Mark, aka Masao Inaba from Persona 1, right.

THANK YOU.

That sprung to mind when you mentioned race-swapping, but I couldn't be sure since I've yet to play Persona 1.

You get my turn.

What? You've got to pay the price for knowing the answer. I'm not your Finnish man-servant.

Hmph. Fine.


"Old Ward. Also known as: Wanker City"

Let's see if ye ken guess eet without googling, berk.

You should make it less obvious. If you use a game you're currently ranting and raving about it's quite easy to hazard a guess. Using an easy quote doesn't make it any better. Might as well use THIS GUY ARE SICK.

I refuse to answer solely because I ain't got shit I want to use as a followup question, so I'll let the next fella get it.

Well, there's a huge chuck of RPG Forumites who don't know about my journal, nor click on the little popup tab. Or would even make the connection because lol genre :3:

Plus even if they spot the game, they likely don't know the character, cutter.

Anna from Planescape: Torment, right?

Annah, but yes you are quite correct. Should have said "Annah of the Shadows" for that extra flair~

Ok then, I guess it's my turn then.

I guess you could say I was never really close to my father. I mean, he did banish my mother and me when I was only 7 years old, all because I didn't have the ability to use magic. When I was 12 years old I started learning how to be a blacksmith and because of my skill at it, I would later become know as "The Steel". A few years later my mother died and that really tore me up. None of my misfortunes would stop me from making something of myself though, in fact, I ended up becoming the ruler of my own kingdom, one that I started created from the ground up.

Gustave XIII, SaGa Frontier 2.

You are correct!

I am the illegitimate son of the chairman of the powerful Merchant's Guild, as it turns out. Upon my unexpected return home to meet him, he sent me off to a town on the fringes of the country and out of the view of his political rivals. I did pretty nicely for myself in this new place, but my father and his agents tried to arrest me for tax fraud when I cut them out of the loop (which may have been the case, but that's neither here nor there!). Through hard work, dedication, and a little bit of political intrigue, I fought off the battalion sent to apprehend me-- and brought down my father's power base in the process. Sorry, Dad?

Now if only people could pronounce the town's name right.

That sounds like Thomas from Suikoden III...

That sounds like the correct answer.

This is good for gauging how vague I need to be in future questions. Apparently much more so.

It helps that I just got past that part in the game.

I had to stay behind in a small town because something valuable belonging to my master, a merchant, was stolen. He thought that my special abilities would help me to find the item. With the help of two strangers from the north, I was able to recover it, and upon discovering that there was no way for me to return to my master, I decided to join them on their quest.


(trying not to make it too easy, and probably failing)

Ivan from Golden Sun?

Well that lasted a long time.

As cool as a winter breeze, and as lethal as a flying knife, I'm an assassin. People around me often mention words such as "emotion" and "remorse", but such phrases are wasted on me. I am a corpse who has never been alive, willing to kill whoever by whatever means. With my cape and dagger, I can glide through the blanket of the night and strike like a nimble tiger all within the time span of a few seconds. That girl, though......she is the only one I even remotely sense any feeling of attachment with.

Assuming you're just speaking in metaphor, Shadow?

Nope. But you are correct in that first assumption.


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>_>

The cold assassin whose emotions are awakened by a girl is a pretty common theme, really. You may want to expand upon that if a day or two passes with no answer, since the only useful identifier there is the mentioning of a cape (which now apparently may or may not be a metaphor).

For now though, I'm stumped.

Yeah, Shadow was my only guess too, but I ruled him out because of the cape.

People were looking for a challenge, weren't they? And the best way to offer a challenge with this game is to remain fairly ambiguous and/or choose a relatively unknown character. But yeah, if it's too general, then I'll offer a couple of hints.

Also the blanket of night is a metaphor, the cape isn't...I think what Axel was alluding to was the "corpse" bit anyway.