Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-27603392-20140704110526/@comment-24012109-20140725053924

Lets have some fun with Sirce Marion, eh? Probably my favorite girl of CIST. It feels kind of fun to dissect her.

Appearance wise, for a riches-to-rags character, she seems to wear something you'd expect with good delivery. Unlike the vice-versa story character, these types of characters tend to have less humble clothing. And Sirce is no exception- Her clothes fit the bill of what she is. Clothes she would have for herself left over from her previous life, and a veil to somewhat hide herself in. Her clothes tell a story, but it is not one that would be so open to tellling.

Personality, rolling from appearance, seems fine. She's a wall flower caught in winter, away from everything. Or atleast, she tries to. If she opened up, people would realize that she actually is pretty nice to be around with a moderately brutal attitude. However, with all that has occured to her, it would make sense that she is more reluctant around most and open to few. It adds the perplexity of how she would make new friends as well, or how would one occur to her. And even, if they realize they get pickpocketed or not. Deep down, she seems to be a rogue with a few soft spots that a few people could poke.

Her backstory, as I noticed, is pretty riches-to-rags, which is rarely done with this type of twist. She basically became anti-social, because she was deprived of the experience of talking to peers her age. So how could she talk to people now? Its as though she is in a near...eternal slumber, with no way to get out! Since her loan-shark of a father ended up in jail, she changed her life to just being a thief and trying to live off of what she was able to steal from others. I figure that with the right amount of Lien that one could get their way into Beacon, although it makes me curious how did she vouch for her fighting specs on paper, since she has no real credibility besides just being able to slide in because of what status she had before being a Marion.

Her battle specs seem alright for an assassin-esque fighter to scout and kill the weakest first. She doesn't hold back- if she sees someone is at a killable state, she seems to be the type not to hold mercy unless of a special circumstance. Her Semblance is rather iffy to me, though. I could picture applications to her where anti-friction could be needed other than using that arrow-string trick, but it comes back to me being that she exhausts herself with a single precise shot. Is the string long, so that it could go long distances? Is it visible, so someone who just got bullseye shot by her doesnt realize where she is? Could she also apply this semblance to her blade, and make a focused consise cut without any drag on her weapon? It just seems under explained, is all.

I would reject her on the grounds that her semblance needs a little more fleshing out and purpose to it, as it just seems way too bare as what it is now, which makes it hard to decide on whether she knows her limits of it, or if it is only for that one shot.