Astafosa Xylo [4-4, Hazard Rank D]

⚋ Name: Astafosa Xylo ⚋ Alias': Fosa ⚋ Age: 34 ⚋ Birthday: November 5th ⚋ Gender: - ⚋ Race: Fullbringer ⚋ Affiliation: None ⚋ Marital Status: Single ⚋Nationality: Greek-Greenlandic ⚋ Religious Standing: - ⚋ Sexual Orientation: - ⚋ Height: 6'6" ⚋ Weight: 198 lbs ⚋ Hair Colour: Sky Blue ⚋ Eye Colour: Yellow

» Physical Appearance Description:

Astafosa, or Fosa as she prefers to be called, tends to tower over most who cross her path. At first glance one could hardly note she is anything but a giant of a woman with soft gentle features with no lack of elegance about her. With bright yellowed eyes and a sharpness to her gaze it isn't uncommon for those who encounter her to feel some considerable level of intimidation in meeting her. All the same, she often holds a calm, thoughtful, or relaxing expression on her face, which offsets her other more unnerving features. For as large and dignified as she seems she also bleeds a notion of being approachable and often seems humble without so much as a word or a gesture.




» Personality:

Fosa is a very tactile woman in how she presents herself, often using gestures and touching or manipulating things as she speaks. It is not very often one can find her without a pen and other times she simply will play around with her hair or some portion of her clothing when something more free isn't available. She has a very sharp, cunning mind and makes a good effort to obscure this with calm gentleness about her in what she believes to be very charming.

It is, however, her penchant for growing suddenly happy and excitable at times that exudes the more considerable manifestation of her charisma, especially coming from a woman of such size. This plays into her tactile nature as she can often be seen with some charm or even one of her Cats when she isn't working.



» Likes: Sweet Foods/Drinks, Small things, Flowers, History, The Written Word.

» Dislikes: Military Types, Wanton Destruction, Fire.



» History

Passion.
Those that knew her would say it was the very flame that guided every step of her life. Her parents met on an expedition, her Mother (A greek woman by the name Dimitra) was on an expedition team run by a small company named Astra Istoria, a Greek organization which started as a Historical Society interested in gathering data and information scattered throughout the world by the World Wars and the attack from Ender.

One particular group of individuals originally descended from Norway purportedly had traveled up to the Arctic Circle to escape the conflict. During the Third and Fourth World Wars, every now and then groups of people from Norway and even Greenland would travel up to the north pole following this pipe dream of some sort of Northern Haven from all of the destruction in a place no sane person would look, leading to a number of rather famous shipwrecks and other such stories of lost travelers up to the region, making it a potential site for recovering items of cultural significance.

It was during a supply run to Greenland that she met Fosa's father: Iko. The two rapidly grew fond of eachother and before long Fosa was born.

As she was growing up Fosa watched as her parents risked their lives and built everything on their love of knowledge and history. She loved it, and had no shortage of fascination for the things that her Mother would bring back from her trips. When she was 12 her family decided to move to Greece where her Father had been born to be with Family. Once she was old enough to work she promptly applied to work for Astra Istoria, which had grown considerably. Over the years the company's pursuit in collecting and preserving information from the destroyed past began to gain popularity. As their work often involved entering territory controlled or left in ruin by demons, hollows and demonic folk were often obstacles and so the company had a penchant for using it's grant money to hire security detail for these trips, however it was her mother that had put forth the policy for Astra Istoria personnel to be trained in basic self defense and weapons training.

By the time Fosa had reached the age of 5 the Company had, thanks to a number of veterans from World War 3 joining the organization, developed into something of a paramilitary force that outgrew the need to hire outside help for security and the company continued to garner financial and public support. While the company originally struggled financially as a result of having to delve into areas either uninhabitable or not deemed profitable to secure from demons or hollows, the act of securing these zones often would involve setting up base camps and areas of operation within what generally were abandoned or blown out structures from the past while they conducted their expeditions.

