User:Blade Skydancer

=Nathaniel "Blade" Skydancer=

Phys. Description
Nathaniel is a panther, standing six feet high, and weighing a healthy one-hundred and eighty five pounds; his build is a toned, powerful one not exhibiting any muscles that are over-sized or anything like that. Though occasionally dirty, his glossy black fur is extremely well taken-care of for a 22 year-old pilot living out of his plane most of the time. He has long hair of the same tone as his fur, though much glossier. It's naturally wavy, growing into curls at the end that were tight enough to almost give him a natural perm. This hair falls down to about his shoulder blades and he normally keeps it in a loose ponytail, with one short lock of hair coming down over his left eye and another comes down to his cheek on the right side of his head. His eyes are solid gold, save for the black slitted pupils that all cats seem to have.

His clothing, basic it maybe, consists of a white T-shirt covering his entire upper-half save for his arms from the bicep down. Around his neck is a golden chain and laced onto that is a very old golden medal of flight service from some forgotten empire's air force. Draped from his right shoulder and hanging down to his left hip is a large brown leather belt, the over-sized buckle of which is placed precisely at his solarplexis. His pants, held up by another brown belt, are black flight pants that are a little baggy on him, which fall down to his exposed paws. He never seems to wear any footwear. . . Around his upper half's clothing is a long brown leather duster jacket, which hides the hilt of the rapier he wears on his right hip, the only tell being the silvery tip of its sheathe sticking from the bottom of the coat that cuts off at his knees. This jacket has recently had its left sleeve removed, and Blade now wears arm-length bandages on his left arm though his claws and fingertips are exposed.

The only obvious weapon, though well-hidden to most eyes by his coat, that he carried was the rapier that was taken care of very well. The hilt is made of gold and cherry wood, and is a standard cross hilt that is usually featured on longswords. The cross guard, two inches in length on either way was embossed with the relief of a pair of rampant Heraldric dragons, each facing a large ruby set into the center of the cross-guard. The pommel, embossed around the connection to the hilt with a relief of the snake eating its own tail, had a large amethyst set into it. The blade, thirty-five inches in length was always polished to a mirror shine and kept razor-sharp. The sheathe was solid, the core made of the same wood as the hilt's grip, even from the same tree and finished the exact same way. Capping the entry point was silver, and the tip of the rapier's sheathe was tipped in silver as well, bearing an embossed relief of a rampant heraldric lion.

Psyche Description
A laid-back kind of personality, Blade has a strong sense of justice and honor, and he never lets a debt go unpaid. If someone does him a favor, or pulls his furry ass out of the fire, he will repay them someday, sometime, usually double that he received. He's gentlemanly and kind, and treats women and friends better than himself, valuing them more than his own hide. He seems to express a distaste for his sister, and whenever he speaks of his late father his voice is full of pride. All in all, Blade is a very nice and easy to get along with person.

Background
Born in 189 to Caleb Skydancer(118-205) and Emily Wintersnow(144-  ) on March 20th on some unknown island somewhere in the southwest. He was raised by his panther mother for four years until his father took him under his wing, helping him fix up the old war relic that Caleb still flew. From the age of 4-on, he was trained in the finer points of fighter combat, along with how to service a plane. Caleb would eventually sign the fighter over to Blade postmortem via his will. His father died in July of 192, in which Blade found the old man sitting in his cockpit, prepared for a flight with a bottle of cheap booze in his hand. At least he died in something he loved like a second wife. Blade inherited the plane with no strings attached and used it merely as transportation while he worked up enough cash to finally live-out his dream: to be a freelance pilot on the skies of Skytopia, following nearly in his father's steps. He's finally taken the next step in his career, following in his father's footsteps and formally enlisting in the Crimson Armada's air force.

Blade is, by an unfortunate turn of events during the Great Storm, now one of two remaining members of the Persephone Flight. His pride and joy, the Polaris Wing has been destroyed in a crash on the airstrip of Midgard, losing a squad of 6 Crimson Armada soldiers and mechanic Rozalina Nureyev in the crash. Salvaging the parts from his old warbird, he created the Starglider III, in honor of his late father's plane that had been shot down, salvaged and later decommissioned. Now he flies with a totally new purpose, to serve and protect the people of Skytopia, under the banner of the Order of the Crimson Dawn, an order of neo-knights that he and Nero founded before the storm.

Captain Skydancer, during a raid on a pirate hideout, found captured plans for a modified Leviathan hull made to take the stresses of combat and radical maneuvering easier, at the expense of lifting power for cargo. Securing these plans, he had commissioned a ship built according to them; the CES Avenging Angel was born. Bearing 155mm main cannons, and several other lighter arms for dealing with lesser vessels, the Angel is primarily a warship hunting vessel. With rumors that the Hidden Fleet is on the rise again, her firepower and survivability may be needed in a full-scale war. Blade captains this ship with intent on restoring peace and honor to the skies, furthering the mission of the Crimson Dawn knights.

Planes

 * Starglider(old war bird, destroyed)
 * Starglider II(modified Phantom, decommissioned)
 * Solar Angel(Seahawk, decommissioned)
 * The Angels' Halo(Lancaster, decommissioned)
 * Solar Angel II(Seahawk, decommissioned)
 * CEB Polaris Wing( Persephone-class Gunship, destroyed)
 * Starglider III(salvaged from wreck of CEB Polaris Wing)
 * CEF Sword Angel(Valkyrie, decommissioned)
 * CEF Red Baron( Valkyrie Mk. II, decommissioned)
 * CEF Star Eagle(Phantom, decommissioned)
 * CES Starchaser( Barracuda-class Corvette, decommissioned)
 * CES Avenging Angel(Seraphim-class Battlecruiser, current)

Crew
Blade does not yet have any crew. It'll be hard for him to replace the ones he had before.

