From my Discord: Your OC is standing there, waiting for the fight to start. Maybe they’re standing in line. Maybe they’re just waiting on a friend. What are they doing to keep themselves… well, occupied is a strong word.
What’s your OC’s idle animation?
Suzune Idles:
drawing spell circles on the air. she swaps between using her fingers, a brush and a quill
dancing with a carbuncle; each time the animation plays it cycles between opal, turquoise and amethyst carbies before repeating
summons an array of three or four crystals around herself and spins in place before the array vanishes
In addition to her gunblade, Suzune also carries a pair of Ala Mhigan Kards, deceptive in their beauty and true in their threat. The gems change color, some say according to her intent - or the souls it's absorbs when it soaks in the blood it's victims. But surely that's simply a rumor...
OC Q & A - Over the course your WoL's adventures, I highly doubt they've kept the same weapon the entire time. I'm not talking job stones, I'm talking the actual axe/cane/etc they use. How have they glammed out their weapons? Is it just cosmetic or are there actual extra effects? Did they craft it themselves or did poor Gerolt go further into debt trying to make it? From my discord
Suzune is an arcanist mostly so she doesn't technically upgrade her grimoire. Like, in game they'd have you believe you throw out your ENTIRE spellbook every few levels which is insane so instead i think of book changes as new covers - rebinding as they add new spells.
But the books went like this:
-> Makai Chronicle - book of eastern teachings (she doesn't throw it away she just finds new spell books) she first learned from this book.
-> Electrum Grimoire - book of Eorzean teachings, Suzune scribbled in the all time and also used it as a bludgeon because it was bound in metal
-> Lominsan Grimoire (has all sorts of 'here's how to not die in the ocean full of horrors and spells to kill said horrors)
-> Darklight Grimoire (my favorite low-level book, same model as above, probably has tips and tricks from adventurers, probably rebound Lominsan Grimoire with gold detailing instead of silver)
-> Hyperconductive Draconomicon who's cover is bound with such powerful spells she just keeps very very carefully adding new pages rather getting a new book
-> Sanctified Grimoire of Susanoo - (has the spell circle from Seiryu's grimoire on it b/c i love spell circles but like Susano's Grimoire more) - an actual powerful relic given to her clan by the Kojin. Now that I think of it, her gran'ma probably hung onto for AWHILE so her very brilliant but also arrogant granddaughter didn't accidentally uhhh visit some horrible magical mistake on everyone in the vicinity. Her making/rediscovering Hyperconductive Draconomicon is what convinced Suzune's gran'ma that she was ready.
-> Espiritus Recollection and Blade's Resolve have rituals and lost spells from Bozja.
-> Skyruin Index has tales about Valigarmanda and various rituals for weather, praising Valigarmanda as a god, etc. etc.
(also, i disproved my opening statement lol whoops)
apparently, despite the illogical of rewriting her spells 20,000 times, Suzune's weakness is collecting spellbooks.
Genshin impact has a new area: chenyu vale and it borders fontaine. well, yilong wharf does:
It's PERFECT for Suzune, since there's so much water and i associate her with watery regions. Chenyu Vale even has mountains. and tea. As usual, when I transport her into other worlds I pick a fantasy china instead... I don't really like inazuma even though I ADORE watasumi island's design
But anyway: Suzune in Genshin Impact
Name: Lingfeng [the chinese reading of her full name Suzumine]
Home Country: Liyue
Home Town: Yilong Wharf in Chenyu Vale
Vision: Electro
Weapon: Sword
Occupation: Boss of Yilong Wharf
Skills: they are not all true at once, Genshin's has a limited skill set and it's hard cramming all of her FFXIV skills into the limited slots.