Refugees, nomads, and even those who normally would venture into inhospitable areas would soon congregate and settle these areas. As a result, a number of NEW habitable settlements would form in the wake of their expeditions. A politician from Norway eventually took interest with the company and joined the company as a publicist. By the time Fosa was seventeen the company had a considerable revenue as the company would seek out ruins of significant cultural interest, scrub it for historical objects of significance, and then work on restoring the ruins to some semblance of their former glory. This was generally accomplished with the help of an affiliate called Grans Tomorrow, a construction company from Greenland.

This is the company that Fosa would find herself working for straight out of graduating from Highschool. She fell in love with the line of work almost instantly and before long she was rising up the ranks. Around her mid 20s she was moved up into an administrative position in the company, replacing Mr. Isak Hur, the politician from Norway, as the chief publicist for the company. Her years of working out on the field made her a formidable woman and the military-level training she'd garnered meant that she was more than comfortable getting her hands dirty. As such, she often oversaw operations personally in addition to oversight and general management of the company's public image.

By the time she was 25, Astra Istoria had begun to garner a bit of recognition throughout Europe as their organization began to accumulate a number of spiritually gifted individuals as their reputation as a paramilitary grew. In order to further lock down funding for expeditions and the academic pursuit of preservation and restoring historical sites the company began to selectively accept contracts to lend it's security force out to outside entities. Soon enough, Fosa found that her job shifted from mere public relations as a result of her own exemplary work in the field to the Director of Astra Istoria Security Forces.

In her thirties, with the outbreak of World War Four, what had originated as simply a company formed in the pursuit of maintaining and restoring the culture and history from the previous calamities on earth soon found itself dealing with a whole new calamity. Despite having existed under the general occupation of Shadowfall up until the events of the Tournament which saw Greece fall into the hands of Desmond Hayden, it was no stranger to sudden upsets. With the Queen more or less arbitrarily deciding their new leader, the actual hold the Greek government held became somewhat shaky and tenuous.

It was, in fact, those few groups, organizations, and companies of all things that had the most direct influence over the country that gave some semblance of stability up until that point. And then of all things, the tournament was won by an active Greecian. At that time, Fosa more or less despite still only holding position as the Security Force Director, at that point was in charge of the entire company by nature of the Paramilitary becoming it's primary function, even if it still retained the core values of protection and preservation of culture and information.

And at the head of this entity, Fosa watched as Greece was then suddenly....free. The winner announced that Greece would be allowed to be it's own sovereign nation. When World War Four loomed, they received support as conflict broke out, and Fosa even dispatched some of her security force outside of contract to engage in some of the battles happening around their country.

And with the end of World War Four, Greece found a lul. Seemingly having had it's fill of conflict for the time being, Greece still stood. Independent of all things after so long. The government shakily established a form of comfort and control. Fosa simply continues with her business, too jaded from the events she witnessed to believe that Greece would simply enjoy it's freedom and sovereign status forever.

And of course, the world has so much in need of restoration.



» Equipment:

Astra Istoria:

A company revolving around the preservation and restoration of historical and cultural items of significance from the days before Ender, but soon branched into Paramilitary. This group has hunted for and collected numerous artifacts from the Before Ender, which naturally Astafosa has access to in addition to the monetary force afforded by the organization.


Astra Istoria Security Force:

The Paramilitary of the Asta Istoria Organization. Self trained, self funded, and self armed. In addition to serving as a paramilitary force that can be called upon by the Greek government in times of need, this Security Force also secures and provides oversight for the restoration and preservation of Historically-Relevent ruins throughout Europe. As such, Fosa has access to weapons and personnel for the purposes of acting in the interests of Asta Istoria.

Mast of the Argo Shard:

A splinter from the Mast of the Argo, the legendary ship used by Jason in Greek Legend with the name of the ship written across it, though only part of the carved name is on this shard. Though as it barely falls under the umbrella of her fullbring, its ability is limited and has no more room for growth or expansion.

>Safe Passage: Blessed by the gods for a long voyage, this shard is capable of passing on that blessing to any vehicle or structure Fosa is either IN or near (Within 5 meters). This passes the durability boost this item has onto the vehicle or structure and is a key tactic for minimizing collateral damage. The durability increase scales off Fosa's Mediumship Skill. Cannot be used on people. Lasts for 10 posts, the Shard itself loses all durability while ability is active on a target, if the shard is broken then the ability is interrupted and goes on a 5 post cooldown.







