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Player

Name: Doom/Arte
Contact: The Doomkitten#8383 on Discord
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Character

Name: Tyzias Entykk
Canon: Hiveswap/Melodies of Eternity CRAU
Canon Point: Every route in Hiveswap Friendsim due to time shenanigans, sailing the Interdimensional Cloud in Melodies of Eternity
Age: 9 sweeps (19-20 years)

Canon History: Here
CRAU History: At the dead end of a doomed timeline (her second bad end), Tyzias was abducted by the Interdimensional Cloud of Vaikuntha to save it from a world-destroying Calamity. After recovering from the double whammy of getting violently culled and waking up on a world straight out of one of her classmate's East Alternian RPGs, Tyzias woke up the next day with a mouthful of whinging complaints and snark, but pushed on with the steely determination that guided her on Alternia. If she couldn't escape Vaikuntha, then Tyzias couldn't make a change back on her home world, and that was something she refused to give up on.

Since Vaikuntha was somehow more dangerous than the hellplanet Tyzias came from—you couldn't go five minutes outside of a settlement on Vaikuntha before you bumped into a random encounter, never mind that the world was teetering towards apocalypse—Tyzias was forced to take up arms to defend herself from the roving monsters that plagued her commute to work. And to aid the other outworlders in finding a way to stop the corrupted dragon god Bahamut from being summoned. Like you do. Although weak (by Alternian standards, and even then she underestimates her strength) and apprehensive at the prospect of physical violence, sitting back and cheerleading for her allies when she could finally step up and make a difference herself on the front lines didn't feel right to Tyzias. After all, Vaikuntha's asterisk system could greatly empower even the wimpiest of nerds with the strength of a berserker. So Tyzias developed a custom asterisk based off of the legislacerators of Alternia, leveraging the strength of the enforcers of her old world's brutal order to protect the liberty of her new home. The irony wasn't lost on her. Once the initial hurdle of her first real battle passed with only slightly scarring Tyzias for life, she began applying the same endless, steady drive that made her excel in her legal studies to physical training. Even with the shortcut of her asterisk, Tyzias's physical prowess improved significantly and reached parity with the power the job gave her by the end of her journeys on Vaikuntha. Her vicious, underhanded fighting style (clawing at eyes, kneeing groins, biting off ears) made her an unpredictable foe.

At the end of her first month of Vaikuntha, Tyzias was visited by the Spirits of Starlight due to not knowing what a Christmas is and being grumpy in general. After being shown her best and worst memories, Tyzias was reinvigorated, but what came next shook her to the core: Tyzias and the rest of the Heroes of Light were shown a vision of the ruins of Vaikuntha if Bahamut was summoned and they fail to defeat him, and it was revealed that should they die, their worlds would die with them. Plagued by the implications of this and whether she should let herself perish to eliminate the threat Alternia posed to the rest of the galaxy, Tyzias's goals expanded to not only get back home but to save Vaikuntha in the process, a notion that she hadn't given any thought to before. It's one thing to know the world will end, it's another to see its ruined corpse after it's gone up in flames. As if in approval of her newfound conviction, she received the blade of her personal hero, Neophyte Redglare, from Vaikuntha's Santa Claus.

The next several months were a whirlwind of adventuring and adjusting to life on Vaikuntha. Tyzias enrolled in university after learning that most species had a thing called a "defense attorney," and began helping her roommate Samuel Vimes out at his precinct. In February, Tyzias vanished into the Interdimensional Cloud surrounding Vaikuntha and became trapped in her own memories. More specifically, her essence was shattered into every timeline that the MSPA Reader could've brought about. Once she was rescued by Megatron the warlord-turned-pacifist and Vimes, Tyzias had to deal with the knowledge that the specific timeline she remembered was just one of many and that she now has the sum of all of their experiences rattling around in her head. While she was still reeling from this, a strange force heightened the emotions of many of the heroes and Tyzias spent five days stewing in existential despair, sobbing into dry cereal and screaming at the sky for hours on end. Although she recovered quickly afterwards, Tyzias nonetheless filed away those revelations in the, "don't think about while I've got work to do or else I'll spend days in a pointless navel-gazing session and come out of it just feeling real shitty about myself" box.

