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We Could Be r3 app wip
Jul. 12th, 2021 09:49 pm-OOC Information-
Player Name: Daimon
Player Age: over 30
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-IC Information-
Character Name: Guy Cecil (born Gailardia Galan Gardios)
Character Age: 21
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Canon Point: Post-timeskip (about halfway through the game)
Reserve Link: Your reserve should be under the same account you’re applying with.
Bottom Line: Describe your character in one short sentence! How you’d describe/sell them to someone who’s never heard of them before.
History: Guy's own wiki article and one for his world, Auldrant.
About: Guy is...sort of complicated.
He was born into nobility, to a count and countess who governed a large island. He was shy and quiet kid, teased fairly regularly for not living up to the 'strength' of his given name. It's implied that he preferred books over fighting and took up swordfighting fairly unwillingly. As an adult, he's not vastly different. He's cheerful and easygoing, possessing charisma that he considers both a boon and a curse in nearly equal parts, and can border on ditziness when not attempting to explain something.
However, underneath that is more than a bit of darkness, in the form of hatred and vengeance. After losing most of his family as a result of war, Guy vows revenge on the soldier--one Duke Herzog fon Fabre--who took their lives, as well as his family. To accomplish this, he manages to get himself employed as a servant to said family in the interest of getting close to them.
And get close he does, but not by choice. In the Fabre household, his primary duty is to care for Luke, the Duke's son. This takes an odd turn when Guy is a teenager, where he's saddled with the task of teaching a traumatized and entirely amnesiac Luke how to function as a human child again. He's pissed, of course, but can't kill Luke in his sleep despite how much he wants to and how easy it would be, so he reluctantly becomes the father/older brother of a child-sibling he never wanted.
When he later finds out that Luke is basically a different person and not someone who lost their memories, Guy realizes he doesn't really hate the Luke he essentially raised but rather the one he thought he was trying to fix (he still hates the Luke that now goes by Asch).
Big brother tendencies aside, Guy’s not much of a leader by any means, partly due to his occupation as a servant and partly due to the fact that he’s just not very commanding. Again, he was a reserved child, so it’s easier for him to follow rather than lead to begin with, and spending nearly two decades serving others strengthened that. He tends to default to the opinions of others, sometimes expressing dislike or skepticism for a plan or course of action, but doesn’t often try to take charge of anything unless he absolutely has to, and even then he’s a bit awkward about it. Guy also has trouble refusing most requests made of him. He might complain a little about the task if it’s time-consuming or out of his way, but if it’s within his abilities he’ll probably do it anyway.
This is where we get into the subject of Guy’s severe gynophobia. He has no issue talking to or seeing women--he mentions several times that he ‘likes looking at women’ (he's absolutely a pervert)--but if they get too close to him or try to touch him, he'll reflexively flee. It’s revealed later that this fear stems from the death of his household, when he ended up buried in the corpses of his sister and most of the household’s female servants. That memory was suppressed for years and simply became an unexplainable phobia. To his dismay, a lot of women see his fear as just nervousness and find it adorable whenever he gets flustered around them. Most of his party, especially Luke and Anise, tease him frequently about it while Natalia and Tear find it annoying.
Once he figures this out, he gets a little better at dealing with the fear. At his canon point he’s capable of being physically close to the opposite sex for short periods of time, but will panic if caught unaware or trapped.
Another quirk of Guy’s is his fascination--and skill with--machinery of all types. He loves fon technology especially; his bedroom is littered with bits and pieces of stuff he’s taken apart and put partially back together and he gets very excited when he and the main party find ancient technology or travel to anywhere that’s heavily associated with it. He studies it obsessively, and is always happy to volunteer information about fontech that he’s picked up either on his travels or read about in books or magazines. It’s something else he’s frequently teased about, and while he acts put out about it, he doesn’t otherwise seem to mind the teasing.
As mentioned above, Guy is sort of ditzy-acting, apparently not taking a lot too seriously and frequently teasing his friends or joking around to diffuse tense situations. This isn’t entirely an act, but he usually knows or notices a lot more than he lets on. In order to avoid questions or to shrug off suspicion, he’s become very good at pretending not to know what’s going on, lying, or successfully changing the subject to something else entirely. However, if he knows something interesting that isn’t likely to cause some sort of problem, he’s more than happy to share it with the class.
Also, while he usually acts cheerful and not-so-serious, he’s very capable of anger. And unfortunately, he’s the kind of person who suppresses and internalizes anger, so it tends to explode out all at once. And despite being a good liar in other aspects, dislike and hatred are not things he’s good at hiding, and once in a while his tone will betray his words or his body language will show how he really feels about a situation.
Regains:: LEMON GEL - A large gummi candy that will restore 60% of your HP--whatever that means.
STUFFED RAPPIG - A stuffed toy that appears to be a pig with long, rabbit-like ears.
Motives: It would depend on who/what he's killing. He'd definitely kill in self-defense, and while he doesn't enjoy killing, he's no stranger to it, up to and including human beings.
In terms of motives, deep down he'd like any chance he could get to see his family again, but he's pretty much accepted that what's dead will stay dead. If someone could convince him that they could in fact restore his family somehow, he'd pay a blood price for that.
Alternately, just make him think that a random other person is Asch and antagonize him, that'd be
Sample: Show us your writing chops! This can be a thread from our TDM, as long as it’s got at least ten posts from you, or it can be an original sample. Either way, it should show your character interacting with the game setting.
Plot Involvement: sure, if time allows
Case Involvement: Nah, hit me with RNG
Other: Nope.
