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senseheart) wrote2015-09-15 10:46 pm
senseheart) wrote2015-09-15 10:46 pm
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Who the hell is Aura and what's up with her?
Aura is a NPC from the first Wild Arms game! She's rather minor in the original game (to a point of being unnamed), but her character is a little more prominent and expanded a bit in the remake.
She's encountered when the party visits Saint Centour, a bustling city turned ghost town courtesy of Alhazad transforming most of the villagers into bloodthirsty monsters (and presumably killing off the rest). She ends up the sole survivor and lives alone until Zed encounters her sometime after the Gate Generator incident (which is the game's midpoint).
She turns up again way later on in the game where she mentions Zed and how he's been taking care of her, triggering his optional boss fight (and recruitment sidequest in the remake).
As for what she's like, Aura's pretty much as normal a human you can get aside from being blind due to an unexplained injury in her childhood. However, she does have mild empathic abilities and can sense what people are like on at least a surface level. Normally it's from the sound of their voices, but sometimes there's other tells too.
Examples:
This contains in-game text from both the original Wild Arms and it's remake, Alter Code: F. The latter is where I play her from (since she's actually named there), but because she's so minorand due to its screwy translationI include elements of both games.
"I'm sorry, I was injured as a child. I'm blind... Due to my impairment, I can tell bad people from good by the sound of their voice!" (original, about herself)
"I am sorry...I am hurt and blind. I can tell by talking to people whether they are good or bad." (remake, same dealio)
To Rudy:
"You're a nice person, but you've had many bitter experiences." (original)
"You are a very kind person. But you have gone through a lot, right?" (remake, less screwy translation to follow)
To Jack:
"You're very virtuous, but you are also easily hurt." (original)
(LOCALIZERS FUCKED UP HIS TEXT AND PUT IN CECILIA'S READING, so for his remake text I will put in my own attempt here eventually.)
To Cecilia:
"You're a strong woman, but you have not reached your full potential yet." (original)
"You have a very strong will. But you have yet to realize something important in yourself?" (remake)
Regarding Zed:
When Cecilia is onscreen character:
"This feels like... Cecilia. How are you? There's this swordsman I've been seeing... He's very nice, but a little hyper. I wonder if he'll visit me today." (original)
"This guy has been coming around lately, he's very hyper... I wonder if my swordsman is coming by today." (original)
"I think this is Cecilia, right? How have you been? A visting swordsman has been taking care of me lately, so I feel lucky. He is so energetic that I sometimes get overwhelmed by him. I wonder if he will visit me today." (remake)
When Jack is onscreen character:
"That voice... it's Jack. It's been a long time stranger... There been someone else visiting me... He's very nice to me... He's a swordsman too. He's a little odd, but very funny." (original)
"That voice... Jack. It's been a long time stranger... There's someone else who's looking after me... He's a mysterious man and loads of fun!" (original)
"This voice, it is Jack, right? Someone has come to town and is taking care of me. He is also a swordsman, but he is a bit strange and very funny." (remake)
When Rudy is onscreen character:
"Hey, it's Rudy. There is this guy I've been seeing lately... He's a little weird, but he seems sincere enough. (original)
"There's this guy who's been coming around to see me... He's a little strange, but he seems very sincere." (original)
"Ah, you are Rudy, right? Someone visiting this town has recently been tending to me. He seems a little strange, but I feel that he is trying his best." (remake)
"Hello, Rudy. I wonder how Zed is doing? Heheh. I'm sure he's as funny and cheerful as ever." (remake)
In short, here's basically where you can tell me whether or not it's all right for Aura (or if you want her to) to sense certain things about your characters and what they're like.
Keep in mind her abilities are strictly empathic, and on a rather mild level at that. She can't sense any magic in anyone as far as I know, and she can't tell whether or not they're human or otherwise - the latter is precisely why an optional bossfight with Zed is triggered, as he attacks the party out of fear they'll warn her about the fact he is a Metal Demon.
Also? In the event it's Not Cool for her to detect anything about your character, that's fine. She's pretty normal as human as you can get, so I don't doubt there's times her readings on someone are wrong or if she just can't get a good feel of what they're like at all.
Some copypasta for you:
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Canon: wild arms
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: mostly light-hearted, funny, kind, and definitely your hamtastic extrovert here
go nuts
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/throws some of her characters at u
Name: ZEX (bediscreet)
Canon: Star Control 2
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: ZEX is Not Really A Good Person but it genuinely delighted to be in Mafia! He does have some (a lot of) underlying bitterness that comes out when people ask him about himself or he feels offended, but since he tends to view humans as slightly Less Than People it's hard for a human's behavior to bother him.
