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akuma_kessaku

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:46 pm


**New and hopefully doing this right! I am still chipping away at the question marks, but most of it pertaining to the character currently is there, so I am opening it for critiques. Please quote me if you leave a critique so I can read it and adjust this accordingly.

Thank you.






Full Name: [Gaddok Dragol] Nicknames: [???] Race: [ [Earthling: ½ Wind ½ Leaf]]

Gender: [Male] Role: [???] Age: [Prentice] Date of Birth: [???]

Sexual Orientation: [Straight]

Religion: [Gaddok was raised to worship Bergchi, though after he discovered his mother worshiping the earth in secret he began following her to these prayer sessions and found that he took better to the prayer of “Tersa” Mother of the Earth and all that come from it. ‘Til this day he still keeps this a secret from his father.]

Political Affiliation: [Libritarian- By definition it is simply this: One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
Gaddok believes in a moral society where people take care of one another, and therefore don’t need to have the constant interference governing forces. ]

3 Base Traits: [- Practical – Resorceful - Patient]

Personality: [Growing up in the shadow of a successful traveling merchant hasn’t been easy, especially since he shares no interest in becoming one himself. He has, however, taught himself to be quite resourceful both in communication and with his surroundings. Gaddok is somewhat of a “MacGyver” of his era, coming up with the most ridiculous inventions with no more than the items on hand to perfor tasks that were otherwise unfeasible.

Resourceful inventing has led him to develop a great deal of patience. Gaddok required perfection out of his inventions, surprisingly his virtue of patience carried over into his conversations and everyday life.

Gaddok practicality might be his ultimate downfall in conversation. He may have inherited his father’s charisma and overall presence, but when his mouth opens and words fall out, they tend to be brutally honest and more often than not people can’t handle his honesty; though his loyalty and commitment to society as a whole won’t lead him to hold anything against an individual, unless they are morally off in their choice of lifestyle and refuse to seek guidance.

Gaddok learns best through experience, which has led him to a great deal of injury. He generally works best by himself. ]

Serious Problems/Flaws/Addictions/Disorders/Disabilities: [???]

Likes: [???]

Dislikes: [???]

Hobbies: [Catching and training Sail Scales. Tbc…]

Special Abilities/Skills: [???]

Occupation(s): [Traveler/Mercenary- Fed up with life at home, Gaddok has left his mother to the house to write his own path. He intends to venture to the land of Jauhar to see if he can bring some peace to the Shifters or possibly learn more about the Alkidike.]

Past Occupation(s): [ - Sail scale trapper: As a youth(6-12ish), Gaddok’s father had him go out in search of Sail Scales for their trade business. This was a key time for him to develop his inventive, resourceful skills.

-Merchant: As Gaddok got older, His father began bringing him along to teach him his trade; give him a taste of the fruits of his labor as a Sail Scale Trapper. As much as Gaddok appreciated the extra currency in his pocket, he grew rather attached to the creatures he caught, and seeing them be traded off for various purposes left a bad taste in his mouth, especially when all he received in return were a few bits of metal. Of course as time went on he became used to the transaction, and understood its purpose. It was another key point of growth in his life. ]

Physical Description:
[- Taller than your average Earthling
- Ashen Tan skin
– Brown/Green(Hazel) Eyes
– slight point to tip of ears
- dark brown, long, wavy hair
scruffy w/o ‘stache ]

Clothing: [*These are reference images and should I get a custom slot for him will most definitely be edited to better suit the surroundings of the natives in Tendaji.* His armor can be broken down like so:
Stage 1: Prentice - Everyday clothing
Stage 2: Swordsman - Traveling clothing
Stage 3: Knight - Battle clothing
Stage 4: Assassin or Sentinel - we'll decide when we get there.]
[ Everyday clothing:
- Tunic
- brown/tan/black Pants
- Boots
- Belt w/pouches

adventure clothes:
- cotton shirt (Seen in tunic pic.)
- padded armor
- chainmail tunic
- padded legging
- W/tunic, pants, boots

Battle clothes:
- greaves
- L.Shoulder Guard
- R. Arm Guard
- W/shirt, padded armor/leggings, chainmail tunic, tunic, pants, boots]

Accessories: [
Dirt Amulet- An amulet gifted to him by his mother. It holds the essence of “Tersa”
Ear cuff- An accent piece.]

