but because he has mobility it doesn't make him an assassin. if that's the case we could argue that someone with a greatsword could be considered one. An assassin is someone who is skilled with stealth abilities and generally eliminates their enemy in a quick, quiet manner. Assassins do not engage in protracted melee. Usually they are considered "Ninjas."

Here is more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(character_class)

Here is a good example of how a lancer typically fights(Fate Series: UBW Spoilers):

You could consider Archer to be an assassin however. He used his agility as an advantage and tries to find an opening unlike lancer who is constantly rushing forward recklessly and forces his way in.

Any class who is involved in protracted melee is and should be considered a frontliner. Classes who stay back and support the team are considered Support/Healers. Classes who *prefer* not engage combat directly and relies on stealth abilities are considered assassins; however, in certain situation they can engage combat directly because they belong to the Rogue tree after all.

I'm not quite sure how an assassin would play out in Soul worker, but considering the stats an assassin would have would be: quick low damage alone, but with poison/fire/curse they can catch up overtime and quick but weak defense. In the other hand, a Lancer would be the same as Lily but with some haru mix in. Haru's mobility and lily's type of skills: Medium-high damage at a normal pace and medium defense. Also lets not forget a lancer have a long, heavy weapon.

There was actually a game I played that had a good representation of what a Lancer is, it was pretty cool. It is hard to find though because it was not really a class but an enemy. Other than that, I don't know any game that has a lancer as class as of yet, I'll look something up though.