Croissant

Name: Croissant File no.: PL04 Operator Class: Defender Branch: Protector Faction: Penguin Logistics Position: Melee Trait: Blocks 3 enemies Gender: Female Experience: 1 Year Place of Birth: Minos Date of Birth: September 29th Race: Forte Height: 163 cm Infection Status: Non-infected as confirmed by medical report. Strength: Excellent Mobility: Normal Endurance: Standard Tactical Acumen: Standard Combat Skill: Standard Originium Arts Assimilation: Normal

Story: Croissant was born in Minos and grew up in a family of merchants. She spent much of her childhood helping around her parents’ small shop and absorbed their instincts for buying and selling. That background followed her into adulthood even after she joined Penguin Logistics in Lungmen. Croissant became the company’s primary escort and security specialist. Her strength made her well suited for protecting deliveries and clients when ordinary courier work turned violent. She later began working with Rhodes Island through its cooperation with Penguin Logistics.

Croissant continued taking dangerous delivery assignments alongside Texas and Exusiai and Sora. She helped protect Bison during the violent events surrounding Sauin in Lungmen and fought through attacks from Siracusan criminals. She later accompanied Rhodes Island personnel on an expedition into Sargon and became separated from the others after their aircraft was brought down near Acahualla. Outside her security work she constantly pursues business opportunities of her own. She buys goods in bulk and resells them whenever she spots a promising market. Her ventures do not always succeed but she keeps searching for the next chance to make money.

Appearance: Croissant has fair peach skin and a slim athletic build with a narrow waist and long legs. Her visible eye is bright green beneath short orange brows. Her orange hair is cut into thick layered sections around her head with longer strands extending well past her shoulders. Several loose locks curl outward around the crown. Two short dark horns curve outward from the sides of her head. A broad black metallic visor rests across the top of her forehead.

She wears a cropped black top with thin shoulder straps and a white symbol printed across the chest. The short hem leaves her abdomen uncovered. A black jacket surrounds her upper body with broad rolled sleeves and a thick white fur lined collar. Gray lining appears around the cuffs. A circular black and white patch sits on one sleeve. Long narrow straps descend from the jacket with teal lettering printed vertically along one strip.

Her black shorts sit low on her hips and have multiple gray belt segments around the waistband. Several rectangular metallic pieces overlap across the front like interlocking plates. An identification card hangs beside one hip. A large black equipment assembly is secured along the opposite side with angular housings and projecting components. A long pale strap hangs from this equipment with a small teal end piece. A short tufted tail extends behind her.

White gloves cover both hands with black sections across the palms and fingers. Narrow black wrist bands sit beneath the gloves. Her legs remain uncovered from the shorts to the ankles. Bulky gray footwear covers her feet with thick soles and angular ankle guards. Orange trim runs along several edges. The upper sections flare outward around the ankles with layered mechanical panels.

Croissant carries an enormous dark gray shield that reaches from around her waist to near the ground. Its body has an elongated angular shape with beveled sides and thick reinforced borders. Numerous exposed bolts line the perimeter. A rectangular recessed panel sits near the upper center with three circular metallic components arranged beneath it. Small orange warning labels appear along the upper edge. Pale markings are printed across the lower front. A narrow vertical component with a small red marking is inset near the bottom edge.

Personality: Croissant is cheerful and practical with a strong fixation on business. She likes making money but treats commerce as something enjoyable rather than a reason to exploit people. She keeps careful stock and understands pricing well thanks to lessons learned from her parents. Croissant can become extremely enthusiastic when she thinks she has found a profitable opportunity and has even borrowed money to fund new ventures. She is relaxed during most situations and handles the frequent chaos surrounding Penguin Logistics with remarkable ease.

Texas and Exusiai and Sora are Croissant’s closest companions within Penguin Logistics. She is comfortable joking with them and sharing food with them after difficult jobs. Exusiai regularly helps with her business schemes while Sora has lent her money when she needed capital. Croissant trusts Texas during dangerous assignments and follows her lead without losing her own easygoing attitude. She also gets along well with Bison despite his far more serious approach to logistics. Her loyalty to Penguin Logistics runs deeper than a simple employment contract and she treats its members as friends whose company she genuinely enjoys.

Combat Overview: Croissant is a heavily armored defender who relies on exceptional durability and raw physical strength. She can hold back several enemies at once while enduring both physical attacks and Arts damage. Her Miracle Field gives her a chance to evade incoming harm and extends a weaker version of that protection to nearby allies.

Her defensive ability can temporarily reinforce her armor and make the Miracle Field more effective. Croissant can also unleash a powerful Magnetic Hammer strike by slamming the ground with enough force to injure and stun nearby enemies. The impact can hurl opponents backward with tremendous force. This lets her clear space around herself and knock enemies away from vulnerable allies.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.