[Negaverse] General Quartz || Lazarus Klein

[Shazari]

Green finch and linnet bird
Nightingale, blackbird
How is it you sing?
How can you jubilate
Sitting in cages
Never taking wing?

 

[Shazari]

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 (31 as of 11/5/17), 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.  

[Shazari]

Outside the sky waits
Beckoning, beckoning
Just beyond the bars
How can you remain
Staring at the rain
Maddened by the stars?

How is it you sing
Anything?

 

[Shazari]

DIONYSIA:

Knight Title: Dionysia Page

Challenge: Run away with me.

Uniform: (Concept sketch: * NOTE: The outfit shown is for his Page stage, but the weapon shown is actually his Captain-stage Negaverse weapon -- as a knight, he carries a much less blade-bearing weapon. But as you can see, I reused the same image otherwise. XD)

Weapon --
Stage 1 - Thyrsus
Stage 2 - Thyrsus quarterstaff
Spell: What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger - Dionysia can activate his magic for up to 45 seconds total duration, so long as he can hold his concentration. While his magic is active, any objects it comes into contact with -- other than currently living plants or creatures -- will be broken down and reformed into the base components from which the object was born -- for example, an arrow might become a newly germinated seed and an uncut rock, a blade might become a lump of iron ore, plastics become polymer oil, leather armor becomes a sleeping baby calf. The effects of this spell last as long as he continues channeling his magic, before objects will begin to resume their normal shapes.
(As a note: Dead creatures 'reborn' in this form universally appear to be sleeping quietly and deeply, as though comatose -- since they don't possess starseeds -- but of course Dionysia has no reason to ever use this ability on a human corpse. Calves are much more likely, due to the prevalence of cow leather.)
Note: Non-armor, non-weaponized clothing is unaffected by this spell -- the power of a magical uniform to protect one's modesty is too strong, and Dionysia's magic cannot overcome the fact that this is a PG-13 game.

Stage 3 - Thyrsus quarterstaff with shepherd's crook finial
Spell: The same spell as previous -- now with 60 seconds total duration.

Wonder: Dionysia, the Festival Island. As befitting a Wonder of the Cosmos, Dionysia is not easily classifiable as part of any planetary or star system, and it has no constellation to which it belongs, nor a fixed trajectory it can be said to follow. Dionysia is a wandering island -- it travels through space within our galaxy at seeming random, drawn from place to place by the energy of agragian worlds in their planting or harvest seasons (where that energy hasn't been polluted by Chaos) -- appearing in the sky above their atmosphere and, if invited, hosting festivals for the citizens of the worlds they visit (in one of the world's capital cities) for five days, before the island moves on again. In appearance, Dionysia looks much like Mont St. Michel uprooted from the ground and set to floating in space -- heavily crowded and built toward the point of highest altitude, where the knight of Dionysia resides in his temple. With so much of the galaxy currently gone to ruin, and Earth largely overrun by Chaos, there are no real anchor points actively farming in the galaxy to draw Dionysia to them -- instead it travels aimlessly from point to point in dead space, now, itself an island largely in ruin, its bright brass tarnished and its once-colorful banners tattered and gray.  

[Shazari]

How is it you sing?

Green finch and linnet bird
Nightingale, blackbird
How is it you sing?
Whence comes this melody constantly flowing?
Is it rejoicing or merely halloing?
Are you discussing or fussing
Or simply dreaming?

Are you crowing?

Are you screaming?

 

[Shazari]

QUARTZ:

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.  

[Shazari]

Ringdove and robinet
Is it for wages
Singing to be sold?
Have you decided it's
Safer in cages
Singing when you're told?

 

[Shazari]

Stories

[B-] Every Story Has a Beginning - Yvette, Eli [fin]
While waiting for a bus at night, two unsuspecting young citizens become tempting prey for a youma; Dionysia Page awakens.

