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Name: Steve
Are you over 18?: Yup
Contact: opticblast
Other characters, if any: None yet, but in the future, maybe!

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Character: Kiara Sessyoin
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Canon point: After the Servant Summer Festival
OU or AU?: OU
Age: 25
Species: Human originally, currently a Servant, which is a magical being. Servant stuff will be covered in the abilities section!

« RECORD »

Disposition:



• Kindness
  
  Kiara does her best to portray a gentle, almost serene demeanor. She's always there to listen to people's problems and offer her advice and rarely has an unkind word for anyone. If she does, it's usually as neutral as possible or comes coupled with advance warning or an apology. Something like “forgive me for saying this but...” isn't an uncommon thing to hear when she's normally expressing her distaste with someone or something. She carries herself in a way that seems friendly and in theory would make forming friendships and connections easily, though she's still a pretty solitary person.



• Life Experience?
  
  Despite being the friendly neighborhood advice giver, if pressed further, Kiara doesn't actually seem to have a lot of the experience most acquire while growing up. Sure, she can talk about traveling the world and assisting in various relief efforts or serving as a counselor to an internationally staffed oil rig. She can even talk about all the weird magical nonsense that goes on in her world. But when it comes to things like school festivals or family vacations or even some holiday celebrations, she's doesn't have much to offer there. While it does make her open to trying new things, sometimes she can be a bit childish about things (with taking it to a bit of an extreme in a later canon point, but that's still a ways off from now).



• Narcissistic
  
  Of course there's more to her than just how she presents herself. If given a look behind the curtain, it would become clear that Kiara is extremely extremely self-centered. She loves herself. She loves herself a lot. Sure, if this side of her is exposed, she'll profess her love for all human beings, but in her mind that consists of just one person. Her. The rest of humanity are just lowly beasts pretending to be something more. At this point, she is entertaining the idea that she could be wrong, but her viewpoint hasn't, and judging from later canon stuff, won't change too much on this one. It's an ugly stance that she knows is unlikely to make her very popular if it's known, but that's quite all right with her.



• Hedonistic
  
  But hey, it gets worse! If one sees what Kiara's like if she has no reason to conceal anything about herself at all, it'd quickly become clear that her raison d'etre is pleasure. She's mostly here to have a good time and others having a good time is kind of incidental at best. Any sort of indulgence is okay from average everyday stuff to trying to merge with the earth in a sort of lust-filled apocalypse. She's been cutting back from going too overboard these days, but it's still not an appealing character trait. Or if it is, usually people reach a point where they want out and Kiara...does not. And isn't necessarily interested in stopping the ride so they can get off. She's more interested in well, finding ways to get off.



• Self-assured
  
  As difficult as it might sound or seem, Kiara's able to reconcile all of this together. She can be kind and compassionate and genuinely care even if she thinks people aren't people and is only a few steps away from causing some sort of pleasure filled apocalyptic clusterfuck at any given time. Sure, at worst, she might basically eat their soul or end the world, but that doesn't mean she can't care about them too! If asked, she would probably say something about human nature being contradictory and a struggle between ones good nature and darker impulses. And that she's just more honest about it, indulging in both as she sees fit. And it's that sureness in herself that lets her act bounce between these two extremes. She certainly doesn't expect others to understand and won't argue if they decide that she's an awful monster. In fact, she's likely to agree. But she doesn't see disagreement as reason alone to change her nature.


Under pressure:
At this point, Kiara's at a crossroads in life. She did the whole world destroying horny monster thing and...it didn't end well for her. And after losing big and her body falling apart, she got summoned to Chaldea as a Servant with a...not exactly new lease on life, but a slightly more restrained one.

Nowadays, Kiara's entertaining the idea that maybe, just maybe she's not the only real person out there. She's not completely sold on the idea, but she'll refrain from creating any more apocalypses until she knows for sure. It's a tough test to pass as anyone she thinks of as potentially human like her can't fall for her, otherwise hedonistic armageddon is back on the schedule.

Not really a great way of testing people, but she didn't send it out for committee approval. Anyways, at present this vow applies to the protagonist and seemingly no one else, so that puts her in an interesting place heading into Noctium since she'll be expected to Sync with others.