Her Basic Attack is infused with electro; strangely she uses a katana and uses the Inazuman sword animations; this is because her father is Inazuman and taught her inazuman kenjutsu but her mother is Liyuean and she grew in Liyue. I can't pare her skills down to just a few so here's a bunch I would like her to have and then if this was gameplay which it isn't i'd have to chose:
If She Had a Sword:
Normal Attack - Lightning Dance; basic strikes with her sword. holding normal attack summons her carbuncle (a three tailed, long-earred creature with a gem on it's forehead), which infuses her sword with electro and scatters electro amulets on the field. these explode, especially when she cuts them
Elemental Skill - an alternate sprint skill but electro, vanishing the carbuncle and increases her damage. holding the skill, she speeds around the battlefield sans sword, dealing electro damage in her wake
Elemental Burst - Summon Stance - if the carbuncle is out, it paradoxically becomes a big fuck off snake and chomps down on the enemy mobs, creating an electro explosion and laying yet more bombs / Sword Stance -
Constellation One - Creates a Shield immediately upon calling forth carbuncle, making her immune to her own damage
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Catalyst users tend to low damage but always deal elemental damage. However, I imagine that she would be like Yoimiya and have unusually high damage for someone of her weapon type (yoimiya is a main dps despite her bow but she's also pyro/fire so that helps). Instead of cute little bolts fired from her hands; Lingyen would straight up summon lightning bolts from the sky itself; up to three at c0 and six bolts at high constellations. if there's just one enemy, the levin bolt will simply hit that one enemy several times for high damage
Other Thoughts:
Her Skill she starts throwing lightning bolts and switches to 'catalyst' stance. double tap summons her carbuncle, While her carbuncle is out, her burst becomes a massive nine tailed fox.
Her gameplay revolves around lying levin bombs around the field which will explode; she cuts the bombs for even more explosions
Thunder Palace is her catalyst non-carbuncle stance burst and is an area of effect
Raijinto is her sword stance burst and is one massive traveling slash. She sheathes her sword and then draws again for a massive cut.
Like Yelan she has an elemental rapid movement skill - tap once. Like Shenhe and Chongyun she uses Liyuean thaumaturgy
This is fun because IRL modern-day Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. It's also fun because after seeing Black Panther 2, I was like: I want the Seruk (water nomads, good swimmers) to Turn Blue underwater and now they're apparently from Fantasy Mesoamerica...
*I am fairly sure they were chased out by a Garlean Legion...
**they're not Doman; they're an enclave in Doma and they've maintained that alliance/treat for literal centuries
At least I think they're from Tural. That depends on how I feel about Valigarmanda.
thinking about how Suzune changes over the course of the story. which is to say - she really doesn't but what she can do/what she wears does change
So she begins "ARR", having fought in the Red Moon Campaigns as Hexforger in the Maelstrom. She's an arcanist - she has two carbuncles - Opal (water) and Turquoise (wind). She has a few extra tricks from her far eastern teachings - fuinjutsu. seal making are simply written spell triggers and she can do wards. She has kenjutsu training from her father <ARN/SAM>. she has dance training from her grandmother, Kagura so <ARN/SAM/DNC>
I want her to ditch the grimoire at some point and get magic circles... add Arcane Armaments...
Oh i know
Pre-ARR / during Legacy
"1 - 30" ACN - learns two carbuncle summons, learns debuffing spells like bio, miasma, virus, vertigo. Learning 'spell isolation' is a critical first lesson prevents the 'disease' spells from catching allows her to select targets/not hit allies / 1-30" SAM - basic kenjutsu
"30-50"- learns Area spells and traps like shadowflare, arena. trap spells come from her onmyojutu/fuinjutsu studies and stems from her usage of ofuda aka spell tags. | more kenjutsu. applies spell tag to swords so she can do arcanima and kenjutsu at the same time. Carbies are attuned to swords
ARR / Book 1 Dawning of New Fates
"50-55" - ARR 1-20 - She gets an amethyst (levin) carbuncle by the Carteneau Memorial Services from her friend, Grymundr. She names it Torrun.
by ARR, graduate of arcanima and kenjutsu, use of spell tags allows her to use them in tandem but she usually pretends she's limited to the grimoires.
oh i forgot the big summons that replace bahamut/phoenix ... :/ uh... it's water/wind/levin based... I really like the shark - oh wait. KYUBUNCLE.
I really like putting Suzune in healer glamours but Suzune wouldn't ... actually wear these - especially the makai stuff since I decided Makai gear belongs to a specific group of which she is apart but her makai robe is the makai priestess robe and *maybe* the aiming/fending robe - and she would mostly wear *casting* (and striking) gear (well not. casting gear we don't believe in in-universe job locked gear but something dark). Anyway, this means I need to invent a clanmate of hers who does wear these clothes (because it isn't always her little sister Utami)
