Joining as Seija Kijin (Touhou Project)

[Seija Kijin]

Character name: Seija Kijin

Character source: Touhou Project: Touhou 14, Double Dealing Character; Touhou 14.3, Impossible Spell Card

Character history: The embodiment of perversion, the contrary creature, the amanojaku. Seija Kijin is Gensokyo's representative amanojaku, and by extension, its resident troublemaker. She had existed in Gensokyo for a couple of centuries in relative silence, causing trouble in smaller villages and locales only to find herself quickly punished by nearby youkai, and sometimes even the humans. Though clever, she was weak in offensive terms, and her ability to turn everything upside down didn't grant her much strength. She came to be more of an observer, noting the social structure and power hierarchy of Gensokyo and quietly planning out how she could turn it all on its head. When she came across the Miracle Mallet, with its ability to grant any wish, her plan begun to pick up steam. The only problem was she lacked the ability to use the mallet. It could only be used by a descendant of Issun-Boshi, a member of the kobito race.
Lucky for Seija, there existed one kobito in Gensokyo: Shinmyoumaru Sukuna. She filled the young kobito princess's head with tales of betrayal amongst her people, of how it was her turn to return herself and her people to their former glory, and how Seija held for her the tool to do so. And so the two attempted a rebellion against Gensokyo's powerful, to give the weak their rightful time in the spotlight. At least that's what Seija wanted Shinmyoumaru to believe: it was really nothing more than Seija's desire to cause chaos.
Naturally they were thwarted by Gensokyo's incident solvers. While Shinmyoumaru learned of the true history of her people and began to accept her place, Seija had gotten too strong a taste of power to just give it up.
Now aware that the Shining Needle Castle Incident was Seija's doing, the residents of Gensokyo declared her a criminal and placed a bounty on her. They came at her with attacks that violated their in-place rule system (as she was a rebel, there was no need to uphold to rules), but she utilized items she had found that were able to cheat against these impossible attacks. In the end, she stood victorious over even Gensokyo's most powerful youkai.
This of course piqued Omni's attention, and shortly after she had returned into hiding, she was plucked out of Gensokyo and thrown into the Omniverse.

Physical Description:

Red eyes, pale/light complexion, black hair with red and white streaks dotted through. Two small horns atop her head; a sign that the pitiful amanojaku, though oft confused with them, are not even close to the mighty and powerful oni.
Wears a white short sleeved short skirted dress adorned with blue ribbons, with its bottom trim designed as a pattern of up and down arrows. Wears Japanese-style sandals or goes barefoot. Has a gold bracelet on her right wrist.

Stats:
ATK: 1
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
TEC: 4

(Spent: 5000)
Starting Proficiencies:
Ranged Proficiency -1000 OM
Debuff Proficiency -1000 OM (for reversals)
Homing Proficiency -600 OM

Starting Powers:
Telepathy -1500 OM

Starting Moves:
Reverse Sign "Evil in the Mirror" -300 OM (Requires Debuff Proficiency, Homing Proficiency, Telepathy)
Seija reverses her opponent's left and right movements. Although the victim is aware of which direction is which, the "controls" in their brain are reversed, so that when they intend to move left they move right and vice versa.
Initiated by declaring the name of the spell.
Lasts 30 seconds or until Seija has been weakened to roughly 7/8ths of current power/health. One use; cannot be used again until she has rested or recharged.

Reverse Sign "Overturning All Under Heaven" -300 OM (Requires Debuff Proficiency, Homing Proficiency, Telepathy)
Seija reverses her opponent's forward and backward movements. Although the victim is aware of which direction is which, the "controls" in their brain are reversed, so that when they intend to move forward they move backward and vice versa.
Initiated by declaring the name of the spell.
Lasts 30 seconds or until Seija has been weakened to roughly 7/8ths of current power/health. One use; cannot be used again until she has rested or recharged.

Default danmaku shot -300 OM (Requires Ranged Proficiency)
Allows Seija to shoot simple weak magic/energy bullets. Shot in a row of four, with two firing from Seija's side and two from directly in front of her. Rows fire one per second. Narrow spread, low damage.

I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct.

[Omni]

Hi there! Just to save myself some time, I'm going to quote the relevant rules/guide stuff in regards to your first two moves for reverse signs:

"Positive aspects of a move might be how much power is behind an attack, or how much damage a shield can withstand, or the length of time an effect lasts, or its speed, or its gigantic range, or its ability to almost always hit a target. Drawbacks of a move might be: its low power, its difficulty to hit with, the long time it takes to charge, the limited number of times it can be used, the fatigue or harm it inflicts on the user, or otherwise. "

"Things that aren't really drawbacks
Cooldowns (simply not being able to use the move for another minute), locking other moves of your own, etc, are considered pretty minor drawbacks and aren't going to be enough to justify a move with massive power. You still need it to cause fatigue or be a large chargeup or whatever."