Weapons (if any): [- Long sword ]

History: [This tale begins with a lonely traveling merchant who wandered into the lands of Tale on a business venture. He happened upon the most breath taking sight, a leaf priestess, whom not only occupied a good portion of his waking thought, but also haunted his sleep. Upon one of his routine visits to her quaint little village he finally had worked up the courage to make the first move…

The rest seemed like history, they hit it off, got married, had a beautiful baby boy and moved to his hometown of Iory in the land of Sauti. His business was booming, and the people of Iory were so thrilled that they offered him a position as a ‘Counselor’ or governing figure of their village. He humbly accepted this great honor; however it would seem his shift of power had darkened the doorstep of his marital home.

He turned on his wife, forcing her to abandon the ways of her people and adopt those of the wind people. He became more controlling over who she associated with and what she wore; everything about her had to be of his people. Their son would be raised as a member of the wind society, and know nothing of his mixed race.

And this is the life Gaddok has come to know. His father was away most of the day tending to the needs of his people or business matters in his sail scale trade. His mother tended to the house and their son. Gaddok had a list of chores to be done in the morning, then the majority of the day to himself. At night he would check the live traps before heading home. Most of the time his father was yelling at his mother about something; things rarely got physical. Gaddok would generally take his supper and head to his room, being sure to return the plate to the kitchen before heading off to bed.

One of the few good memories Gaddok has of his childhood is the day he learned of his mothers’ people. It was close to sunset when he tailed his mother out to a grove not too far away from their house. He witnessed her praying to what seemed like nothing. Startled at first, his mother passed it off as her getting fresh air, but knowing her husband would be away, she began teaching him her ways; her real ways.

Tersa was the name he gave the earth. It was easier for him to assimilate to the religion that way. She gathered a bit of earth and placed it in a decorative glass vial, strung a thin piece of leather around it and gave it to him, saying that he would never be lonely as long as he had that vial. Tersa would always be with him, and as long as he respected the earth and all that comes from it, she would bless him with good fortune.

Gaddok continued to practice the worship of earth in secret, but of course life at home didn’t improve, so when he was old enough, he left home to be a traveler. It was devastating for him to leave his mother behind, but he was sure to always send letters, trinkets, and currency back home to let her know that he was well. ]

Family: [ Mother- the light in his darkest times, his mother has been a stable positive part of his life from day one. No matter what happened he could always go to her, confide in her all his secrets, and she would make everything okay again.

Father- A man Gaddok respects yet loathes at the same time. His father taught him all he knows in a business sense, but he also taught him how to not treat a woman and what not to do as a father. The man is well respected among the village, due to the thorough façade his family puts on, but also as a leader and as a businessman.

**Lela - Daughter- (Will fill when plot arises)

**Lelani- Granddaughter- (Will fill when plot arises)]

Education: [???]
Current Relationship Status: [Single]
Relationship History: [**First love- (will fill when plot arises)]
Future: [???]
Other: [???]

** Future plots to come. Names are not set in stone, for now they are as good as any though.
PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:26 am


akuma_kessaku


Just a few little things to start off with before we dive further into details:

When you say half wind, half earth, you mean leaf? We don't technically have a race of earthlings called earth earthlings, so I'm assuming this is what you mean.

And you say that IC as a prentice he's 28. Typically prentices are between the age of 13-17 ish. Are you ok with him being so much older than his peers, or did you want to change that? If it's part of his character, then feel free to keep him at 28, we allow for a lot of freedom on the details :]

As far as his religion goes, the leaf earthlings are animists to put it bluntly, so they don't really have dieties, but they do believe that everything has a spirit. I don't want to cramp any creativity, so I don't mind that you've made up a name for the "earth mother" (we actually encourage it) and I love the detail that you've put into his background, I just want to make sure that you know what the majority in Tale believe, so that most people he meets will probably not know of Tersa. But you're good to go on all of the religious stuff.

