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Name: Garethon Lafeu

Nickname: Gare

Age: 29

Birthday: May 1st

Sign: Taurus

Gemstone: Emerald

Blood Type: O-

Fav. Food: Cookie Dough Truffles

Hated Food: Eggplant.

School and Occupation: Graduated, Works as a mid-level executive for an advertising firm.

Hobbies:

Swordplay – Garethon has been an enthusiast of swordplay and other types of armed combat since he was a young boy. He is best with a thin cutting blade or a polearm, but he is at least proficient with most types of weapons, even his fists. He trains often, and frequents demonstrations and competitions. Garethon is in charge of his fencing team, but is so busy self-promoting that the team suffers in his absence. He is an avid participant in a local Kendo group but doesn’t have the time to travel around, and he isn’t good enough to support himself on it. He wants to teach his daughter some swordplay, but Bellatrix has so far been against the idea. Garethon also has a large collection of swords and pole arms, including more than a few antiques. He also has a “force fx lightsaber” in it that he lets Millicent play with whenever she comes over to his house.

Table-top gaming – Once every week Garethon gets together with his friends to play Dungeons and Dragons pathfinder. He’s done so since high school, and is loath to miss it for even the most important of engagement, and if forced to miss a game he will make sure his group knows of his absence beforehand. He runs the group as the game master, exerting control over his group even at home. It relaxes him to hold the lives of these (admittedly fictional) characters in his hands. It takes his mind off his other duties, and he sometimes uses it as a “trail run” for schemes, to see how people react to unpredicted situations.

Scheming – Anyone who spends too much time around Garethon will find themselves caught up in his schemes. His ambition to become the most powerful extends beyond honest advancement.Garethon will never scheme in such a way that would harm a child, it is against his very nature. Garethon spends large portions of his time coming up with, elaborating on, and sometimes abandoning complex schemes for power. He schemes up ways to get women to come home with him(lie about who he is, make himself seem like a hero through some staged event), to get ahead in his job (by framing his superiors for mistakes and then fixing them, or perhapes making his mistakes seem like they were other peoples mistaks), or even how to make a wad of cash easy through various scams. The actual act of scheming is just as important to him as the execution of his schemes. Paranoid his schemes will be discovered, Garethon plots his schemes in a journal disguised as dungeons and dragons encounters.

Virtues:

Brave – Garethon isn’t easily scared, even by situations he does not understand. He can be startled by a situation he doesn’t expect, but if he runs from a fight it’s never because he thinks he’ll lose. Garethons ambition and confidence fuels his bravery, he sees turning his back on a fight as an admission of defeat, and will stand in the face of overwhelming odds. He WILL retreat if he thinks for some reason it can be turned to his immediate advantage (Not “live to fight another day” type of advantage) but this only occurs when he has a very specific plan in mind.

Confident- Garethon is very self-confident, he is hard to shake from his commitments. This creates a dangerous combination with his ambition, because once Garethon has set his sights on having something he very rarely gives up till he has it. This is also the reason he is so ambitious, he believes he is the right man for the job, no matter what the job might be. Garathon’s confidence is what got him his advertising job, he has a knack for looking people in the eye and saying “you want this.” Garathon rarely hesitates in social situations, or worries how he might appear to others, which gives him a leg up and even a sort of charm to people who first meet him, before they realize he’d sell them out for a shiny dollar or the promise of a promotion.

Focused- Garethon doesn’t lose track of what he was doing. He is organized and methodical in his plans, and if he appears to be distracted its only because that’s what he wants you to think is happening. Unless under the influence of a child (see below) Garethon keeps a clear head in even the most unorganized fight, and is usually ready to seize an opportunity if it presents itself. It helps him further his schemes, and has helped his career greatly. His seeming total dedication to his work was, however, part of the reason the judge awarded custody of Millicent to Bellatrix.