Name: Demon Lord Asmodai (asmodance)
Canon: Future Card Buddyfight
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: GIANT HAPPY RAPPING MAN with a schemer's heart but otherwise just. happy extroversion and teasing all over the place.
Name: Eridan Ampora (fuckinland)
Canon: that webcomic with the hamsteaks
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Not A Good Person but content and mostly happy with his life! This does not hold true for any other Eridans Aura might meet.
Name: Ria (velvetwormria)
Canon: literally just a velvetworm furry OC (from a vaguely medieval setting)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Ria is positive, childish, and not very bright! Also she has a lot of pride in herself as a hunter, and love for literally everyone around her who'll so much as pat her or give her the time of day.
Name: Eleria (angelsdaughter)
Canon: OC (bronze age fantasy setting)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: TORMENTED HALF-ANGEL okay no Eleria's clearly at least slightly traumatized and very, very easy to boss around; she's filled with Feelings about her body and none of them are good, and she wants to prove that she's not evil, not violent, not rude or mean or disobedient. Lots of anxiety and shyness and loneliness!
IF THERE'S ANY OTHER HUGE NERDS YOU NEED AURAS ON FOR AURA TO READ (hur hur aura the aura reader) just like ping me on plurk or w/e i'm @alanahikarichan and my screen name is always -‿-❀
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Anyway. Thanks, Alana! I will keep those in mind. c:
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Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Sure. Naoya is... his soul is very very old, and in general he's... not a bad person but he's got a lot of pain in his past that she can probably pick up on.
Name: Toshiko Yamamoto (stoleyourshit)
Canon: OC (Power Cycle)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Sure! She's... well, she's got a lot of bad history but she covers for her insecurities with a layer of sarcasm and thin layer of bitch. She's more along the lines of "good person, bad actions".
Name: Mitsuzane "Micchy" Kureshima (grapeeater)
Canon: Kamen Rider Gaim
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Yes! Micchy is... well. He's done a lot of horrible things in his past, but he knows that they were wrong, at least? He's been trying to atone but it's not... going well. He means well, but... he meant well before and people got fucked up. :|
Name: Casper (helborn)
Canon: OC (Scion)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Now this is an interesting problem since Casper has some abilities that allow his lies to come across as absolutely convincing... so outside of Mafia games I'd say no, but inside them I'd say yes, she can, since I disable his powers that are cheaty like that since they would make no sense mechanically. xD So when she can, he's... actually a really good guy. His powers are weird and somewhat frightening and his association with the dead would ping 'evil' automatically for some people but he actually really is genuinely a nice guy.
Name: Yosuke Otoha (bakegarasu)
Canon: Karas
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Yes. It's specifically said that a true Karas is one that knows what sorrow really is. (Or something similar, I'm paraphrasing.) He was raised to be an emotionless killing machine but he... does have emotions, much as he'd like to not. :| He's done a looooooot of horrible stuff, mostly killing, but he has a good heart... when he chooses to use it.
Name: Michael (plaintosee)
Canon: OC (Angelfall)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: ... I'm going to say 'no', mostly because Michael is an archangel, human form or not. :|b
Name: Taro Watanabe (hachitaro)
Canon: OC (Power Cycle)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Sure. Taro's got some sorrow in his past (which would probably be worse if he's in a game with Klink because WWII was not a fun time for him or anyone else in the Asian Underground) but he's pretty much a bouncy, funny guy.
Name: Liron (musicalrebellion)
Canon: OC (Angelfall)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Also gonna say no here, since he's an angel, human form or no. She might be able to pick up a little (mostly 'he's a good guy'), but.
Name: Rider (Iskandar) (beholdoceanus)
Canon: Fate/Zero
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Loud, friendly, and big. Yeah, he's done some bad things, and maybe he should feel bad, but he doesn't? Just very very extroverted and friendly and willing to give pep talks.
Name: Octavius Libo (Past!Liron) (libolives)
Canon: OC (Angelfall)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: He's... a jerk? But like... not in the "actively wishes people harm" kind, just in the "I'm a semi-spoiled teenager who's being pushed into stuff I don't want to do" way.
Name: Ryu (amnesiadragon)
Canon: Breath of Fire IV
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: ... I was going to say 'no' because he's an Endless/basically a god but there's someone in canon who can sense his energy so I'm going to say yes. Happy, not super extroverted, but a kind person willing to defend others.
Name: Jun Ushiro (icanhearscreams)
Canon: Bokurano: Ours
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Another teenage jerk, hooray! Smart, but very traumatized. I'd say "he means well" but he beat the shit out of his little sister constantly because he blamed her for their mom dying so uh. You tell me.
