Post by Rune Veliospirus Ravencroft on Feb 19, 2012 6:15:02 GMT -5
Maybe not the greatest picture, but sorta slim pickings, anyway, this is Runes well, better explained below, but her face claim is Lan Fan from fma:brotherhood, after she loses the arm in the fight with the fuhrer.
Okay, well, is the general idea. She comes from the same home world as Rune, but she is from the eastern part of the continent. During the period before their home world was sealed away, While all lands on there continent have their own leaders, traditions, etc, they had all actually united under Rune's leadership about 5 years before she was born, after he had dealt with his uncle and reclaimed his own throne.He at times told them to do things, but more tried to keep groups from fighting, a big thing for her homeland, seeing as other than it's own divisions, they were not as "traditional" as the neighboring four countries. Her homeland trained in the art of ninja, and allowed women the ability to fight in the armed forces, own businesses, even take high political roles, where as the neighboring four trained in the old way of the samurai, and it was incredibly rare in their societies for a woman to be anything but a house wife. So their country was constantly viewed by the others as weak and dishonorable, and they were constantly attacked by the other four. Now while their was peace for a bit, she still started her training at age 5 or 6, and when she was 13, the peace was shattered when all four lands put their differences with one another aside to launch an all out attack on her home, while acting as if they were talking peace. She was forced to fight simply because they didn't have the manpower to counter such an attack, and one (or both) of her parents was actually fairly important. In a fight, her left arm was badly injured, and she was captured. Her arm was left untreated, because they intended to get what information they could, and while using her to bargain, still "make an example of her". By this point, Rune had found out that war had broken out, and after coming across some survivors on the battle field, tracked down the group that had taken her and some others. Seeing as she refused to talk (despite them further injuring the arm), they were simply going to execute her in front of the others, till Rune cut them and about 200 others down before the rest fled on his own. She had lost quite a bit of blood by then, so she thought she was delirious when she first saw him (the magic that allowed him to fight those numbers alone has a side effect that excess energy takes the form of almost angel like wings), because of the wings. Though, he took her to get help and stayed till she was past the worst of it. Which it wasn't until after he left she was told just who it was.
In the end, she lost the arm, but there had been advancements after people being displaced on other worlds, in which she endured the procedure to have a mechanical arm attached. In all, it wasn't till she was almost 15 till she was 100%, at which point everything was going down hill, and while she participated in what fighting she could, ultimatley was one of the last to leave her world before it was sealed away. She located Rune, but then chose to stay back instead of approach him. And for the last ten years, has basically followed him from the shadows. He's been aware of her from time to time, but has no idea who she is, or why she's falling him, since she vanishes anytime he goes to look. At first she thought she was just going to repay the debt for saving her and all, but part of why she had difficulty ever approaching him was she had sort of developed a crush and it led to her just falling more and more for him.
So... cut to today(finally I know), she's pretty much studied everything she can about him while following him, and can see where he has had some training in several fighting styles more about finesse (including ones taught in her homeland), but tries to add harder hitting, and the rather unrefined style he developed as a kid. While still very effective, it's something she can easily defeat, and she's aware he beats himself up over their world falling, and it distracts too. So what I was thinking for the thread she confronts him for the first time in years, she basically critiques his style, intentionally being rather rude about it and all so he gets annoyed enough to fight her to prove it. And then proceeds to kick his ass, even when he uses the same ability that over a decade ago allowed him to beat all those troops, and maybe do some flirting while she does it. She's going to try for a bit to hide who exactly she is (and that the one arm isn't real) for a bit, since she's afraid that it would mean he wouldn't like her, but eventually comes clean about it all, be it her own choice or Rune finding out about the arm.