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Sep. 8th, 2014 02:57 amOOC INFORMATION
Name: Aces
Contact: AcesDelta on Plurk
Other Characters: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Roy Mustang
Age: 30
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 Anime)
Canon Point: Episode 39 - after the train scene
Character Information: Have a direct link to the 2003 anime section of his wiki page
Personality: Roy has a notorious habit of coming off as a complete slacker, and occasionally a shameless womanizer. While these are undeniable traits of his personality, they are also key components to misleading people into underestimating him - the best lies are ones with a kernel of truth, after all. His seeming emotional distance, apparent general disinterest, sarcasm and cynical streak are also useful ways to keep people at a distance so that they won't wind up getting hurt. It is a front that he lives in, and one that very few people have ever actually managed to see him drop. Originally, it's something that, as stated, was used to have people underestimate him for one. For two, it was a wonderful way to control his station within the ranks of the Military. Amestrian Military is pretty corrupt and has been ordered to do some rather unsavory things - he works only hard enough to retain enough rank to be able to look after the few people who matter to him, and to not get himself promoted into having a shorter leash.
His fatalistic streak is oddly academic past a certain point. For all that he's not exactly prone to believing in much of anything that doesn't have scientific grounding(read as: atheist), he's also been hurt enough and has become cynical/pessimistic enough on the whole that he actually is prone to reading situations sometimes as "the worst possible outcome is inevitable" and bracing himself for the worst, instead of hoping for the best. In some situations, that very 'doomed to fail' attitude is exactly the sort of thing that might well shoot him in the foot and set him up for a fall if it goes unchecked.
In a lot of ways, Roy is quite a bit like the very element he owes his Alchemist Title to - Fire. He actually has a hot temper and is fully capable of holding a grudge. For all that he appears to be completely disenchanted and unmotivated, he gets INCREDIBLY invested in things emotionally when something DOES manage to anger/inspire/motivate/upset him. Likewise, to stretch the analogy a bit, his general persona to try to throw people off or have people underestimate him, is really not unlike a smouldering blaze. Smouldering fires are fairly subtle and easy to miss, but can prove devastating once the ground opens to expose a hot flame that's been burning unnoticed for quite some time.
Roy is a very practical man. For the most part, he has all of two main motivations in almost everything that he does: Himself/His Goals/His Endgame and His People. If something fails to parse as relevant to either of those two categories, he really just couldn't care less about it. It's usually for this reason that he will oftenpawn off loads of work on delegate a lot of work and tasks to his subordinate officers. That said, if something strikes him as being a waste of time, or futile, or pointless, he won't be long at all in abandoning the endeavor.
When Roy does care about someone, he will do all within his power to look out for them, even if it's not immediately obvious that he's doing so. He's not really the kind of guy to just shout it from the rooftops and openly advertise that he cares about people - but then, he's also used to thinking that that would make targets out of them if he did. Also, while on the one hand he'll do his typical posturing of not caring about people, he will also wind up doing incredibly stupid things for the very benefit of the people he allegedly does not care about. In once instance, he wound up picking a fight in the rain(which makes his flame alchemy completely useless), in order to direct the aggressor's attention away from someone that mattered to him.
Roy isn't exactly someone who is easily approachable past a certain point. Yes, he is good looking, but that streak of cynicism and sarcasm runs pretty deep. He is certainly very prone to being fatalistic at times, even without something like his temper blinding him to the fact that he's about to do something incredibly stupid. He is a man that has seen and been through a great deal, including a complete massacre disguised as a "war", and really hasn't dealt with any of it all that well. Not to mention that he's somehow gotten used to the idea that if he goes around advertising his connections and those he cares about, that he WILL lose them or they WILL become targets. He is very slow to warm up to people, and not at all unlike fire, approaching him the wrong way will only get you burned.
