Name: Liednier
Level: ???
Gender: Male
Class: Wavemaster
Appearance:
Liednier takes on the appearance of a timid young boy, an image that
wholly contrasts with the deviousness of a hacker. Short and round faced
with short cropped black hair. His eyes are golden, a stark contrast to
his midnight hair, but despite that his eyes often hold a melancholy
glaze. Like most Wavemasters, Liednier wears no armor whatsoever,
donning a green robe with elbow cut sleeves over traveler's pants. His
hands are fitted into black gloves a few sizes too large for his small
hands. He walks slightly hunched over, staring at his feet and often
lost in his own thoughts. His entire visage suggests that his IRL age is
still pubescent.
Personality: Liednier
isn't one with many faces. He wears his emotions on his sleeves and is
easily surprised and swayed by others. Although an online game usually
brings out the bolder side of any person, Liednier still acts like the
shy lonely boy he is in real life. Even in Fragment, Liednier finds it
hard to make friends and would much rather hang around AI of the world.
Liednier acts far more mature for his age than expected but more often
than not slips back into his childish reveries or helplessness when
emotional. Vastly dependent on others yet unsure how to ask someone for
help, his entire being seems to radiate with a kind of desperation and
need constantly being suppressed by a desire to stand on his own two
feet.
History: Liednier's IRL name is
Ootsuka Takuma and, as suggested, he is only ten years old. His father
works as a programmer for the Altimit OS and his mother a graphic
designer for a low-key advertising firm. It was his parents that
introduced Liednier to the MMORPG Fragment, partly under the guise of
'family time' even when his parents were away and partly as an excuse to
keep the boy occupied with his time. Having spent most of his free time
browsing through his father's programming books, the boy was moderately
versed in code.
During one of their early escapades, they came
across an undefeatable towering monster armed with a red staff. It cast a
spell that had caught both his parents and speared them through. No
matter how real the graphics made the game seem, hearing his parents
scream proved to be his reality. The monitor began to flash wildly,
inducing seizures in his parents yet leaving the boy unharmed and not
long after they both collapsed, foaming at the mouth and rigid. The
computer screen had shut off. Both his parents were spared from death,
but still they never awoke after that incident. Liednier was left in the
care of his drunken and rebellious older brother who used the press
wholly to fulfill the childhood fantasy of appearing on TV.
The
event wasn't centered on the Ootsuka household and had happened to seven
other people. The media named the event the Deadly Flash, a technical
malfunctioning. But the story progressed no further than that. The new
reporters eventually stopped coming, his brother eventually stopped
returning, and Liednier stopped attending school. He would often spend
his days away on Fragment, the very thing he feared, clinging onto the
slim hope that his parents might return. It was during this time that he
created his first AI, Riyumi. Befriending the childlike sprite, it
seemed Liednier had given up hope on finding his parents. But as he
excelled in writing code, eventually he took on the task of destroying
the one thing that had robbed his parents from him. A name he had heard
during that incident: Morganna.
It would be Ootsuka Takuma that would unleash the virus into the network that was eventually deemed Pluto's Kiss.
Liednier's story unfolds in the roleplay Fragment.
Equipment:
He carries a simple staff with the tip curled into a helix shape. It is
a low leveled weapon, the first any Wavemaster gets when first entering
Fragment. His weapon appears and disappears in a flash of light and is
never seen on his person while not in battle.
Ability:
Liednier's true ability comes from his knowledge of code. He can tinker
with just about anything in the game as long as he's familiar with it's
data makeup or its naming convention. He can change graphics, change
class requirements for weapons, even use skills that don't belong to a
Wavemaster class. It is this skill that, despite his low level, has made
him virtually indestructible to any monster.