The Cactus Cowgirl
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BASICS
Name: Rosamarillo/”Ro”
Gender: Female
Species: Elemental - Florid subspecie
Name: Rosamarillo/”Ro”
Gender: Female
Species: Elemental - Florid subspecie
APPEARANCE
Riding atop her longhorn landshark steed is a peculiar figure wrapped in a multicolored cloak. Atop her head blooms a yellow rose, providing her much needed shade from the Exodus Desert sun. Her pigtails, made out of several sphere-like cacti and vine like bits, bounce as she soars through the air on her mighty steed. Her arms end in prickly erupting from her prickly green arm. Upon further inspection, she is some sort of cactus-based humanoid, standing about 4’2” in height. She points at the guards, plugging them with needles with every jerk of her arm.
Riding atop her longhorn landshark steed is a peculiar figure wrapped in a multicolored cloak. Atop her head blooms a yellow rose, providing her much needed shade from the Exodus Desert sun. Her pigtails, made out of several sphere-like cacti and vine like bits, bounce as she soars through the air on her mighty steed. Her arms end in prickly erupting from her prickly green arm. Upon further inspection, she is some sort of cactus-based humanoid, standing about 4’2” in height. She points at the guards, plugging them with needles with every jerk of her arm.
ABILITIES
- Fire/Wind/Earth Reiatsu: As a Florid - a subtype of nature elemental, Rosamarillo naturally has access to nature-based earth magic. Her particular version involves summoning sandstorms and sandstreams as well as the usual vines and flowers of her kind. This can be seen as a form of wind elemental reiatsu as well - though it is only trace amounts, as the attacks must involve sand, her natural habitat. In addition, she has absorbed a rare element for her kind - fire reiatsu, from spending so much time in the sun. Her favorite usage is to utilize heat to enchant her spine projectiles with fire, or to create haze illusions from superheating the area - combining this with her ability to manipulate sand for hit and run tactics, which complement her chosen profession well.
- Spines: As a prickly cactus, one of Rosamarillo’s basic defenses is her prickly form. Her spines can grow in size and length, becoming a variety of weapons as needed - from stabbing stakes to lances. Her favored form is to point at her opponents with her arm extended, and rapidly launch spines into them en masse, or grow larger ones and fire them off like a cannon with just as much punch. These spines are formidable weapons, and can pierce most knight plating. Although she can store a massive reserve, this requires her to rest for a while afterwards, consuming a lot of her stored nutrients and water. In addition to the ranged options, she also favors dagger-like spines as well as a spiney vine whip.
- Surprisingly Agile: For a plant, Rosamarillo can move. Acrobatic and speedy, Rosamarillo uses this for quick escapes and speedy approaches, combined with her favored mount T-Bone the longhorn landshark.
- T-Bone: At easily 20 feet in length and over half a ton in weight, T-Bone the longhorn landshark/bulette is a massive monstrosity to ride. T-Bone’s front facemask is nearly impenetrable by normal weapons/magic, and its scales in other areas are no joke in terms of defense (although significantly weaker than the aforementioned facemask). It can burrow through sand and dirt and rock at impressive speeds, and has a decent land speed to boot. However, it cannot maintain this speed for too long due to its massive girth, so it must rely on Rosamarillo’s sandstorms to hide its slow approach.
- Survivalist: Rosamarillo is a survival specialist. Able to go weeks upon weeks without food or water, unless she’s exerting herself in combat.
- Florid Regeneration: Rosamarillo’s body parts can regenerate, and by utilizing more of her nutrient stores, she can regenerate quickly, able to regrow entire limbs in ten minutes. The faster she accelerates the growth process, the more inefficient her stamina usage.
WEAKNESSES
- Limited Combat Stamina: Rosamarillo’s impressive stamina does not extend to combat. Extensive usage of her abilities can easily leave her hungry and thirsty, especially since she makes the desert her home. Therefore, it is often better for her to avoid combat even if she can win.
- Can’t Take a Hit: Rosamarillo may be hardy as far as harsh conditions, but she cannot take too many hits. While enemies using claws and the like may find it hard to strike such a spiny creature, those that can find it will not take too many strikes to bring her down.
