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May. 3rd, 2013 09:24 pmOOC
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NAME: Estellise Sidos Heurassein
CANON: Tales of Vesperia
CANON POINT: After meeting with Phaeroh
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: Here you are!
PERSONALITY: Estellise is a kind young princess from the capital city of the Empire, Zaphias. Though given her status, she was not allowed to leave her castle for her entire life, thus was only fed the information the council had wanted her to know, making her a very naïve young woman. Though while she is naïve, she gained an exquisite amount of knowledge from the books she had read while confined to the castle, thus making her like a walking encyclopedia. To put it shortly, she has zero street smarts, but insanely book smart. Naturally, for someone like herself who finally chose to escape from the castle (with a young man who had just escaped from jail, no less, though he is the best friend of a knight she highly trusts), only having book smarts had its strengths and weaknesses. And while she was not allowed to go into the outside world, she was trained how to fight by knights, therefore she is able to hold her own in battle in case something were to happen to her.
Though she is a noble and the way she speaks gives away her status, she hardly judges anyone else by what they look like or their status. Rather, she does get to know them and make her own judgment based on their personalities. Though sometimes in doing that, she comes to trust someone too easily, and thus is capable of being taken advantage of, which is shown later in canon by when she gets kidnapped by Raven and given over to Alexei, since her power of The Child of the Full Moon is what he sought after. But going beyond her status and her power, she wishes to be seen as a person, thus that is why she gets ecstatic when she gets christened “Estelle” by Yuri. While she still introduces herself as ‘Estellise’ to everyone she encounters for the first time, she is more than happy to be called by her nickname, as it shows her that they see her as a person, such as when Rita calls her ‘Estelle’ for the first time.
By the way she speaks, how she postures herself and her manners, many people are able to tell that she is of noble, if not royal birth. It is a natural habit she has, even if she does try her best to hide that fact. Another thing she attempted to hide was the fact that she was able to use her healing powers without the aid of a Blastia. In fact as shown in game, Yuri and Rita figured out that fact the first time she cast a healing spell on each of them, respectively. However, the Blastia is still shown to be needed to learn what are skills and other artes that do not involve the healing element.
Back to her never really being out of the castle, Estelle never really had to make any hard decisions on her own as pretty much all decisions were made for her. And out in the real world all she thought she had to do was heal people and be thanked for it. That was pretty simple, right? However, while on her journey, she was forced to make a few difficult decisions and it took her some time to figure out what to do and what people it would affect. Sometimes the decisions she was forced to make caused her to truly think about what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’. She knows the laws and at many times at the beginning of her journey with her party points out what they were doing was breaking the law. Later in the story she ends up confused when she found out Yuri had murdered two people, however his actions saved numerous lives. With 'law keepers' massacring people for fun and 'criminals' who couldn't turn a blind eye to someone suffering, she could no longer go by the textbook definitions of 'right' and 'wrong'. As her journey continues, she learns that while making choices herself was difficult, she notes that ‘to live means to choose’ meaning that while she was in the castle for the first eighteen years of her life, she never was truly ‘living’.
The choices she made on her journey were those that she was proud to say were her own, and no one ever forced her to make decisions she never wanted to make. In this sense, this was how she grew in the greatest sense during the course of the game. When she had first left the castle, while it was her choice, she was on a mission to inform a friend he was in danger. By the end of the game, she grew because of what she learned about how corrupted people can be, and those that were deemed ‘criminals’ were only titled as such because they were rebelling against those who had been corrupted by power. She also grew in the sense that she learned that the choices she makes weren’t going to please everyone, to her dismay. Sometimes she would make choices that would make people unhappy, like running off into the desert by herself where she would likely get dehydrated and die. In the most natural sense, all Estelle wants is people to be happy, and while it was hard for her to learn that lesson, she knew she could never please everyone.
However, some choices she had made (and if her friends allowed those choices to go through) would endanger or cost her her life, including the time she had asked to be killed. Those choices were only made when she realized she was putting her friends lives in danger, thus shows us that she puts others above herself – that she is someone who is truly selfless.
Estelle is also very compassionate and selfless when it comes to helping others. The moment she sees someone injured she will heal them without asking for anything in return. While this is one of her greatest strengths, it is also her greatest weakness – one, because even at times when she needs to ‘lay low’, she will still go out and heal every injured person in sight whether they want to be healed or not, two, she sometimes forgets about her own well-being and collapses from exhaustion and three, she literally killed an ally of hers with her compassion. However, even though she has such power she is not corrupt and is told to never lose the selfless compassion she has for others. Because of this compassion, at times she will end up forcing the party she’s traveling with to take on new jobs when she sees people suffering. If they don’t need healing, then they need liberation or a task done that cannot be done by them, but by a stronger group such as Brave Vesperia. This is when her selflessness becomes selfishness and she ends up being called out on it as well.