[S-] The Ivory Tower [fin]
Dionysia visits his Wonder for the first and only time.

[B-] The House of the Rising Sun - Dionysia, Schörl, Laurellite [fin]
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God, I know I'm one.

DYSTOPIAN FUTURE META

[b-] Off We Go, Wild Blue Yonder, Etc. - Dionysia, Avalon [in progress]
Avalon and Dionysia do a mob hit.

[R-] Common Past - Dionysia, Tantalus [in progress]
Two kinsmen sitting on a log.

[B-] The Beginning of the End - Battle ORP [fin]
Dionysia vs. Stara Maslina.

End Dystopian Future Meta Threads

[B-] Masquerade - Quartz, Cinnabar, Galena, Schörl, Helicon, Emily, etc. [fin]
A large-scale capture operation at New Year's.

[R-] After Party - Quartz, Cinnabar, Galena, Zircon, Schörl [fin]
An unlikely celebration after the New Year's mission.

[R-] Everybody Knows the War Is Over - Quartz, Penthesilia [fin]
Quartz brings water to one of the Negaverse's captives.

[R-] Everybody Knows the Good Guys Lost - Quartz, Ganymede [fin]
Another water delivery.

[R-] Everybody Knows the Fight Is Fixed - Quartz, Valhalla [fin]
More water.

[R-] The Poor Stay Poor, the Rich Get Rich - Quartz, Kairatos [fin]
Still more water.

[S-] The Fiddle and the Drum - Quartz, Hvergelmir [fin]
Water.

[B-] Traitorous Ways - Quartz, Zircon, Astrophyllite [fin]
Quartz interrupts a scuffle between two captains (cameo role only).

[B-] Hit Them Where It Hurts - Quartz, Astrophyllite [fin]
Quartz tries to impart some simple boxing lessons to Astrophyllite.

[R-] Risible and Morally Dubious - Quartz, Melanite [fin]
Captain Melanite questions Quartz about his background as a corrupted knight.

[R-] Carnation and Coral Fair - Lazarus, Quenton [fin]
Lazarus very nearly makes a friend, and should have known better.

[R-] When the Old Joanna Plays - Quartz, Cinnabar [fin]
Cinnabar trains Quartz in energy draining basics, and also laughs at him in a bathroom.

[B-] Destruction Reigns - Quartz, Antares, etc. [fin]
Quartz answers a Negaverse APB and finds himself battling a teenager.

[B-] Theirs Is Not to Reason Why - Quartz, Schörl [fin]
Schörl trains Quartz in starseed manipulation, and Quartz hits a wall.

[R-] I Don't Want Pity from Anyone - Quartz, Cinnabar [fin]
In her time of need, Cinnabar is stuck with Quartz's wonderful bedside manner.

[R-] The Twelfth House of the Cosmos - Quartz, Camlann [fin]
Quartz encounters a Negaverse captain he's met before, only now something horrible's happened to him.

[R-] Fear Cuts Deeper Than Swords - Quartz, Ploutonion [fin]
Quartz plays mentor to a very green page.

[R-] Dirty Dancing - Lazarus, Colin [fin]
Lazarus picks up an impromptu dance partner in a swing competition.

[R-] The General's b***h - Quartz, Umber [fin]
Quartz encounters a fresh lieutenant.

[R-] Familiar or Unfamiliar? - Lazarus, Yvette [fin]
Lazarus finds someone he recognizes from before his corruption.

[R-] Dull Roots and Spring Rain - Quartz, Camlann [fin]
Quartz is horrified to learn of Camlann's transcendence.

[R-] Backstage - Lazarus, Elle [fin]
Congratulatory visit.

[R-] Hunting for Humanity - Quartz, Freia [fin]
The coop, flown.

[R-] It's Dangerous to Go Alone - Quartz, Zircon [fin]
Zircon teaches Quartz hands-on about the Rift.