When the time finally came to confront Bahamut and his summoner, the world ate itself whole before the apocalypse even started. Cults and criminals burned down cities, empowered monsters destroyed even more, and through it all Tyzias could do nothing but watch and prepare herself for the end. The deep ache of pure helplessness brought Tyzias back to Alternia, where she shambled through every day watching untold cruelty, putting herself through hell just for the vague hope she could pave the way for somebody else to make change even if she could do nothing to stop the cycle of violence herself. When the heroes confronted the dragon's summoner as it destroyed the world, Tyzias was almost too numb and bitter inside to care that the Melodies, the limit breaks that drew upon the power of the Heroes' homeworlds, destroyed Vaikuntha before Bahamut could deal the final blow.

But it wasn't over yet. As the overflow of Melodies unraveled the fabric of spacetime on Vaikuntha, they gave the heroes one last, desperate hope: they were sent back three days in time to fix things and gain enough strength to defeat Bahamut's summoner. And they did it again when they failed the next time. And again. And again. And again, fifty times total. These endless chances to fix the world finally shocked Tyzias out of her cynical belief that trying to save Vaikuntha was as useless and futile as trying to save Alternia, and reminded her that she did try to change things on her homeworld despite the immense danger posed to herself and the impossibility of the task. Like on Alternia, Tyzias focused on the small things first: giving people hope, helping evacuate, brightening the days of the citizens of Vaikuntha one snarky but optimistic conversation at a time. After moving on to large-scale efforts, Tyzias applied her expertise on endless seas of paperwork and eye for minute detail to manage logistics in between evacuating dangerous areas en masse and fighting off (and often sacrificing herself to defeat) hordes of Calamity Monsters.

The process of defeating Bahamut and watching the world end a fifty times scarred Tyzias both physically and mentally—her entire right side is burned from the dragon god's Teraflare, even after she was resurrected. But it taught her an important lesson: to never give up hope. Period. It reinforced her attitude that even if the situation is hopeless and she should just stop trying, she needs to keep fighting anyways. To celebrate her victory, Tyzias augmented Redglare's blade with the body parts of the dead dragon, creating Dragon's Spine. It couldn't fit in the cane that it had been originally been designed for, making the statement that Tyzias had forged herself into a hero of her own right and that she was no longer willing to hide her intention to cause radical change when she returns to Alternia.

Everything calmed down after the world was saved, even when Bahamut's summoner disappeared into the Interdimensional Cloud. Until Tyzias, Vimes, Corrin, and Richard all went on a vacation, unaware that a high density of law enforcement officials going on break inevitably meant that they'd get tangled in some criminal conspiracy. One thing led to another, and Tyzias found herself dueling the nefarious Knave of Blades atop a construction site. She hacked off his swordarm, but in return the Knave cut out her eye, and she spent weeks nursing her wound and a grudge. After she recovered, the trail of the summoner was found in the Interdimensional Cloud, and the Heroes chased her to the world that created Vaikuntha. Once Tyzias and a few others cornered and defeated her for the second time, her assistant stepped out of the shadows and revealed that as the summoner was lamenting her failure, he had created a new Calamity to destroy the worlds of every Hero and altered their timelines so they died or had never existed at all on their home worlds.

Having learned from the process of defeating Bahamut, Tyzias set to the task of saving the her world and the worlds of all her friends. She aided the other Heroes in destroying the devices responsible for the corruption of their homes, bisected the Knave of Blades—in actuality Darth Maul, a fellow "Hero of Light"—in a galaxy far, far away, and eventually returned to Alternia, bracing herself for a situation somehow worse than the one she left. It turned out that Tyzias was thinking on far too small a scale. The technology found its way into the hands of the being that had created Alternia's system of perpetual violence: Lord English. He used it to destroy the true heroes of the story Tyzias inhabited, unaware that Tyzias even existed. Tyzias had always known that she meant nothing in the grand scheme of things, but having her eyes opened to the sheer scale that Paradox Space operated on disturbed her; deepening her nihilism and further damaging her self-esteem. Pushing those issues aside, Tyzias was helped by the original heroes of her story and Megatron, Vimes, and Miles Morales to defeat Lord English once and for all; god-tiering into an Heir of Blood and claiming the legendary sword Caledfwlch to reaffirm that she was making herself relevant in this story and would no longer be content with being a side character in the narrative of Paradox Space—even if, deep down, she still doubts that she can accomplish that.

