The following will contain spoilers for up to volume 5 of Culdcept. The app is based on the manga series and not the game. Thank you for your understanding.
Najaran is a kind girl who likes to see the best in people when she can, but sometimes her temper gets in the way of that. Thankfully her temper is rarely a lasting thing. She is more the sort to work out or vent out her temper and then feel better, rather than being someone for whom temper lingers and festers. Also, her temper is rarely because something happened to her. When her temper rises it is usually because someone else has been hurt or insulted.
She is a protective soul, honestly, despite being someone who in some ways needs protection herself and in other ways seems like she does. Najaran will always ALWAYS put herself into danger to protect someone else, even if that someone else had been trying to kill her moments before. The only exception seems to be that she will not actively try to protect someone while they are trying to harm others. Not never, mind, but as a general rule.
Najaran is also... a lot like Sora from Kingdom Hearts. At her core, she wants to be friends with everyone, and see everyone safe and smiling and happy. Ideally she wants to share food with everyone she meets, but that goes to gluttony.
Najaran is a pig. She would spend her whole life eating if she was allowed, and would consider it a good life. She is constantly hungry and never seems to be able to have enough food. That said, she tries to share when she can, be it with her friends or her cards. She firmly believes that yummy food should be enjoyed and shared.
She can be a little callous sometimes, without meaning to, but mostly that is with Gooligan because of their relationship, which is... unique. She gives him a hard time and takes him for granted in a way she doesn't with anyone or anything else. The two of them are kind of like combative siblings, even though they both clearly do love each other and have each other's back, Najaran very much treats him worse in many ways than she treats even her enemies. She uses him to block blows aimed at her, she uses him to stir things and as a drying rack for her laundry. He's the one person she'll get into screaming arguments with that aren't heat of the moment over and done. But she will also defend him against ANYONE who speaks against him, including Master Horowitz.
In general, Najaran is a strong girl with weaknesses, rather than a weak girl with strengths. She is generally more childish, emotionally, than her body suggests, but her intellect, when she bothers to use it, is on point. She learns from everything and everyone and her split second tactical thinking is amazing. In the duel on the Cepter's island, she used tricks learned from pretty much everyone she had met along the way, beating all the high ranked Cepters who had challenged her, despite having been in far fewer battles than they had been in. (That whole issue they keep miscounting how many battles she'd been in, but never the same way twice.) She used what she learned from Alta with the corrupted Woodfolk against one challenge, and in another she remembered what Ganz told her about traps and was able to turn a trap set for her against the person who set the trap. This is a girl who can't follow a basic map and thinks that she can hunt her dinner by jumping on a yak's back and trying to bite its neck with her very human teeth, but she can think like a military genius when in combat.
But one of the most important things to mention is her code of ethics. Shaped by her father and by Horowitz, Najaran does not believe in attacking someone who can't fight back, even if they had been fighting before. Once they are disarmed, she stops. She will not use her powers against anyone who can't meet her powers with their own, she'd rather be jailed than pull a card on a non-Cepter. She'd rather be killed than attack someone who is attacking her if she knows that her power is so far above theirs that they'd have no choice. And she defends the helpless. Friends, strangers, former enemies. If someone is hurt and can't fight back, she will do whatever she has to to defend them, even at the cost of her own life.
She also carries with her everyone who has ever helped her, and keeps them in her heart. Her father, her Master, Golligan, Kigi, Sir Owen, even Chimeno and Zeneth. She fights to defend their names, their memory. They are all with her. That said, she'd still be just fine if maybe she didn't have to deal with Zeneth again so soon, maybe?
CRAU developments: N/A
Key themes:
Defense/protection - her main card is Knight, and she uses him often to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Bravery - Connected to the above, she'll run away if she's the one in danger, but will put herself in the path of dangers for others. She is a good example of "bravery is not the absence of fear, it is being afraid and standing up anyway."
Friendship/loyalty - to her core.