PROJECTED CLASS: Acolyte > Oracle
Given her canon powers, she's a perfect fit for the Oracle class. Canonically, she has holy and healing powers herself, so any other class simply wouldn't work. Also, given her altruistic personality, and how she views herself as needed because of her healing abilities, anything but a healer would not fit Estelle at all. So basically, Estelle is a shoe in fit for the Oracle class.
OTHER: Additional notes/questions about the character go here.
CANON: Tales of Vesperia
CANON POINT: After meeting with Phaeroh
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: Here you are!
PERSONALITY: Estellise is a kind young princess from the capital city of the Empire, Zaphias. Though given her status, she was not allowed to leave her castle for her entire life, thus was only fed the information the council had wanted her to know, making her a very naïve young woman. Though while she is naïve, she gained an exquisite amount of knowledge from the books she had read while confined to the castle, thus making her like a walking encyclopedia. To put it shortly, she has zero street smarts, but insanely book smart. Naturally, for someone like herself who finally chose to escape from the castle (with a young man who had just escaped from jail, no less, though he is the best friend of a knight she highly trusts), only having book smarts had its strengths and weaknesses. And while she was not allowed to go into the outside world, she was trained how to fight by knights, therefore she is able to hold her own in battle in case something were to happen to her.
Though she is a noble and the way she speaks gives away her status, she hardly judges anyone else by what they look like or their status. Rather, she does get to know them and make her own judgment based on their personalities. Though sometimes in doing that, she comes to trust someone too easily, and thus is capable of being taken advantage of, which is shown later in canon by when she gets kidnapped by Raven and given over to Alexei, since her power of The Child of the Full Moon is what he sought after. But going beyond her status and her power, she wishes to be seen as a person, thus that is why she gets ecstatic when she gets christened “Estelle” by Yuri. While she still introduces herself as ‘Estellise’ to everyone she encounters for the first time, she is more than happy to be called by her nickname, as it shows her that they see her as a person, such as when Rita calls her ‘Estelle’ for the first time.
By the way she speaks, how she postures herself and her manners, many people are able to tell that she is of noble, if not royal birth. It is a natural habit she has, even if she does try her best to hide that fact. Another thing she attempted to hide was the fact that she was able to use her healing powers without the aid of a Blastia. In fact as shown in game, Yuri and Rita figured out that fact the first time she cast a healing spell on each of them, respectively. However, the Blastia is still shown to be needed to learn what are skills and other artes that do not involve the healing element.
Back to her never really being out of the castle, Estelle never really had to make any hard decisions on her own as pretty much all decisions were made for her. And out in the real world all she thought she had to do was heal people and be thanked for it. That was pretty simple, right? However, while on her journey, she was forced to make a few difficult decisions and it took her some time to figure out what to do and what people it would affect. Sometimes the decisions she was forced to make caused her to truly think about what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’. She knows the laws and at many times at the beginning of her journey with her party points out what they were doing was breaking the law. Later in the story she ends up confused when she found out Yuri had murdered two people, however his actions saved numerous lives. With 'law keepers' massacring people for fun and 'criminals' who couldn't turn a blind eye to someone suffering, she could no longer go by the textbook definitions of 'right' and 'wrong'. As her journey continues, she learns that while making choices herself was difficult, she notes that ‘to live means to choose’ meaning that while she was in the castle for the first eighteen years of her life, she never was truly ‘living’.
The choices she made on her journey were those that she was proud to say were her own, and no one ever forced her to make decisions she never wanted to make. In this sense, this was how she grew in the greatest sense during the course of the game. When she had first left the castle, while it was her choice, she was on a mission to inform a friend he was in danger. By the end of the game, she grew because of what she learned about how corrupted people can be, and those that were deemed ‘criminals’ were only titled as such because they were rebelling against those who had been corrupted by power. She also grew in the sense that she learned that the choices she makes weren’t going to please everyone, to her dismay. Sometimes she would make choices that would make people unhappy, like running off into the desert by herself where she would likely get dehydrated and die. In the most natural sense, all Estelle wants is people to be happy, and while it was hard for her to learn that lesson, she knew she could never please everyone.
However, some choices she had made (and if her friends allowed those choices to go through) would endanger or cost her her life, including the time she had asked to be killed. Those choices were only made when she realized she was putting her friends lives in danger, thus shows us that she puts others above herself – that she is someone who is truly selfless.
Estelle is also very compassionate and selfless when it comes to helping others. The moment she sees someone injured she will heal them without asking for anything in return. While this is one of her greatest strengths, it is also her greatest weakness – one, because even at times when she needs to ‘lay low’, she will still go out and heal every injured person in sight whether they want to be healed or not, two, she sometimes forgets about her own well-being and collapses from exhaustion and three, she literally killed an ally of hers with her compassion. However, even though she has such power she is not corrupt and is told to never lose the selfless compassion she has for others. Because of this compassion, at times she will end up forcing the party she’s traveling with to take on new jobs when she sees people suffering. If they don’t need healing, then they need liberation or a task done that cannot be done by them, but by a stronger group such as Brave Vesperia. This is when her selflessness becomes selfishness and she ends up being called out on it as well.
