Brown

Brown, the Ecliptic Warlord is a young protege within the Black Resistance, serving the Matriarch. He is a brilliant strategist, a fearless fighter, after witnessing the atrocities of the world. Since then, he has risen through the ranks, earning the respect and admiration of his comrades. He is known for his daring raids, and his fierce devotion to the cause. He, alongside his sister, Shan, serve as the Matriarch's right hand, and her most trusted allies. He will stop at nothing to free the world from tyranny, starting with his pursuit of Lin.

- Personality -

Brown has a strong moral compass due to his kind heart and a receptive mind, always eager to learn new things and improve his skills. He expresses honesty and respect for others, fostering and open nature due to how he values life above all else. This is why he doesn't like to do actions such as mercy killings or assassinations unless the situation calls for it. Brown is driven through a powerful sense of duty, not just to the cause he serves, but to the memory of those he has failed along the way. He serves the Matriarch and Shan without hesitation, even willing to sacrifice himself or place brutality on criminals for their sake.

However, this unyielding devotion also reveals a critical flaw: Brown has a problematic tendency to have naive views of situations and place individuals like the Matriarch on a pedestal, creating a hierarchy in his mind that influences how he views others. This can blind him to their flaws or lead to biased judgment, ironically making him come off as a "wise guy" despite his genuine good intentions. While his heart generally leans towards compassion, Brown is not without a hardened edge. When faced with enemies, he is calm and calculating, a fiery determination rising to the surface. This is particularly evident in combat, where his strength lies in his ability to remain disciplined and execute strategy.

- Relationships -

• • Matriarch: Brown reveres the Matriarch as the guiding force of the community. Their interactions are often formal, yet there's an underlying warmth suggesting a deep familial bond. The Matriarch, in turn, regards Brown with a mix of pride and affection, her guidance tailored to his strengths and weaknesses, always pushing him to be his best self. His unwavering loyalty to her commands speaks volumes about his respect for authority and experience. Brown sees in the Matriarch a guiding light, a beacon of wisdom that steers him through the tumultuous seas of life. This reverence, however, is a double-edged sword. By placing her on a pedestal, Brown risks overlooking her human fallibilities, potentially leading to a skewed perception of those around him.

• • Shan: Brown and Shan share a history rich with inside jokes, mutual support, and an unbreakable bond. Their relationship is filled with competition that drives both to excel while ensuring a safety net of mutual support. Like siblings, they may bicker and tease, and are able to understand each other's quirks and habits. Allowing them to communicate sometimes without even speaking. While the Matriarch is what keeps the two of them grounded to reality, Shan and Brown are each other's inner voice that maintains their way of reasoning. Their true strength likes in their teamwork, complimenting each other's skills in a way that's unlike any other pair in the Revolt Tyrants.

• • Redd: Redd is both a spark of creativity, and a challenger to Brown. They often debate with each other on ideas for innovations, occasionally causing Brown to question the status quo. Yet despite these best intentions, Brown's interactions with Redd are tinged with an implicit bias, a reflection of the pedestals he constructs in his mind. Brown's desire to maintain order sometimes manifests in a need to shield Redd from the chaos of their world. This protective streak, while well-intentioned, can sometimes be misconstrued by Redd as overbearing. Extending to how Redd often feels on edge with the Matriarch, causing Brown to have to keep him in line.

• • Paco: In Paco, Brown finds a reliable shoulder to lean on. Their bond is built on solidified trust and the shared joy of life's simple pleasures. Paco is the keeper of Brown's secrets, with their bond being a constant negotiation between Brown's inherent kindness and the necessity of making tough decisions. Paco represents the moral dilemmas that tests Brown, shaping his understanding of mercy and justice. Paco often finds himself at the crossroads of Brown's moral compass, where the lines between right and wrong are blurred. Through Paco, Brown confronts the weight of his actions and the impact they have on the lives of others. Causing him to always uphold his values.

• • Effi: Effi, with her carefree spirit and joy, brings a sense of balance to Brown's disciplined and orderly world. Her spontaneous escapades provide Brown with a glimpse into a world where rules are bent in favor of adventure, causing him to sometimes defy his inclination for order to give way for moments where he can relax and feel free. Effi coaxes Brown out of his comfort zone, cherishing simpler times to keep the energy high in order to feel prepared for later missions. Her unorthodox approach to life challenges Brown's structured mindset, often leading to moments of unexpected joy and spontaneity.