Gluttony - her single biggest weakness, and the cause of much of the humor in the series. Also messing with her food is one of the ways to trigger her temper, but feed her good food and she's libel to love you forever.
hidden intelligence - Really, she comes across as clueless and useless and stupid so often, but then she suddenly just... knows things. And even those who saw her learn the lessons are shocked when she actually uses that learning. Only Master Horowitz seems to realize just how much she absorbs.
Easily lost - seriously, this is a train that doesn't have side passages. Expect her to get lost at least once a week despite that.
Honesty - this keeps coming up, people keep calling her honest, but in a way that implies they mean simple minded/stupid. It is not usually said as a compliment. More as in that what she said had to be what she really meant because it was so stupid no one would have said it as a lie.
Main Motivation: If you asked her, she'd say that it was to taste all sorts of yummy foods. She might even say that she wanted to share them with all sorts of new people. She really thinks that most of the time. She thinks that fighting the Black Cepters is a short term goal, that soon life will return to normal and all she'll have to worry about is eating, lessons, and not upsetting Master Horowitz.
Really though? Her goal seems to be to use her cards to protect people and bring them together.
Skills:
Cepter - she can summon creatures, items, and spells (dear god do not let her use spells) from her cards.
Agile - she doesn't look it, but in a pinch, she can MOVE. Even if she lands on her face, she gets back up quickly.
Observational skills, especially with food/pants. Seriously, it is scary.
The ability to turn foes to allies and friends, simply by being a friend first.
Item: Her book, I was told she could have ten cards (which is how many cards she was able to use at the start of the series at once, though she owned more than ten, even then.)
1. Knight. (Of course.) 2. Shield. 3. Wall Of Stone (From Kigi) 4. Gargoyle (From Kigi) 5. Eidolon 6. Gremlin 7. Thunderbeak 8. Cat Sith (from Chimino) 9. Living Weapon (From Grubel) 10. Wind Cutter (Tough choice, but a spell that can backfire... seems like a fun plot thing....)
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Najaran is a kind girl who likes to see the best in people when she can, but sometimes her temper gets in the way of that. Thankfully her temper is rarely a lasting thing. She is more the sort to work out or vent out her temper and then feel better, rather than being someone for whom temper lingers and festers. Also, her temper is rarely because something happened to her. When her temper rises it is usually because someone else has been hurt or insulted.
She is a protective soul, honestly, despite being someone who in some ways needs protection herself and in other ways seems like she does. Najaran will always ALWAYS put herself into danger to protect someone else, even if that someone else had been trying to kill her moments before. The only exception seems to be that she will not actively try to protect someone while they are trying to harm others. Not never, mind, but as a general rule.
Najaran is also... a lot like Sora from Kingdom Hearts. At her core, she wants to be friends with everyone, and see everyone safe and smiling and happy. Ideally she wants to share food with everyone she meets, but that goes to gluttony.
Najaran is a pig. She would spend her whole life eating if she was allowed, and would consider it a good life. She is constantly hungry and never seems to be able to have enough food. That said, she tries to share when she can, be it with her friends or her cards. She firmly believes that yummy food should be enjoyed and shared.
She can be a little callous sometimes, without meaning to, but mostly that is with Gooligan because of their relationship, which is... unique. She gives him a hard time and takes him for granted in a way she doesn't with anyone or anything else. The two of them are kind of like combative siblings, even though they both clearly do love each other and have each other's back, Najaran very much treats him worse in many ways than she treats even her enemies. She uses him to block blows aimed at her, she uses him to stir things and as a drying rack for her laundry. He's the one person she'll get into screaming arguments with that aren't heat of the moment over and done. But she will also defend him against ANYONE who speaks against him, including Master Horowitz.