He is very much the kind of person who will internalize things, even for all that his appearance may not outwardly indicate that he actually has been bothered by something. On the surface, he's a fairly non-reactive personality, but it's pretty deep underneath that that sits a healthy heaping of self-loathing. He's not likely to simply "open up" to anyone, and is far more likely to dismiss or wander off rather than actually acknowledge that there is something that is bothering him. On that note, he's also not someone who can really be intimidated - he will pull the non-reactive card and wait for said person to find something more entertaining to chew on. On the other, anger is actually a pretty easy avenue to control or manipulate him.
His biggest fears likely involve losing the people he cares about, or his inner demons being revealed for the world to see. The last thing he wants is for people to know just how badly things like Maes Hughes' death or the Ishval massacre actually affected him in the end. Given the combination of how badly those things weigh on his shoulders, plus the way he tends to place ridiculous amounts of effort into trying to look out for the people he cares about when he can, he IS likely to guilt some about having to eat humans. On the other hand, however, he is practical enough that he WILL, even if he still guilts over it some without actually letting on.
Also, considering how much the very few people he cares about DO matter to him? He practically needs people in his life as something to live for. He is someone who certainly CAN fall into bouts of pretty serious depression and self-neglect if there isn't something he can find to cling to as a reason to get out of bed in the morning. There is a glimpse of this in a past-flashback in episode 30, when Hughes came to visit him after the Ishval war. His appearance was disheveled and he clearly didn't seem like someone who had been sleeping well at all. In short, he looked like an absolute wreck.
It's also worth nothing that Roy is very much the victim of academic-thinking, in the sense that he is always looking for a rational explanation for anything and everything that comes up. In the case of Ryslig's setting, he will find it endlessly aggravating that none of it actually makes any sense as far as the laws of physics that he happens to be familiar with. He will be frustrated at how alchemy does not work, when his very understanding of it is that it is a discipline founded in science, therefore by all logic it SHOULD work but doesn't.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Manipulative, Protective, Stubborn, Hot-Headed, Has an ego, Cocky, Cynical, Fatalistic, Practical, Competent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits. Definitely Fits.
Opt-Outs: Goblin, Troll, Faerie, Nymph, Werebear
Roleplay Sample: Test Drive Meme post here and Thread here and Also here.
Name: Aces
Contact: AcesDelta on Plurk
Other Characters: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Roy Mustang
Age: 30
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 Anime)
Canon Point: Episode 39 - after the train scene
Character Information: Have a direct link to the 2003 anime section of his wiki page
Personality: Roy has a notorious habit of coming off as a complete slacker, and occasionally a shameless womanizer. While these are undeniable traits of his personality, they are also key components to misleading people into underestimating him - the best lies are ones with a kernel of truth, after all. His seeming emotional distance, apparent general disinterest, sarcasm and cynical streak are also useful ways to keep people at a distance so that they won't wind up getting hurt. It is a front that he lives in, and one that very few people have ever actually managed to see him drop. Originally, it's something that, as stated, was used to have people underestimate him for one. For two, it was a wonderful way to control his station within the ranks of the Military. Amestrian Military is pretty corrupt and has been ordered to do some rather unsavory things - he works only hard enough to retain enough rank to be able to look after the few people who matter to him, and to not get himself promoted into having a shorter leash.
His fatalistic streak is oddly academic past a certain point. For all that he's not exactly prone to believing in much of anything that doesn't have scientific grounding(read as: atheist), he's also been hurt enough and has become cynical/pessimistic enough on the whole that he actually is prone to reading situations sometimes as "the worst possible outcome is inevitable" and bracing himself for the worst, instead of hoping for the best. In some situations, that very 'doomed to fail' attitude is exactly the sort of thing that might well shoot him in the foot and set him up for a fall if it goes unchecked.
In a lot of ways, Roy is quite a bit like the very element he owes his Alchemist Title to - Fire. He actually has a hot temper and is fully capable of holding a grudge. For all that he appears to be completely disenchanted and unmotivated, he gets INCREDIBLY invested in things emotionally when something DOES manage to anger/inspire/motivate/upset him. Likewise, to stretch the analogy a bit, his general persona to try to throw people off or have people underestimate him, is really not unlike a smouldering blaze. Smouldering fires are fairly subtle and easy to miss, but can prove devastating once the ground opens to expose a hot flame that's been burning unnoticed for quite some time.
