Title:           Resolute Sentiment
Author:          ThatDamnGernade
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First Edit:      Tuesday 16th of December 2014 08:04:54 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Monday 22nd of June 2015 01:51:07 AM CDT

Name: Resolute Sentiment
Gender: Female
Race: Earth Pony
Class: Ascendant (Cleric/Paladin)
Special Talent:  Live IN The Sword, Die IN The Sword:  Resolute is immobile and is unable to perform normal attacks herself (this includes weapon skills such as Cleave and Dual Wielding).  She is able to use spells, but is unable to use skills with the weapon tag, nor skills that involve attacking a target directly (such as Slam, All or Nothing, Tackle, etc.)  She is unable to observe nor communicate in any way until she is picked up by someone, but she is aware of her surroundings and of potential wielders around her.
While being wielded by someone, she is considered a Masterwork Weapon with the Single, Catalyst, and possessed tag (and also has the +1 of Masterwork Weapon).  Self-target skills (including passive ones) can also be used on whoever is wielding her.  While being wielded, she is able to appear to the wielder in a spirit form (can be detected by magic and other spirits while she does this).  If she goes helpless while being wielded by someone, the wielder is still able to use her as a weapon (though she can't do anything until she recovers from helpless).
For one time only, the wielder is able to switch the Single tag to either Dual, Great, or Ranged; which will also cause a change in appearance as a weapon.  If she changes wielders or her current wielder becomes disarmed of her, the tag will revert back to Single.  If wielded by someone who has done this already, she will change back to whatever tag and appearance she had with that wielder.  After some time has passed with a wielder (roughly one session), or the wielder willingly lets her link, she can make her voice be heard by others.  However, the source of the voice originates from the wielder.  She'll also be able to join her wielder mentally; able to share things such as thoughts, dreams, and sensations the wielder feels (such as good tasting food, feeling pain, smelling odors, etc.) (This does not mean she takes the damage the wielder does; she is just able to feel their pain.)  When mentally established, she doesn't need to be in contact with the wielder, but does need to stay within close proximity.
Hits/Wounds: 6/6
Weapon and/or Catalyst: None
 
Character Traits: As a weapon, she (by default) looks like a gunmetal-gray, single-edge dussack.  She lacks a hilt; instead she has a large hole/handgrip that looks more at home on scissors.  Leather is wrapped around the main gripping area, with extra leather hanging off like a crude tassel.  The curved part of her cutting edge is serrated.  The blade has five, spherical gems embedded along its length.  These gems are malachite, can be classified as 'transparent', and are unnaturally lustrous.
        When one is able to see her spirit, she appears as a gunmetal-gray earth pony with malachite green mane.  Her mane is styled back and drapes over both sides of her neck.  She wears a leather headband that keeps bangs out of her eyes.  Her tail also has a leather band, tied around the base of her tail.  Her cutie mark is an upside-down-triangle made up of three, silver swords with a sky-blue flame inside the triangle.
        Sarcastic, loud, and overly rude to just about anyone, even to those wielding her, but fairly honest if anything else.  She gets excited whenever a fight seems likely to happen, and is more excited while in one.  However, she seems to only fight for the sake of fighting, not overly caring about the rights and wrongs of her wielder.  She still believes herself as powerful as when she was sealed away within the sword, and doesn't hesitate to remind her wielder that fact.  Despite her situation, she actually chooses to not seek out a body and seems to enjoy being a sword.  While she doesn't care who wields her, she always enjoys the ones she can 'turn from a zero to a hero...or whatever the hell you want to be.'  Yet despite her rugged traits, she is rather knowledgeable on many topics due to having several, very varied, wielders; resulting in her being more knowledgeable than others of her profession/time and being well-versed in modern slang and word usage.  If she likes the wielder enough, she'll even try to go above and beyond what would normally be asked of her to keep them alive.  If, somehow, she doesn't like you, then she'll try everything to see you fail...or simply do nothing and see if you fail without her help.
 
Skills:
Tough: passive; Earth ponies take 1 additional hit before becoming helpless as well as 1 extra wound once they become helpless, for a total of 6 hits and 6 wounds without other modifiers. They can also lift, carry and move heavier objects than unicorns and pegasi.
 
Stand Firm: Instant, Once per combat after success; Plant your hooves deep and be as still as a mountain. As an instant action roll to lock your hits remaining at their current spot. At the start of next turn, you begin with that number of hits. This does not protect you from wound damage that exceeds your locked hits.
 
 
Empower Weapon: automatic instant, recharge 4 after effect ends, spell; caster or single ally gains +3 bonus to normal attacks. Each successful hit reduces the bonus by 1 until it reaches 0, ending the effect.
 
Bolster: automatic spell, ranged, recharge 4 after effect has been used; the target’s next roll to recover from helplessness is successful.
 
Fervor: automatic instant, recharge 2 after effect ends; next two actions autocrit, but you are helpless afterward.