In general, Najaran is a strong girl with weaknesses, rather than a weak girl with strengths. She is generally more childish, emotionally, than her body suggests, but her intellect, when she bothers to use it, is on point. She learns from everything and everyone and her split second tactical thinking is amazing. In the duel on the Cepter's island, she used tricks learned from pretty much everyone she had met along the way, beating all the high ranked Cepters who had challenged her, despite having been in far fewer battles than they had been in. (That whole issue they keep miscounting how many battles she'd been in, but never the same way twice.) She used what she learned from Alta with the corrupted Woodfolk against one challenge, and in another she remembered what Ganz told her about traps and was able to turn a trap set for her against the person who set the trap. This is a girl who can't follow a basic map and thinks that she can hunt her dinner by jumping on a yak's back and trying to bite its neck with her very human teeth, but she can think like a military genius when in combat.
But one of the most important things to mention is her code of ethics. Shaped by her father and by Horowitz, Najaran does not believe in attacking someone who can't fight back, even if they had been fighting before. Once they are disarmed, she stops. She will not use her powers against anyone who can't meet her powers with their own, she'd rather be jailed than pull a card on a non-Cepter. She'd rather be killed than attack someone who is attacking her if she knows that her power is so far above theirs that they'd have no choice. And she defends the helpless. Friends, strangers, former enemies. If someone is hurt and can't fight back, she will do whatever she has to to defend them, even at the cost of her own life.
She also carries with her everyone who has ever helped her, and keeps them in her heart. Her father, her Master, Golligan, Kigi, Sir Owen, even Chimeno and Zeneth. She fights to defend their names, their memory. They are all with her. That said, she'd still be just fine if maybe she didn't have to deal with Zeneth again so soon, maybe?
CRAU developments: N/A
Key themes:
Defense/protection - her main card is Knight, and she uses him often to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Bravery - Connected to the above, she'll run away if she's the one in danger, but will put herself in the path of dangers for others. She is a good example of "bravery is not the absence of fear, it is being afraid and standing up anyway."
Friendship/loyalty - to her core.
Gluttony - her single biggest weakness, and the cause of much of the humor in the series. Also messing with her food is one of the ways to trigger her temper, but feed her good food and she's libel to love you forever.
hidden intelligence - Really, she comes across as clueless and useless and stupid so often, but then she suddenly just... knows things. And even those who saw her learn the lessons are shocked when she actually uses that learning. Only Master Horowitz seems to realize just how much she absorbs.
Easily lost - seriously, this is a train that doesn't have side passages. Expect her to get lost at least once a week despite that.
Honesty - this keeps coming up, people keep calling her honest, but in a way that implies they mean simple minded/stupid. It is not usually said as a compliment. More as in that what she said had to be what she really meant because it was so stupid no one would have said it as a lie.
Main Motivation: If you asked her, she'd say that it was to taste all sorts of yummy foods. She might even say that she wanted to share them with all sorts of new people. She really thinks that most of the time. She thinks that fighting the Black Cepters is a short term goal, that soon life will return to normal and all she'll have to worry about is eating, lessons, and not upsetting Master Horowitz.
Really though? Her goal seems to be to use her cards to protect people and bring them together.
Skills:
Cepter - she can summon creatures, items, and spells (dear god do not let her use spells) from her cards.
Agile - she doesn't look it, but in a pinch, she can MOVE. Even if she lands on her face, she gets back up quickly.
Observational skills, especially with food/pants. Seriously, it is scary.
The ability to turn foes to allies and friends, simply by being a friend first.
Item:
Her book, I was told she could have ten cards (which is how many cards she was able to use at the start of the series at once, though she owned more than ten, even then.)
1. Knight. (Of course.)
2. Shield.
3. Wall Of Stone (From Kigi)
4. Gargoyle (From Kigi)
5. Eidolon
6. Gremlin
7. Thunderbeak
8. Cat Sith (from Chimino)
9. Living Weapon (From Grubel)
10. Wind Cutter (Tough choice, but a spell that can backfire... seems like a fun plot thing....)
Sample:
With Lea on the TDM
And a PSL sample
Notes:
Weeding down her deck to just ten was hard. >.<
I am sorry about this insane app. Thank you.