[Rising Dragon]

Eh, I'm overdue for posting these considering how long The Collared's been out. I could easily make imagery to go with my character sheets, but I have no way of putting it on the computer at the moment. So... here's the first. Feel free to pick it apart.

Spoiler for Roas Lacetti:

Name: Roas Lacetti
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Height: 182.88 cm
Weight: 156 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brownish-blond
Personality: Roas tends to be stand-offish and reserved. He doesn’t actively try to drive people away, but otherwise keeps to himself. He remains on good terms with both Mesia Leganza and Emil Valare, and generally enjoys living in Ailotana despite the initial hostility from the other residents. He prefers keeping things professional between himself and his opponents, who are generally mercenaries, as it's all just business for one another, but has on occasion developed rivalries to certain opponents. Generally, he's wary of Bureau officers both in part to his profession and past incidents involving them.

Mage Rank: AA
Magic Type: Mid-Childa
Magic Color: Light green/greenish-white
Magic Specialization: Shooting and Physical
Combat Specialization: Close- to mid-range combat

Device Name: Lancel
Device Type: Intelligent
Primary Structure: Heavy blaster and attached sword
Storage Form: Slightly large arrowhead pendant with a green, V-shaped sensor on its front, worn from a cord wrapped around Roas' right wrist.
Appearance:

• Cannon Form: Large black and silver-plated, pistol-like weapon with arm brace underneath forearm, with an oval plate on the right side set with a green interface screen. Three forward prongs in a triangular formation jut forward around a green sphere to make up its "barrel", with the upper prong longer and larger than the two lower ones. A large blade is mounted beneath it on the brace rack and can swivel up to mount in front of barrel. Hinged handle/hilt allows for positioning for Slasher Form.
• Slasher Form: The blade swings up and around to the front of the barrel formation, fitting between the three prongs. The barrel can swivel about in this form, allowing Roas to alternate the form between the cannon position, keeping the blade parallel with his arm, and a traditional sword position.

Barrier Jacket:

• Mobile Form: A black bodysuit, with a blue and gray coat worn over it, strapped down with two belts, one across the waist and one from the right shoulder to the left hip. The coat forms a tabard, and panels of metal are attached to the front of the coat in four places, with a larger plate on the upper back. Metal-plated boots are worn over the feet, covering all the way up to his knees and forming a jutting spike on each, with two fins angling backward and down alongside either knee. A metal bracer is worn around the left wrist, while the entirety of the right arm is covered in metal plating, with the gauntlet attached to the rerebrace by a pair of cables.

Notable Spells and Abilities:

Utility

• Sealing: Self-explanatory.
• Detection: A standard search spell.
• Hyper Bind: A quick-firing binding spell meant for high-speed combat.
• Chain Bind: Self-explanatory.

Offensive

• Riser Sword: A sheath of energy around Lancel's blade that is fired off as a cutting projectile.
• - Riser Slash: The Riser Sword energy blade is kept around Lancel's blade to maximize its cutting potential.
• Napalm Shot: A shooting spell fired in a series of homing projectiles, often explosive. Usually utilized to attack from unsuspecting angles, rather than a frontal assault.
• - Napalm Burst: A modified Napalm Shot that fires a large projectile that, when nearing its opponent, breaks up into a dozen standard explosive projectiles.
• Atomic Burn: Roas encases an area in a small barrier and bombards its confines with magical energy, damaging all targets trapped within it.
• Thunder Blow: A shooting spell designed NOT to hit the target, but rather strike the ground below it. The projectile forms a magic circle that then fires a wave of magical energy upwards.
• Aura Strafe: A bombardment spell that focuses its energy into a piercing beam, rather than a typical bombardment spell. Roas is uncomfortable using long-range spells like this, limiting his use of them against slower targets like armor and Golem units.
• - Aura Strafe Extension: An upgraded Aura Strafe spell strengthened with a cartridge load.
• Hell Wave: A high-powered, cartridge-enhanced bombardment spell supplemented with shooting projectiles. A wide beam is fired from Lancel's targeting rings, with numerous Napalm Shot projectiles fired around it, similar to Nanoha's Strike Stars.
• Void Cascade: Roas' ultimate bombardment spell. Cartridges are used to quickly charge up a large mass of energy, which is fired through a series of magic circles to amplify the beam to even greater levels of power.

Defensive

• Wave Dash: A movement spell, similar to Nanoha's Flash Move.
• Aegis: Roas' personal barrier spell.
• - Aegis Max: Roas' barrier spell enhanced via a cartridge load.
• Round Shield: Self-explanatory.
• Bind Break: - Self-explanatory.
• Rapid Drive: A support system developed by Avon Leganza. A quartet of geometrical, diamond-shaped wings containing miniature magical circles extend from Roas' back, with two longer upper wings extending outwards and two shorter lower wings extending downwards. A large wave of Detection spells are also utilized, with some attached to Roas' Barrier Jacket and others hidden throughout the battlefield. Lancel uses the Detection spells to determine incoming attack vectors and uses the wings to forcibly dodge for Roas at high speed. The system allows for unparalleled agility, making it extremely difficult to land a hit on Roas, but at the cost of extremely limited spell calculation speed, and a total reliance on the Intelligent Device itself, which can throw Roas off during battle due to unexpected movements.

Occupation: Ailotana Mercenary
Background: Roas Lacetti was born on Mid-Childa in 0048 to a poor family in Cranagan's suburbs. An unfortunate burglary by a rogue mage went wrong, orphaning Roas at a young age. The investigation ran into several complications, causing the case to go cold and leave Roas somewhat bitter to the methods of the Time-Space Administration Bureau. Eventually, after Roas was put into an orphanage, he discovered his own magical potential, and ran away to fend for himself.

He trained himself hazardously in the ways of magic, often running with bad crowds to survive on the streets, and leaving them before they were arrested by Bureau officers. Before he reached his teenage years, he was picked up by a mercenary, who formalized his training into a mage and provided him with a Storage Device, exposing him to a mercenary's lifestyle. It wasn't long before he had become a mercenary himself alongside his mentor, but as such it wasn't long before his mentor was slain. From there, Roas went from job to job, often hired by lesser corporations and crime syndicates, at some point coming across Tiida Lanster during a job where he was hired to protect a corporation's storage facilities. Due to the outcome of Tiida's death and the remarks made by his superior officer, Roas only become more bitter and mistrustful of the Bureau.

As he grew older and smarter, he began taking more prominent contracts, and by adulthood, he was a fully-fledged mercenary. As Exavil became an Administered World under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, he, like so many other freelance mercenaries, traveled there as the corporations began settling there, and fought in the civil war that had quickly sprung up. However, during his missions there, his Storage Device, Hogire, was destroyed in a surprise assault outside of an assigned mission. During the battle, he was overcome, and only survived due to Mesia Leganza's timely offer of sanctuary at Ailotana, which was nearby. The destruction of Hogire and the clear situation of his being targeted for assassination left him bereft of a job, up until Emil Valare's offer.
Miscellaneous: Named for the Daewoo Lacetti