Gaius van Baelsar (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
howveryglib) wrote2022-06-05 07:35 pm
howveryglib) wrote2022-06-05 07:35 pm
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NAME: Ran
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RandomProphet, ranrannerson#7224 on Discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Evening to late night EST generally, though I can be active other times.
BRACKETS/PROSE:Brackets all the way baby! .
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: I'm good with pretty much anything honestly.
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ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Evening to late night EST generally, though I can be active other times.
BRACKETS/PROSE:Brackets all the way baby! .
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: I'm good with pretty much anything honestly.
IN CHARACTER
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: I mean........ not sure how this would happen but I guess.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yeah, fight him. He's not going to be an easy fight unless you bring eight people along with you that have overtuned gear. Then it'll probably be pretty easy.
RELATIONSHIPS: see physical affection. oh my god. I mean it’s a murdergame and these things happen.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: n/a because murdergame, though christ almighty there are so many imperialist razor blades.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: Garleans are kind of unique within the setting because they cannot use magic! They have to use technological aids to manipulate magic in any kind of way, but they do have kind of a sixth sense based in their third eye that gives them increased spacial recognition. So he's a lot harder to sneak up on and has good reflexes but otherwise is just A Guy.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Nothing out of the ordinary, he's in great shape for 56 but that's pretty much it. Probably a little healthier than the average person from a Fantasy Universe because Garlemald has modern medicine, actually! He probably has a lot of scars and I do ascribe to the headcanon that he's got like. really bad burn scars on his arms from praetorium that he covers up with the bandages.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Oh man. Oh dear. Here's where we get a little messy. There's two big ones here that I’ve screened comments so you can opt out of them!
The first one is Oh My God, The War Crimes. Garlemald loves its war crimes! Brutally putting down rebellions and subjecting occupied people to pretty shitty labor conditions are standard and generally what Gaius gets up to, but he has been adjacent to attempted genocide and testing gas weapons on civilians. In both of the latter cases he generally tried to move to stop them but like... the fact that they happened at all under his occupation is pretty bad!! Also while he’s not really a racial supremacist he’s got those cultural supremacy brainworms so if you don’t wanna deal with that just tell me.
The second big one is Livia sas Junius. Basically Livia’s parents got killed by a resistance movement when she was young and Gaius adopted her because he has the Batman-esque tendency to collect sad orphans like cats. Now Livia is 26 and uhhh she desires him carnally. There’s some debate in the fandom over whether it was originally intended to be full on Hikaru Genji grooming stuff or if Livia’s affections were unrequited. There’s a line in EN ARR that people have taken a certain way but I feel like the narrative intent is Here Lies Livia, She Never Scored, and that is the interpretation I take as well because hell I am willing to play bad people but not that kind of bad. With that said I understand that it’s a pretty uncomfortable dynamic even taken as “he views her platonically as his daughter but she views him as the handsome mentor she became unhealthily attached to because Garleans will literally join the military instead of getting therapy” so like I understand why people might not wanna deal with that.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yeah, fight him. He's not going to be an easy fight unless you bring eight people along with you that have overtuned gear. Then it'll probably be pretty easy.
RELATIONSHIPS: see physical affection. oh my god. I mean it’s a murdergame and these things happen.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: n/a because murdergame, though christ almighty there are so many imperialist razor blades.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: Garleans are kind of unique within the setting because they cannot use magic! They have to use technological aids to manipulate magic in any kind of way, but they do have kind of a sixth sense based in their third eye that gives them increased spacial recognition. So he's a lot harder to sneak up on and has good reflexes but otherwise is just A Guy.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Nothing out of the ordinary, he's in great shape for 56 but that's pretty much it. Probably a little healthier than the average person from a Fantasy Universe because Garlemald has modern medicine, actually! He probably has a lot of scars and I do ascribe to the headcanon that he's got like. really bad burn scars on his arms from praetorium that he covers up with the bandages.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Oh man. Oh dear. Here's where we get a little messy. There's two big ones here that I’ve screened comments so you can opt out of them!
