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Character and Class Concept: Adara the Aviator

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Name: Adara Levine

Gender: Transexual female

Ethnic Group: German

Religion: Jewish

Appearance: Adara wears a loose jumpsuit in a blue/white camouflage pattern. The leg sleeves are tucked into a pair of black combat boots and a leather-brown bomber jacket is worn over her jumpsuit. She wears a pilot's helmet with the visor up and the mouth piece removed; her hair doesn't poke out, but is dyed red with some streaks showing that her natural hair colour is chestnut. Her eyes are dark brown and her skin is noticeably tanned.

Her aircraft, the EAF-27 Chaos is a relatively small, forward-wing swept VTOL ground-attack plane colored primarily in white with blue as the secondary colour and details in black. The machine guns is built either side of the nose cone and the missile pods are built into the base of the wings.

Background: Hailing from the artificial residential planetoid, Eos, Adara has always something of a 'action-movie junkie'; as long as it has explosions, gun fire and other relevant activities, she would watch it. By the age of 18, she chose to join the air force of Eos so that she could get in on the action. Initially, she struggled to keep up with her fellow rookies, but she managed to qualify after putting in extra hours to make up.

When news of Pandora hit Eos, they weren't quite sure what to do about the situation and decided to send a squad to investigate the situation. Adara volunteered as scout because she wanted to see for herself, especially Salvador who she automatically dubbed 'awesome' for mowing down Hyperion personnel simply by going guns akimbo.

When their scout craft was entering Pandora's territory, it was shot down by Hyperion and the interstellar communication system was rendered unusable in the crash, isolating the team from the rest of the surrounding galaxy. Adara was the only one who managed to adapt to her new environment, partly thanks to her mechanical knowledge and partly thanks to her aircraft, the Chaos.

Personality: Adara is an eager and outgoing girl who enjoys action movies and emulating tropes from them above all else. She is also intelligent and curious and tends to dig deep into information which catches her interest, sometimes causing her to ask questions that people are uncomfortable with. When it comes to communicating, she enjoys mixing sophisticated as hell with expo-speaking to confuse the hell out of people she doesn't like or entertaining her friends.

Class: Aviator. The Aviator is a class with emphasis on mobility and delivering large amounts of damage quickly. Initially, this comes in the skill, 'VTOL Craft' which digistructs a high-speed VTOL ground attack plane around Adara which can uses a high-caliber machine gun and a missile barrage which can regenerate said missiles. Depending on what skill tree is focused on, an Aviator can either straight up flood areas with bullets, become a one-woman air force or a high-speed harasser.

Proficiencies: DPS, Elemental, Movement speed

Action Skill: VTOL Craft. Digistructs a high-speed VTOL ground attack aircraft around Adara. The aircraft's health is 12x the player's maximum health. The aircraft can use a machine gun with left-mouse button and a missile volley with the right mouse button. The aircraft is steered using the mouse and rolled with left and right movement keys. Accelerate is the forward key and decelerate is the backward key. Maneuverability inversely scales with velocity, increasing the lower the flight speed becomes. The duration is flexible with a maximum duration of 25s and the cooldown is 2.5x the duration of the flight. Pressing the action skill button again, destruction of the Chaos or maximum duration reached, Adara ejects and the aircraft will go into a nosedive and explode upon impact.

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This skill tree is focused on increasing the user's fire rate to ridiculous extremes, primarily through using Bullet Hell stacks.
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Bullet Hell [Tier 1, 1 lvl]: Stacks of Bullet Hell are gained every reload with the number of stacks depending on how many times a successful shot was landed before reloading. Stacks decay at 5% of the number of stacks possess before FFYL mode when FFYL mode is entered. 10% of your stacks is lost when shield is fully depleted. Per stack, fire rate is increased by 0.2% and ammo regeneration by 0.0001%. Maximum number of stacks is 500.