As it stands, reading purely as written, those moves essentially allow you to permanently have your opponent's brains be addled in regards to their directions. There is no downsides, no cool downs, and they automatically hit. So we're going to need to do some work on them. Everything else is fine.

Actually, is the health thing permanent? So if she takes a few punches she can't use those moves at all any more?

[Seija Kijin]

oops, sorry D: yeah, they're essentially one-time use; once she's taken a bit of damage she can't use them until she heals up to full again.
and the effect isn't meant to be permanent, it's that she targets a single person and for that amount of time or till she gets beat on, they're confused, and immediately after they regain their senses; I'm not sure if that's what you meant by permanent? But looking over it again I can totally see where it'd be overpowered.

If I clarify that it's one-time use, would that balance it out better? I also added that it takes some charge/prep time.

Sorry for missing that, thank you!

[Omni]

Welp, to start you'd need Homing Proficiency for the auto-aim. I would feel more comfortable if there was some way of blocking or countering, but if you make them once per fight then I think the current effects and auto-hit would be fine, since they're fairly mild debuffs. Just add that bit into the description and they're approvable.

Since you'll need Homing, I'll leave you to make a decision on that and rejig as necessary, I'll get back on this in the morning if a mod hasn't approved you. Your account's approved so you're looking good.

Oh and by permanent I just meant she could cast again immediately once the duration was finished. So effectively.

[Seija Kijin]

I changed the description to remove the auto-hit and made them chance hits, is that alright? Also realized that probably requires more something along the line of telepathy, so I switched that out with flight.
Except now I'm reading in the Moves Guide/FAQ that stat-difference-based moves are discouraged? I'm confused since that seems to be the way Telepathy is explained, as a stat-difference-based move, unless there's something I'm missing. (If I'm cluttering this up too much, I can move this to PM or the Help Desk)
If I'm doing too much then I'll just change it to where she has the homing proficiency like you said.

Thank you so much! Sorry for the trouble!

[Omni]

That stat thing was more going on about binary "my tec is higher = you get knocked out, your tec is higher = nothing" happens style of moves. It's a bit too gamey.

As for the new chance-based thing, that's also a bit gamey as you'd need a judge to come in and rol the dice everytime. Honestly, the way it was before is fine if it's once per fight. Auto hit is okay with severe caveats. Otherwise, it'd need to be a projectile or something they can dodge.

[Seija Kijin]

Okay, changed it to add Homing Proficiency and got rid of the chancing. Sorry for all the trouble, let me know if anything else needs changing! Thank you!

[Omni]

What's the preparation? Standing still and preparing or just a cooldown or ...? It actually seems waaay underpowered right now with such a long prep time. Your choice though if you wanna keep that.

Since this is taking a while, you're free to begin roleplaying if you wish. Just make sure you read this first

[Seija Kijin]

I was thinking something like, once she decides that she's going to use that move and has a target, she can't do anything else offensive for the prep duration. So more like a cooldown I suppose? She can run around and try to dodge and block but she'd be more vulnerable and have a harder time doing so.

I might shorten the prep time then a bit, from max 5 minutes to max 4.

Oh and thank you for giving me the go ahead to roleplay!

[Omni]

I'll give you the go ahead to reduce that prep time to a couple of seconds. Long enough to make hand gestures or however it's performed. Given the other downsides (once a fight, only when she's above 7/8 health) and that it's not super strong or long duration to begin with, you don't need big downsides.

[Seija Kijin]

Okay, so the prep time is intended to be how long it takes for her to say the name of the spell, which is how it's performed.

[Omni]

Both approved. A mod should be along to set up your stuff shortly!

[Seija Kijin]

thank you so much! excited to join!

[Mickey Mouse]

Hey buddy, welcome! Let's get you started.

Name: Seija Kijin
Level: 1
Spent OM: 5000
Proficiencies: (2600); Ranged Proficiency (1000), Homing Proficiency (600), Debuff Proficiency (1000)
Powers: (1500); Telepathy (1500)
Moves: (900); Reverse Sign "Evil In The Mirror" (300), Reverse Sign "Overturning All Under Heaven" (300), Default Danmaku Shot (300)
Super Moves:
Transformations:
Assists:
Items:
Bases:
Unlocks:
Base stats:
ATK: 1
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
TEC: 4

Please go to the Roster forum, create a new thread and copy paste the above form to the first post of that thread. You can make subsequent posts in that thread to provide further details about the character. Before you do anything else, I highly recommend reading through this first. All future purchases will be done here.

Welcome to the Omniverse and I hope you will enjoy yourself here!