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Shulk

Home Planet/Origin: The Bionis/Xenoblade

Preferred Motto: Our Destiny is our own!

Appearance:

 

Alignment: Lawful-Good

History On Li:  Not even a minute's peace on Bionis, and Shulk found himself in a run down ruin of a world, one overrun with plague. He had no idea how he got here or where he even was, and soon wandered around looking for a signs of life. He began to feel weak and feverish in only a few minutes, and soon passed out. He came to in what looked like an infirmary with almost no energy left. Luckily, he still had the Monado, but other then that, there was nothing. Once the medics realized that he had woken up, they explained that they found him in the wastelands and brought him to somewhere called the Life Sphere, where they treated the sickness he had apparently taken on from  the atmosphere in this world, called Starvia. Shulk rested for a couple weeks, learning all there was to know about the situation on Li and figuring out what he could do to help. Once he fully recovered, he decided to venture out to help battle this menace and help the inhabitants of this planet, as well as trying to find traces of a way back to his home planet.

Storied History: xenoblade.wikia.com/wiki/Shulk

Stats: ( 10 ) total stat points to distribute. If you're not sure, please read the Basics or the Outline.

Discipline	Stat	Modifier
Strength	8	-1
Dexterity	12	+1
Wisdom	14	+2
Intelligence	16	+3
Charisma	12	+1
Constitution	8	-1

Primary Attacks(3):
- Defense Force Training: As a soldier in the Colony 9 Defense Force, Shulk certainly knows his way around a sword. Shulk makes several swings with the Monado, attempting to get in a few small hits (Light STR attack, 8% combo-able)

- Air Slash: Shulk leaps into the air and strikes the target with a far reaching swipe. Inflicts Break, giving all other status afflictions an additional 20% effect chance. (Medium attack: DMG 10%)

- Shaker Edge: Shulk strikes the foe with a vibrating blow. (Heavy attack: DMG 24% 2 turn cooldown. 30% chance of inflicting Stun on an opponent with Break)

- Stream Edge: Shulk makes a wide slash that can hit multiple foes (Med attack: DMG 13%, Hits all foes in front of Shulk. Inflicts Break)

Special Attacks(3):
- Activate Monado : Shulk calls power from the Monado, activating a variety of different abilities. Cooldown 4 turns

• Monado Speed: The Monado surrounds Shulk with a faint blue aura, increasing Shulk's speed and agility. (DEX +4 for 3 turns)

• Monado Shield: A shield envelops Shulk or another ally. Shulk/his ally and the opponent roll CON. If Shulk/his ally wins, the attack is blocked. If they fail, the shield breaks and they are forced to take the full damage of the attack.

• Monado Purge: Shulk fires a wave of energy from the Monado's blade. This wave will disable the last move that the enemy has used if they are hit for 3 turns

• Monado Eater: The blade of the Monado turns a deep black, and Shulk thrusts it into the enemy, allowing the Monado to devour the enemy's power (10% DMG, Removes a single buff of Shulk's choice from an opponent, and has a 30% chance of inflicting Bleed)
  

- Shadow Eye: Shulk lays low and attempts to hide from enemy detection. Shulk and the enemy roll INT. If Shulk wins the roll, the enemy's next attack misses, and Shulk's next attack does 10% more damage. Cooldown 3 turns.

- Light Heal: Shulk regenerates 10%+CHR to himself or an ally. Cooldown 3 turns

- Battle Soul: Shulk draws from his own lifeforce to manually recharge the Monado's powers. (Removes stages of cooldown for Monado Arts, damaging Shulk for 15% per turn of cooldown removed. Cooldown 3 turns)

- Summon Articuno: Shulk calls Articuno to him to aide him.

- Chain Attack: Shulk starts a Chain Attack as a free action, selecting an attack from his own set as a basis for the chain. On his ally's turn, if the first move they use uses the same stat (IE, if Shulk uses a STR move, and then his ally uses a STR move as well), the ally will receive a +1 to accuracy, and +5% to damage. If the next person also uses a move with the same stat (IE. a STR move), they will receive the same buff, in addition to the buff the previous teammate received. (For example, Shulk uses a STR attack, then ally 1 uses a STR attack at +1, +5%, then ally 2 uses a STR attack at +2, +10%, and so on). Healing moves instead get a 3% additional healing buff. If the ally uses a move with a different stat, the buff is reset. This continues until it's Shulk's turn again. Then Shulk makes a statless check to continue the chain (adding the current mod buff), with a threshold of 10. If he succeeds, the chain passes to the next person. Then that person needs to make the same check. For every additional person, the threshold goes up by 2. The buff ends when someone misses the check. Cooldown is equal to the number of turns the buff was active (Default 3).