• • Viktoria: TBA

- History - Past -

Brown was born as a lab child inside of a research facility alongside another test subject, Shan. This facility was purposed around mass-producing resources through experimenting with elemental properties of harvested blood from slain nephillim at an abandoned village that hid a fragment of an ancient weapon. Only a few of these villagers would be alive to keep away from the lab, while Brown lived a closed-in life with Shan and other patients being like a family to him. Yet the researchers of the facility did not take so kindly to him. He had incomplete blood running through his veins, thus was seen as a failure when an elderly supervisor scratched out one of his eyes. Shan felt pity on him, as she was born with a rare crystal mutation and was seen as gifted yet wanted to give her blessing to others. Together, Brown and Shan formed a plan to leave the facility and attempted to bring out fellow patients with them. A power outage rocked the compound, plunging it into darkness through Brown sabotaging the grid. With the facility shrouded in darkness, Brown and Shan seized their chance to break free. The duo slipped through the labyrinthine corridors, their hearts pounding with a mixture of fear and exhilaration. As they neared the facility's exit, a sudden alarm pierced the air, signaling their escape to the alerted guards. Adrenaline pumping through their veins, they finally burst through the heavy doors that had long been their prison, emerging into the cool night air with breathless laughter. Their joy was short-lived, however, as the facility's security forces quickly closed in on their location. Shan's crystal powers surged forth in a dazzling display of energy, momentarily blinding their pursuers and buying them precious moments to flee deeper into the shadows of the night.

Shan used her powers to explore the world with Brown, seeking adventure and purpose. Brown would use wood sticks as a child to play fake sword fights with Shan. One day, they were discovered by Brahnan and the Matriarch of the Revolt Tyrants. The Matriarch took her in, while Brahnan remained suspicious of their blood's heritage. Yet the two found a new family with the Matriarch and Brahnan, finding their true calling as a rebel.

- Abilities -

Brown is disciplined in speed and stealth. He is a smart fighter, able to adjust his strategy and turn the tide of battle in his favor. Constantly thinking up ways to twist and turn how he fights. In combat, Brown adopts a wide stance, holding his sword in the middle so he can slash up or down with ease. Just like a mantis, Brown emphasizes quick and agile movements, darting in and out of range to strike swiftly and unexpectedly. Focusing on pinpoint accuracy through using controlled power on each of his strikes to maximize his blade's impact while conserving his energy. He deflects attacks with sharp movements and a "praying hands" posture to neutralize the attack. Emphasizing evasive movements and counterattacks to flow between offense and defense through baiting enemies with feints, misdirection and deceptive moments to create an opening on opponents. He has deep situational awareness and keen observation of the surroundings, giving him a tactical advantage. Alternating between high and low attacks, using more direct attacks. staying on the offensive, he prefers to counter with his sword to maintain consistent pressure on his opponents. Though Brown's style is physically demanding with how he wields his blade thus relies more on skill to compensate. He can combine his sword skills with his guns and rocket launcher, creating unpredictable combos. His guns allow him to shoot from a distance, keeping enemies at bay. Depending on the situation, he can fire rapidly or aim for precise shots. His rocket launcher deals massive damage, blasting foes with explosive force. By launching rockets in different directions, he creates chaos and confusion among his enemies.

- Playstyle and Moveset Plan -

• • Brown's playstyle welcomes speed and concentrated attacks to focus on one-on-one and hit-and-run combat for consistent attacks. Brown can cancel his attacks into other attacks or spell cards through his movement inputs, allowing for fluid transitions. 

• • Brown's Climax Gauge is labeled as the Senko Flash, which boosts his speed and strength as he accumulates it with timed attacks, set-ups, and counters. 
  • Sheathed Directions:
    • Low: Increased damage to armored targets.
    • Mid: Improved perfect cancel timing window.
    • High: Significantly enhanced range on Deep Cut, allows for magnetic shock aftershocks to stagger when charged.
  • Well-timed follow-ups detonate or enhance these cuts, creating magnetic blasts, blade extensions, or teleporting re-strikes. This boosts Brown's speed and freezes his blade upon gaining Senko to grant sheathless attacks (Unsheathed Tranquility) with new critical properties for full-body freezes and damage zones that allow for more slower and less focused attacks expanding with Brown's charge timing in consecutive hits. While Kudo's sheath forms a defensive rod that fires lightning when it detaches, Brown triggers liquid nitrogen in it's shaft to coat the sword as an offensive guard to perform combo extensions and charged hits with autocombo follow-ups that slow enemies down for extra damage adding up on each hit. But it will melt when Brown slows down, gets hit or manually activates his alternate mode for increased counter-damage and knockback in exchange for his cancels, adding up super armor onto Brown's health. Using lightning attacks on his shards causes slowed enemies to be staggered with accumulated stun. 
  • Brown is able to cancel the startup of his attacks through his teleport-dashes and other inputs when his sheath glows to reposition, activating special moves that vary based on the attacks used on Senko Flash. Brown's sheath adjusts its form based on his timing and combo chains:
    
