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gathersnomoss) wrote2018-06-02 08:48 pm
gathersnomoss) wrote2018-06-02 08:48 pm
[MoL] Application
Player
Name: Stareyes
Age: 34
Personal Journal:beccastareyes
Contact: plurk:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
beccastareyes
Other In-Game Characters: S'reee
Character
Name: Zelgadis Graywords
Age: 20 or so
Gender: Male
Canon: Slayers
Canon Point: Post Evolution-R.
History: Zelgadis was raised by his grandfather (or great-grandfather, Zel isn't sure) Rezo, the Red Priest, a master of healing magic, and blind from birth. A teenaged Zelgadis led mercenaries to fight bandits and donate the loot to Rezo's charity. Zelgadis knew both swordsmanship and a bit of sorcery, but was mediocre at both, so when Rezo offered him power, Zelgadis took it.
Rezo turned Zelgadis into a chimera. While Zelgadis was physically and magically enhanced, he also scared the piss out of humans. Still, Zelgadis was okay with it until he discovered Rezo's actual motivation was using his grandson as a guinea pig. Zelgadis couldn't break away from someone both powerful and well-respected, so he bided his time until Rezo sent him after a powerful magical amplifier. Unfortunately, sorceress Lina Inverse got there first. Zelgadis tried to buy it off Lina, then kidnapped her to get its location. However,r other than turn Lina over to Rezo, Zelgadis helped her escape. They reunited with Lina's partner, Gourry (who had been slipped the stone), but surrendered the stone to Rezo to save a town.
Rezo had a piece of the Demon Lord Shabranigdo, most powerful of all evil beings, sealed behind his eyes, and the stone was how he planned to break the seal. Unsealing Shabrangido consumed Rezo's body and Shabrangido shrugged of Zelgadis's spells and killed his mercenary friends. Shabrangido was defeated because Lina had magic to call on the creator of the universe, Gourry had a legendary artifact sword, and Zelgadis was able to appeal to Rezo's soul.
Zelgadis, uncomfortable with near-strangers, parted ways to seek out a way to become human again, now that he no longer needed the edge for defeating Rezo. However, he kept being drawn back into Lina's vicinity. The most recent incident started with an official trying to arrest Lina and ended with the discovery that Rezo has sealed his soul into a jar. Zelgadis broke away from the party to interrogate the soul jar about how to restore himself, and got told it was impossible and Zelgadis should just smash the jar if he hated Rezo so much. Zelgadis resisted, and Rezo's soul was planted in another body, only to discover that Shabrangido was along for the ride and the group had to defeat that jerk again.
Personality: Zelgadis is a dour person and rather a pessimist. In a comedic universe, he can usually be relied on being the 'straight man', if he's not the butt of the joke. He's got a decent chunk of both intelligence and common sense, tempered with cynicism and downright ruthlessness.
In flashbacks, we see that Zel was a lot more optimistic and generally cheerful: he believed that Rezo the Red Priest (his great-grandfather) was a genuinely selfless person helping the poor and sick and blind, and that Zel's actions of robbing from bandit gangs to fund Rezo's activities helped not only directly, but to avoid tarnishing a great man's image with even the hint of foul play. Needless to say, when Zel discovered that he had been used as Rezo's guinea pig without a thought for his own wants or desires, this crushed out most of Zel's belief in other people. He only retained a small glimmer of faith in decent people because his own gang still treated him as their friend and leader, with two of them (Zolf and Rodimus) being willing to follow him when he finally turned against Rezo. It took years for Zel to warm up to his current friends in the same way, especially since both Lina and Zel can be ruthless in pursuit of their goals.
