DEUS EX MACHINA PERSONNEL FORM
The Hunter
Name: Cordelia "Pasha" Anthemilia Bennett.
Nicknames: Pasha. It's a childhood nickname that stuck.
Gender: Female.
Age: Eighteen.
Category: Mist.
The Weapon
Name: Táo.
Nicknames: None.
Type of Weapon: A flintlock rifle with ornate carvings along the barrel. When unsummoned, Táo is an ornate Chinese hairpin.
Former species of weapon: Fenghuang.
Gender: Male.
Personalities:
» 【 PASHA 】
Pasha is a grade-A couch potato. She likes to stuff herself into warm places with books and never appear again, and would do so if people weren't around to drag her out. Easily flustered, Pasha sometimes blurts embarrassing things out before she realizes what she's saying, whether they be statements, someones embarrassing secrets, stupid questions, or blubbering compliments. Pasha has zero physical ability, and would make up with it with her extreme intelligence if it wasn't for her cripplingly mousy personality. She clutches to people that show a remote tolerance for her like a stubborn little manacle, even though she cant properly assert herself to anyone, no matter how close.
Pasha's preferred method of conversation is through texts and scribbled notes - the only place where she isn't stuttering or getting flustered or too shy to say anything out loud. Even though people can't cure Pasha's fluster-bug attitude no matter how close they are to her, they can tame it somewhat. Once Pasha is familiar with a person, she becomes puppy-dog loyal, and tries her hardest to keep up with them despite her naturally useless nature. Pasha's knowledge is all theoretical. In hands-on things she is a mess. She could recite to you the proper way to put together a full working airplane, but give her a microwavable dinner and she'll set the house on fire as soon as she tries to do something instead of set out the instructions for it.
Despite her gentle, stutter-bug nature, Pasha is also fastidious and determined. Her shortcomings are in her inability to socialize properly and constant physical failure, but what she lacks there she makes up for with her adventurous side. Pasha is very determined. If something fails once, it just means she hasn't tried hard enough, and she needs to do it again. She will also stop at nothing to help people close to her, even though half of the time her supposed help turns into a terrible disaster for everyone within a ten mile radius of her.
Pasha is extremely intelligent in math and science, but put her in a psychology class and she'll blow a fuse trying to understand. Innuendos and sexual jokes fly right over her head, and she will usually hide in the face of any sort of human interest in her. Pasha, while more intelligent academically than most her age, doesn't necessarily... act her age. Because Pasha grew up constantly afraid of the shadows beneath her bed, she never necessarily matured out of the state of mind that there were monsters around corners and in decrepit houses just waiting for her to fall into their traps. Only when she was recruited to Deus did she understand the depth of her situation and begin to move past the stage of bedtime monsters and the like.
» 【 TÁO 】
Táo is a sharp-tongued, old soul trapped inside of a stutter-bugs head. He is very gentle despite his quicksilver words, often trying to secure confidence in Pasha instead of goading her for her clumsy methods. Táo is very calm, his nature supportive but disconnected. Time has made him unimpressed by many things around him, and he can often become cynical when left to his own thoughts. Táo is impassive and somewhat contumelious of other weapons. He is not necessarily overconfident, he simply thinks that the more crude weapons are of little use beyond being waved savagely around in the air.
Táo is indulgent and, while not quite sociable, he is willing to put up with Pasha's run-on thoughts. He is very rational, and often the rock to Pasha's stutter-bug tendencies. He is very well-versed in taming other people and waiting out the emotional storms that others throw in his face. Táo, however, is what one might consider a two-faced creature. While he exudes the air of a calm, serene old soul with a bit of wit, he is also an extremely guileful creature. Years of existence have molded him into an extremely cunning soul, capable of smooth lies and manipulation of the most dangerous kind. However, while capable, Táo is not malevolent in nature at all. When he plays tricks and games with others, he does it simply out of amusement.
Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter?
Pasha grew up in a relatively normal environment; her parents owned a farmhouse on the cusp of town, and she grew up tending to barn animals and traveling into town in the back of her fathers pick-up truck. The third oldest of five children, Pasha quickly exhibited extreme academic intelligence, prompting her parents to push her to excel in school. However, her cripplingly shy personality at the time prevented her from conversing with others, and she was often teased when she blurted out that there were shadows following her, or dark spots in the corner of her eyes. Her parents simply believed it to be a phase and never sent her to therapy. Unlike others, Pasha didn't grow up to believe she was hallucinating or simply imagining things. Instead she never matured out of the belief that monsters existed in the corners of everyones eyes, but she became smart enough to at least keep it to herself.
Pasha was ostracized from people her age even more when she was allowed to skip a grade, making her the youngest in her class. However, for a few years she was able to focus on her academic studies, vying to go from a small town to a big city and hopefully into a good college, leaving behind her worries of shadows for a few blissful, but ultimately, lonely months. This ended when her mother died of stroke, leaving behind Pasha and her siblings with their father on a farmhouse that seemed suddenly very empty to them and very full of shadows to her. Even though she graduated young, Pasha decided to take a few years off to help her father out of his depression, working at a tack and feed shop in the meantime. The shadows, however, got worse and worse, working up Pasha to insomniac tendencies and extreme paranoia.
When she was approached by one of Deus's recruiters, the knowledge of knowing that the monsters were tangible and that she could do something to eradicate them coupled with the prospect of meeting others that might understand her a little better cemented her acceptance. Pasha had never been able to fit into society like a normal girl, and what little friends she had were limited to books and television series. Because of this, she also selfishly accepted the offer to come to Deus, looking for a new society where she might be able to both do something useful with her life and find others that might not make her feel so alienated from society as she had been all these years.
Weapon Ability
» 【 IGNITE : SWIFT STRIKES 】 Pasha fires her rifle in rapid succession, landing multiple blows (hopefully) on her target in a very short timeframe.
NOTE! All of this is very vague/just to give an idea! C: Feel free to mess around with her design. These are just base ideas, and I am completely fine with alterations to her clothing/color scheme so long as her base stays somewhat similar to the initial idea! n u n <3
Physical Description:
Eye Colour: Blue.
Skin Colour: Fair-skinned.
Hair Colour/Style: Blond/Strawberry blond. The exact style is up to the artist, but I imagine it somewhat like Tsukumo's from Karneval.
Clothing Style/Colours: Her conceptual color scheme is cream/pink/blue/cyan/gold/white(+glowyness & optional fur trim), but the artist is free to deviate! As for clothing, the overall design is up the artist, however it should have a warm, cute feel to it. C: Short dresses like these (more, more ) are what I have in mind for underneath her jacket. She would have less revealing or skin tight clothing, and more flowing clothes. Her jacket is also entirely up to the artist, but should be open and around thigh/knee length. Again, feel free to deviate though. n u n <3
Extra: Pasha is a fan of collecting keychains, so an optional but not necessary addition to her design might be a fat collection of them attached to a belt or something similar! Think japanese phone charms like such and such and so on. *V*
References: Vague idea base! Otherwise, no.