[R-] Dirty Dancing - Lazarus, Colin

[R-] Evolution Solutions - Quartz, Galena

[R-] I Will Learn to Love the Skies I'm Under - Eli, Irenei

[R-] Cat's Paw - Quartz, Soyala, Amytis

[R-] Do Not Sell Me Your Grace - Quartz, Slate

[R-] The Die is Cast - Quartz, Valhalla

[R-] Luna Bay Concert - Lazarus, Many

[B-] How the Mighty Fall - Quartz, Many

[R-] Death Is What You Make of It - Quartz, Megiddo, Camlann

[R-] Join Us, Leave Your Cheese to Sour - Quartz, Mistral

[R-] Isn't It Funny - Lazarus, Delphine

[R-] Clemency - Quartz, Neckar

[S-] Ex Memoriam - Quartz, n/a

[R-] Building the Rapport - Quartz, Mintaka

[S-] Day One: The Pool of Bones - Quartz, n/a

[S-] Day Two: The Eye in the Water - Quartz, n/a

[R-] Like Fox Fire or Will o' Wisp - Quartz, Eros

[R-] Talk More, Smile Less - Quartz, Mycenae

[R-] To Be a Captain - Quartz, Chrysotile

[R-] I See No Reason - Quartz, Ashanite

[R-] Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Quartz, Teide

[B-] Speaking a Completely Different Language - Quartz, Juno

[R-] Drawn to the Grave - Quartz, Camlann

[R-] The Challenge - Quartz, Many

[B-] The Labyrinth - Quartz, Many

[R-] New Beginnings - Quartz, Many

[R-] Information Meeting - Quartz, Many

[R-] {tourney} Ceraskia vs Chalcopyrite - Quartz, Ceraskia, Chalcopyrite, Schörl

[B-] {tourney} Cavansite vs Quartz - Quartz, Cavansite

[R-] Sour Grapes - Quartz, Aue

[R-] {tourney} Idrialite vs Annabergite - Quartz, Idrialite, Annabergite, etc.

[R-] {tourney} Ceraskia vs Annabergite - Quartz, Ceraskia, Annabergite

[B-] Mistakes Were Made - Quartz, Eros, Xenotime

[R-] Special Operations Meeting - Quartz, Many

[R-] From ash, we rise - Quartz, Ceraskia, Schörl, etc.

[R-] New Vintage - Quartz, Axinite

[B-] Blighted Garden - Quartz, Many

[R-] 2016 DCBC Halloween Costume Ball - Lazarus, Many

[B-] A Crack in the Foundation - Quartz, Cinnabar, Idrialiate

[R-] State of the Branch - Quartz, Natron


 

[Shazari]

My cage has many rooms
Damask and dark
Nothing there sings
Not even my lark
Larks never will, you know
When they're captive


(Teach me to be more adaptive)

 

[Shazari]

Gallery

 

[Shazari]

Green finch and linnet bird
Nightingale, blackbird
Teach me how to sing

If I cannot fly
Let me sing.

 

[Shazari]

Relationships

{{Sober}} | {{Drunk}}

Sailor Senshi

Colin Hargrove a.k.a Sailor Aegir - "Sweet and innocent, an obvious sucker. Deserves to be as far away from Destiny City as is humanly possible. Falls for every single smile or wink." "Someday someone is going to take advantage of you in the butt and I told you so."
Desdemona Christianson a.k.a Sailor Antares "Surprisingly talented for a young and green opponent. Hits hard." "OKAY BUT SERIOUSLY. Seriously. YOU THREW ME. ON. A RACCOON TRAP."
Jeanne Boucher a.k.a. Transcendent Eternal Sailor Penthesilea "She listened, which was more than I can say for some of the others. Not sure if she's capable of being clever enough to amuse Schörl like I recommended, but what does it matter in the end, anyway." "You poor doomed ******** Gallo (née LeFay) a.k.a Transcendent Eternal Sailor Ganymede "Stubborn, but she does a good job of keeping up a brave face. Not that that counts for much, with the Negaverse." "Don't say I didn't ******** tell you what the world's like."
Quenton Marinus a.k.a Eternal Sailor Thraen "Stroud's cousin. If he shares half her genetics, he's smarter and more soulless than I want to get involved with." "What did you wantfrom me? What?!"