    • Flash Freeze: Consecutive instant hits layer crystals onto the enemy, increasing slow effects by building up stun. Enemies will freeze, then shatter after another attack.
    • Brown gains a slight damage buff and hitstun bonus against enemies he hasn't attacked recently (5-8 seconds)
  • One Kudo hit causes the next hit to have chip damage and add up stun. Increases dodge window on next dash with increased range, leaving behind a damaging afterimage. 
  • Two Kudo hits adds a special debuff on enemies.
  • Three Kudo hits has hyper armor and guard-breaking properties.
    • Crystalized Impact: When Brown accumulates a certain amount of delayed sheathed slashes (Kudo hits), his next attack gains a Resonant Surge, extending his blade momentarily with vibrational force that pierces through defenses.
    • Tessellate: After every third delayed slash, a secondary slash pattern manifests in the air as a geometric afterimage, slicing enemies a second time. These can be detonated with electric attacks for extra hitstun.
    • If Brown switches between sheathed and unsheathed attacks three times in rapid succession, his next strike generates a frozen shockwave that locks enemy movement momentarily, extending stagger time.
    • Performs an attack multiple times with his teleport dash.
    • Deep Cut: If Brown interrupts his own attack with a perfect cancel, the crystal violently shatters, dealing burst AoE damage and staggering enemies. Basic delayed slashes hit 1 second later with damage that multiplies based on how many stored Kudo hits Brown has done.
    • Quickly charging causes Brown's sheath to reinforce the blade for magnetic hits via aftershocks. Holding longer scales the attack for a multi-enemy hit based on how high Senko Flash is, allowing for guard-breaking hits.
    • Absolute: A perfectly-timed parry if an enemy attacks Brown during the delay of a Kudo hit, teleporting behind the enemy and fully freezes them for a short period.
    • At maximum Senko Flash, Brown's Kudo Diviner crackles with excess energy, generating a thin electrical aura around him that causes afterimages of his slashes to appear shortly after the original, making each attack hit twice and for his delayed slashes to trigger instantly.
  • Brown can redirect momentum from one attack into another by tapping the movement input right before a hit connects.
  • This allows for:
    
    • Shift Feint: Cancels an attack into a directional fake-out step that slows down time and makes Brown invulnerable, baiting enemies before a follow-up or counter hit that allows Brown to teleport to an enemy with a critical hit.
    • Dash Cancels into Reverse Cuts, perfect for mix-ups and counter-offense.
    • Airborne Movement Adjustments, letting Brown feint mid-air attacks.
  • Special Property: If Brown changes direction three times in a single combo, he releases a Reverb, sending out a chilling shockwave that amplifies Senko Flash gain.

Kudo Diviner: Brown's thin electric blade in the form of a sheathe and longsword that carries a high frequency. He wields it in a style reminiscent of a praying mantis. Within the blade is a battery mechanism of a resonating current that allows charges of high vibrations, converting vibrations of energy into fuel to slice through whatever it cuts. Using blunt strikes, angular and curved slashes, side cuts, swift thrusts, sometimes using the crystalline sheath as a club. The nitrogen-infused sickle blade (Chitin Equalizer) has strong knockback during defensive attacks, deflecting, dodging and interrupting enemies.

• Quartered Mantis A, B and C Combos: Brown has a 3-slash combo of alternating slashes that sweeps enemies. Charging Brown's first attack and then following it up with different inputs that are timed causes him to do a flurry of crescent-like strikes in quick succession to freeze enemies, ending with him sharply raising his blade from the ground as his sheathe rod extends upward with a chargeable wave of lightning and shards. His C Combo causes him to send a
• Cycling Gibbous Combos: Brown has a short mid-air combo of 3 slashes that juggles enemies within a wide range. Mid-combo, Brown can pause briefly before he performs a crescent-like spin into the enemy with increasing damage. He can direct it forward or downward with his lock-on, being able to hit multiple enemies at once.

• Aerial charge attack. Brown pivots mid-air and spins forward in a drilling strike, sending out a wave of crystal shards that freeze enemies upon impact.