Without Ritsuka Fujimaru around (at present), there's the opportunity to regress and throw any attempts at restraint in the trash. She could literally and figuratively fuck around and start all sorts of trouble reminiscent of throwing the oil rig she worked on into complete chaos! But that would be cheating and could result in several headaches if she does find someone besides herself worthy of being considered human. Or if said protagonist shows up and she has to explain whatever debauchery she's created around her. Awkward.

So what this represents for her is the first real test for her self-inflicted vow. She hasn't really done much since being summoned, so it hasn't come into question much. She gave a gift to Fujimaru for Valentine's Day and showed up for five minutes during a trip to Hawaii to replace a boss fight, then wandered off immediately after. During the former, she's tested the protagonist, and struggled with being herself, but she's never been faced with the challenge of a world where she's expected to be intimate and compassionate with others to this extent.

And while sex isn't necessary here, Kiara and abstinence aren't usually on speaking terms. She's also not well acquainted with the concept of moderation. Since being corrupted by a demon on the oil rig (who she later corrupted and drove insane because that demon made mistakes), she's thrown herself headfirst into finding every pleasurable experience she can. And only cut back after her defeat. So perhaps it's a chance to acquaint herself with some of those unfamiliar concepts. Can she find and form intimate bonds and companionship without necessarily sleeping with someone? Can she figure out how to indulge herself without going so far overboard that her idea of a good time resembles the scheme of a video game villain combined with a porno script? For someone so sure of herself, she's probably going to spend a good long while trying to figure those questions out.

Condition upon arrival: She should be completely fine! No injuries or anything like that to speak of.

Abilities:
Servant: Kiara has a bunch of generic abilities every servant gets. This includes enhanced strength and durability (though Kiara's isn't high, basically she'd be fine if hit by a car but isn't picking it up and throwing it at something), typically not needing to eat or sleep, and the ability to turn into an invisible intangible form. Which she's never done but in theory should be able to.

Clairvoyance: Clairvoyance in this case means she can discern people's desires and hidden natures. Kind of like very targeted very specific mind reading.

Thesis of the Still Heart: The ability to scan someone's mind and psyche in order to diagnose mental and spiritual problems. It can also be used to treat whatever ailments are detected, but can be blocked or fail. And can be used to expose people's secrets because what is privacy?

Demon Pillars: Kiara can create Demon Pillars inside her body and summon them to attack as seen here. In rare cases, she's summoned one to serve as a boss for other to fight. According to the Materials book, she can summon a seemingly infinite number, but bringing out a lot of them is even rarer than summoning one as a boss.

Heaven's Hole: Kiara creates a vortex of sorts, sucking her target into her through the tattoo on her abdomen. Inside they're surrounded by the pillars created inside her body and their existence is melted away. Here's a video, best to think of it as devouring or absorbing her enemies just an odder take on it.

Independent Manifestation:
A really special skill that lets her get around various servant limitations. Servants usually need magical energy to survive and to be summoned and thanks to this skill, she doesn't. It also provides some protection from instant death and time attacks. More importantly, it keeps Kiara from becoming a Beast which is a big world ending boss form where she gets more powers! This skill can be dispelled at will but she doesn't have any intentions to do so from this canon point.

Karma Phage: The first of her Beast powers. She can bestow power ups on other people. Increased defense, boosted chances of a critical hit, increased evasion, healing in exchange for damage dealt, or higher attack in exchange for damage taken. Only one buff per person, and only these five..

Logos Eater: This makes her attacks super effective against anything sentient. Not exciting on its own but coupled with everything else, it's bad.

Ten Thousand Colored Stagnation: This is almost certainly getting nerfed/removed, but it's included for being thorouh! Basically an upgrade of Thesis so now she can hack the target's psyche and leave the afflicted as basically a Kiara worshipping zombie, unable to escape her metaphorical (or sometimes literal) grasp. It's treated as a passive skill activated whenever in her presence and requires constant resistance to the idea of finding her appealing or attractive.

Inventory:
Just her clothes, she doesn't carry much.

Gembond: Amethyst
Gem Location: Just under her bust and right above the tattoo on her abdomen


« MISCELLANEOUS »

Sample: TDM thread

Notes: First, please accept this frog in a sombrero as an apology for making you all read through Fate crap.

Second, whatever needs to be nerfed or removed is fine with me! Her powers are some awful overpowered nonsense even if she doesn't use her Beast stuff anymore.