Ariael Winter

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#3 = Ariael Winter

Name: Ariael Winter

Username: CantFaketheFun

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Birthday: March 31

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 116 lbs

Nationality: Scottish

Race: Human

Faction: The Jellyfish Pirates

Game: Guilty Gear XX...X...? GG series.

Physical description: She is of average height, rather slender—but not
skinny. Physically, she is rather nondescript. Her most striking
features are easily her waist-length, snow-white hair and deep,
infinitely dark eyes. If you saw her, you would never think for a
moment that this gentle-looking soul could ever fight anyone. Ariael
seems to have an eternal half-smile on her face, as if she is
perpetually content with the world. She wears a black duster similar
to that of her captain, Johnny, except she usually wears it closed.
Underneath, Ariael wears a simple white t-shirt that's unmarked, as
well as matching white pants that are loose and cool. She is a
character of contrasts, of black and white…<br>
Likes: Painting, music, poetry, Johnny, walking by herself at night.

Dislikes: People she cares about fighting/getting
hurt, sharing her work

Theme Song: "Free Verse," a quiet-ish jazz piece with a sax/guitar duet.

Stage: Scotland. Set in the middle of green, rolling hills, covered in
emerald grass with trees dotting the landscape, their leaves blowing
in the wind. In the upper left corner, there's a valley, with a black,
very long, lake, which reflects the light of the setting sun. On the
right, in the distance, there are some shadows which resemble
Stonehenge (hey, no one said that Mr. Ishiwatari couldn't take
creative license...)

Personality: Ariael is very quiet, reserved, rather shy most of the
time. She is phenomenally intelligent, but almost never speaks up, for
fear of offending whoever it is she might correct. She is
philosophical, and very artistic—she's a rather talented painter,
musician, and poet… however, she refuses to let ANYONE hear or see her
work, if she can help it. Not very self-confident, but is very
friendly to the few who are close to her.

Weapon of Choice: A normal sized, steel paintbrush (with slightly
magical properties... more on that later)

Innate Element: Wind

Stances

Standing - Stands with her back to the camera, her brush held in her
back hand, her head over her shoulder and looking at her opponent, her
snow-white hair blowing in the wind gently.

Idle - Runs her free hand through her hair, shakes her head and lets
it fall free, kind of like Millia's taunt.

Walk - Walks forward, her head tilted down, her brush held at chest
height, close to her heart.

Backwards walk - Walks backward, her head up, holding the brush out in
her forward hand like a guard.

Run - Like Johnny, has no real RUN... rather, she jumps a set distance
forward (slightly longer than his dash)

Backstep - Same position as her backwalk, leaps backward.

Move List:

Throw - Ariael grabs the opponent's wrist, draws a line around their
body which solidifies into a rope, she pulls on the end, sending them
spinning away.

Air Throw - Ariael grabs them with a rope of wind from her brush, and
tosses them high into the air... juggles the opponent.

Sweep - She touches the ground with her paintbrush and right under the
opponent turns to ice, causing them to fall. (Staggers on both normal
and CH)

Dust - Flips around, smacking the opponent with the back of her hand
across the face... which causes them to go flying.

Air Dust - Gathers wind magic at the tip of her paintbrush, creating a
close-range fireball much like Anji's midair fireball, knocking them
back down to the ground. (Downs normally, untechable and wall bounce
on CH)

Normals

5P - a swift, light backhand (like Dizzy's)
2P - jabs with the end of her paintbrush at her face height (while
ducking) (hits med)
6P - Makes an arc from down by her knees to up into the air with her
paintbrush, leaving a trail of light (hits twice-first hit the brush,
second the trail, the trail can hit even if the brush misses)
j.P - Spins in midair and elbows the opponent.

