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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:06 pm
 ASMADAI RIFFAEL
Start Date: Saturday, June 16, 2007
Nationality: Vatican
Rank: Level One
Please do not post in this thread without Romantic Wishes's permission.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:58 pm
TABLE OF CONTENTS
...o1. shee sian
...o2. a table of contents
...o3. a good catholic
...o4. a kinder time
...o5. a new time
...o6. a way home
...o7. a trusted few
...o8. a favorite page
...o9. a simple system
...1o. a final word
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:06 pm
PROFILE
 ...name Asmadai Riffael
...gender Male
...age 30
...nationality The Holy See (Vatican City)
...personality
Considerate-- If something bothers you, Asmadai drops it. It doesn't matter what it is he's doing or talking about that bothers you, he will stop talking about it or doing it as long as he's around you. Does his stance on healthcare offend you? He will never bring it up again. This trait also leads to a very polite, well-spoken man, who is quite pleased to hold open doors and pull out chairs for all of his acquaintances, not just the girls. He tries his best to help without making it seem like he thinks you're incompetent, thinking quite seriously about how to allow you to save face. Uncomfortable subjects are to be broached in whispers, privately, or not at all. Unfortunately, sometimes this goes too far, and he won't discuss something that really bothers him because he's worried he will offend.
Pensive-- Asmadai thinks about things. He thinks about them a lot. He mulls them over, writes down his thoughts in his journal, takes a break to write in a different journal or play some piano, and then he goes back and thinks about things some more. Eventually, he might even draw a conclusion. Or, if you draw a conclusion first, he will take this conclusion and turn that over a few times in his head too. And once one issue is resolved, he will think about something else. This means that he makes good decisions, usually; he gets all the information, thinks about the pros and cons, and then he decides. It's not the fastest way to go about things, and can really mess up his long-term decision making, but he usually manages to think up a good solution to most every problem, given enough time.
As long as he has time, he'll make a good decision. But what about when he doesn't have time? What about when he has to make a lot of decisions in a very short about of time? Paul tends to panic and make the absolute worst choice, the kind of choice that comes from his heart rather than his head, if he can manage to make a choice at all. This isn't saying if you've planned to go out to lunch at a certain restaurant and you change your mind, he'll freak, because he won't. If you hand him three assignments, the deadline's next week, and he can only complete one, he will agonize over the decision until the day before the deadline where he'll do the fastest assignment, but he'll forget some elemental part of it and the whole thing'll be ******** anyway.
In battle, this can really suck. As long as things are going to plan, he is a perfect clockwork soldier, he'll do exactly what he's supposed to do. But if something goes wrong, if there's an element unaccounted for, he goes straight for the objective and then gets straight out.
Humble-- Asmadai is a great follower. And this is because he knows exactly what he did right and exactly what he did wrong, and he will do his best to repair that for next time. He knows this sort of thing because he is pensive, and tends to review his actions over and over and over. In addition, this means in a team situation he doesn't try to countermand orders; he follows them, helping out with the other members where he can.
Quiet-- and how. He doesn't talk when he's stressed. He doesn't talk when he's afraid. His thoughts are his own, and sometimes--a lot of the time--okay pretty much all the time--he'll tell you about his surface thoughts but not what he's really thinking. He might be considering tacos superficially, but he might truly be thinking about how he dropped his Bible in a puddle and now he doesn't know what to do. And it's really, really hard to tell when he's considering how bad he is gonna hate himself tomorrow, precisely because he spends so much time being pensive and mulling things over.
Resentful-- Asmadai has gone his entire life being told what to do, and he's done what he's been told, and he's done it with a smile. He's a priest because his parents wanted him to be a priest. He plays piano because his parents wanted him to play piano. He doesn't see how his life is ever going to improve from answering orders to jump with 'how high?' This is part of why he went to LOTUS; yes, he's still a cog in the machine, but here he is instrumental and important.
He's not crazy; he's not sociopathic or psychopathic. He just relishes his chance to do something just because he wants to.
