🌠 tanagura app

[zinit]

OOC INFO
_NAME: Disco
_PLURK: walkingsportsgym
_AGE: 22
_CURRENT/PAST CHARACTERS: n/a


IC INFO
_CHARACTER'S NAME: Qilby
_CANON: Wakfu (the cartoon, not the MMO)
_CANON POINT: End of S2E06.
_CHARACTER'S (ACTUAL) AGE: Uh... Old! In this current incarnation, it's never directly stated, but Eliatropes are stated to age very slowly. He's at least 500, plus the 10,000 years he spent in isolation. However, his memories and experiences stretch back to the genesis of his universe, so he's more like 50,000 years old in reality.
_CHARACTER'S (APPARENT) AGE: That said, he looks like a man in his mid-50s.
_CHARACTER'S HAIR COLOR: Light brown.
_TANAGURA (elite) OR MIDAS (mongrel)?: Tanagura.
_HOUSING PREFERENCE: eh, anywhere in Eos Tower is ok!


_HISTORY:
Warning: huge spoilers for the end of the animated series!
Wiki link. Up to -10000 is the relevant part.
A link to the canon history I've written up, as it is loooong.

_ABILITIES:
- Qilby is an Eliatrope, a race of humanoid elf-people with such skills as creating portals to other dimensions or just feet away, crazy wakfu-beam spam out of said portals, sucking wakfu out of things or giving it back, using said wakfu in machinery... There's a lot of things Eliatropes can do with some wakfu at their disposal. Granted, they have to use either their own reserves or some living thing around them's reserves to do it, but you can't make an omelette without breaking some dragon eggs...
- He can also do a neat trick with the Eliacube: villain mode. When Qilby fuses with the Eliacube, he loses his shirt, gains back a stretchy wakfu left arm, and can do insane amounts of portal beam-spam. He also gains a lot of outward confidence, which is partially due to the power and partially due to the fact that he doesn't have to hide.
- Flight, I guess. Eliatropes hide a taboo secret under their hats: head-wings made out of wakfu. Why? Who knows, but they're there, and they can be used to fly when the hats are taken off. Nobody does this.
- Science. Hooboy, can he into science. Biology? Yep. Chemistry? He's got it. Physics? He made a spaceship out of a mountain. He has a sharp intellect for how people work, as well, though he doesn't really care about mortal feelings as more than a method to get what he wants.
- Even if you're not a gullible shounen protagonist, there's no denying that Qilby is an excellent liar. Years of lying to his people, to his family, have given him a knack for it; he knows all the tricks to appear warm, to appear as someone you can trust. He's a good manipulator, too, and can get a handle on how to appeal to people soon after meeting them. After so long of seeing mortals, sometimes they start to seem the same!

_PERSONALITY:

"I may doom our way of life, our dreams, but I cannot endure the lies we tell ourselves. Eliatropes were born of the Stars, and we came here to escape our Fall. We need to confront ourselves with the truth. We need to avenge our people. The King is a liar and a coward. I will not stay silent. Not anymore. May you who find these words forgive me."

When one first meets Qilby, they might see a gentle older man: a kind and inquisitive soul, old-fashioned but with a dry sense of humor. They might see someone who is mentorly, always willing to give good advice; they might see someone who genuinely seems to care about their dumb problems. Still, they might see a self-proclaimed king with a strong sense of justice.

Maybe at one time, he was mentorly and caring. The Qilby of now can still play the part, but he couldn't be more different.

The patriarch Chibi - someone Qilby deeply respected, someone Qilby claimed (in as many words) only he could understand - once preached that 'the Wakfu is motion, and stillness is sin.' Qilby internalized this sentiment and took it to its logical conclusion: the Eliatropes were meant to move, "feeding off other systems" and progressing as a people for eternity. For Qilby, this meant scientific progress, but also the physical progress of moving on to other places. After all, if they don't get new experiences, is it really progress?

His obsession with the 'motion' of spaceflight, of course, came from his sense of being 'stilled.' After years and years of the same planet, the same experiences, the same sorts of people, he began to feel stuck in a static rut. Hell, in Islands of Wakfu, where the rest of his siblings are represented by manolias (wakfu flowers) at the feet of their statues, he has a rozen (a stasis flower) at the feet of his. Seeing all those mortals be born and die - it's enough to make any immortal think they're insignificant, and it's enough to make any immortal prioritize their own safety over all those fleeting mortal people. It's enough to make him lie about being king to their actual king (a reincarnated child with no memories), leveraging all that memory he hates just to achieve an ultimately selfish goal.

If nothing else, Qilby is calculating, manipulative, and careful; when you see enough mortal lives begin and end, you begin to see patterns in how people can be convinced. He may not look an actor, but he knows how to obfuscate the truth and make use of missing information to move people for his own ends. For a man who criticizes the "secrets of the Council," this is deeply hypocritical, but he would say it's just how he learned to get by over the years - how he had to get by. He doesn't enjoy the lies, per se; he's more visibly at ease when he's fused with the Eliacube, when he has nothing to hide. He merely sees them as a necessity to gain the power he feels he's owed, to which he feels he is better suited.

There are still pieces of the 'old' Qilby that show through, though. When confronted with a new puzzle to solve, he gets excited and throws himself into it; it may make him look like a workaholic, but he's really just restless. He still has a sense of humor, twisted as it might be, and he can laugh at himself - like when an enemy knocks him off-balance and he screams like a girl. When dealing with a reincarnated baby Chibi, or when talking about Shinonome (or holding their shared dragon egg), he shows a gentleness you wouldn't expect of the twisted man he really is. They're his family, after all, people he once cared about - people he's bound by all those years of history to love.

Above everything, what Qilby fears is being alone - and that fear was only strengthened by ten thousand years of isolation. When he cares about someone, he cares about them fiercely; he'd do almost anything to be reunited with his dragon sister, including manipulating a 13-year-old boy to throw himself into harm's way to get her. He talks a big game about being willing to go to the stars alone, being willing to kill every single one of his people if he has to, but he doesn't do that. It's not because he doesn't have the power - he bitch-slapped a couple thousand kids at once with a giant wakfu hand, of course he could do worse - it's because he can't bring himself to.

After all, being an Eliatrope is an integral part of what Qilby is. He has a deep sense of pride for his people, and he has respect for what he feels they could accomplish together. It's just that he feels he knows better - and damn it, he's going to get these people to live up to their potential for their own good (and for his). Sure, maybe he's a selfish asshole who treats mortal lives as stepping stones to what's 'best' for him, but if you think of it the other way...

_ITEMS:
- The clothes on his back when he was taken: his hat and his god-awful outfit.
- Soooo, about the Eliacube: I do want him to have the Eliacube with him, because imagine the smut possibilities. However, as the whole ‘opening portals to other dimensions’ thing is game-breaking, I would like it to be nerfed! Definitely open to suggestions on how to do that.


WRITING SAMPLES

_GEN SAMPLE: game sample and TDM sample! Don't hesitate to let me know if you need more.

_SMUT SAMPLE: lewd…


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MY CHARACTER IS THE FOLLOWING:
_SENTIENT: yes
_MENTALLY ADULT: yes
_CAPABLE OF CONSENT: yes
_CAPABLE OF SEXUAL AROUSAL: yes