Demonic Minigunner [Tier 1, 5 lvls]: Fire rate and accuracy increase, up to +15% and +20% respectively, the less ammo in the magazine.
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Projectile Damnation [Tier 2, 5 lvls]: +0.001% projectile count per stack (rounded up to the nearest unit) and +0.003% reduced accuracy per stack.

Oni-Forged Arms [Tier 2, 5 lvls]: +300 stack cap.
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Phantom Reload [Tier 3, 5 lvls]: +0.01% reload speed per stack. On kill, +0.002% of the magazine's ammo is refilled, per stack.

Eidolonian Shield [Tier 3, 5 lvls]: Health gate system applies to shields. +0.015% Shield regeneration rate and +0.00325% reduced shield recharge delay.

Abyssal Delivery [Tier 3, 1 lvls]: 0.002% Of your shield and ammo is regenerated when VTOL Craft is used per stack. When VTOL Craft is used, 10% of maximum stack is gained.
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Infernal Exchange [Tier 4, 1 lvls]: Melee override. Holding down the melee button for 4s restores 33% of your health and 33% of your ammo at the cost of 15% of your stacks.
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Power Of Abaddon [Tier 5, 1 lvls]: A copy of the gun held is added when 66% of maximum stacks is achieved at the cost of a 30% accuracy reduction. No extra ammo used.
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Agony Eternity [Tier 6, 5 lvls]: Grenade override. When the grenade button is held down for more than 4s, 10% of your stacks are removed to generate a time-slowing field around you which slows down everything inside by +8% except allies, yourself and friendly projectiles. Base radius of 3 meters. Radius increases by 0.3% per stack. Cooldown of 12s.

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This skill tree has a large focus on augmenting VTOL Craft and using it constantly.
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High-Yield Bullets [Tier 1, 5 lvls]: +7% Explosion blast radius, machine gun now fires explosive rounds.

Size 20 Air Intake [Tier 1, 5 lvls]: +10% Acceleration and deceleration rate.
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Crazy Prepared Medkit [Tier 2, 5 lvls]: +10% Of your health is restored when VTOL Craft is used.

Missile Beehive [Tier 2, 5 lvls]: Missiles will now home in on enemies. Hold the right mouse and pass the cursor over targets to mark targets. +1 Missile per target and homing ability increases with every level.
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Disproportionate Fuel Tank [Tier 3, 5 lvls]: +5s Flight duration.

IIP Improbably Important Person [Tier 3, 1 lvls]: When flying, a single non-badass/boss enemy is marked as a VIP. Killing a VIP increases VTOL Craft cooldown rate by 20%. When the VIP is killed, another enemy is marked as a VIP.

Interstellar Strike [Tier 3, 5 lvls]: Every 2.5s of flight, there's a +10% chance to drop a bomb.
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Spherical Roll [Tier 4, 1 lvls]: Melee override. Performs a barrel roll which renders the Chaos immune to all damage. Any enemy hit will either be knocked over or flinch and be dealt heavy damage. 6.25s Cooldown.

Mimicked Ability [Tier 4, 1 lvls]: When the Chaos explodes, it mimics the effect of your grenade with the damage amplified to match the original explosion damage.
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Artificial Selection [Tier 5, 5 lvls]: All damage dealt by the Chaos has a +10% chance to match the enemies' weakness.

Energetic Armor [Tier 5, 1 lvls]: The Chaos receives a copy of your shield with 12x the capacity.
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Terrain Master [Tier 6, 1 lvls]: Game changer. The Chaos digistructs into a tank when destroyed by enemies or if the action skill button is pressed with 50% of the Chaos's health depleted. The tank (aka Terrain Master) takes 80% less damage from all sources, DoT immunity, can jump, infinite boost and has a fixed duration of 12s. Terrain Master controls like any vehicle with the cannon being its primary weapon and secondary fire being an explosive nova. Upon duration ending or destruction, Terrain Master ejects Adara and explodes like Chaos.


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