As far as the physical description goes: His looks are fine, and everything is pretty much fine. Leather armor is more of the norm than metal in Tendaji, though both are acceptable. The only concern I have is with the chainmail. Typical chainmail isn't really a thing in Tendaji, but we can do a fish scale variation of chainmail using the gorogorum scales that would be the closest thing if that's alright with you?

And now onto the more thoughtful things:


Why did his father turn so dark after becoming a councelor? Was it the stress from the job, or was he always a dark person and put on a facade in the beginning? Or something else?

How did the mother react to the change in her husband and how did she explain his actions to Gaddok when he was old enough to understand that that wasn't the way a person should be treated?

How is the mother doing now that Gaddok is gone? Does Gaddok visit occassionally to make sure his mother is alright?

How did the father treat Gaddok as a child? Was his aggression only towards his wife?

And I think that's it for now. I might come up with a couple more after your answers to these :]

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:28 am


So far you're doing good though emotion_awesome Don't let all of my questions scare you away lol

And I'm excited to see when the rest is filled in :]
PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:27 am


Bah! You're comments will never scare me! I love it. It's all up in my head, I just need some people to leave me questions to pull it all out. I never really know what parts are relevant so when people ask I can put it out there. otherwise I just figure it will come up in rp at some point. ^^'
Suhuba
So far you're doing good though emotion_awesome Don't let all of my questions scare you away lol

And I'm excited to see when the rest is filled in :]



And as for the rest of it:

Just a few little things to start off with before we dive further into details:

Quote:
When you say half wind, half earth, you mean leaf? We don't technically have a race of earthlings called earth earthlings, so I'm assuming this is what you mean.


[^^' Yeah, I fixed that on the master copy on my desktop, I used to have his race on there twice also... Something just didn't carry over between my frantic multitasking; I have since fixed it, Thanks for bringing it to my attention.]

Quote:
And you say that IC as a prentice he's 28. Typically prentices are between the age of 13-17 ish. Are you ok with him being so much older than his peers, or did you want to change that? If it's part of his character, then feel free to keep him at 28, we allow for a lot of freedom on the details :]


[When I initially started writing his character I visualized him as an older male, but as I began learning more about the stages of growth and such in the guild I just forgot to change it. I am fine with him being younger. In fact I had planned on starting his rp with him leaving home to get away from his father which takes place around the age of 16. -goes to edit age-]

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As far as his religion goes, the leaf earthlings are animists to put it bluntly, so they don't really have dieties, but they do believe that everything has a spirit. I don't want to cramp any creativity, so I don't mind that you've made up a name for the "earth mother" (we actually encourage it) and I love the detail that you've put into his background, I just want to make sure that you know what the majority in Tale believe, so that most people he meets will probably not know of Tersa. But you're good to go on all of the religious stuff.


["Tersa" Is a name used to help Gaddok assimilate what he knows about religion to what his mother believes in. It’s like a little five year old catholic boy has a mother who believes in Shintoism... Basically when she says that all things that come from the earth have souls, and Gaddok says well how did they get them? Instead of saying they all naturally have them because they come from the earth... She can say, "Tersa" gave it to them. So in little six year old Gaddoks mind he may see a pretty little flower goddess of the earth named Tersa giving him a soul... It is simply not so.

As Gaddok gets older he understands the differences between his mother and father's religion, so the necklace no longer has any religious holding... It's become more of a symbol to him of bonding with his mother; sort of getting to see a side of her he otherwise would have never known existed... ]

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As far as the physical description goes: His looks are fine, and everything is pretty much fine. Leather armor is more of the norm than metal in Tendaji, though both are acceptable. The only concern I have is with the chainmail. Typical chainmail isn't really a thing in Tendaji, but we can do a fish scale variation of chainmail using the gorogorum scales that would be the closest thing if that's alright with you?


[Yeah, Flan was helping me with that. I told her the images were just to give the artist a hint of what I wanted. I'm very flexible with what it is... I just had no description in Tendaji terms for what I wanted so I went with what I was familiar with.]

And now onto the more thoughtful things:

Quote:
Why did his father turn so dark after becoming a councelor? Was it the stress from the job, or was he always a dark person and put on a facade in the beginning? Or something else?


