Drawn by ElysionistaName: Lafayette de Baroque
Class: Warrior (A) / Ranger (B)
Tier: A-Tier
Damage Required to Defeat: A
Description: Lafayette is an ex-bandit turn champion of Gillies. Ever since seeing Gilles infectious charisma, the woman had made her whole life mission to become the arm, sword, and everything for Gilles. She has taken it upon herself to keep order in her devoted name and make Baroque a place for Gilles, of Gilles, and to her closest group of associates... Gilles.
Lafayette is fiery and protective of this image and will do anything to protect it. Nobody will bad mouth Gilles state less they wish to argue with Steel. She is compassionate with those who are inclusive and accepting of her ideas though she has a habit of hearing only what she wants. Despite this narrow mindset, the woman has an instinct for tactics. Her actions, decisions, and just will tends to rival those trained in war almost as if rukh are guiding her hand.
Lafayette's spirit is one melded together by the countless shattering of unfortunate fate. The woman as seen the powerless one has when they stand by and wait for destiny. Even as a bandit, nothing ever went right when she played into the system. It was only when she lunged forward damning everything else that she found the will to live, the power to rise, and most importantly Gilles. As such Lafayette lacks a belief in fate, destiny, and given purpose. For her, you are nothing more than what you reach out and grab for yourself.
"You sit there and get trampled waiting for your answer while I hold my spear forward and rip it out of fate's bloody hands!"
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: White
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 170lb
Appearance: Lafayette is a muscular woman with dark skin, white hair, and white eyes. Though in her past these features were black, her devotion to Gilles and sheer work towards being a perfect being for Gilles has warped her features. She has a tattoo on her leg resembling large stitches but she lacks any scars of battle on her body despite having them when she was younger. She has a towering appearance and a contagious smile filled with childish youth.
Rukh Alignment: Black
Weapons: "Letters In Blood": A spear about 2 meters tall with a .2 meter steel blade, somehow tainted red, withand a reinforced wooden shaft of petrified wood.
"Bloody Message": A bow about 2 metres long made from petrified wood.
Traits: Trait Name: Exceptional Speed
Trait Tier: B
Trait Requirement: Must be Human or a Magician with a secondary combat class.
Trait Description: Through excessive training, the character has reached a level of speed that exceeds the average human.
Trait Effect: Lafayette can now outrun most mounts and maintain their speed for an hour. At this level they are equal to a C-tier Fanalis in speed.
Trait Name: Nimble Fingers
Trait Tier: B
Trait Requirement: -
Trait Description: Through years of training, the character has obtained deft hand and finger work allowing them a speed and accuracy with fine motor skills a cut above the average person.
Trait Effect: Lafayette can swiftly tie knots or retrieve items on her person in an instant. In addition, she can nock an arrow to her bow at near-instant speeds, allowing her to fire barrages of arrows.
Trait Name: Look at Me, Gilles!
Trait Tier: A
Trait Requirement: Dedicate your life to Gilles
Trait Description: Lafayette is so enamored with Gilles and spiteful of fate that the rukh have willed her mind, body and spirit into something more.
Trait Effect: When she is around Gilles or can hear Gilles's voice and has magoi, it seems like Lafayette cannot die. Any attack that critically wounds her will instead knock her out, but leave her vulnerable to subsequent attacks. All attacks of A Tier and lower deal one tier lower than their intended damage.
Trait Name: For Gilles, I'll Make the World Hers!
Trait Tier: A
Trait Requirement: Dedicate your life to Gilles, Plot NPC
Trait Description: Obsessed with Gilles, Lafayette cannot stand anyone having Gilles’ attention other than her - and especially anyone who harms her idol.
Trait Effect: Whenever Gilles is insulted or attacked around Lafayette, Lafayette becomes enraged for 3 turns. While enraged, all of Lafayette’s abilities to protect and or support Gilles are increased, granting them an additional A Tier of damage/defence. This can only be done once per post while enraged and only one ability with this scaling can be active at any time. After her rage ends, she needs three posts cool-down before being enraged again. After performing two threads involving the Baroque Marauders battling another army with Lafayette, she will upgrade to Omega Tier.
Abilities:Defensive Maneuver
The user thrusts their weapon forward while lunging up to 3 meters or while already moving and making precise movements in order to protect themselves or an ally up from an attack up to A rank damage.
Unstable Arrow
The user grabs their ammunition and overfills it with magoi. Then they fire the ammunition. When the ammunition makes contact with something, it explodes with the user's magoi and deals A-rank magoi damage in a 10 meter Area.
Counter Stance
The user pulls up their weapon holding it diagonally in front of them. Then they strike with either the head or the tail of the weapon to parry away attackers or attacks, guarding from A rank damage and dealing back A rank damage.
Suppressive Borders
The user sweeps the ground in front of them. Then their magoi will erupt from the ground as a shockwave damaging anyone within 5 meters in front of them for B rank damage, pushing back those affected by five meters.
Battle Cry
The user takes a deep breath and then gives a speech. This raises morale and gives other NPCs, players, and armies who follow Gilles other than the user or Gilles an increase in movement/speed by 1 tier, capping at A rank. This speech must be heard within a radius of 20 meters from the caster and last for 3 post.