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OOC INFO;

NAME: Disco
AGE: 23
CONTACT: danteroid or discopolice#8223 on discord.
CHARACTERS IN GAME: none!

IC INFO;

CHARACTER NAME: Qilby
CANON & HISTORY: Wakfu.
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.

AGE: Old! Physically, he appears about 50-something, but Eliatropes age slowly; it's the dragon blood in him. This body is anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand years old, plus the ten thousand years he spent in stasis, but his memory spans all the way to the beginning of his universe.
CANON POINT: S2E06, just after waking in the World of Twelve. He'll fall asleep for a bit and wake up in-game.
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. Others might call it arrogance - and they'd be correct! - but Qilby would call it selfless, looking out for the whole rather than individual lives.

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...

POWERS:
- 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. Qilby especially does not do this.

Not lost in low-frequency worlds, but notable:
- Memory. Qilby's part of an immortal Eliatrope Council, but he's the only one who remembers all of his past lives; this gives him a unique perspective, a million-year-long existential crisis, and a superiority complex the size of the sun all at once.
- 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!

OTHER:

GAME INFO;

MAGIC ABILITY: Invisibility! Qilby now has the ability to turn invisible. His clothes, hat, and things attached to him will also turn invisible; on low-frequency worlds, his portals and/or trails of wakfu he creates will not. The ability takes some amount of focus (or adrenaline) to kick-start. ... This'll go really well, I tell you what.
PRICE: The Eliacube. Qilby's not going to be too pleased that it's gone; the heart of a giant space robot, after all, is a difficult material to replace.
ACCLIMATION: 9. As I mentioned before, hopping between worlds is basically his favorite thing ever, and he'll be elated to be able to explore like he once did. No amount of novelty would ever be enough for him, but eternally planet-hopping and doing science gets pretty close! However, his emotional ties with his people are still strong, and he's going to want to get them with him soon... Whatever it takes. If it meant getting Shinonome back, he'd stab every last one out of the coven in the back.

SAMPLE;

LINKED SAMPLE:
Some older ones - as the game I had him in previously is locked, most of my threads with him are locked as well, unfortunately! That should be 10 comments, but feel free to let me know if you need some more.