• Air Taunt: Brown fires off a rapid shot from his sheathe. This can be used mid-attack to extend his combo duration with a teleport-dash, reappearing behind the enemy for a quick reversal cut.
• Mandible Reflex: A dodge and parry stance for Brown to deflect attacks and reduce delay on sheathed slashes, cancelling out moves for combo duration and gains portions of Senko upon timing. Upon a parry, Brown does a heavy overhead that sweeps in enemies for a grappling attack that charges to multiply damage. Upon a dodge, Brown swings his sword out in a curved backhand that gives a speed boost upon being held. Allowing Brown to sprint for continuous slashes with trails of ice until flipping towards an enemy for a counterattack that sheathes enemies. Enemies that are frozen by Brown's sheath will be hit with a special finisher where he swipes with his rod and slashes enemies from behind with a cold slam. It's damage varies based on how long they were frozen by chaining attacks to create a shaped gem formation.
• Hunting Path: Brown does a chargeable thrust forward to dash with grenade trails that can be enhanced with a portion of Senko for an enemy-shocking follow-up that either launches or turns his trail into an electric shockwave. This dash can be timed up to 3 times and used after attacks to have multi-hitting curved slashes with his iceberg blade that will reach multiple enemies in front of Brown upon cutting it into electrified shards. 
• Kudo Sonic: Charges sheathe to send out 3 electric waves when the slashes are timed. Follow-up extends sheathe rod and coldened blade to fire out a ray of lightning and shards.
• Rapid Mantis: Rapidly slashes an enemy at close range, sending out shards of diamond before sheathing. Follow-up has Brown do a sweeping slash with his coldened blade. Can be done in mid-air.
• Scabbard: Stores up to 3 delayed slashes upon a counter or during a Kudo attack. These can be released simultaneously after a perfect cancel, unleashing a triple-stacking frozen resonance explosion.
• Kudo Draw: Enters a draw stance for a guard-staggering high, middle or low slash that must be timed and requires to not do the same input twice, linking moves together upon follow-up attacks and multiplies damage based on the amount of crystal present. Can be done at the end of moves, follow-up causes his sheathe rod to mark areas hit by his Draw slashes to make crystals hit back and forth. This stance allows to cancel into a parry/dodge, charged hit, or a special move with longer range. Can be done in mid-air.
• Quiver: Performing 3 Kudo Draws in a row allows Brown to perform a special follow-up. When Brown reaches maximum delayed Kudo slashes, they merge into one massive strike, dealing an AoE shockwave that freezes time for a brief moment before detonating with lightning pulses.
• Dashes in whatever direction Brown has hit with his Kudo Draw.
• Brown hits a piece of crystal with his Kudo Draw, causing it to explode and create a damage zone.
• Upon a fully charged Kudo attack, Brown's moves become enhanced to sweep in enemies.
• If an enemy is fully frozen by Flash Freeze and shattered by a Deep Cut, Brown performs an instant execution attack, teleporting behind them in a blur and leaving a hanging blade-shaped crystal in the air before it detonates.
• Lethal Focus: Upon a perfectly timed move, Brown can enter a time-slowing camouflage mode that allows him to perform fast critical attacks and phase through enemies with unlimited dashes. Attacks will charge to leave high stagger and he will not be detected until he hits an enemy.
• Mantodea: Brown can cancel dashes into an crystal-trailing spin slash. This allows him to slide along frozen areas he creates, accelerating into stronger, wider attacks. If done in mid-air, he creates a crystal wave beneath him that knocks enemies upward.
• Apothic Keeper: Brown pierces Kudo on the ground, electrifying the floor in a straight line in a hand-standing sharp kick that can be followed with a charged downwards slash. Dash-jumping causes Brown to leap at the enemy.
• Heliopause: An elbow, knee kick and double hopping kick that can cause enemies to slightly flinch and can be quickly charged for more damage, fully interrupting an enemy. This can be held after a combo to dash into enemies for rapid follow-ups. Canceling out of a dash transitions into a knee strike against enemies as well, making Brown reach to them quicker.
• Barbarossa's Pray: Brown brandishes his blade in a brief wind-up before performing a highly-damaging execution slash infused with lightning, sending out twin shockwaves. Timing it causes Brown to perform a rod attack that can be continuously input for a rapid slash. Quickly finishes enemies that are downed with a sheathed decapitation slash
• Wall-run. Brown can do a short combo while wall-running
• Equalizer's Revenge: When recovering, Brown performs an upward kick.
• Inertial Shift: Brown cancels out the start-up of his move and the cooldown by sheathing with a dashing cut of lightning and crystal. This allows him to transition between his normal attacks, dashes, parries/dodges and Kudo moves with combo extensions using properties based on the previous attack.
• Ecliptic Banish: Sheathes to send an outward multi-slash, timing it causes a large crystal slash to form on the enemy after sweeping them. Can be done in mid-air.
• Coronal Ambush: Chargeable wide swinging slash that covers an angle from low to high with intersecting v-shaped cuts, pushing away nearby enemies. The follow-up performs instant slashes.
• Scaffold Curtain: Fires out a rifle shot from Brown's sheath to send out lengthy electric waves that cover area. The follow-up makes him do a sweeping slash with multi-damage, bringing enemies inward.
• Ardent Thundercall: Brown stabs his blade into ground creating an electric zone dropping rain on enemies that step on it. Follow-up makes him cause shards to emerge from the electric zone, protruding enemies.
• Taunting grab that trips enemies who attempt to attack Brown. Brown can do a quick follow-up where he releases liquid nitrogen to freeze the demon he pierces into, using them as a shield.
• Full Rise: Chargeable upward kick launches enemies into the air, reaching aerial foes at mid-range. Can be used to follow-up his dash flick with ice. After launching, Brown does a swirling ice slash that thrusts as he fans out his blade.
• Moon Drop: When falling from mid-air, Brown executes a heel kick where he spins before slamming Kudo down. He can perform a short ice blade combo upon descending from mid-air.
• Fading Light: To surprise an enemy from ahead, Brown can use a timed throw where he tosses his sheath onto the enemy's face so he can get in as much hits as possible without interruption by creating an expanding field of lightning. Follow-up makes him slash into an enemy to freeze them by timing 3 dashes as a finisher, sending out ice shards.
• Waxing Phase: Stabs forward with gashing cuts to sweep in enemies, pulls his blade back and slams the ground before doing a finishing slash. Each hit is timed.
• Oppressive Gyre: Brown spins his Senko blade around himself or an enemy with counter-defensive properties by sweeping enemies then throwing them. This redirects attacks and will cause Brown's projectiles to home in on targeted enemies.
• Soul Binity: Spell card where Brown sprints at an enemy with Kudo and his Senko blade slashing rapidly before he spins into them, slamming with a large area of lightning and ice. Timing it uses a follow-up sending away a storm of ice shards.
• Sacred Matriarch Art: Spell card where Brown charges his Kudo before releasing a triple slash timed on each hit. Brown can set up Kudo lines to slash at, connecting his draw charges together for a rapid multi-slash.
• Ultimate Attack: TBA