Zelgadis can occasionally be roused to almost manic bursts of activity, usually regarding his cure. He is quite willing to ignore his common sense, cynicism and sense of dignity when it means that he might have a chance of humanity again. Rezo and his situation is the one thing guaranteed to make him snap at someone. Finding Rezo's soul in a jar, years after Zel assumed the priest had died, was one of the few things that caused him to break with his friends over what to do about it. To be honest, Zel wasn't sure if he wanted to finish killing Rezo or beg him to fix Zel's body. Both Rezo's definite statement that such a thing was impossible, and Rezo's restoration and second death seemed to give Zel some sort of closure (judging from the tiny amount we see Zel in the finale), even if he's still fully working through the ramifications.
While he's self-conscious about his appearance and identity as a 'monster', Zelgadis is very confident in his abilities and will even show off. Zelgadis knows that he's a skilled mage and swordsman in a world where even being good at one is impressive, and that he has a number of useful skills and knowledge. He doesn't brag, but states things in a manner of fact way. This can even verge into the more useful aspects of his chimerism -- he will remind his opponents that you can't use a (nonmagical) sword on him. Zel can occasionally overestimate things like his ability to soak damage -- usually it requires magic to hurt him, but enough blunt trauma will do the job.
Zel's relationships with most people tend to be self-serving. He seems to take delight in being seen as a 'heartless sorcerer swordsman' and being distant, and he avoids cities when he can. Early encounters with the people who would later become friends often featured him going off on his own errands at inconvenient times. He still occasionally pulls such stunts, but has a better idea of what is and isn't acceptable to his friends. Zel also has some professional integrity on various mercenary jobs -- or at least the pragmatism to note that a mercenary that breaks contracts left and right will be unemployed.
Samples:
https://memesofeternity.dreamwidth.org/1390.html?thread=1047406#cmt1047406
Mognet Sample
To who it may concern:
I am interested in two things. Parties who can offer one or both should reply to this letter. Everyone else can and should ignore this. I don't need any sarcastic comments.
One, I'm interested in earning money outside of a regular job (so no one better suggest that). I've experience with mercenary and bodyguard work, as well as 'getting into ruins and getting out without dying'. Yes, that is a skill.
Two, I'm interested in unusual magic or other legends. Of a certain type, so don't spout random trivia and expect to get paid: I can be more specific to interested parties. I'm offering the local currency, or trade for favors or knowledge.
If you don't have either, and don't plan on finding either, go away.
Log Sample
Zelgadis had finally come to his senses and had gotten some armor to go with his sword. So his second expedition into the wilds of this new world would hopefully end better than his first (which came down to switching to Black Mage, then realizing that skin that used to be hard as stone suddenly split a hell of a lot easier). His Moogle companion flew along beside him.
"You know, most people don't go out alone," she said. "And I'm a clerk, not an adventurer, kupo. I'm happy to come along, but I can't fight."
"I am aware of that, yes," Zelgadis said. As well as the fact that he probably did need someone who understood the world, os he couldn't tell Mogesta to leave. "I like traveling alone. Did it all the time back home." Which was... well, it wasn't a lie. Maybe a bit of an exaggeration since he couldn't go six months without running into someone he knew. Eventually, he just ended up telling Amelia were she could find him so he at least wouldn't be surprised. But, while he wasn't going o exclude Lina or Gourry or Amelia showing up, they weren't here now, and meeting new people was too much effort.
Mogesta sighed. "Can I borrow your iMog slate?"
"Why?" Zelgadis stared at his companion. "Don't you have one or something?" He didn't really understand everything those things did, or why he could only use magic if he switched his Job on it.
"Well, we could look for other people in the area who also want to head the direction we are..." Zelgadis scowled at her. "Or," she said quickly, "we could find someone paying people to head out into the wilds and fight monsters."
And no doubt Mogesta would find jobs where sending one person (plus a clerk) would be suicide, so he'd have to actually interact with people. "Fine. Let's stop somewhere safe and you can show me how this thing lets us make some money." He really did need to learn more about this world before he could properly direct his own projects, and having money for food once the Curti Center stopped supporting him would be useful. He could socialize for that.