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5K - A back kick, up at opponent's waist height, has good priority but
not too great range.
6K - Raises leg into vertical split, then brings it crashing down on
opponent (overhead, hits twice-first hit the vertical split [hard to
hit with this, but excellent anti-air if timed right], second the
overhead hit on the ground). FRCable at two points--one right after
the split, the other during the overhead (it still hits)
2K - quickly pokes her leg out, supporting herself with her back hand.
j.K - backflips up, kicking the opponent a bit higher into the air.

c.5S - uppercut with the paintbrush in her back hand, launches the
opponent on CH, or if they're in the air (like a Sol 2H)
f.5S - stabs forward with the paintbrush, sheathing it in a miniature
ball of wind.
2S - spins around while crouching, leaving a trail of wind as she
goes, hits on all side of her.
j.S - kicks her legs out and extends her arms, lashing forward with the brush.

5H - spins around, holding her paintbrush out (like Faust's f.5S),
leaves a trail of wind/light. Like all of her trail moves, hits twice,
and the trail can hit afterward.
6H - Grabs the brush in both hands and slams it forward, creating a
decent-sized burst of wind at the end... wall bounce on CH.
2H - Grabs brush with both hands and fires a blast of wind at
opponent's feet (hits low, staggers on normal, downs on CH)
j.H - double-handed smackdown from over her head with the paintbrush,
leaves a trail of wind/light (over the top right arc of her body,
above her head). Untechable (automatic knockdown) on regular hit, but
too slow recovery to followup unless RCed. Does not gatling into j.D.
Floor bounce on CH. The trail wall-bounces on CH, but it's hard to hit
with, as they need to be slightly above you for it to work.

Move List, cont'd

Command Normals

1K - falls to the ground, supporting herself with her hands, does a
drop-kick (hits low, launches on CH)

Special Moves

Impressionistic (623K, AMA) - does a Flash-kick-esque backflip,
curling into a ball and leaving a trail of light/wind around her with
the paintbrush (hits 4 times--twice for the kick, once for the
paintbrush, and once for the trail of light. If only the paintbrush or
the light trail hits, is untechable. Wall bounce on CH).

Baroque Blade (632146P/K, AMA) - forms a whip of air at the end of her
paintbrush and then lashes it at the opponent (P is low, K is high).
Hits 3/4s of the screen... P version hits low. P version staggers,
downs on CH, pulls opponent to her on regular hit. K version launches
on CH, and pulls Ariael to her opponent on both, does more damage, and
is FRCable. Mid-air versions have different angles. P goes down at a
sharp angle, yanks opponent into the air. K version goes up at an
angle slightly shallower than 45 degrees, pulls Ariael to her
opponent. P version is FRCable (air and ground).

Breath of Life(236 S, AMA) – Ariael channels her wind magic into the
tip of her paintbrush and flicks it, shooting a small yet extremely
concentrated packet of air at her opponent, capable of sending them
flying. Wallbounce on CH.

Wind Strokes (214H) – Ariael paints a circle in the air, and forms a
wall of wind, inside the circle, any attack that intersects this ring
will be ricocheted back at her opponent. Also hits opponents at very
close range, will wallbounce on CH, stagger on normal.

Rendered Gale (41236K, MA)- Ariael draws a large swirl around her
body, then launches a tornado down under her. Pushes Ariael up a bit
into the air. Staggers normal hit, lifts opponent up on CH. FRCable.

Fierce Crescendo(63214K) - Ariael charges up for a second, summoning
wind magic to her, and then dashes at the opponent in a flying spin
kick (think the typical Hurricane Kick, but her body is at a much
sharper angle, and it only rotates twice, and is much faster).
Unblockable. FRC point right before it hits. Launches on CH.

Twelfth Night (623H, Anti-Air command grab). Ariael jumps into the air
and flips forward, grabbing the opponent with her legs, throws them up
into the air, then lands before shooting a slightly larger version of
Breath of Life up at them, knocking them even higher. Bows, whispers
an apology, and then resumes her fighting stance. FRCable after the
leg throw, which is untechable. The air blast is techable.

Overdrives/Super Moves

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Poetic Justice (2141236H) – Ariael begins to recant one of her poems,
she draws the words in the air with her paintbrush, and then calls
forth a wind that flings them at her opponent. Staggers on CH.