Name: Kei Yosugara (hiddenlance)
Canon: Rust Blaster
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Mostly blankface. He's... actually fairly scared deep down, since his body is breaking down, but he does his best to hide it either behind a blank face or very vague fluff.
YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME IF YOU NEED/WANT CLARIFICATION.
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Though as a note she might be caught a bit off guard if they were like, quiet to a point of being ninja level quiet since she probably relies on things like breathing and the sounds to tell who's who.
Anyway, she'd probably be concerned with a lot of those readings tbh, but she knows well enough not to pry if it's not wanted. Thanks, Matt!
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Canon: Death Note 2015
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Near is... gentle, quiet, and states his achievements as if they're just facts. Mello is lower in pitch, rude, brash, and willing to get his hands dirty. :| Occasionally Mello will pull on the Near voice if he sees the need to, but not usually the other way around.
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Canon: Amnesia: Memories
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: She's basically a very sweet college student, but with her share of uncertain feelings and insecurities. Still she tries her best always! She's got a boyfriend who she loves very much, and is passionate about becoming an even better singer for her band~
Also she's recently been through A Lot of things, such as falling off a cliff and getting injuries that could've killed her, and then losing every single one of her memories ten days later. She's recovered from all of this pretty well though.
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Canon:Ar Tonelico.
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description:That's a tricky question. Mir is constantly broadcasting her surface emotional state-normally annoyance, but her true emotions are locked up by a Mind Guardian.
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The most it sounds like Aura would get is definitely the outward annoyance towards others, but also that she may feel she's not getting the whole picture about Mir, at the very best? But like I said, she wouldn't be able to tell why or anything. Thanks, and let me know if there's any issues.
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Canon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Sure! On the surface she comes across as grumpy and/or determined most of the time. But she's also compassionate, just bad at expressing it. She's been through some shit and has a serious guilt complex due to loooots of mistakes in the past, so she is very quick to assume things are Her Fault.
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Canon: Hyrule Warriors
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: No reason why not! He's generally serious, grouchy, has an honor streak and a fiery temper - it flares easily.... (and he's a fire dragon, so. yeah.) He likes to fight, particularly if its going to be somewhat challenging.
Name: Duke
Canon: Tales of Vesperia (AU)
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: He's pretty sure he's a worse person than he really is. He's been shaken up badly by BFF death (even though that was a decade ago-), and is sort of a ball of self-blame/regret over that. Standoffish, wary, quietly curious. (If anything odd would be picked up, he's very water, and also has his own telepathy abilities if you want to poke at that-)
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Canon: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Sure! c: Aster is a kind and gentle, but naive soul. But, due in part to his kindness, he does not heed danger, and so can get himself hurt. This doesn't mean he is stupid--the opposite, really--but there are plenty of times where he jumps into things without thinking. He also likes to tease and sometimes troll his friends. However, in Sol Raveh, he will be a bit haunted by his death and the idea that he failed the world he came from...
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Canon: OC
Can Aura sense what your character is like? If so, provide a brief (or detailed, whatevs) description: Absolutely. Must be noted, though, that where he is in Sol Raveh, emotionally, is a bit different from where he is everywhere else (thanks to his canon point), so I'll note 'em.
Snarky and fun-loving (to use some clichés), kind of an ass but rarely means it. He enjoys bantering and playing around, and if the other person/people can give as good as they get (or better!), more's the fun. Past that exterior, he's basically decent and kind but rather world-weary. Saul is Tired, and has concerns regarding his future and the path he's on. There's a lot he's given up on, a lot of hopes he was invested in that simply never came to be - and his heart's the heavier for it. There are places, people, and even times that he misses dearly, and he's given up hope on seeing them again.
He's got some guilt issues similar to Zuzu up there - made mistakes, Not Happy about it, feelin' other peoples' judgment for 'em etc. - but they're not nearly as pronounced. Those issues have been worked through and accepted for the most part, but there are still scars. (They surfaced during the recent event because the hallucinations brought 'em out and he was in a vulnerable place to start with.) They're not nearly as prominent as the feeling of loss; by now, he feels that everyone who was owed an explanation or apology (that he's been able to reach) has been granted one, so that book is mostly closed.
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and/or a possible canon update.SO, OVERCODE: Decent fella, cares about others (but may prefer to do so quietly in some instances), has an outer shell of snark and wackiness, but inside is very emotionally tired and more than a touch morose. In Raveh, it's even worse; there's some added turmoil in there that he can't do anything about, and it's left him a bit fragile. He might even feel a bit more deeply about everything than he's willing to let on. (Not that the horsing around is completely false- it's a valid part of his personality too, but it also makes a good cover for the rest of the parts: the ones he'd rather not just anyone see.)
Is that suitable? :'D