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NOTE: This application is for a character who awakens as a knight and is forcibly corrupted to the Negaverse almost immediately, losing all his civilian memories. It contains both a knight profile and a Negaverse profile so both can be approved for play -- his profile has not currently been stamped. Please see the fourth post in this thread for information on the conditions under which I've received approval to quest this type of character!

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Name:Lazarus Klein. According to a driver's license with his face on it, formerly Eli Bell.

Nickname: Nicknames, you mean like, those things your friends call you, for people who have friends? Yeah, he doesn't have any friends anymore. He's forgotten them. Not that he's bitter. Why would he be bitter?

Age: 27, according to his driver's license. A former happy father of two children, apparently somewhere around one year and three years of age, respectively, according to the photos in his wallet.

Birthday: November 5th, also according to his driver's license.

Sign: Scorpio.

Gemstone: Topaz.

Blood Type: Internal, preferably. He doesn't know. (a/n: Type B.)

Fav. Food: Recent experimentation would seem to indicate his favorite food is possibly brie, with a side of absolutely anything.

Hated Food: Recent experimentation on the self-same cheese tray would seem to indicate his least favorite food is possibly gorgonzola.

School: n/a

Hobbies:

Pre-corruption --

Wine: Eli, in his former life, was a wine connoisseur as a rather major hobby of his. He traveled internationally to visit particular vineyards and taste one vintage or another, and had a sizable collection of his own into which he'd sunk a good deal of money. Given the likelihood of how quickly it'll be for Quartz to need a stiff drink in his new life, it won't take long for this knowledge to return to the fore of his mind, even if it's frustrating to feel like something's been downloaded into your head like kung fu in the Matrix.

Women: Well, not just women, really. Eli was terribly social all around, involved in things like his children's 'play groups' and block parties and all things community-centric for someone living in the suburbs of Destiny City. He dated regularly and without an apparent gender preference, but more frequently he did things like sky diving clubs and morning yoga -- pretty much anything that involved being around people, he'd try at least once.

And song: Eli took lots of lessons on a smattering of different instruments during his lifetime -- popular instruments, like guitar, piano, and drums, he retains an excellent muscle memory for, even if it may take Lazarus some time to happen upon that particular skillset. He can play any of these competently, though not with any sort of expert proficiency.

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Post-Corruption --

Grantaire, put that bottle down!: Those who can, do; those who can't, drink to excess, apparently. Lazarus spends a lot of time at bars getting smashed -- he drinks to forget what he can't remember.

Stalking himself: When he's not completely blotto, Lazarus tries to learn what he can about the old life he lost -- whether through internet searches, or at the Destiny City records office, or by talking to people he thinks might've once known Eli. His lost life distresses him, since he resents its absence, yet, conversely and achingly, he can feel no connection to it no matter how hard he tries. Nothing ever sparks a new memory or an old feeling. It's frustrating.

Virtues:

Organized -- Socially experienced if by past behavior if not by current inclination, Lazarus has little trouble making good use of information he's learned, and has little difficulty developing structure or routine for himself. He's what one would characterize as a self-starter, once given a task -- someone who can go off on his own and complete his assignment with a minimum level of micromanagement or reminding. He can plan a party or a journey, and if he's ever late on his energy quota, it won't have been because of poor time management, but because of either Order interference or the willfull decision to ignore his quota and crawl inside a bottle instead.

Observant -- Likewise, he's a fairly keen individual. Sherlock he may not be, but he misses little that's plain for a watchful person to see. Lazarus is hungry to reclaim lost knowledge and experiences, and distrustful of those around him, and both of these make for a hawkish, vigilant demeanor -- as, admittedly, does the desire of a deeply resentful individual to find ways to make other people feel as miserable as he does. He's a collector of knowledge and detail, where he can -- knowing his perceived enemy (and everyone is his perceived enemy) makes him feel safer.

Honest -- Quartz has no particular reluctance to call things like he sees them, if he sees a point to doing so. He's generally a straight shooter and a forthcoming individual; he has no qualms about discussing his corruption and circumstances with characters of an Order alignment. Likewise, if he's feeling unsociable and wants to get rid of a person, he rarely minces words. Since he lacks any real loyal attachment to the Negaverse's cause, he puts virtually no effort into dissembling on their behalf, unless he's been specifically assigned to for some reason.

