Aw, and Shealtiel used to so enjoy teasing him with calling him Lucifer. :P

Oh well, I have a feeling my new guy isn't going to be quite as verbose as the old man was. He might even have a vow of silence...

Also, totally stealing Mithaias' kevlar and ceramic-plated priest robes for this guy....

Well, it'd depend on who's yelling at him. His mom would probably use "Lucas"; his dad would probably say "Lucifer", and Gabe would just look at him with puppy eyes and whisper "Luuuuuke? Can you get me a cookie?"

They ARE cognates.

Kevlar and priest robes seem to be a strange combo, no...? And hm, vow of silence. This might be interesting, if it does happen. (I've a character who's actually mute, and it's great practice having to figure out how to make him express himself.)

My biggest issue is I can't decide if I want to play a psychic or a theurge. I'm leaning towards psychic, who happens to have been a man of the cloth pre-Eschaton and has wound up working under Zaccheus (and was probably experimented on by Zaccheus' artificers). Still mulling the concept over, really.

I guess I'm asking if it makes sense to play a religiously motivated character who is a psychic talent rather than a spiritual magus?

Depends, I guess...?Speaking of which, those classes need to be changed a bit, unless you're making a new system.

Oh, I see. Sucks that he had to kill his own brother "again". But guess there was no other choice at the time.

So what's Dante's new first name going to be? I'm kinda curious now. >3>

Well, his full name used to be Lucifer Dante Ka'an, which led to teasing by Shealtiel about Lucifer as referring to the most brilliant angel or the fallen one.

Lucas Dante Cabral was the less cliche one I've been messing around with, and "Dante" kind of works on the grounds that "Cabral" can be both a Spanish/Portuguese surname as well as an Italian one, and Lucas is just a cognate of Lucifer. I'm not entirely sure how names are going to work; I don't plan on fully discarding the original one. I guess his birth name could be the new one.

What do you needs to be changed, Espy? (not that I don't agree, just wondering what your thoughts were.) I assume you mean in terms of balance between them?

I'm actually thinking of, instead of doing classes, just having a bunch of categories that each character has a certain rating or proficiency in. Something like

Spiritual Presence:
Psychic Presence:
Combat Fitness:
Arcane Knowledge:
Mechanical Aptitude:
Other:

And you could list what particular traits each character has under each category, just for an example I imagine Lev's Combat Fitness would read something like: High, average reflexes, above average strength, superhuman durability.

More something just to give us each a general idea on where all of our characters stand than any sort of hard and fast "rules". I think: Deficient, Poor, Moderate, High, and Extreme would work easily enough for the ratings.

And the Other category would be listing any other noteworthy skills or abilities they have like driving, hunting/survival, medical training, etc.

Does this sound workable or overly complicated? I'd just to like to a quick reference to everyone's abilities rather than having to read through their full bios to dig up info.

It definitely sounds doable. I wouldn't mind having to do this for Ei'lycia either.

Like, most of out characters don't fit the system anymore XD

Sounds good.

Yeah, medical training is important >.>

...for those odd times when some psychotic possessed cannibal takes a chunk out of your shoulder? Like THAT would ever happen....

o3o How many times has Dante had a bite taken out of him?

I lost count, but I know it was more than once. :P

Uh...Actually bitten once (it took a chunk out of his arm, which really shouldn't be functional anymore if Water of Eden didn't exist, but he still has a scar), slapped in the face three times, once with the pointy "side" of Lev's hand (also left a scar because Dante couldn't be bother to put Water on that), got the flesh under his eyes gouged into once, and nearly got bitten a second time.

o3o Poor Dante.

Hm, maybe he's secretly a masochist? :P

Well, he does mentally beat himself up a lot.