Eye of the Beholder (641236S) – A powerful sphere of wind appears at
the end of her brush, slamming into the opponent and temporarily
stunning them. While they're stunned, Ariael paints a strange symbol
on her opponent's forehead, a symbol which seems to have no meaning,
that seems to come from within the brush itself… and the opponent is
suddenly wracked with excruciating pain. There is no physical damage,
actually, but every single pain receptor in their body begins to cry
out in agony. This is a last resort of Ariael's, and she only uses it
when she wants to delay an opponent long enough for her to make a safe
getaway. When it hits, it poisons the enemy for 7 seconds (or until
Ariael gets hit), and makes them unable to perform special moves.

Instant Kill

Masterpiece (236236H): Ariael smacks the opponent with her brush, then
whips out an easel from nowhere, and paints a picture of them... then
she takes her brush and stabs the picture, causing the opponent to
fall to the ground, defeated. DESTROYED.

Bio:

Ariael is different from her peers among the Jellyfish Pirates in that
she may or may not be an orphan. She honestly has no idea. When she
was young, her father, who had been a member of the Sacred Order, a
Scottish knight who was widely respected as both a soldier and as a
commander, got in touch with Johnny. For whatever reason, he begged
the pirate to adopt his daughter, to take her away, to save her.
Although Johnny was wary at first, he accepted, and took the young
Ariael into his crew. He never made contact with either of her
parents, ever again. While one might think the thought would bother
Ariael, she actually doesn't pay much attention to it.

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Ariael was always considered to be slow, or at least not as
intelligent as most of her peers. This idea was mostly due to the fact
that she almost never talked, never seemed to have anything to say. In
reality, however, she was incredibly smart—however, she was so
enthralled by her own visions and ideas that she rarely spoke out
loud. When she did, she was usually afraid that someone would take
offense at what she had said… if Ariael had a fault, it was her
insecurity. No matter how much her few close friends told her that
they wouldn't judge her, she was always apprehensive about sharing any
of her innermost feelings.

The one thing Ariael was extremely shy about was her artwork, her
poetry, and especially her music. Her earliest memories were of her
home, her father and mother… she was singing a song, the words of
which she had long forgotten. Yet the white-haired girl remembered the
tune, and could often be found humming it under her breath whenever
she worked on the Mayship, doing whatever chores it fell to her to
perform that day. She played that tune on the antique acoustic guitar
that Johnny had given her one year as a birthday present… he was the
only person on board the ship whom she would allow to hear her sing,
to read her poetry. Not because she had a crush on him, per se—in
fact, she rarely had any romantic thoughts whatsoever—but because he
was her friend. She trusted him as one would trust an older brother.

Ariael also loved to paint, to draw—and she was good at it. In fact,
holding a paintbrush felt more natural than anything else. The limited
weapons training that she received as a member of the Jellyfish
Pirates with knives and daggers and the like naturally melded with her
innate artistic skills. It was her innate talent, her finesse with the
paintbrush, which enabled her to combine those two talents, allowing
her to use a paintbrush as a weapon. The young artist was loathe to
use her precious brush so, yet while on a resupply mission on the
ground one day, an old woman sold her a steel paintbrush, nearly the
exact size and shape of her own. How the woman came to possess it, the
young artist never knew—as the vendor disappeared shortly after. Yet
when the Jellyfish Pirate's resident painter holds the brush in her
hand, she feels a mystical power running through it… Ariael doesn't
like to fight, but it doesn't mean she won't.

((Note: Ariael's paintbrush may possibly be a Kinjuu, one of the
Forbidden Magics. Whenever she uses it, she feels confident and
fearless in battle... but afterwards, has attacks of panic, and often
feels like she needs the brush to control herself again.))

Quote: How sad... perhaps we are not meant to toy with forces beyond
our control. I genuinely pity you. (Win quote vs. Eddie... who is
pretty much a walking animated corpse).

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