» Skills:

Paramilitary Veteran Having served in the Astra Istoria Security Force even before it had become it's own separate branch, Fosa boasts an above-average skillset in terms of combat even above normal mercenaries or fighters. This is due to the nature of the Security Force's interest in engaging targets with limited damage to the surrounding structures and any precious items that might normally become collateral damage. Focused on hard, fast strikes to take objectives without ruckus and fortifying locations to endure attacks, Fosa's expertise is far more tactical than physical.

Sharp as a Tack Raised to love history, culture, and the written word, as well as working for a company set to it's preservation and restoration: Fosa has a fair wisdom and intellect about her grown and cultivated by her admiration for academics. She has absorbed quite a lot of content, and VALUES that content considerably.




» Powers:

Fullbring Specialist:Artifice

It is perhaps destiny that Fosa is capable of reaching the souls of objects when she values them so highly above other things has resulted in a particular capability with her Fullbring abilities.
While she is CAPABLE of rudimentary Fullbring abilities with her general surroundings, she has a special connection with Artifacts and Physical Documents (Books, Scrolls, ect) ancient or otherwise. Her connection specifically is with any item that existed prior to the Invasion of Ender. When activating her fullbring with items within this category her capabilities are expressly higher and fully explore the upper limits of what one would expect from someone of her skill level.

» Abilities:

Bringer Light:

Fosa is capable of executing sudden high-speed moves similar to Shunpo or Sonido accompanied by a crackle of green light either before or after (Advanced or higher) the move. This ability scales off of her Power Control skill.

Fullbring: Whispers of the World:
Because of her job in hunting down artifacts and such, Fosa has developed an ability designed for seeking information from an object. By making physical contact with a building or object, she can gain a brief history (within the last week or so) of anything that the subject has interacted with or been near. For containers and large structures, this also provides information for it's contents, living or otherwise (Information garnered in this way is limited by ooc consent).





Fullbring Name: Vault of Ink

Fullbring Object: A book from ages long past discovered within the remnants of what was once a Library. One of her favorite books ever saved and recovered and one she reads rather often. Cyrano De Bergerac, Hardcover.
This item can be transformed into a thin Rapier about 1.7 meters from hilt to tip. The very weapon of choice for Cyrano, the main character within the book. In addition to being wielded, the blade itself seems to bend and seek about according to Fosa's will, though it's dimensions do not change, making it very unpredictable.

Fullbring Abilities:

From Shadow to Balcony:

Derived from the famous scene in which Cyrano feeds romantic lines to Christian. This ability allows Fosa to augment not herself: but others. So long as she is instructing a willing target within earshot to perform an action, that target can replace one of their Physical or Mental skills with her Mediumship skill for a single post for the purpose of carrying out these instructions. This ability can either be applied to a single instruction to a group (Up to 8 people, 16 at Tier 1) , or up to 3 instructions to a single target. Once instructions have been received, the boost must be used within 5 posts to gain the bonus. A target cannot have more than 1 instruction set unless they are the only target of this ability, then the limit is 3.

At Poem's End, Touché:
Derived from Cyrano's penchant for wit as sharp as his sword, specifically the scene in which he fights a man while composing a poem. This ability enhances Fosa's ability to destroy a target through insult as well as injury. By performing a ritual in which Fosa composes an insulting poem about her target over the course of 3 consecutive posts, Fosa can make any injuries inflicted on the target dire. Wounds will bleed profusely, refuse to heal, and debilitate the target twice as much as normal (A cut across the wrist would make it twice as difficult to use that wrist than the injury normally would). This ability lasts for 3 posts before it will need to be reapplied (this countdown only begins once a post has transpired from Fosa in which she has ceased to Flame her target).
This ability relies on the target's ability to hear Fosa flame them, targets who are deaf or otherwise unable to hear Fosa are unaffected.






General Skills

• Durability: Beginner
  
• General Speed: Adept
  
• Strength: Adept
  
• Martial Skill: Adept
  

High-Spec Human Sheet

• Power Control: Adept
  
• Spiritual Adaptation: Beginner
  
• Physical Augmentation: Beginner
  
• Mediumship: Advanced
  

Will Skills

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Focus: Advanced
  

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