Player Name: Daimon
Player Age: over 30
Contact:
-IC Information-
Character Name: Guy Cecil (born Gailardia Galan Gardios)
Character Age: 21
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Canon Point: Post-timeskip (about halfway through the game)
Reserve Link: Your reserve should be under the same account you’re applying with.
Bottom Line: Describe your character in one short sentence! How you’d describe/sell them to someone who’s never heard of them before.
History: Guy's own wiki article and one for his world, Auldrant.
About: Guy is...sort of complicated.
He was born into nobility, to a count and countess who governed a large island. He was shy and quiet kid, teased fairly regularly for not living up to the 'strength' of his given name. It's implied that he preferred books over fighting and took up swordfighting fairly unwillingly. As an adult, he's not vastly different. He's cheerful and easygoing, possessing charisma that he considers both a boon and a curse in nearly equal parts, and can border on ditziness when not attempting to explain something.
However, underneath that is more than a bit of darkness, in the form of hatred and vengeance. After losing most of his family as a result of war, Guy vows revenge on the soldier--one Duke Herzog fon Fabre--who took their lives, as well as his family. To accomplish this, he manages to get himself employed as a servant to said family in the interest of getting close to them.
And get close he does, but not by choice. In the Fabre household, his primary duty is to care for Luke, the Duke's son. This takes an odd turn when Guy is a teenager, where he's saddled with the task of teaching a traumatized and entirely amnesiac Luke how to function as a human child again. He's pissed, of course, but can't kill Luke in his sleep despite how much he wants to and how easy it would be, so he reluctantly becomes the father/older brother of a child-sibling he never wanted.
When he later finds out that Luke is basically a different person and not someone who lost their memories, Guy realizes he doesn't really hate the Luke he essentially raised but rather the one he thought he was trying to fix (he still hates the Luke that now goes by Asch).
Big brother tendencies aside, Guy’s not much of a leader by any means, partly due to his occupation as a servant and partly due to the fact that he’s just not very commanding. Again, he was a reserved child, so it’s easier for him to follow rather than lead to begin with, and spending nearly two decades serving others strengthened that. He tends to default to the opinions of others, sometimes expressing dislike or skepticism for a plan or course of action, but doesn’t often try to take charge of anything unless he absolutely has to, and even then he’s a bit awkward about it. Guy also has trouble refusing most requests made of him. He might complain a little about the task if it’s time-consuming or out of his way, but if it’s within his abilities he’ll probably do it anyway.
This is where we get into the subject of Guy’s severe gynophobia. He has no issue talking to or seeing women--he mentions several times that he ‘likes looking at women’ (he's absolutely a pervert)--but if they get too close to him or try to touch him, he'll reflexively flee. It’s revealed later that this fear stems from the death of his household, when he ended up buried in the corpses of his sister and most of the household’s female servants. That memory was suppressed for years and simply became an unexplainable phobia. To his dismay, a lot of women see his fear as just nervousness and find it adorable whenever he gets flustered around them. Most of his party, especially Luke and Anise, tease him frequently about it while Natalia and Tear find it annoying.
Once he figures this out, he gets a little better at dealing with the fear. At his canon point he’s capable of being physically close to the opposite sex for short periods of time, but will panic if caught unaware or trapped.
Another quirk of Guy’s is his fascination--and skill with--machinery of all types. He loves fon technology especially; his bedroom is littered with bits and pieces of stuff he’s taken apart and put partially back together and he gets very excited when he and the main party find ancient technology or travel to anywhere that’s heavily associated with it. He studies it obsessively, and is always happy to volunteer information about fontech that he’s picked up either on his travels or read about in books or magazines. It’s something else he’s frequently teased about, and while he acts put out about it, he doesn’t otherwise seem to mind the teasing.
As mentioned above, Guy is sort of ditzy-acting, apparently not taking a lot too seriously and frequently teasing his friends or joking around to diffuse tense situations. This isn’t entirely an act, but he usually knows or notices a lot more than he lets on. In order to avoid questions or to shrug off suspicion, he’s become very good at pretending not to know what’s going on, lying, or successfully changing the subject to something else entirely. However, if he knows something interesting that isn’t likely to cause some sort of problem, he’s more than happy to share it with the class.
Also, while he usually acts cheerful and not-so-serious, he’s very capable of anger. And unfortunately, he’s the kind of person who suppresses and internalizes anger, so it tends to explode out all at once. And despite being a good liar in other aspects, dislike and hatred are not things he’s good at hiding, and once in a while his tone will betray his words or his body language will show how he really feels about a situation.
Regains:: LEMON GEL - A large gummi candy that will restore 60% of your HP--whatever that means.
STUFFED RAPPIG - A stuffed toy that appears to be a pig with long, rabbit-like ears.
Motives: It would depend on who/what he's killing. He'd definitely kill in self-defense, and while he doesn't enjoy killing, he's no stranger to it, up to and including human beings.
In terms of motives, deep down he'd like any chance he could get to see his family again, but he's pretty much accepted that what's dead will stay dead. If someone could convince him that they could in fact restore his family somehow, he'd pay a blood price for that.
Alternately, just make him think that a random other person is Asch and antagonize him, that'd be
Sample: Show us your writing chops! This can be a thread from our TDM, as long as it’s got at least ten posts from you, or it can be an original sample. Either way, it should show your character interacting with the game setting.
Plot Involvement: sure, if time allows
Case Involvement: Nah, hit me with RNG
Other: Nope.