Mauvians

*********, Guardian Cat "Surprisingly aerodynamic." "WHAT THE ******** style="text-decoration: underline">Knights

Arkady Ashlyn-Smith a.k.a Avalon Page of Earth "I don't even know this person." "YOU KNOW WHAT. ******** YOU and your ******** MEMORIES and your ******** REMEMBERING THINGS and what the ******** is that about, ******** you."
Rhys Banner a.k.a. Ploutonion Page of Saturn "Smart enough to want to stay out of trouble. Dumb enough to power up anyway."
Jenna Hansen a.k.a. Teide Squire of the Cosmos "I'm not sure I've seen this person." "GET AWAY FROM ME."
Aleksy Spektor a.k.a Camlann Squire of Saturn "I don't understand him. He's wasting his time trying, with me." "I'm worthless. Give this up before it hurts you."
Andrew Parrish a.k.a Helicon Knight of Mercury "Young and good-hearted. Easily manipulated through loved ones." "I SAID I WAS ******** SORRY. Didn't I? Well, I probably said I was sorry. ******** you."
Christopher Gallo a.k.a Valhalla Knight of Jupiter "God's own fool. Literally no idea how this soft-hearted teddy bear is still alive." "You people neverrrrrrr listennnnnnnnnnnnnn."
Finn Derouen a.k.a Babylon Transcendent Knight of Mercury "I don't even know this person."
Landscape “Laney” Sutton a.k.a Hvergelmir Knight of the Cosmos "Connected to Dionysia somehow in another lifetime. Believes she can make up her own rules of war." "What are you up to, little sister?"
Xanthus Goldman a.k.a Kairatos Knight of Mars "Hard-headed. Hot-headed. Just generally not well provisioned in the head department." "The Negaverse will make such a ******** example of you. Dumbass ******** style="text-decoration: underline">Negaverse

Lazarus Klein a.k.a Lieutenant Quartz "Sane compared to coworkers. Competent at staying alive."
Shale Blackwell a.k.a. Lieutenant Umber "Douchebag."
Ariel Mishnah a.k.a Captain Cinnabar "Schörl's pawn. Kidding herself if she thinks she's her own person." "Mommy never hugged her enough, so she turned into a Pokemon."
Elle Adelardi a.k.a. Captain Galena "Slightly less insane than surrounding coworkers. Not full of s**t, except deliberately." "Fine to have around as long as I don't expect you to do ******** for me and you don't expect me to do ******** for you. Let's keep it that way. Except for your psychologically comforting doilies, that's just ******** weird."
Suri Ellis a.k.a. Captain Zircon "Uptight and insecure, another one of Schörl's drooling cronies. Easily riled temper." "You are just. So short you could carry yourself around in your own pocket. That's how short."
Stroud Marinus a.k.a. General Schörl "..." "Bad doth itself, and others waste ; So they deserve nor blame, nor praise. But they are ours as fruits are ours ; He that but tastes, he that devours, And he that leaves all, doth as well ; Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ; And when he hath the kernel eat, Who doth not fling away the shell?"
General-Queen Laurelite [NPC] "Better off not seen and not thought about more than necessary."

Corrupted Senshi

Desdemona Anania a.k.a. Corrupted Sailor Amphitrite "[pending]." "[pending]."
Raisa Messner a.k.a. Corrupted Sailor Freia "[pending]." "[pending]."

Dark Mirror Court

Civilians

Yvette Weaver "Young and shy -- and woefully ignorant of the war, even though it follows her." "Full of secrets she has no idea about."



 

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