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Published: 2020-02-28 21:25:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 5721; Favourites: 193; Downloads: 23
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Here is another character from my yet to be titled steampunk western story.
Victoria Stidwell, heiress to the Stidwell Manufacturing Corporation. Unfortunately for her, the family company was deeply in the red when she took over. In a desperate pull to revitalize the company, Victoria fully invested into the New World and the potential of its native crystals as a power source for machines. Traveling to the New World personally to oversee the expansion, Victoria quickly discovered that her family business was primed to be snatched up and liquidated by the massive corporation, Harpy Corp, to which Stidwell Manufacturing owed most of its dept and was its majority share holder. With her family business lost, Victoria finds herself following a rumor of the infinity powerful Mother Crystal, the supposed source of all other crystals in the New World; a treasure of such value that she would be able to regain her family business and so much more.
Victoria was taught in the elemental magic arts from a young age. Her weapons of choice are a pair of personally designed Caster pistols. Rather than firing bullets, she channels her magic arts through them to fire energy bullets charged with the element of her choosing.
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Snowdog-zic [2022-08-02 13:52:19 +0000 UTC]
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MercenaryBlade [2021-11-06 19:03:57 +0000 UTC]
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L-MASTER [2020-03-02 17:14:22 +0000 UTC]
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Cvlsoldier [2020-03-01 12:57:22 +0000 UTC]
I love this concept and the character designs! Maybe if you make this into a graphic novel you should make the main characters be part of a gang of benevolent bandits who, while on the run from the law and government forces, help people in need and take down other bandits and oppressive wealthy elitists, or some such. Just a suggestion if you haven't thought of a plot yet. I'm a big fan of steampunk, so I will definitely be following this as you go along.
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SirDoc [2020-02-29 19:38:48 +0000 UTC]
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Gralegio [2020-02-29 15:14:07 +0000 UTC]
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Will715 [2020-02-29 05:37:24 +0000 UTC]
if she's a sharpshooter, where's her long barrel musket. Welding two pistols is great and all but part of sharpshooting is picking things off at a distance and those pistols don't have the range.
But with her healing and protection magic, I guess she's basically the cleric.
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Didj In reply to Will715 [2020-02-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTC]
I suppose when I say sharpshooter, I mean in that she has impeccable aim and speed with her pistols. Of the four person group of protagonists, she has the best aim. Which belays her sweet and caring demeanor. Jessie fully admits that her aim is terrible (she may need glasses but don't tell her that) which is why she opts for a firearm that she can effectively bludgeon people with. The dynamic I see for Victoria is that she would stay in the back to heal and protect while still picking off incoming enemies from a distance.
I do enjoy when people ask these kinds of questions. It helps me flesh out elements of the characters and world that I may have overlooked.
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Will715 In reply to Didj [2020-02-29 19:10:41 +0000 UTC]
"Of the four person group of protagonists" So when do we meet the other two?
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Didj In reply to Will715 [2020-03-01 02:17:50 +0000 UTC]
In due time, I'm working on the third's character sheet right now.
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Will715 In reply to Didj [2020-02-29 18:44:22 +0000 UTC]
I see what you mean, great aim and quick on the draw.
The only thing I see is that pistols wouldn't have the range to pick off foes from that far. But that can be addressed by some techno-talk about how her pistols were made or the aerodymanics of her bullets or some combination of those.
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Didj In reply to Will715 [2020-02-29 19:05:24 +0000 UTC]
Well, the average effective range of a real life pistol is 50 yards (150 feet), which I feel is adequate for her role. Any requirement to hit a target further than that can be explained with magic or steampunk technology. For instance, there will be a talented spellcaster in the group who could potentially augment the velocity of her bullets in team attacks.
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Will715 In reply to Didj [2020-03-01 18:00:15 +0000 UTC]
Fair point about real world pistols, but most people aren't using pistols for hitting targets at that range, most people use pistols for much closer ranges.
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Jlargent [2020-02-29 00:45:46 +0000 UTC]
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Didj In reply to sonicspeedster92 [2020-02-28 23:46:49 +0000 UTC]
One of these days I've got to open up Blender and re-learn how to do 3D modeling. As it is very difficult for me to draw mechanical detail consistently from different angles
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sonicspeedster92 In reply to Didj [2020-02-29 03:04:23 +0000 UTC]
Believe me, I have the same problem. Still, you did good.
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