NOT TO BE TRUSTED:

Selection Line:

• “Bout time you finally asked. [Affirmative Hawkmoth Chirp]”,

• “It’s Shoutime! [Disapproving Hawkmoth Chirp]”

Job: Magitek Commando (Tank)

Weapons: Shou wields an axe constructed of Hawkmoth’s exodermis into battle. Some abilities also involve a segmented sword-whip extended from her free hand, which doubles as a magical focus for her ranged abilities.

AI Behavior: Shou’s a “Magitek Commando”, which functions as a highly mobile tank, with all the essentials of a Shadowbringers tank kit (3-part single target combo, 2-part cleave combo, gap closer, stun, silence, highly damaging but resource-dependent OGCD abilities, mitigation, party buffs). Her combat animations feature her strafing around, under, and through the enemy like a Ninja on PCP (though her hitbox remains steady where she was, so the enemy’s facing doesn’t change). She eagerly uses gap-closers to resolve threat problems. but her FAVORITE thing to do, however, is dashing over to interrupt casters and then use her disengage ability to return to the scrum of other foes.

Shou tends to build up power with radial AoE before picking a foe and going completely JOHN FUCKING MADDEN with explosive abilities drawn from the Warrior, Thaumaturge and Gunbreaker pools-- loads of shotgunlike bursts of aetherial fire, lightning, and ice. She’ll target foes with a mischievous looking cat marker, applying the debuff ”Firing Solution”, which causes a detonation of aetherial flame when the foe suffers a direct crit from any source as well as denoting her primary target. Many of her abilities cleave or otherwise damage surrounding foes, creating puddles of aetheric napalm, tentacles of liquid metal chaining from foe-to-foe, or just whooshy-whooshy cleavey-trails of light and dark.

Differentiating her from conventional tank classes, Shou knows a reskin of Rescue, “Recuse” (appearing like a Mortal Kombat chain-yank), and “Death Defy”, an Elusive Jump clone which also roots her target for 3 seconds. Shou never Rescues players unless it’s a lethal mechanic, but will wrangle other NPCs out of AoEs.

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Battle Lines:

“You shoulda run!” - Starting Attack Line, Gauge under 50%

“[Distorted Scream]” - Starting Attack Line, Gauge over 50%

“[Sarcastic] C’mon, c’mon, keep trying, I’m sure you’ll hit me this time!” - Using Specialty Skills, Variation 1 (Defensive)

“[Distorted Shrieking]” - Using Specialty Skills, Variation 2 (Offensive)

“I gotcha, I gotcha.” - Using Specialty Skills, Variation 3 (Support)

“[Hooting, Hollering]” - Dealing Killing Blow

“It was you or me, pal!” - Dealing Killing Blow

“[Beckoning Whistle] Nuh-uh, eyes on me.” - Using Provoke

“[Hawktmoth Chirp] As one!”- Assisting an Ally

Limit Break:

• “[Distorted] BACK OFF!” - Using Limit Break 1

• “[Distorted Howling]”- Using Limit Break 2

• “[Delighted] Hawkmoth! You know what time it is?! [Affirmative chirp].” - Using Limit Break 3

KO’d:

• “End...of the...line...buddy… [Distorted Hawkmoth Error Noises]” - Variation 1

• “Just…gonna, [whimper]... take...five...” - Variation 2

• “My... Hubris...” - Variation 3

• “Hahah… this sucks...” - Variation 4

Revived:

• “YEAAAAAAAAAH, CAN’T KEEP US DOWN!” [Determined Hawkmoth Chirp]- Variation 1

• “I think I love you.” [Negative Hawkmoth Chirp]  - Variation 2

Dungeon Complete:

• “YEAHAHAH! WHOO!” - Variation 1

• “[A duet of Shou singing and Hawkmoth beeping the victory fanfare]”  - Variation 2

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