- Limited Melee Skill: Rosamarillo can form thorn-daggers and a spiney vine whip, but she does not especially excel at the former - not horrible, but nothing exceptional either. While she is skilled with a whip, an opponent can get in close. The only defense she has against close-range opponents is her natural spines - if an opponent can bypass this, she’s more or less hopeless in close quarters.
BACKGROUND
Near a desert village in Exodus, a young girl would constantly read to a cactus. The kid would pretend the cactus was her friend. Every day over the course of several years, she would read to it. In turn, the cactus would provide her shade and company - ever silent, ever listening. Even as an adolescent, the girl would do everything around the cactus. Practicing her spells, sharing romantic puppy love underneath the shade of this cactus. As the young girl grew into a young woman, married to a merchant, she took her children out to play near the cactus.
About this time, the cactus had reached the stage called a “bloom” - where a Florid starts developing sentience. However, the cactus simply did not wish to move. It was happy.
However, as it developed senses, it started noticing things. Like how the woman was coming with various marks on her face. The children would often be crying or clinging to their mother. One day, the woman and the children stopped coming. That was when the cactus made its move.
It entered the village. She had heard the description of the home, and found her way to it. Being so connected to the earth, she noted recently dug, unmarked graves, and immediately knew who was in them. Notably, the husband was not among them. Listening to the other villagers, apparently the merchant had left on a caravan trip...supposedly with his family. For a very long time.
Joining a gang of bandits who preyed upon various caravans - The Holdem Studs, she quickly built up experience and a reputation for being a fearsome bandit herself, utilizing some of the spells her dead friend had inadvertently taught her, infused her with.
In her adventures, she was able to accomplish several larger than life feats, such as taming a fiercesome beast, a landshark they called “The Sand Cyclone.” She named it T-Bone, after managing to tame it via riding it around.
She has finally caught wind of the name of her target - a merchant family named “Roth.” In that family, she would find the bastard who had taken her first friend.
As a result of having an odd upbringing, Rosamarillo clings closely to anybody who will acknowledge her, forming a dependent clingy relationship with them, which is why she continuously runs with the Holdem Studs in spite of them only using her for her skill as a bandit
Near a desert village in Exodus, a young girl would constantly read to a cactus. The kid would pretend the cactus was her friend. Every day over the course of several years, she would read to it. In turn, the cactus would provide her shade and company - ever silent, ever listening. Even as an adolescent, the girl would do everything around the cactus. Practicing her spells, sharing romantic puppy love underneath the shade of this cactus. As the young girl grew into a young woman, married to a merchant, she took her children out to play near the cactus.
About this time, the cactus had reached the stage called a “bloom” - where a Florid starts developing sentience. However, the cactus simply did not wish to move. It was happy.
However, as it developed senses, it started noticing things. Like how the woman was coming with various marks on her face. The children would often be crying or clinging to their mother. One day, the woman and the children stopped coming. That was when the cactus made its move.
It entered the village. She had heard the description of the home, and found her way to it. Being so connected to the earth, she noted recently dug, unmarked graves, and immediately knew who was in them. Notably, the husband was not among them. Listening to the other villagers, apparently the merchant had left on a caravan trip...supposedly with his family. For a very long time.
Joining a gang of bandits who preyed upon various caravans - The Holdem Studs, she quickly built up experience and a reputation for being a fearsome bandit herself, utilizing some of the spells her dead friend had inadvertently taught her, infused her with.
In her adventures, she was able to accomplish several larger than life feats, such as taming a fiercesome beast, a landshark they called “The Sand Cyclone.” She named it T-Bone, after managing to tame it via riding it around.
She has finally caught wind of the name of her target - a merchant family named “Roth.” In that family, she would find the bastard who had taken her first friend.
As a result of having an odd upbringing, Rosamarillo clings closely to anybody who will acknowledge her, forming a dependent clingy relationship with them, which is why she continuously runs with the Holdem Studs in spite of them only using her for her skill as a bandit