Defeatist-- He approaches most everything thinking he is going to fail. While not every plan you make will be met with his particular passive-aggressive way of pointing out that it's not a good idea (he'll tell a story about a plan that is similar but not quite the same and how horribly it failed), the ones he has time to think about especially get targeted by a lot of sighs. He can even get downright nasty sarcastic, with a "Oh yeah, like no one has ever tried that before" or a "I think I saw that on a Saturday morning cartoon show". Sure, he'll still do exactly what you say and not modify it, but when the plans fall through he knew they would, the whole time, you heard him say that he knew they were going to fail.
...skills Asmodai is fluent in Latin, English, Italian, and conversational French.
He is an excellent listener, and can be useful at figuring out problems.
He has a talent for codes and looking ‘beneath the beneath’. While in the seminary, he took a class on decoding the Bible that aided him in learning to work around codes.
He’s got a good memory and looks very innocuous, so with a bit of work he might be useful for going undercover.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:08 pm
HISTORY
...comprehensive dating
...24 Jul 2041AD Asmadai F Riffael is born.
...13 Aug 2045AD Maria Yvette Riffael is born.
...2 Feb 2056AD Raphael Riffael has a stroke. The five Riffael siblings are split into groups and sent to relatives.
...18 Jun 2059AD Asmadai F Riffael graduates high school and decides to spend time considering his college options from home.
...26 Jun 2059AD Maria Yvette Riffael hangs herself.
...27 Aug 2060AD Asmadai F Riffael enters the seminary.
...16 Jun 2064AD Asmadai F Riffael graduates the seminary and begins work in Castel Gandolfo as a priest-librarian.
...9 Sept 2067AD Asmadai F Riffael is granted the diocese of a man who has just been promoted to Cardinal. He continues to work here and at the Castel.
...13 Dec 2069AD Time shatters.
...29 Jan 2070AD Asmadai F Riffael sets up a small chapel in Uberomania.
...16 Jun 2070AD Asmadai F Riffael joins L.O.T.U.S.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:16 pm
NEWS
+xvi june, mmlxx asmadai becomes a member of L.O.T.U.S.
+xvii june, mmlxx father's day. the gray dust
+xxxi august, mmlxxi has met new members of L.O.T.U.S.
*all dates are by asmadai's counting, starting from 2070 and moving on upwards
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:20 pm
LIVING SPACE
Asmadai keeps a very sterile room, with no carpeting or real heating systems. His bed is a pallet on a wooden frame, and he keeps a desk only to write sermons in in his spare time. The windows are framed by thin white fabric and are usually kept open. His books, mostly theocratic disserations, are kept on a simple pine bookshelf.
*photographs forthcoming
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 7:29 pm
RELATIONS
...estrelas
*A good sort, just a little overenthusiastic.
...einar
*...............
...lai
*Someone who I feel I might have someday met in the priesthood, had we lived in the same time period.
...shee
*Seems very quiet.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:08 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:06 pm
GROWTH
...new recruit to level one
two successful missions [1/2]
OR
three missions [3/3]
pass Wraith's aptitude test [1]
...level one to level two
four successful missions [0/4]
OR
six missions [0/6]
participate in one crystal retrieval [ ]
...level two to elite
eight successful missions [0/8]
OR
eleven missions [0/11]
participate in one crystal retrieval [ ]
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:12 pm
CREDITS ETCETRA
...acknowledgements
*JYOTI, for the art and concept of L.O.T.U.S. in general
*M HERMEY, for the concept of ASMADAI RIFFAEL and FAMILY
*M HERMEY, for all information pertaining to the era of the time of writing to 2070
*ALL ARTISTS for their work displayed
*ANYA! XD for the journal concept
...disclaimer
I, myself, am not Catholic. I am Episcopalian, and though I will work dedicatedly
to accurately depict Asmadai's Catholic-ness, it is a guarantee I will mess up.
Please do not kill me in the fase. That's very uncomfortable and I don't appreciate it.
...obligatory threat
Don't be a douche; everything here belongs to someone, and you shouldn't take it.
...permission to post
*OTHER l.o.t.u.s. members, EXCEPT when plot is going on
*JYOTI in all her guises
*ROMANTIC WISHES, for obvious reasons
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