Vaikuntha
Moogle Name: Mogesta
Moogle Gender: Female
First Job: Swordmaster
Second Job: Black Mage
Name: Stareyes
Age: 34
Personal Journal:
beccastareyesContact: plurk:
Other In-Game Characters: S'reee
Character
Name: Zelgadis Graywords
Age: 20 or so
Gender: Male
Canon: Slayers
Canon Point: Post Evolution-R.
History: Zelgadis was raised by his grandfather (or great-grandfather, Zel isn't sure) Rezo, the Red Priest, a master of healing magic, and blind from birth. A teenaged Zelgadis led mercenaries to fight bandits and donate the loot to Rezo's charity. Zelgadis knew both swordsmanship and a bit of sorcery, but was mediocre at both, so when Rezo offered him power, Zelgadis took it.
Rezo turned Zelgadis into a chimera. While Zelgadis was physically and magically enhanced, he also scared the piss out of humans. Still, Zelgadis was okay with it until he discovered Rezo's actual motivation was using his grandson as a guinea pig. Zelgadis couldn't break away from someone both powerful and well-respected, so he bided his time until Rezo sent him after a powerful magical amplifier. Unfortunately, sorceress Lina Inverse got there first. Zelgadis tried to buy it off Lina, then kidnapped her to get its location. However,r other than turn Lina over to Rezo, Zelgadis helped her escape. They reunited with Lina's partner, Gourry (who had been slipped the stone), but surrendered the stone to Rezo to save a town.
Rezo had a piece of the Demon Lord Shabranigdo, most powerful of all evil beings, sealed behind his eyes, and the stone was how he planned to break the seal. Unsealing Shabrangido consumed Rezo's body and Shabrangido shrugged of Zelgadis's spells and killed his mercenary friends. Shabrangido was defeated because Lina had magic to call on the creator of the universe, Gourry had a legendary artifact sword, and Zelgadis was able to appeal to Rezo's soul.
Zelgadis, uncomfortable with near-strangers, parted ways to seek out a way to become human again, now that he no longer needed the edge for defeating Rezo. However, he kept being drawn back into Lina's vicinity. The most recent incident started with an official trying to arrest Lina and ended with the discovery that Rezo has sealed his soul into a jar. Zelgadis broke away from the party to interrogate the soul jar about how to restore himself, and got told it was impossible and Zelgadis should just smash the jar if he hated Rezo so much. Zelgadis resisted, and Rezo's soul was planted in another body, only to discover that Shabrangido was along for the ride and the group had to defeat that jerk again.
Personality: Zelgadis is a dour person and rather a pessimist. In a comedic universe, he can usually be relied on being the 'straight man', if he's not the butt of the joke. He's got a decent chunk of both intelligence and common sense, tempered with cynicism and downright ruthlessness.
In flashbacks, we see that Zel was a lot more optimistic and generally cheerful: he believed that Rezo the Red Priest (his great-grandfather) was a genuinely selfless person helping the poor and sick and blind, and that Zel's actions of robbing from bandit gangs to fund Rezo's activities helped not only directly, but to avoid tarnishing a great man's image with even the hint of foul play. Needless to say, when Zel discovered that he had been used as Rezo's guinea pig without a thought for his own wants or desires, this crushed out most of Zel's belief in other people. He only retained a small glimmer of faith in decent people because his own gang still treated him as their friend and leader, with two of them (Zolf and Rodimus) being willing to follow him when he finally turned against Rezo. It took years for Zel to warm up to his current friends in the same way, especially since both Lina and Zel can be ruthless in pursuit of their goals.
Zelgadis can occasionally be roused to almost manic bursts of activity, usually regarding his cure. He is quite willing to ignore his common sense, cynicism and sense of dignity when it means that he might have a chance of humanity again. Rezo and his situation is the one thing guaranteed to make him snap at someone. Finding Rezo's soul in a jar, years after Zel assumed the priest had died, was one of the few things that caused him to break with his friends over what to do about it. To be honest, Zel wasn't sure if he wanted to finish killing Rezo or beg him to fix Zel's body. Both Rezo's definite statement that such a thing was impossible, and Rezo's restoration and second death seemed to give Zel some sort of closure (judging from the tiny amount we see Zel in the finale), even if he's still fully working through the ramifications.