Through the combined efforts of all the Heroes, the new Calamity was defeated, and Tyzias's world was restored to its original state. Paradox Space, however, is massive. Infinite, to be precise. Alternia in the time that Tyzias lived there is a miniscule part of it, even with her Heir of Blood abilities giving her the power to sense and follow her bonds to the planet to some extent. Tyzias has been traveling with Captain Red Savarin aboard his ship the Asmodeus for over a human year, complaining about but nevertheless partaking in his adventures as she searches for something that could help guide her home.

Personality:

Empathetic: Despite her homeworld’s best efforts to stamp it out of her, Tyzias is deeply empathetic, and feels the suffering of everybody that she knows is experiencing pain or injustice. Tyzias even forgave one of her coworkers for trying to find evidence to turn her in for treason, saying that the young troll being so desperate to prove herself so she won’t get culled is a perfect example of everything that’s wrong with Alternia. Tyzias's hyperempathy is what gets her out of bed (and when she's having a particularly bad time, it's what keeps her there); if somebody's in pain, she's got to do something about it to make up for how horrible she feels about all the ones that she can't help. It's the seed from which almost every other aspect of her personality sprung forth, and it's also what tears her apart from the inside out. She's still a snarky, caustic, sardonic jackass to most people (i.e. those who don't need desperately need her help), though. That isn't necessarily at odds with her bleeding heart.

Driven: Tyzias seems like a lazy, listless slob. Her outfit's a rumpled mess, her spine is slouched at almost a 90 degree angle, and she could store a wallet in her eyebags. To put it succinctly, she looks like a complete trainwreck. And although this isn't untrue, Tyzias's state of disrepair is due to how she never stops working. Whether it be staying up for nights at a time studying for her tests on Alternia or slaying monsters for days on end on Vaikuntha, Tyzias's endless drive to do is one of her greatest strengths—and weaknesses. She won't rest until whatever needs to be done is done, and even then, she almost immediately moves on to whatever her next project may be. This relentless energy is a great asset, but it also leaves no time for Tyzias to actually take care of herself, leaving the burnt-out husk that's all that most people see of her. After all, if she isn't doing to stop the bad things from happening or help those affected by it, then what use is she? In fact, she's practically complicit! Tyzias knows that this isn't true on a logical level, but convincing yourself of that emotionally is another thing entirely.

Nihilistic: Despite her constant efforts to effect change, Tyzias is all too aware that she's an infinitesmal cog in an infinitely vast machine. She knew this back on Alternia, and as she ventured further afield, her unimportance only became more apparent. She was a cog that helped propel the machine to kill a dragon god and save several worlds, yes, but she's still only a cog. Tyzias tries to convince herself that this doesn't matter; that if she isn't important, she'll make herself important through her words and deeds. Yet the overwhelming vastness of how much she thinks she doesn't matter still gets to her, driving her to be even more recklessly self-destructive and occasionally causing her to do nothing but contemplate her own existence in nothing but a hoodie and boxers that haven't been washed for weeks while staring up at the ceiling.

Cynical: Tyzias has seen some of the worst that the multiverse has to offer. From the endless cruelty of Alternia to the vile machinations of Vaikuntha's villains, Tyzias has directly experienced exactly how shitty people and worlds can be. Although Tyzias would like to believe in the basic goodness inherent in every thinking being, she just can't anymore. This doesn't stop her from seeing the best in those that she sees as genuinely trying to help—Tyzias just knows that kindness is something that you have to cultivate within yourself, and finds it all the more valuable because of that. But it also means that she's always ready for things to go disastrously wrong or to be betrayed by someone she considered an ally.

Argumentative: While Tyzias's determination is an undeniable asset, it also means that she is unbelievably stubborn. If she thinks she's right, she will refuse to back down and acquiesce to anybody else's plan, and she will argue loudly if somebody voices an opinion that she particularly disagrees with. This tendency comes from her somewhat arrogant belief that she's almost always the most informed person in any given situation—after all, nobody else on Alternia bothered to do the work to dig into the archives to find the secret history of the planet that could get them culled by the Heiress's enforcers. Tyzias even laced her essays with anti-authoritarian subtext because she disagreed with their premises so strongly, knowing full well that she'd get culled if she was discovered. She isn't completely unreasonable, though; if somebody can show her that she's demonstrably wrong, Tyzias will give in.

