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silbernewelt) wrote2019-04-07 06:52 pm
silbernewelt) wrote2019-04-07 06:52 pm
Application - City of Glymmer
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Age: 21+
Characters Currently in Game: N/A
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Character Info
Character Name: Aglovale
Canon: Granblue Fantasy
Age: 32
Canon Point: Between Frost and Flame, Chapter 6; before meeting with Percival in the occupied village.
Character Info: The wiki is unfortunately one of those that tells you more about stats than it does the actual character; as such, in 500 words:
Aglovale's upbringing was a good one with loving parents and two younger brothers; their father was the ruler of their home country of Wales, while their mother was renowned for her charity and generosity in offering assistance to surrounding countries in times of need. He knew he was destined to rule Wales himself one day; he wanted to make it into a nation of universal kindness and prosperity.
This went well until Aglovale was about ten years old; on a trip back from a neighboring region with his brothers and their mother, their carriage was attacked by the same people they had just been trying to offer aid to. Their mother died right in front of them after visibly suffering for several minutes, and they all spent a bit too long locked in a carriage covered in blood and parts of Mom.
Aglovale changed after that; he became distant and strict, believing that humans were all inherently vile and needed a leader that would rule them absolutely to keep them in line. Over time, all three boys grew up and went their separate ways – one went abroad to study magecraft, and the youngest became a knight in a neighboring kingdom. Aglovale remained with his father, who began training him in earnest to take over for him; his father also – for some reason – decided it was a good idea to teach him how to summon demons. You know, as you do.
Aglovale doubled down on the whole demon thing following his father's death, and as he ascended to rule Wales he made a pact with a demon to open a portal to what is basically Granblue Hell in exchange for military conquest and power. The plan to do this almost succeeded, but his youngest brother finally decided to visit – because unfortunately, the plan also involved starting a lot of wars to get the hell portal activated, and everyone understandably wanted to know what the hell Aglovale thought he was doing. Aglovale responded to this query by...starting more wars, and then physically merging with a demonic entity to become really eldritchy and try to kill everyone. His brother beat the literal hell out of him, they both nearly died, Aglovale told him that part of the reason he did everything was because he was tired of being left to handle everything alone and the rest was because he wanted to try to resurrect their dead mom, and his brother basically agreed to not leave Aglovale alone for long periods of time because apparently this happens. Aglovale vowed to be a better person after that, he became calmer and more capable as a ruler, all went back to being well – and then he promptly summoned the demon again, this time so he could whack its head off to satisfy his own sense of pride.
...It's kind of a work in progress.
tl;dr: Local man gets the world's worst object lesson in humanitarian aid, becomes warmongering eldritch horror, gets better.
Why would your character make a good (or bad) phantom thief? We should probably not foresee this being excellent.
Granted, he won't be a complete travesty? In terms of physical capabilities, Aglovale is both strong and fast; he's also used to conflict and handling things going unexpectedly, and he's completely willing to pull out all the stops when things go wrong. He's also a very flashy person with a flair for the dramatic in his actions and his planning, and perhaps more importantly he's got the intelligence and charisma to back up what he's selling; he does run a country, after all, and he's got the support of his nation in literally everything he does, even when those things are questionable.
In theory, this sounds fine. Passable, even.
However, a lot of the problem with Aglovale is that there's a major difference between intelligence and cleverness, and he is not as clever as he thinks he is by half. His plans are pragmatic and logically sound but fail to take the human element into account, and as such they're easily undermined by people...generally being people and therefore unpredictable. He's outmaneuvered by, like, the least charismatic out of four zero-charisma people on at least two occasions. He occasionally experiences complete failure with regards to reading a room, leading to weird dissonance at best and failure to keep control of said room at worst; he's also honest to a fault and has difficulty lying to people – if directly and bluntly asked about something, he'll generally give an equally direct and blunt answer, whether he really should or not.