While he's self-conscious about his appearance and identity as a 'monster', Zelgadis is very confident in his abilities and will even show off. Zelgadis knows that he's a skilled mage and swordsman in a world where even being good at one is impressive, and that he has a number of useful skills and knowledge. He doesn't brag, but states things in a manner of fact way. This can even verge into the more useful aspects of his chimerism -- he will remind his opponents that you can't use a (nonmagical) sword on him. Zel can occasionally overestimate things like his ability to soak damage -- usually it requires magic to hurt him, but enough blunt trauma will do the job.
Zel's relationships with most people tend to be self-serving. He seems to take delight in being seen as a 'heartless sorcerer swordsman' and being distant, and he avoids cities when he can. Early encounters with the people who would later become friends often featured him going off on his own errands at inconvenient times. He still occasionally pulls such stunts, but has a better idea of what is and isn't acceptable to his friends. Zel also has some professional integrity on various mercenary jobs -- or at least the pragmatism to note that a mercenary that breaks contracts left and right will be unemployed.
Samples:
https://memesofeternity.dreamwidth.org/1390.html?thread=1047406#cmt1047406
Mognet Sample
To who it may concern:
I am interested in two things. Parties who can offer one or both should reply to this letter. Everyone else can and should ignore this. I don't need any sarcastic comments.
One, I'm interested in earning money outside of a regular job (so no one better suggest that). I've experience with mercenary and bodyguard work, as well as 'getting into ruins and getting out without dying'. Yes, that is a skill.
Two, I'm interested in unusual magic or other legends. Of a certain type, so don't spout random trivia and expect to get paid: I can be more specific to interested parties. I'm offering the local currency, or trade for favors or knowledge.
If you don't have either, and don't plan on finding either, go away.
Log Sample
Zelgadis had finally come to his senses and had gotten some armor to go with his sword. So his second expedition into the wilds of this new world would hopefully end better than his first (which came down to switching to Black Mage, then realizing that skin that used to be hard as stone suddenly split a hell of a lot easier). His Moogle companion flew along beside him.
"You know, most people don't go out alone," she said. "And I'm a clerk, not an adventurer, kupo. I'm happy to come along, but I can't fight."
"I am aware of that, yes," Zelgadis said. As well as the fact that he probably did need someone who understood the world, os he couldn't tell Mogesta to leave. "I like traveling alone. Did it all the time back home." Which was... well, it wasn't a lie. Maybe a bit of an exaggeration since he couldn't go six months without running into someone he knew. Eventually, he just ended up telling Amelia were she could find him so he at least wouldn't be surprised. But, while he wasn't going o exclude Lina or Gourry or Amelia showing up, they weren't here now, and meeting new people was too much effort.
Mogesta sighed. "Can I borrow your iMog slate?"
"Why?" Zelgadis stared at his companion. "Don't you have one or something?" He didn't really understand everything those things did, or why he could only use magic if he switched his Job on it.
"Well, we could look for other people in the area who also want to head the direction we are..." Zelgadis scowled at her. "Or," she said quickly, "we could find someone paying people to head out into the wilds and fight monsters."
And no doubt Mogesta would find jobs where sending one person (plus a clerk) would be suicide, so he'd have to actually interact with people. "Fine. Let's stop somewhere safe and you can show me how this thing lets us make some money." He really did need to learn more about this world before he could properly direct his own projects, and having money for food once the Curti Center stopped supporting him would be useful. He could socialize for that.
Vaikuntha
Moogle Name: Mogesta
Moogle Gender: Female
First Job: Swordmaster
Second Job: Black Mage