? (TBA): A mid-long ranged blade combining fire and wind with heavy attacks.

Musket Falcon: A pair of 50 AE handguns that are similar to flintlocks and are good at any range, providing semi-rapid shots of high-powered ammunition. They can enter a gallery-shooting mode that fires steady shots focused toward either singular or multiple enemies. Additionally, they serve as defensive tools. Brown has up to 3 charge shots that increases how long the shot will last, having some more reliability than his rocket launcher and can stun smaller enemies. His charge shots cannot be sent all at once however.

After melee attacks, Brown can rapid-fire sweeping shots or slash at the moment of firing projectiles to boost shot speed, hitstun, and guard break. When timed perfectly in succession, a rapid shot or held shot is triggerable for a finisher.

• • Normal Shot. Shooting while in mid-air keeps Brown in place and slows down his descent
  • Nightfall Charge: Fires in a fan-shaped arc. Charging to level 2 fires rapid shots, and charging to level 3 fires multiple rounds in every direction while thrusting forward.
  • Upon using lock-on, Brown enters a steady aiming stance for controlled precise shots that can lock onto multiple targets or focus on one for increased damage.
  • Parry-based shot where well-timed shots deflects attacks for a countershot to stagger enemies. This can be used during dodges to leave an afterimage quickening Brown's shot.
  • Follow-up shots to melee attacks are rapid sweep shots
  • Boosts his shot's speed and damage by slashing on time with a shot through using Kudo in conjunction
  • Special finisher shot upon timing a shot / slash. Performing a rapid shot executes (TBA), while performing a held slash executes (TBA)

Breechmite: A rocket launcher that Brown uses to wear down defenses and blast away enemies that get in his path. Although it has a limited fire rate, it can be devastating when used strategically, as it has a lock-on to send homing rockets. However, Brown must maintain careful range when using it to avoid being too close.

• • Ordinance: Fires out rockets that can be moved in any direction to propel Brown. Works in mid-air
  • Deadlock: Locks-on to fire out homing missiles
  • Charges up a wide multi-enemy shot that knocks away enemies. Works in mid-air.

- Trivia -

Brown represents a praying mantis due to his immense speed. This matches the animal themes of Lin (dragon), Ritsueto (fish/avian), and Elpis (snake)

Kudo Diviner's name "Diviner" comes from a nickname for mantis that derived from the belief that it had supernatural powers.

Kudo Diviner's original name was Brand Locus

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