That said, he'll make the whole phantom thief thing work for him, simply because he has to – the thing he would wish for is the most important thing in the world to him, seeing as it deals with his family (whom he loves above all else and beyond all reason) and he's willing to do whatever he has to in order to obtain it. He's always been extremely all-or-nothing, and he generally goes above and beyond to get results. That said, he's ruthless and a bit more willing to be brutal than some might like; he'll kill if he has to, though he would quite prefer not to due to finding such actions to be graceless when done unnecessarily, and he definitely isn't opposed to doing things like taking a large number of people hostage and threatening to murder them all if he thinks he's losing. He's a bit of a poor loser like that.
So basically, this sounds acceptable on paper and God knows he's coming at this with a can-do attitude, but his flaws are egregious enough when put in context that he's probably going to have a bad time.
Specialization: Muscle, seeing as he likes combat and he'd be blatantly terrible at everything else and he knows it.
Starter thief outfit: We're going full stupid masquerade.
Powers: Aglovale is skilled in both physical and magical combat; his physically-based skills lie with a sword, but his magically-based skills are all water-aligned, specializing in ice. He has a few specific skills he uses, and some more generalized things that are canonically spelled-out.
Silberne Welt: Creates and drives up spikes of ice from the ground to do a large amount of ice/water damage to a single target, while also healing Aglovale's own injuries.
Schneetreiben: Boosts both his physical strength and the damage that can be done with his water/ice manipulation; lasts for about five minutes at most.
Zerreissen: Does a large amount of water/ice damage to a single target.
Eiszapfen: Creates ice shards and rains them down on all enemies; does moderate damage.
Coldcage: Freezes a target in place for up to three minutes. Can also be used on bodies of water in his immediate vicinity, and is effective whether the water is moving or not; he's coldcaged rivers before to freeze them over entirely. When used on water it lasts until either the ice breaks or melts – but the larger or more difficult the target, the more easily-broken the ice is. (A glass of water is going to remain frozen solid for a good long time, the rivers, just until the natural flow breaks the ice eventually.)
Generalized Whatnot: It should probably be noted that he explicitly conjures the water he works with – he doesn't need to draw from his surroundings or any natural bodies of water nearby, he can just create whatever he wants to use (within reason). He can also flash-freeze the water he creates to cause thick mist or fog over a limited area, and he can use this to deflect/dispel offensive magic being thrown at him if he's fast enough with it.
Name: Dal
Contact:
Timezone: EST
Age: 21+
Characters Currently in Game: N/A
Invite: Dani!
Character Info
Character Name: Aglovale
Canon: Granblue Fantasy
Age: 32
Canon Point: Between Frost and Flame, Chapter 6; before meeting with Percival in the occupied village.
Character Info: The wiki is unfortunately one of those that tells you more about stats than it does the actual character; as such, in 500 words:
Aglovale's upbringing was a good one with loving parents and two younger brothers; their father was the ruler of their home country of Wales, while their mother was renowned for her charity and generosity in offering assistance to surrounding countries in times of need. He knew he was destined to rule Wales himself one day; he wanted to make it into a nation of universal kindness and prosperity.
This went well until Aglovale was about ten years old; on a trip back from a neighboring region with his brothers and their mother, their carriage was attacked by the same people they had just been trying to offer aid to. Their mother died right in front of them after visibly suffering for several minutes, and they all spent a bit too long locked in a carriage covered in blood and parts of Mom.
Aglovale changed after that; he became distant and strict, believing that humans were all inherently vile and needed a leader that would rule them absolutely to keep them in line. Over time, all three boys grew up and went their separate ways – one went abroad to study magecraft, and the youngest became a knight in a neighboring kingdom. Aglovale remained with his father, who began training him in earnest to take over for him; his father also – for some reason – decided it was a good idea to teach him how to summon demons. You know, as you do.
Aglovale doubled down on the whole demon thing following his father's death, and as he ascended to rule Wales he made a pact with a demon to open a portal to what is basically Granblue Hell in exchange for military conquest and power. The plan to do this almost succeeded, but his youngest brother finally decided to visit – because unfortunately, the plan also involved starting a lot of wars to get the hell portal activated, and everyone understandably wanted to know what the hell Aglovale thought he was doing. Aglovale responded to this query by...starting more wars, and then physically merging with a demonic entity to become really eldritchy and try to kill everyone. His brother beat the literal hell out of him, they both nearly died, Aglovale told him that part of the reason he did everything was because he was tired of being left to handle everything alone and the rest was because he wanted to try to resurrect their dead mom, and his brother basically agreed to not leave Aglovale alone for long periods of time because apparently this happens. Aglovale vowed to be a better person after that, he became calmer and more capable as a ruler, all went back to being well – and then he promptly summoned the demon again, this time so he could whack its head off to satisfy his own sense of pride.