Self-destructive: Tyzias will lose as many battles as it takes to win the war. On Alternia, she constantly drove herself to the point of mental and physical breakdown just to get the edge she needed to perform better than her colleagues. She willingly lost an eye on Vaikuntha so she could cut the Knave of Blades to ribbons herself. There's almost no part of herself that Tyzias won't push well beyond the point of breaking if it means accomplishing whatever her goal is at the time. This ruthless pragmatism only applies to herself, however. Tyzias would never sacrifice anybody else to further her own ends, and she'd berate herself for being a villainous piece of bulgekelp if the thought even crossed her mind.

CRAU Personality: The most prominent thing that Vaikuntha changed about Tyzias is her willingness to fight. On Alternia, fighting for what she believed in simply wasn't an option in her eyes. Even if she had the physical capability and the support to attempt revolution, leaders that she believed to be far stronger and smarter than herself had attempted both pacifistic and militaristic revolution. Both failed miserably, and the latter made things actively worse. In Tyzias's view, the only thing she could do was effect small change one tiny chunk at a time so that whoever did have the power to shake shit up would have an easier time of it; to make the world ever-so-slightly kinder one twist of legalese at a time.

But on Vaikuntha, when the world was tearing itself apart before Bahamut even sunk its claws in and Tyzias kept on waiting for someone to do something, it finally clicked that it was her responsibility once the first timeloop began. She had the power, she had the will... if not her, then who? Now Tyzias isn't shy to directly enact her will upon the world and overtly work for a kinder, more just world. And although violence is hardly her first resort, she isn't above cutting a motherfucker if it means protecting herself or others and no other recourse can be found.

Tyzias also learned that she isn't alone. On every world, there's going to be somebody fighting against whatever tide of cruelty afflicts it. On every world, there's going to be somebody willing to sacrifice themself if there's even the possibility of improving things. On Alternia, where the machine of oppression had gotten so precise that it seemed like no troll beside herself could be freakish enough to think of revolution, Tyzias thought she was the only one left who had her urge to change the status quo. But Vaikuntha was an object lesson in the opposite, and now Tyzias trusts more easily and confides in others more often (even though she still takes as much work as she can and more upon herself).

Not all of the changes Vaikuntha induced in Tyzias were positive. She was always under the impression that she was an insignificant piece in a cosmic game, and the sheer scale of the Interdimensional Cloud emphasized that in her mind. Even when she helped in taking down Bahamut, the thought that if she was removed from the equation entirely events would still play out in the same way nagged at her. This came to a head when she returned to Alternia to save it from the Soul Divider and discovered that being erased from the existence had no effect on the new timeline that she had to fix. It wouldn't have been different if any other troll she knew had been abducted instead. While she reassures herself that she could make herself matter, Tyzias just can't believe it, and so her self-destructive tendencies somehow worsened and she became prone to deep depressive episodes where she contemplates her place in the cosmos.

Always Keep In Mind:

Tyzias is a huge whiner, even when she's got things under control. She'll complain about anything that so much as mildly inconveniences her.
Tyzias views her time in the Ten Kingdoms as something of a vacation. While she misses the crew of the Asmodeus and still wants to get home, she's finally not under an obligation to constantly Save The Day and Go Adventuring. So above all, she really doesn't want anybody but the staff to know that she is far more competent and powerful than what she lets on to the rest of the student body.
That isn't to say that she won't step up if she's needed, though. In fact, she's convinced that shit will eventually hit the fan in a major way and she's going to have to fight again because that's how this kind of thing works, but she's more than content to just relax in her own way until then.
Tyzias has been to a lot of worlds, far more than have been listed here, and she has seen a lot of shit. Not much can faze her at this point.
At her core, Tyzias just wants the best for everyone. No matter what she has to do to herself in the process.
Being kind doesn't exclude Tyzias from being a complete jackass to most people, though. She's a snarky bitch.
Tyzias speaks with a low, gravelly drawl and drags out her mmmms and wwwws. I prefer not to type it out in prose or brackets because it's a pain, but it might come up on the network.

Samples

Log Sample: Tyzias's TDM adventures.
Questions:

What do you want to study at Diatu Magicademy?

