Schwann "Raven" Oltorain [wip]

[RAVEN THE GREAT]

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" I'm gonna go a little craaazy here ! "

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Name: Schwann "Raven" Oltorain

-Despite being the same body, "Raven" and "Schwann Oltorain" are two entirely different people. However," Raven" is the dominate personality, only using "Schwann" when it is necessary.

Age: Thirty-five
Canon or OC: Canon
Which game?: Tales of Vesperia
Alliance: Good

Weapons: Transform bows & Short Blade / Swords

-The transform bow is Raven's main weapon, with the Short Blade being a sub-weapon. By combining these two weapons, Raven is able to be apt at both long-range and close-range combat. For this site Raven will be using his old friend Casey's weapon, the heavy-bow Divine Cannon, along with his default sub weapon, the Battle Knife.

-While infiltrating the royal guard as Schwann Oltorain, Raven will use a sword as a weapon, wielding it in his left hand. Because of his past experience in the military, he is talented with the blade, perhaps even more talented than he is with the bow.

Powers:

-Raven boasts a variety of artes*, ranging from long-range and close-range strike artes to magic and healing artes, making him extremely versatile. They are as follows, in order of level and type.

Base Artes
- Rain
- Bouquet
- Serpent
- Glimmer of Heaven
- Around
- Love Shot
- Dark Chase
- Violent Snake
- Violent Weasel

Arcane Artes
- Just Like Dancing
- Cyan Instant
- Heaven's Tear
- Falling
- Flying
- Azure Heavens
- Falling Stars
- Crime
- Punishment
- The Wind's Howl
- The Wind's Rage
- Apocalypse Toll (Schwann only)

Altered Strike Artes
- Rainsong
- Raindown
- Around and Around
- Rain of Heaven's Tear
- Cloud of the Heavens
- Falling Furthur
- The Growing World

Novice Magic Artes
- Wind Blade

Intermediate Magic Artes
- Arrivederci

Advanced Magic Artes
- Havoc Gale
- Vanji Lost

Altered Magic Artes
- Inverno
- Tempest
- Stop Flow

Burst Artes
- Fury Blast
- Chaotic Fury
- Garnet Chaos
- Kamikaze Fury
- Storm of Chaos

Mystic Arte
- Blast Heart

*A more detailed list of these artes can be found here. A video demonstating these artes can be found here.

Occupation: Royal Guard of Kessho - 6th Regiment Lietenant Colonel // "Pervy Old Man"

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Personality:

( Because of the odd circumstances with "Raven" and "Schwann", I feel that a quick personality is necessary to fully understand his character. )

Raven is quite the odd individual, with many interesting quirks that set him apart from the crowd. Upon first meeting, one would probably find him lazy, aloof, and even a bit creepy. He's extremely social and friendly, often overly so. This can lead him to coming of as "creepy" or "suspicious" as he will often times join a stranger's conversation or just walk up to someone he finds interesting looking. However, he's actually very laid-back and patient. He doesn't anger easily, and will be the first to try and lighten up an otherwise tense situation. But, that doesn't mean he is free from complaints. In fact, Raven will complain about the simplest things, making a "mountain our of a molehill" so they say. His favorite thing to complain about is his age, often times saying he is too old to be doing a task despite not really being that old at all. However, when someone else calls him old, he will say he is "hurt". Other than that, Raven takes ridicule and jokes very well, not taking offense to much. However, he will not show the same disposition to enemies, and isn't one to be going truly trusting anyone easily, despite how it may seem otherwise.

Along with his nonchalant personality, Raven is also boasts some "perverted" qualities. He loves to flirt with pretty girls (Judith in particular) and considers himself to be quite the catch. He thinks he's a very attractive and manly man, and will give the younger guys he knows advice on how to get a women. He tends to get himself into trouble for this quite often, especially with Rita Mordio. However, when it comes to getting emotionally involved with someone, Raven is a bit reluctant and will often times turn down women who return his flirting.

However, when under the guise of Schwann, his personality changes dramatically. While Raven is easygoing and humorous, Schwann is serious and quiet. Schwann is like any good knight, chivalrous and obedient. He will never question an order from a higher-up and will do whatever it takes to fulfill his duties. However, he is also known to be extremely kind, especially to his underlings. He'd give his life for the greater good. Despite being rather quiet and only really talking when necessary, Schwann is an otherwise approachable person. He doesn't take any nonsense though, so don't start joking around with him like an old friend.

