ENERVATION - Application
Sep. 25th, 2016 07:15 pmcharacter application info
basic info
Name: Lucutio
Age: 28 years old
Canon: Star Wars: The Old Republic - Sith Inquisitor story (post Chapter 1 [Legacies of Old])
History: wikia
personality
Strengths:
- Ambitious: One of the key traits the Sith encourage from an early age is ambition; and ruthlessly so. The search for greater strength, wealth, adoration, respect and even fear go hand-in-hand with the lust for victory and, ultimately, validation. Having been plucked from slavery as a young man Lucutio was forced down the Sith's path; failure was not an option so he made the choice to become pitiless or else find himself at the bottom of a rather unforgiving hierarchy. During his training in game he is called upon to kill other trainees simply to amuse his teacher. He does so, knowing that disobeying would mean his death, regardless of the relationships he had formed with his peers. Eventually, having lofty goals and achieving them felt good and years of grooming taught Lucutio to demand a lot of himself to yield such high expectations.
- Witty: One of Lucutio's coping strategies as a young man was to make sarcastic and often cutting remarks to criticise difficult situations. This trait stayed with him even during his Sith training and although it didn't make him popular with his superiors his black sense of humour is an irrepressible part of his personality. His cold, cruel humour often masks underlying tensions and deep unhappiness which he cannot address alone. It's escalated to the point where he jokes about murder with his companions, brushing aside any masked feelings of guilt or pain.
- Honest: Honest to a fault Lucutio is so blunt that people have a tendency to think that he's joking when he admits something so socially unacceptable that they can't believe it to be true. He has been known to tell targets that he's going to kill them to their face, breaking his cover moments before the deed is done, simply because they've asked about his intentions. He feels that he doesn't need to lie, believing himself so powerful that whatever he considers to be the truth should be accepted by all.
- Powerful: While physically nothing special his Sith abilities are exponential. He is able to summon force lightning with ease, manipulate his and others' speed and, with great concentration, he can heal physical ailments using his abilities.
Flaws:
- Possessive/Envious: Whilst some might consider this less of a flaw than others Lucutio's possessiveness can border on the obsessive. When he takes a liking to something or someone he does not like to see others taking a similar interest. He will be underhanded, devious and destructive to ensure that whatever he wants, he keeps exclusively.
- Selfish: Relating to the previous flaw, Lucutio is exceptionally selfish. He makes a point not to share and strongly dislikes partaking in any sort of communal sharing activity. His past has made him reluctant to give what little he had so as he has matured and garnered his own companions and possessions he recalls a time when he had so little and was often victimised because of his lack of physical prowess. Now that he has the abilities to defend what's his and he does so bitterly.
- Cruel: His strongest and most damaged flaw. His Sith training had him harness the darkest and strongest of emotions he had, and having been raised as a slave meant that he had a lot of repressed desires for vengeance against his masters. When he was told to use those emotions to build his strength he had such a surplus that his lust for revenge touched him too deeply; permanently scarring his psyche. The gratification he felt for being able to summon forth such awesome powers from his hate eventually created a clear connection between being cruel and satisfaction.
- Self-serving: Lucutio does what he wants under the guise of orders from his superior. He fights, steals and kills for his own satisfaction often making calls which are above his rank simply to satisfy his own morbid curiosity.
- Addictive personality: In order do deal with his own internal turmoil Lucutio resorts to immediate gratification to distract himself from his woes. In game, there are several occasions when the player can make the choice to sleep with random/minor characters at what seems to be inappropriate moments (e.g. after killing innocents the Inquisitor character has the option to sleep with another Sith simply to work out the tension of the killing).
Miscellaneous:
- Force: As mentioned above Lucutio can use the force with his Sith training to manipluate lightning, speed, physical objects (telekinesis), healing and madness with his force abilities (full list of abilities here).
- Likes: any gifts, money, archaeological objects pertaining to the Sith/dark forces, cultsespecially ones dedicated to him, rich food, expensive clothing, unconditional adoration, being made to feel superior, respect
- Dislikes: slaves, slavers, the concept of equality, democracy, insincere gifts, being called small/little/fragile, the Jedi* (see below)
- The Jedi: Lucutio has a particularly strong hate for the Jedi because he feels that they sell a false ideal of hope and equality to people. He has seen too much suffering and hate to believe in such a naive philosophy and every time he has faced one of their kind he has taken great pleasure in fighting and often torturing them to the point of death. A lot of his hatred of the Jedi comes from years of his childhood believing that one day a Jedi would come and save him from his childhood in chains, but they never came, leaving him to undergo the cruelties of the Sith training.
game plans
Starting Faction: Warlord
Goals: On a community-wide scale I'd like to have Lucutio become a "negative" force in the game; someone who causes trouble on a regular basis. Perhaps more of an antagonist that an outright villain. On a one-to-one scale I am a big fan of dysfunctional relationships in rp, especially in a game that encourages sexual rp, I'd like him to form possessive, unhealthy and destructive relationships with more than one character. The dream is that in this process he finds someone who genuinely cares for him who can help him with his traumatic past and to see past the killing machine he was raised to be.