Whatever discipline covers navigation and location. I know I'm supposed to say Sundering because it got us into this hot fucking mess, but it seems like everybody else has got that shit on lock. Plus, whenever we figure out how to punt people out of this dimension, we need to make sure they're actually getting back home. That's more of an issue than you'd think, really. [She chuckles darkly.] Anyways, we had to have been brought here for a reason. It's always fucking something. If I can scry out whoever or whatever is behind it, that'll bring us closer to some answers.

If you knew you could go back to the moment you left, would you leave immediately or continue your studies for a while?

That depends. If it's a ticket back to to the Asmodeus, I'd stay. Not that I fucking love living in this medieval asswad of a backwater world, but... yeah. Don't want to spend the rest of my ehhhhhhhh probably infinite life wandering around even more backwater-er worlds because Goregle Maps doesn't function outside of the Genesis Frog. I've had way too many fucking problems finding a way to my alpha timeline Alternia at the right temporal position for me to meet back up with Stels and the rest. This place seems as good as any to find something that'll get me a way to find home. If it just slam-jams me back to my hive, though... yeah. I'd take that opportunity in a heartbeat.

If your enemy was at Diatu Magicademy, how would you react?

Balahaka

When is it acceptable to resolve a dispute by force?

Never. But sometimes you have to do beat their ass anyways.

What should the supreme goal of any wizard be?

I mean, I haven't had time to gather data on exactly how magic works here, but... if you have power, you need to help people however you can. If you have that kind of power and you're not using that ability it to improve the world, then you're just being a fucking prick.

Special Considerations

Your Special Something: A Special Connection

Rank Your House Choice:
1. Eiather
2. Purifeul
3. Ka

Powers: Most of Tyzias's powers come from the Asterisks of Vaikuntha. She has the martial techniques down to muscle memory and she can easily replicate the spells she used. However, there are two more esoteric powers that I'm interested in her regaining: her Melody, which is a limit break utilizing the echoes of Tyzias's homeworld that still resonate with her soul (and involves kinning Neophyte Redglare so hard that Tyzias gets her outfit, dragon, and combines her physical prowess with hers), and her god-tier abilities that she got during her foray into a corrupted Paradox Space (in addition to the specific powers granted by being the Heir of Blood that are all just baseless speculation because there isn't an example of a god-tier Blood player in canon, god-tiering also grants flight, agelessness, and immunity to stupid/pointless deaths).

Items: Tyzias has adventured across many, many different worlds while foiling the New Calamity and sailing with Red Savarin and company. Regaining a Duel Disk and an accompanying deck or a few Gummi blocks isn't out of the question, and it really depends on how funny Tyzias getting shipped memorabilia of different embarrassing adventures would be.

An item showing up in the Ten Kingdoms could be the Soul Divider, an all-purpose MacGuffin with the side effect of slowly unraveling the fabric of reality. They're generally distributed by a villain named Balahaka that could still be alive when Tyzias arrives at Diatu due to timeline shenanigans, or one could just land there and get exploited by whatever NPC the mod team wants.

Anything Else?: According to the question I asked on the FAQ, the items on Tyzias's person come with her through getting Sundered to the Ten Kingdoms. As this includes her eyepatch iMog, her battle gear and clothing would come with her through the device's "gear set" pocket dimensions. The most important of these items are her swords and her armored coat. Caledfwlch is a high-quality enchanted sword with a highly specific power that I doubt will come up during this game, Dragon's Spine is a dark elemental sword that's particularly good at slaying dragons, and both have been additionally enchanted to ignore air resistance and thus swing much, much faster than most swords. Her coat provides protection against darkness magic in general and the Calamity specifically, in addition to just being a good set of enchanted armor. If the mod team would rather have Tyzias lose all these items in the process of getting Sundered, that's perfectly fine, as her suddenly regaining this pieces of high-end adventuring gear while trying to keep a low profile could be interesting CR-wise.

Some of Tyzias's CRAU history was hashed out with other players and the mods postgame. The mods had to end the game early due to burnout and gave the playerbase a summary of what would've happened. The latter half of Tyzias's adventures through Paradox Space, the battle with Maul, and joining Red's crew was talked through with the players of all the muses involved rather than threading everything out because all the energy for the game vanished when the mods closed it.

Tyzias's body was augmented with a pair of flight-capable wings when she reached god-tier. As these are now part of her biology, she should still have these when she arrives if I'm understanding correctly, but she doesn't have much practice actually using them since god-tier flight usually sufficed for her purposes. Finally, I am very very very sorry for making you read through all of this.

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