Fold.SP

Name: Fold.SP

Gender: Female

Element: Null

Subtype: Shield

Appearance: At first glance, Fold seems similar to Ante; she's roughly the same height of 6'0", with similarly gray-toned skin and a pretty, model-like Netopian face. Up close, it's clear that her face is a bit less angular, her eyelids a little heavier, and her lips a bit fuller; her skin is also a shade darker. With those differences, no one would mistake them for sisters up close, farther than their unusual grayness or their elegant clothing. The color of her eyes is nearly black itself, and her expression is usually a passive smile, good-natured, with raised eyebrows. Fold has jet-black hair that reaches about to her shoulders when she is not helmeted or hooded. Her body is different from Ante's; due to the fact that she always wears heavy armor, either through necessity or conditioning, she's rather muscular beneath her equipment in a way that one would not expect from the way she behaves. Her womanly features are also still admirable, with well-sized curves in the expected places, but some of it gets lost in the muscle-tone, as compared to Ante's more figure, which is closer to that of the typical ideal wife.

Like Ante's hat and dress, Fold's clothing looks eccentric, thematic, and is a sight to behold. Her armor is mostly black, including a helmet with a long, bill-like visor. It doesn't actually cover her eyes or any part of her face, but does shade her eyes. The back of the helmet includes a wide fin, which, when viewed from the top, makes a spade shape. The rest of the armor includes a metallic dress, which includes shoulder armor, breast armor, gauntlets, boost, and a number of long tassets which hang from a fauld at her waist. Her undersuit is similar to Ante's only the material is a little thicker still and the color is dark red. Like Ante's, it includes a hood, although the back of hers is held in an elongated, diamond shape instead of a club. Silver detailing adorns the armor here and there, such as at the buckles, which are shaped like tiny diamonds themselves and are arranged mostly on the sides of the armor, where the wearer can reach them. The armor bisects into two halves when unbuckled, except for the helmet, which includes a chin-strap with a discrete buckle beneath the jaw. Unlike with Ante's equipment, there's no daintiness to the gloves or boots; the heels are flat and the upper parts of the knuckles are covered in thick armor, allowing her just enough flexibility to wrap her hands as she needs for battle.

Her armaments consist of only a short, plain sword, designed like an ancient spatha with no cross-hilt or hilt-guard, and a shield. The shield itself is rather large but also light, covering a little less than half of the body when held vertically. It is shaped like an upside down spade and adorned with a splendid, silver frame; it's such an attractive design, she thinks, that she is often loath to use it as a means of defense.

Personality: Despite her military background, Fold is an old-fashioned type of woman: like Ante, she enjoys the trappings of high-society and actually has a bit more of a knack for the domestic side of it than the princess does. She's friendly with most and loves to joke, gossip, and usually is a tad nosy. Her greatest weakness is that she dotes on Ante obsequiously and appears more than a little obsessive. She sees few flaws in anything Ante does and is always eagerly awaiting her next order. She is the type to think of others before herself, but Ante more than anyone else. Despite how Fold favors domestic life, she appears wholly uninterested in her own romantic life or men, possibly as an extension of giving Ante all of her attention instead of worrying about herself. Fold is also an unlucky sort, making a career out of being a meat-shield and remaining an eternal bachelorette, but seems to be unable to resist gambling or challenges, even going so far as recommending risky courses of actions to Ante when possible. She believes that fortune favors the bold.

Background: Fold is the "Black Queen," a high-ranking member of Ante's former royal guard, whose whereabouts are now mostly unknown. The same bug that changed Ante's skin coloration, took away her powers, and forces her near-naked in many battles has also affected Fold, although in mostly a different way. She was sealed inside of Ante's programming and only emerged bit by bit, first as a voice within Ante's head, then as an immaterial shadow capable of projecting itself outward and into Ante's vicinity. With Fold that far revealed, Ante and Teruko were able to use the SP base to give Fold a body again, although some of the curses that afflict Ante have transferred over to her: the odd, gray skin and, more importantly, the auto-running strip poker game that removes her clothing in intervals corresponding to the game's score. It isn't a great persistent bug for a shield-bearer to have, that much is certain. At Ante's request, Fold has revealed little more about their past to Teruko, despite the operator's insistence.

Custom Weapon: Fold's shortsword has an unassuming appearance. It's hilt is black and its blade is silver, with length only a little more than a grown man's forearm. It's not something that was made to do a lot of attacking, since her role is mostly that of a defender. If she has to fight at a range, she can swing her blade to shower an opponent with a number of silver, metallic shards in the shapes of spades but they are no more effective than the weapon proper in terms of damage.

Eternal bachelorette meat shield, Approved

Might as well use this same space to make a .GMO for Fold. :Y

BallGown.GMO (Level 0)

With little time to work with, Ante decided it was best to simply copy over most of the aspects of her own dress for Fold's BallGown.GMO. It's mostly the same, including a breast-hemmed, strapless ball-gown and large, ornate hat. The only huge difference between the two is that Fold's outfit is primarily black instead of red, but other differences include a spade shape to the hat as opposed to Ante's heart-shaped one and diamond-shaped silver zippers where appropriate rather than spade-shaped ones. Her gloves are a bit shorter and frilled around the edges in a dainty way that doesn't exactly befit her toned arms. The collar she wears is thinner than Ante's own and is frilled around the surface, with no obvious zipper. Her feet are clad in short, laced boots, which are not frilled and are usually hidden beneath the tremendous bell of her dress. She wears an undersuit beneath, only hers is a dark red color instead of black. Like Ante's, it's slightly thinner than Fold's usual skinsuit variation. Her weapon does not change from its usual version.

Approved.

Spending some frags to strengthen Fold...

100 for Second Chance
100 for Chip Preset
30 for Hit Point v1 and v2
=230 total

Aaaaand, I want to rewrite her personality, cause she didn't end up writing how I wrote it!

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Personality: Despite her military background, Fold enjoys the trappings of high-society, but she's also used to working as a servant and performing domestic tasks. She's friendly with most and loves to joke, gossip, and usually is a tad nosy, but very sociable. Her greatest weakness is that she dotes on Ante obsequiously and appears more than a little obsessive. She sees few flaws in anything Ante does and is always eagerly awaiting her next order. She is the type to think of others before herself, but Ante more than anyone else. Despite how Fold favors domestic life, she appears wholly uninterested in her own romantic life or men, possibly as an extension of giving Ante all of her attention instead of worrying about herself. Fold is also an unlucky sort, making a career out of being a meat-shield and remaining an eternal bachelorette, but seems to be unable to resist taking part in gambling or challenges.

Approved.