...It's kind of a work in progress.
tl;dr: Local man gets the world's worst object lesson in humanitarian aid, becomes warmongering eldritch horror, gets better.
Why would your character make a good (or bad) phantom thief? We should probably not foresee this being excellent.
Granted, he won't be a complete travesty? In terms of physical capabilities, Aglovale is both strong and fast; he's also used to conflict and handling things going unexpectedly, and he's completely willing to pull out all the stops when things go wrong. He's also a very flashy person with a flair for the dramatic in his actions and his planning, and perhaps more importantly he's got the intelligence and charisma to back up what he's selling; he does run a country, after all, and he's got the support of his nation in literally everything he does, even when those things are questionable.
In theory, this sounds fine. Passable, even.
However, a lot of the problem with Aglovale is that there's a major difference between intelligence and cleverness, and he is not as clever as he thinks he is by half. His plans are pragmatic and logically sound but fail to take the human element into account, and as such they're easily undermined by people...generally being people and therefore unpredictable. He's outmaneuvered by, like, the least charismatic out of four zero-charisma people on at least two occasions. He occasionally experiences complete failure with regards to reading a room, leading to weird dissonance at best and failure to keep control of said room at worst; he's also honest to a fault and has difficulty lying to people – if directly and bluntly asked about something, he'll generally give an equally direct and blunt answer, whether he really should or not.
That said, he'll make the whole phantom thief thing work for him, simply because he has to – the thing he would wish for is the most important thing in the world to him, seeing as it deals with his family (whom he loves above all else and beyond all reason) and he's willing to do whatever he has to in order to obtain it. He's always been extremely all-or-nothing, and he generally goes above and beyond to get results. That said, he's ruthless and a bit more willing to be brutal than some might like; he'll kill if he has to, though he would quite prefer not to due to finding such actions to be graceless when done unnecessarily, and he definitely isn't opposed to doing things like taking a large number of people hostage and threatening to murder them all if he thinks he's losing. He's a bit of a poor loser like that.
So basically, this sounds acceptable on paper and God knows he's coming at this with a can-do attitude, but his flaws are egregious enough when put in context that he's probably going to have a bad time.
Specialization: Muscle, seeing as he likes combat and he'd be blatantly terrible at everything else and he knows it.
Starter thief outfit: We're going full stupid masquerade.
Powers: Aglovale is skilled in both physical and magical combat; his physically-based skills lie with a sword, but his magically-based skills are all water-aligned, specializing in ice. He has a few specific skills he uses, and some more generalized things that are canonically spelled-out.
Silberne Welt: Creates and drives up spikes of ice from the ground to do a large amount of ice/water damage to a single target, while also healing Aglovale's own injuries.
Schneetreiben: Boosts both his physical strength and the damage that can be done with his water/ice manipulation; lasts for about five minutes at most.
Zerreissen: Does a large amount of water/ice damage to a single target.
Eiszapfen: Creates ice shards and rains them down on all enemies; does moderate damage.
Coldcage: Freezes a target in place for up to three minutes. Can also be used on bodies of water in his immediate vicinity, and is effective whether the water is moving or not; he's coldcaged rivers before to freeze them over entirely. When used on water it lasts until either the ice breaks or melts – but the larger or more difficult the target, the more easily-broken the ice is. (A glass of water is going to remain frozen solid for a good long time, the rivers, just until the natural flow breaks the ice eventually.)
Generalized Whatnot: It should probably be noted that he explicitly conjures the water he works with – he doesn't need to draw from his surroundings or any natural bodies of water nearby, he can just create whatever he wants to use (within reason). He can also flash-freeze the water he creates to cause thick mist or fog over a limited area, and he can use this to deflect/dispel offensive magic being thrown at him if he's fast enough with it.