[I imagine Gaddok's father as being the top guy for trade in his little village. It became so ingrained into him because it was what he had done from his childhood, that it was like second nature basically.

When he got elected for counselor he was given a foreign element he knew nothing about really other than it was popular vote and they figured he fit the bill. He had to learn a trade from politicians which are kind of two faced in a sense... outside of office they can be your best friend, but if you don't see eye to eye with them in office you can expect the cold shoulder. So going from a trade where your personality and charisma is everything, to where you're walking on eggshells trying to get a feel for your fellow counselors, but knowing you can't really rely on any of them.

I imagine he would become very influenced by people he shares similar views to. And say his family didn't fit his new friends' views... he may lie and pressure his family into covering for him. Since his wife has a passive nature, she cracks under the pressure, and essentially it becomes a "You say Jump, I say How high?" sort of scenario...

And if for example he isn't doing so well in his new job and it would seem his skin deep friends in high places threaten to buy out and ruin his trade business, in a sense ruining his small little village, if he doesn't back them on heated political debates... Pretty soon he's in a similar situation to his wife... but he doesn't see that. He sees the fact that when he gets home he finally has something he has control of, and takes full advantage.

Truth be told, if he had someone to decompress on and get another viewpoint on his situation this could all be resolved, but he finds that he is far too important to get a second opinion. He's a great business man, but the power went to his head, and now he's stuck in a hole and for some odd reason the only solution he can see is to keep digging...]

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How did the mother react to the change in her husband and how did she explain his actions to Gaddok when he was old enough to understand that that wasn't the way a person should be treated?


[Gaddok came to the decision that that isn't the way people should be treated through observing other families in his village. He saw how their families acted, and though there were slight moments of discord, for the most part they were quite harmonious in their daily lives; working as a family unit.

Gaddok's mother did the only thing she could think of to do, send her child off to bed saying, "Daddy just had a rough day at work..." and when he was old enough for further explanation, she had none, and even if his father tried to explain, he wouldn't listen... so he removed himself from the stressful situation.

Basically she's a sad woman stuck in a sticky situation. She's never really labored outside of the usual housework, and has never really held a job in her life, so leaving just seems like too big a task for her. She just holds tight to her optimism and prays the next day brings a better one.]

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How is the mother doing now that Gaddok is gone? Does Gaddok visit occassionally to make sure his mother is alright?


[He does come back. He will always return at some point to make sure his father hasn't burnt the village to the ground, plus I am hoping to recruit some childhood friends he might have that would live in the area he could return to see.

His mother is of course very sad and lonely that he has left, she will most likely fill this by going out and attempting to mingle with the other women in the village... sort of form a "social hour" at a local pub/inn sort of eatery thing they might have in their little village >>'(words....)]

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How did the father treat Gaddok as a child? Was his aggression only towards his wife?


[Gaddok's father attempted to pass on the knowledge that his father passed to him, but with the added stress of the counselor position and the growing tension at home he found that any efforts he made to reach out to his son was returned in a cold unfeeling compliance simply to appease the man so Gaddok could go about his day.

He eventually recognized that he had successfully destroyed any chance he had at a father/son relationship, which could definitely add to the tension between him and his wife.

His only hope is that with Gaddok out of the house he can attempt to get a handle on his job and revive the relationship with his wife, who then may tell Gaddok that things are better and if he works it just right he might start a new relationship with his son; it wouldn't be a father/son sort of relationship, but it would be something.]

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And I think that's it for now. I might come up with a couple more after your answers to these :]


[All this was much appreciated! They are all thing I tend to overlook while writing him as a character. If you come across anything else please let me know.]

akuma_kessaku

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:52 am


akuma_kessaku


Well you answered all of my questions pretty thoroughly so for now I'm satisfied lol

Did you want to wrap up the quest thread, or do you want to add more for me to look over before I approve him?

You have more than enough to get an approved character going, so I have no problem either way :]
PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 12:05 pm


Well, What I have left to fill here is more key plot items of his rather than actual information you would need to know about him, which I assume I could add at any time?

If so then sure! I'd love to have him approved.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 12:42 pm


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Alrighty then :]

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