PROJECTED CLASS: Acolyte > Oracle
Given her canon powers, she's a perfect fit for the Oracle class. Canonically, she has holy and healing powers herself, so any other class simply wouldn't work. Also, given her altruistic personality, and how she views herself as needed because of her healing abilities, anything but a healer would not fit Estelle at all. So basically, Estelle is a shoe in fit for the Oracle class.
OTHER: Additional notes/questions about the character go here.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: I honestly can't say I'm sure if I appreciate being taken here without any forewarning, but given how majestic this place is, I can't help but wonder if this is a place I was destined to come. All the elements of this place seem like something I would have read from a book. While I've traveled some myself, I've honestly never seen anything so wonderful like this. It's like I'm living a fairy tale right now!
Is there truly a wish that will be granted if we make it to the top of the castle? Any wish? [She closes her eyes and taps her index finger against her lips in deep thought.]
I'm honestly not even sure what I would wish for. It seems like such a difficult choice to choose one thing. Wouldn't it be best to make a wish that everyone could enjoy? That way, our collaboration will have paid off. Though if I could make a wish just for myself... well, I'm honestly not sure what I would wish for. Perhaps a library we could all enjoy!
Though I have to admit I'm a bit curious now. What would you wish for if you made it to the top of the castle?
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE
Guilds aren't something the princess is unfamiliar with -- in fact, the potential of actually joining one herself was nothing short of exciting. What kind of role could she play? Would her healing and holy magic be useful in this world as it was in her own? While it's certainly not the power she's used to, she can still feel it coursing through her body. And in some sense, it's almost a relief that it's a power given from this world and is safe. Perhaps it wouldn't be to far off for her to think that she'd be a natural poison given her true powers, but...
No, she mustn't think like that. It's true she's been through quite a lot, but she needs to look forward even with her past transgressions. But even so, it's not a thought she lingers on too long, not when she has such a beautiful city to look through.
Ornate designs, castle explorations, the thrill of adventure! While it's something she's experienced with Brave Vesperia, she can't help but think of the story book quality this has. It's like she's arrived in a world she's read about before, of fantasy and adventure. True, she has magic in her world, but the excitement that magic is natural here, that there's no need for a blastia. It's simply wonderful, to say the least. In a sense, she feels her chains gone, free of persecution she now gives herself. To say the least, she's enjoying her moments here. Like a dream. It's all like a dream, and one she never wishes to wake up from. Of course, it's not perfect. If only she could share this reality with all of her friends, then it would be a paradise. True, it's not rid of danger, but a world that is perfectly safe, well, Estelle's lived in that world for 18 years and she's no longer returning to it.
The world of freedom, where she's free to choose, free to go wherever, even if the concept is still difficult for her to grasp -- it's this world where she wants to be.
Free of her duty and free to do as she pleases.
Then, maybe one day, she can return home and be a princess once more, but for now this sounded quite fun.
Is there truly a wish that will be granted if we make it to the top of the castle? Any wish? [She closes her eyes and taps her index finger against her lips in deep thought.]
I'm honestly not even sure what I would wish for. It seems like such a difficult choice to choose one thing. Wouldn't it be best to make a wish that everyone could enjoy? That way, our collaboration will have paid off. Though if I could make a wish just for myself... well, I'm honestly not sure what I would wish for. Perhaps a library we could all enjoy!
Though I have to admit I'm a bit curious now. What would you wish for if you made it to the top of the castle?
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE
Guilds aren't something the princess is unfamiliar with -- in fact, the potential of actually joining one herself was nothing short of exciting. What kind of role could she play? Would her healing and holy magic be useful in this world as it was in her own? While it's certainly not the power she's used to, she can still feel it coursing through her body. And in some sense, it's almost a relief that it's a power given from this world and is safe. Perhaps it wouldn't be to far off for her to think that she'd be a natural poison given her true powers, but...
No, she mustn't think like that. It's true she's been through quite a lot, but she needs to look forward even with her past transgressions. But even so, it's not a thought she lingers on too long, not when she has such a beautiful city to look through.
Ornate designs, castle explorations, the thrill of adventure! While it's something she's experienced with Brave Vesperia, she can't help but think of the story book quality this has. It's like she's arrived in a world she's read about before, of fantasy and adventure. True, she has magic in her world, but the excitement that magic is natural here, that there's no need for a blastia. It's simply wonderful, to say the least. In a sense, she feels her chains gone, free of persecution she now gives herself. To say the least, she's enjoying her moments here. Like a dream. It's all like a dream, and one she never wishes to wake up from. Of course, it's not perfect. If only she could share this reality with all of her friends, then it would be a paradise. True, it's not rid of danger, but a world that is perfectly safe, well, Estelle's lived in that world for 18 years and she's no longer returning to it.
The world of freedom, where she's free to choose, free to go wherever, even if the concept is still difficult for her to grasp -- it's this world where she wants to be.
Free of her duty and free to do as she pleases.
Then, maybe one day, she can return home and be a princess once more, but for now this sounded quite fun.