Former Crew

 * Name: Dr. Rusya Cobbler
 * Home: Volstoy
 * Position: Navigator/Copilot
 * Age: 24

Bearing a sharp mind, Dr. Rusya Cobbler is not your average navigator. Though it is well-documented where she comes from, she wants to find out everything she can about the Old World, before the islands were floating in the sky. She decided to learn how to become a pilot, so she could take herself all over the world to hunt down those old texts, graduating at the top of her class. However, she found herself without a plane. . .so she sought out freelancer pilots to fly with to earn some money, so that she can have a plane of her own and live out her life's dream. Given the promise that, in their downtime Blade would take her to historical sights and let her borrow his plane for her pursuits, she signed on with him as a copilot/navigator. After the storm, Rusya took the old Solar Angel II and set out to gather the ancient texts of Skytopia.


 * Name: "Felonious" Drake Caseel
 * Home: Midgard
 * Position: Mechanic, Gunner
 * Age: 16

While normally enthusiastic about his trade, Drake carries a shy, reserved personality. He'll never engage in conversation unless directly addressed or approach. While some may think that he's strange or something like that, Blade understands his personality, having experienced it with his mother. As to why he's called "Felonious" Drake, it is unclear, as Drake refuses to speak on such a subject of his past. Following the Great Storm, Drake remained on Midgard, founding a machine shop called "Felonious Repairs and Upgrades". While the shop is small and still growing, Drake's time aboard the Polaris Wing gave him valuable skills with which to repair planes with.


 * Name: Rozalina Nureyev
 * Home: Volstoy
 * Position: Mechanic, Gunner
 * Age: 23 -- MISSING IN ACTION --

A cheery and blissful Volstoyan noble who decided that her cushy high-life just simply wasn't enough. She was always fascinated by machines, so she decided to become a mechanic. She made her way around Skytopia, and soon was kicking back in the bar on the Scarlet Blade, looking for some work. When Blade took her onboard, his navigator was none-too-happy about the cheery lynx joining them, but they've grown to tolerate each other since. Unfortunately, there was no sight of the noblewoman after the Polaris Wing crashed. She is assumed to be dead.

Wing
Blade is one of the remaining members of the Persephone Flight, and is one of the two knights in the Order of the Crimson Dawn.

=Sarah "Bellcat" Skydancer=

Phys. Description
Sarah is a relatively small creature, for someone of a large cat species. She stands at around five feet and four inches tall, and weighs a meager one hundred and fifteen pounds which gives her a slim, near-stick-like form. Her fur is primarily white, with thick black stripes as all tigers have, and her eyes are green like most white tigers. Her hair is long and matches the primary white of her well-taken care of fur, falling to the base of her tail. It is normally kept in a ponytail to keep it out of her way. However, contrary to what one would expect, she has little muscle mass, and she suffers from a muscular syndrome that limits her physical strength to where she can not lift more than fifty pounds without straining herself. She also tires easily under physical exertion. This has caused her to adopt gunplay as her favored fighting style and forced her to work on her natural agility. As such, she moves with a natural grace; each of her movements as fluid as flowing water and well-choreographed with her environment.

Normally, her clothing consists of a black belly t-shirt with short sleeves that barely cover her shoulders, and the torso of which ends at her lowest rib. This shirt in particular has been cut lengthwise up the torso, and would have been cast aside if not for Sarah deciding to cut holes in the shirt and lace it together with linen string. This is tied together so that only a quarter-inch or so of space is left between the new opening in the shirt. Her pants are white, and are usually worn over her boots though are tucked in when pictured above.

For weaponry, she carries two .45 caliber automatic pistols which are wielded as a set. One of these pistols is finished in a bright, gleaming silver, while the other is the same except in a bright gold. Ivy patterns are engraved into the slides of each firearm, with a fleur-de-lis patterned into the handgrips. Despite the difference in color, both guns look exactly the same and are tuned the exact same way. Sarah calls the gold one 'Solar Claw', and the silver 'Lunar Fang'.

Psyche Description
Due to her past, Sarah has become very reserved and caustic. She is purposefully mean and cruel to anyone she meets to keep them from getting inside her, and possibly harming the vulnerable little girl within which was locked away when her father, the only one she ever cared about left her to train her brother in the ways of the sky. However, since resolving her issues about her father, she's started to ease off a little, and since meeting a fennec named Davian Thule, she's slowly becoming the little girl she left behind so long ago. At her core, she is kind and gentle if a little sadistic.

Background
Born in 173 to Caleb Skydancer, and to a mother who is unnamed because she almost immediately ran-off, abandoning the cub with its father. Still, Caleb raised her as best he could, even while flying in a war at the time. When he finally met Blade's mother, he left Sarah to her, and the two would become close. However, once Blade was born, Caleb had realized that his number was going to be up soon. At Nathaniel's fourth year, Caleb took his son to teach him all he could about the skies, to pass his legacy onto his son. This left Sarah alone, and when she could finally afford to get her own plane, she went chasing off after her brother to exact her revenge on him. This accomplished, just recently, she's recieved her brother's old modified Phantom and has joined the Blue Faction.

Planes

 * Firehawk(old decommissioned Valkyrie, destroyed)
 * Starglider II(modified Phantom, current)

Crew
Sarah does not have a crew.

Wing
Sarah is not a member of a wing.