The first one is Oh My God, The War Crimes. Garlemald loves its war crimes! Brutally putting down rebellions and subjecting occupied people to pretty shitty labor conditions are standard and generally what Gaius gets up to, but he has been adjacent to attempted genocide and testing gas weapons on civilians. In both of the latter cases he generally tried to move to stop them but like... the fact that they happened at all under his occupation is pretty bad!! Also while he’s not really a racial supremacist he’s got those cultural supremacy brainworms so if you don’t wanna deal with that just tell me.
The second big one is Livia sas Junius. Basically Livia’s parents got killed by a resistance movement when she was young and Gaius adopted her because he has the Batman-esque tendency to collect sad orphans like cats. Now Livia is 26 and uhhh she desires him carnally. There’s some debate in the fandom over whether it was originally intended to be full on Hikaru Genji grooming stuff or if Livia’s affections were unrequited. There’s a line in EN ARR that people have taken a certain way but I feel like the narrative intent is Here Lies Livia, She Never Scored, and that is the interpretation I take as well because hell I am willing to play bad people but not that kind of bad. With that said I understand that it’s a pretty uncomfortable dynamic even taken as “he views her platonically as his daughter but she views him as the handsome mentor she became unhealthily attached to because Garleans will literally join the military instead of getting therapy” so like I understand why people might not wanna deal with that.
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING: This is how I live.
THREADHOPPING:Sure! Ask me and my thread partner if it’s something that isn’t a meeting, investigation, or trial.
FOURTHWALLING:Well, I don’t know, has your character played the critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial up to level 60 including the award winning expansion Heavensward and with no restrictions on playtime? Honestly go for it Prae memes are funny. I would be amenable to references to the wider Final Fantasy series as well.
NOT INTERESTED IN: I’m game for most things honestly.
THREADHOPPING:Sure! Ask me and my thread partner if it’s something that isn’t a meeting, investigation, or trial.
FOURTHWALLING:Well, I don’t know, has your character played the critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial up to level 60 including the award winning expansion Heavensward and with no restrictions on playtime? Honestly go for it Prae memes are funny. I would be amenable to references to the wider Final Fantasy series as well.
NOT INTERESTED IN: I’m game for most things honestly.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
VISUAL: He's like 6'7'' so he's like, fucking huge. He's got brown hair with a dusting of gray and some light stubble and generally looks kind of weathered in a sexy way. Wait no I'm supposed to be objective. He's got some murderhobo chic going on in the outfit he shows up in, and yes, that is a fuckin' gunsword. An entire nation looked at Squall's silly-ass weapon and were like "that's rad." (Well okay two nations did, one of people who can't use magic and one of furries.)
AURAL: He sounds like Michael McElhatton AKA Roose Bolton from that show that got serious writing problems. Boy, I hope Gaius never gets serious writing problems! Here's a cutscene!
OLFACTORY: Definitely clean, but he can’t shake the smell of gunpowder and a setting-specific fossil fuel called ceruleum, which is magic glowy blue gasoline. I assume that based on the fact that every time I see it I think “forbidden blue raspberry soda” it smells like how blue raspberry tastes, and since I am a lone canon warrior no one can say otherwise.
DEMEANOUR:Very military officer, as one would expect. Good posture, very serious, kind of severe. Definitely not the kind of guy who smiles very often, though it happens... occasionally.
AURAL: He sounds like Michael McElhatton AKA Roose Bolton from that show that got serious writing problems. Boy, I hope Gaius never gets serious writing problems! Here's a cutscene!
OLFACTORY: Definitely clean, but he can’t shake the smell of gunpowder and a setting-specific fossil fuel called ceruleum, which is magic glowy blue gasoline. I assume that based on the fact that every time I see it I think “forbidden blue raspberry soda” it smells like how blue raspberry tastes, and since I am a lone canon warrior no one can say otherwise.
DEMEANOUR:Very military officer, as one would expect. Good posture, very serious, kind of severe. Definitely not the kind of guy who smiles very often, though it happens... occasionally.
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