Flaws:

Overambitious – Garethon wants power in every color of the rainbow. He can turn down money or comforts, but when it comes to power and position his greed is endless. He will double cross anyone (well almost, see below) to get a better position, which doesn’t make him a lot of friends. He’s crafty though, so this isn’t always immediately apparent. This flaw makes his everyday life troublesome. In everything he does he sees opportunities for power, so sometimes he takes things that shouldn’t be serious too seriously, including turning what should be a fun event into an opportunity to gain power, missing out on relaxing activities at a company picknick or ruining the fun at a casual sparring match by trying to one up everyone. He really misses out on the nicer things about his life trying to get ahead.

Unscrupulous – Garethon REALLY doesn’t care what happens to others. Garethon will sell others out as his job or even at his table top game, making him somewhat unpleasant to be around. His concept of good and evil is skewed by a jaded pessimism about the ways of the world; he thinks that no one will ever look out for him, so why should he look out for them? This mostly effects the application of his ambition, he doesnt mind lieing to people to influence their actions, or planting evidence of indiscretions if it helps him get ahead. It doesnt bother him in the slightest. The exception comes in with children, who he believes need time to learn to fend for themselves, so he takes pity and protects them without fail. He also uses the fact that he doesn’t hurt children as a moral justification for the bad things he does.

Pessimistic – Garethon has a sad outlook on life. He’s had his share of difficulties since he was a child, but he feels he’s had MORE than his share. He looks on everything in the world from a jaded perspective; he sees the worst in every situation. This doesn’t mean he is incapable of thinking things could be better, he definitely thinks of plenty of ways things could be better for HIM. But he does believe that the world is just naturally the way it is, and there is nothing that’s going to change that. This causes him to be much less interested in the problems of others, he's not likely to go out of his ways to help someone with their issues unless he can see some profit in it. He has little sympathy for the problems of others, he sees it as the way of the world. This world view is justified in his eyes by the fact that his daughter (who he loves dearly) is in Bellatrix’s custody, even though he thinks he’d be a much better parent.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Wide, blue eyes.

Hair: Blonde, cropped short. It stands up slightly in the front in a crown shape, and then shortens as it goes down the back of his head.

Face: Broad, square face with an L shaped scar on his right temple. He has a large, blonde mustache that comes down past the edge of his lips.

Clothes: Garethon usually wears black baggy pants with black shoes, a button up black and grey shirt with a long, dark brown trench coat that he keeps open. He wears black fingerless gloves with open backs. He sometimes wears red and yellow sunglasses when it is bright outside.

My first character on tthis site, I am somewhat familiar with roleplay. Friends with someone who rps here, she asked me to come check it out. Please help by sending Crits!

Thanks for the Crit! I edited some things on my application after reviewingyour thoughts, including moveing "Soft spot for children" into the virtues section. Your input was very helpful!

Thanks for the crit. I went ahead and took "Soft spot for children" out entirely, taking elements of it and working them into his other traits and flaws. Youll notice now that most of his flaws mention children as an exception.

That should balance out the number of traits and flaws.

I tried to stregnthen the traits and flaws as well, tying them together a little better and mentioning his normal life in some of them.

The name Garethon is made up, I came up with it in Highschool for a dungeons and dragons character. The name Lafeu is from shakespears "All's Well that Ends Well" and I like the way they go together. Ive been re using the name and character in different incarnations since I was 17, this particular version of Garathon has been adapted from a previous one, and Im interested to see how hell turn out.

I don't know if it still applies, but for a while people were encouraged not to pick names already in use. Lafeu is the surname of Chibi Lenka, so... yeah. Like I said, don't know if this is still an issue, but thought I'd point it out so you could think of a back-up. ^^;

Well then, that makes sense! Don't mind silly little ol' me, do carry on. xD

All Right, i did alot of editing. Changed alot about his flaws including moving scheming to his hobbies, clarified his weapon upgrade so that it doesnt appear to level up to a real sword, it stays as a wooden bokken.

Added a flaw dealing with his pessimistic outlook on the world. Expanded on most of his hobbies so that they talk more about how he spends his time.

Added his family to alot of his traits, virtues and hobbies.

I added his occupation, and tied it into his confidence virtue

Orangish and I are comfortable with the idea that our characters could never know each others true identity. Were excited to get to playing them!