Ultimate Attack(1):
- Monado Buster: The Monado's blade grows to three times its normal length and slashes down on a single foe with devastating force. (50%)

Allies/Friends: Reyn, Dunban, Fiora, Melia, Riki and Sharla, his friends from Bionis

Enemies/Rivals: Metal Face, Zanza

Any Other Information: Shulk can receive visions of the future through the Monado, but they happen sporadically, and of their own accord, so Shulk cannot control when he gets a vision

[Coolshaymin]

[heirtothemonado]

Redeeming my Bounty Hunter's Guide for a new move for Shulk

Battle Soul: Shulk draws from his own lifeforce to manually recharge the Monado's powers. (Removes stages of cooldown for Monado Arts, damaging Shulk for 15% per turn of cooldown removed. Cooldown 3 turns)

[heirtothemonado]

Shulk's got two missions down, so I'm redeeming is new move to add a companion to his arsenal

Discipline	Stat Pts	MOD
STR	6	-2
DEX	14	+2
CON	10	+0
INT	10	+0
WIS	12	+1
CHA	4	-3

Articuno
Kanto/Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow

Alignment: Neutral - Good

Allies/Friends: Shulk, those living on Icicle Peak

Enemies/Rivals: Thanatos






Appearance:
 
Saved from the undead grip of Thanatos, the God of Death, atop Icicle Peak, Articuno became attached to Shulk when it's Poke Ball came into his possession. Once Icicle Peak was reformed by it's cryokinetic powers, Articuno decided that it would stay alongside Shulk and help its new master in any way it could.....at least once Shulk got the paperwork filled out, that is.

Primary Attacks (3)
Ice Beam: Articuno shoots a beam of freezing cold energy from it's beak toward the target. Medium WIS attack. [DMG 12 %, 10% chance to freeze]

Aerial Ace: Articuno flies speedily around a target before slashing at them with it's talons. Medium DEX attack [DMG 18%]


Special Attacks (3)
Mist:  Articuno spawns a light mist around the entire party that keeps them in fighting condition and shield them from harm (Protects Articuno and it's allies from becoming inflicted with Status conditions. Lasts 3 turns, 5 turn cooldown. When Tailwind is activated, becomes a 14% attack to all foes, and immediately starts cooldown)

Tailwind: Articuno flaps its large wings to generate a wind to blow at it's allies feet, giving them a little extra mobility. (+2 DEX mod boost for 3 turns. 4 turn cooldown) 

[heirtothemonado]

Redeeming 10 Thunder Badges for a new Monado Art for Shulk!

Monado Eater: The blade of the Monado turns a deep black, and Shulk thrusts it into the enemy, allowing the Monado to devour the enemy's power (10% DMG, Removes a single buff of Shulk's choice from an opponent, and has a 30% chance of inflicting Bleed)

Also taking this time to rework Monado Shield, since a CON buff really isn't that useful.

Monado Shield: A shield envelops Shulk or another ally. Shulk/his ally and the opponent roll CON. If Shulk/his ally wins, the attack is blocked. If they fail, the shield breaks and they are forced to take the full damage of the attack.

[heirtothemonado]

Since apparently adding a new move to Monado Arts didn't constitute as adding a new move but rather editing an existing one, Shulk's still got a move slot to fill! Let's get to that, shall we?

Chain Attack: Shulk starts a Chain Attack as a free action, selecting an attack from his own set as a basis for the chain. On his ally's turn, if the first move they use uses the same stat (IE, if Shulk uses a STR move, and then his ally uses a STR move as well), the ally will receive a +1 to accuracy, and +5% to damage. If the next person also uses a move with the same stat (IE. a STR move), they will receive the same buff, in addition to the buff the previous teammate received. (For example, Shulk uses a STR attack, then ally 1 uses a STR attack at +1, +5%, then ally 2 uses a STR attack at +2, +10%, and so on). Healing moves instead get a 3% additional healing buff. If the ally uses a move with a different stat, the buff is reset. This continues until it's Shulk's turn again. Then Shulk makes a statless check to continue the chain (adding the current mod buff), with a threshold of 10. If he succeeds, the chain passes to the next person. Then that person needs to make the same check. For every additional person, the threshold goes up by 2. The buff ends when someone misses the check. Cooldown is equal to the number of turns the buff was active (Default 3).

[heirtothemonado]

Making a few edits to Shulk's primaries, since they're....not very good

Backslash: I know, I know, this is one of Shulk's signature Arts, but mechanically, this just doesn't make sense. Therefore, I'm gonna replace it with something else:

Defense Force Training: As a soldier in the Colony 9 Defense Force, Shulk certainly knows his way around a sword. Shulk makes several swings with the Monado, attempting to get in a few small hits (Light STR attack, 8% combo-able)

Air Slash: Will have a custom status "Break" attached to it. On its own, Break does nothing. However, it gives other status effects a extra 20% chance of happening. Will reduce Air Slash's damage to 10%

Stream Edge: Will also have the Break status. Keep damage at 13%

Shaker Edge: Buff damage to 24%, adding 2 turns of cooldown. Adding a bonus effect of a 30% Stun chance on enemies inflicted with Break

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Approved