Because of the vast difference between the personalities, Raven can sometimes find it hard to fully abandon his Schwann demeanor. He can sometimes find some aspects of Schwann infiltrating his Raven persona, but usually not vice versa. He is also extremely devoted to his guise as a military man, and will not break character when other military personnel are around, even when confronted with an old friend. He will pretend like he doesn't know you, or Raven for that matter, and will devote his entire soul to keeping up the guise. He has to, after all, if he wants to find out what he needs to know about the crystals and the beast cavern.

History:

Raven was originally born as Damuron Atomias, the first son born to a long-lived family of nobles. From the beginning of his life, Damuron always felt as though the weight of the world was on his shoulders. Being the first son orn to the family, most of his father's dreams and hopes for the furture of the family was forced upon the then young Damuron. It was impossible for the boy to ever live up to his father's high expectations. He was never the smartest or strongest child in his class, no matter how many tutors and personal trainers the family had teach him. He quickly became a disappointment to his father, and was told about it quite often. No longer wanting to have to deal with his father's unobtainable ideals, Damuron went to join the Imperial Knights, never once looking back at his childhood as a noble.

Upon admittance into the Imperial Knights Academy, Damuron was discovered to be the perfect knight, and had all the qualities of a future captain, or even Commandant. He soon graduated the academy, and was a full-fledged Imperial Knight. He continued to excel in borth terms of leadership and swordsmanship. Before long, he was climbing the ranks of the knights, and gaining more and more recognition by his higher-ups.

During this period of his life, Damuron met many new people, although one stood out among the rest. Shortly after graduating the academy, Damuron met Casey, a female archer whose skills with the transform bow rivaled his own with a sword. After the first few, awkward interactions (Raven wasn't always the "charmer" he is today), a strong friendship began to form between the two young Knights. Damuron constantly went to the raven-black haired girl for advice, and even looked up to her in some aspects. He always believed her to be a wonderful and quintessential knight, much better than himself. However, he still got more attention from his higher-ups than her, much to his confusion.

However, Casey was not the only notable person Damuron had met while in the knights. He also met Alexei Dinoia, a fellow sword-wielding knight and future Commandant of the Imperial Knights. In his younger days, Alexei was not the psychopath that he was during the period of the game. In fact, he was similar to that of Flynn, and held ideals that were appealing to many of his fellow knights. Damuron saw this, and quickly became one of the knight's most avid supporters. He truly believed that Alexei could and would follow through on these ideals he preached, and would eventually make Terca Lumireis a greater place for all.

But there was not a person at that time more important to Damuron than Casey. Through their frequent interactions, the young swordsman had begun to develop stronger feelings for his friends than just friendship. However, Damuron was not the type to just go after a women he liked. He was rather shy about women at that time, and didn't know how to do anything but be a good friend to Casey. He could never be sure if Casey would return his feelings, either! Plus, there was one very important person standing in his way. That person was Yeager, a fellow knight and another one of Alexei's followers. He had already make it well known of his fancy of Casey, and it seemed as though the feeling was mutual. The two soon were in a serious relationship with Yeager soon going to ask Casey to marry him. But, something happened that put the soap opera on hold.

That something was the Great War...

. . . .

Likes:

• Women, especially the more voluptuous specimens
  
• "Captain" Karol Capel
  
• Having free time to use as he pleases
  
• Playful banter
  
• "Dirty" humor
  
• His brigade
  
• Fire lilies
  
• Casey
  

Dislikes:

• Sappy or heartwrenching moments
  
• Talking seriously about the past, his own history in particular
  
• Living artificially
  
• Unnecessary battles
  
• Being addressed formally
  
• Schwann Oltorain
  
• Alexei
  
• Yeager
  

Fears:

• Commitment ; Probably brought on by the situation with Casey. Raven would rather look from afar than get emotionally involved with anyone.
  
• Losing his humanity ; He's already lost his natural life after all, and he doesn't want to become some heartless, artificially beast.
  
• Being unable to protect someone close to him ; A natural and understandable fear, brought even more to light after the events with Casey at Mt. Temza and slightly aggravated by Karol's stunt at the Blade Drifts of Zopheir.
  

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