Benign -- Similarly, Quartz may unquestionably do his job insofar as collecting energy is concerned, but otherwise, he generally fights only under direct order. He serves the Negaverse out of self-interest, but has no real qualms with his former allies who oppose it, even if he never got to meet them before his corruption. If an Order character interrupts him while he's collecting energy for his quota, he'd just as soon offer to go do his job elsewhere rather than stay and fight, assuming he has no specific orders to the contrary from his superiors.

Flaws:

Bitter -- If Lazarus were any more bitter, the world would probably spit him back out and then wash the aftertaste away with a tall glass of milk. What he lacks in natural happiness and sunshine, he further enhances by way of sulking, simmering misery. He is persistently unhappy and shows no reluctance to visit his unhappiness on others -- it takes repeated effort for him to respond to positive social overtures/friendly behavior with anything other than snideness or cold dismissal.

Unmotivated -- Vim and vigor are a pair of words that have not graced Lazarus's doorstep since his corruption. Quartz is the kind of soldier who can best be spoken of as being capable and having a lot of potential, but his lack of any motivation to truly espouse the cause to which he's been conscripted means he lives both his lives -- his empty, gutted civilian life, and his life as a Negaverse soldier -- possessed of an ennui more powerful than most temporary passions. He's capable of executing on a task once given it, but has absolutely no drive for upward mobility within the Negaverse and no particular desire to further the Negaverse's ambitions beyond securing his own personal safety.

Cowardly -- Lazarus acts, and lives, his current life compelled more powerfully by fear than anything else. Whether within the Negaverse or allied against it, he fears for his life and his safety -- but he's also deeply traumatized by his near-complete loss of memory and inability to recover so much as a fragment of the familiar -- and the fear of losing any piece of himself again, of having even less left to try and live for, is a more powerful motivator for him than his generally well-in-tune moral compass. Chaos holds him through terror, and it holds him well: he lives his life as a cornered, injured animal with an unhealable wound, and shows no inclination to risk what little he sees himself as having left. He acts in whatever way preserves his life as wholly as possible, with no compelling loyalty to anyone else.

Untrusting -- Isolated and miserable, Lazarus could certainly use friends and social interaction, but tends to drive them away instead. He has no one he feels any particular loyalty to, and in turn, no one he believes in loyalty from in any way he can risk relying upon. His cohorts in the Negaverse are all either his gaolers or his fellow shackled creatures -- accordingly he loathes and fears those he sees in the first group, and pities those in the second, seeing them as having no more reason to stick their necks out for him than he does to stick his neck out for them. Order-aligned characters might express an interest in helping him, but that likewise does little to earn his trust in any appreciable way -- he can understand the practical value for their side in attempting to recruit him back, and has difficulty believing any of them would have any reason to care for him as a person rather than a tool they can turn to their own ends. If they cared, they'd understand why he can't go back -- why it costs too much to ask him to lose half of what little human life and memories he has left to him. People are self-interested -- trusting them, beyond trusting that about them, is a foolish and dangerous exercise in self-delusion. (So did I mention he's bitter.)


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Deep indigo, elegantly upswept.

Hair: Oil-slick black, layered, collarbone-length.

Face: Sleek features, patrician nose, high cheekbones.

Clothes: Apparently as a civilian, he once wore jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt that says I'm afraid I've got some bad news on it. Now, he doesn't know.

Negaverse Alias: Lieutenant Quartz

Challenge: Running will get you nowhere.

Uniform:
(* NOTE: Weapon shown is for his Captain stage.)


Weapon --
Stage 1: Thyrsus
Stage 2: Melee spear
Stage 3: Enchanted melee spear -- At this stage, night favors Quartz heavily: his weapon seems to melt into the nearby darkness of its surroundings, becoming mostly impossible to clearly see in motion, absent the movements of his hands and a rippling distortion of the air when it's in motion, like something curving the surface of water as it passes through it. Without being able to clearly see his weapon, it's impossible to consistently gauge its reach except through trial and error -- which makes strikes from the spearhead harder to avoid. In the daytime, or indoors, the effect is significantly reduced, and its magic seems less ethereal -- with the spear in motion appearing to only be mirrored from end to end, as though cut from shiny chrome -- a useful advantage only if he can manage to catch the glare of the sun off of it and shine it into his opponent's eyes.

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