Roy is a very practical man. For the most part, he has all of two main motivations in almost everything that he does: Himself/His Goals/His Endgame and His People. If something fails to parse as relevant to either of those two categories, he really just couldn't care less about it. It's usually for this reason that he will often
When Roy does care about someone, he will do all within his power to look out for them, even if it's not immediately obvious that he's doing so. He's not really the kind of guy to just shout it from the rooftops and openly advertise that he cares about people - but then, he's also used to thinking that that would make targets out of them if he did. Also, while on the one hand he'll do his typical posturing of not caring about people, he will also wind up doing incredibly stupid things for the very benefit of the people he allegedly does not care about. In once instance, he wound up picking a fight in the rain(which makes his flame alchemy completely useless), in order to direct the aggressor's attention away from someone that mattered to him.
Roy isn't exactly someone who is easily approachable past a certain point. Yes, he is good looking, but that streak of cynicism and sarcasm runs pretty deep. He is certainly very prone to being fatalistic at times, even without something like his temper blinding him to the fact that he's about to do something incredibly stupid. He is a man that has seen and been through a great deal, including a complete massacre disguised as a "war", and really hasn't dealt with any of it all that well. Not to mention that he's somehow gotten used to the idea that if he goes around advertising his connections and those he cares about, that he WILL lose them or they WILL become targets. He is very slow to warm up to people, and not at all unlike fire, approaching him the wrong way will only get you burned.
He is very much the kind of person who will internalize things, even for all that his appearance may not outwardly indicate that he actually has been bothered by something. On the surface, he's a fairly non-reactive personality, but it's pretty deep underneath that that sits a healthy heaping of self-loathing. He's not likely to simply "open up" to anyone, and is far more likely to dismiss or wander off rather than actually acknowledge that there is something that is bothering him. On that note, he's also not someone who can really be intimidated - he will pull the non-reactive card and wait for said person to find something more entertaining to chew on. On the other, anger is actually a pretty easy avenue to control or manipulate him.
His biggest fears likely involve losing the people he cares about, or his inner demons being revealed for the world to see. The last thing he wants is for people to know just how badly things like Maes Hughes' death or the Ishval massacre actually affected him in the end. Given the combination of how badly those things weigh on his shoulders, plus the way he tends to place ridiculous amounts of effort into trying to look out for the people he cares about when he can, he IS likely to guilt some about having to eat humans. On the other hand, however, he is practical enough that he WILL, even if he still guilts over it some without actually letting on.
Also, considering how much the very few people he cares about DO matter to him? He practically needs people in his life as something to live for. He is someone who certainly CAN fall into bouts of pretty serious depression and self-neglect if there isn't something he can find to cling to as a reason to get out of bed in the morning. There is a glimpse of this in a past-flashback in episode 30, when Hughes came to visit him after the Ishval war. His appearance was disheveled and he clearly didn't seem like someone who had been sleeping well at all. In short, he looked like an absolute wreck.
It's also worth nothing that Roy is very much the victim of academic-thinking, in the sense that he is always looking for a rational explanation for anything and everything that comes up. In the case of Ryslig's setting, he will find it endlessly aggravating that none of it actually makes any sense as far as the laws of physics that he happens to be familiar with. He will be frustrated at how alchemy does not work, when his very understanding of it is that it is a discipline founded in science, therefore by all logic it SHOULD work but doesn't.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Manipulative, Protective, Stubborn, Hot-Headed, Has an ego, Cocky, Cynical, Fatalistic, Practical, Competent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits. Definitely Fits.
Opt-Outs: Goblin, Troll, Faerie, Nymph, Werebear
Roleplay Sample: Test Drive Meme post here and Thread here and Also here.
