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THE BASICS NAME: Jade Curtiss CANON: Tales of the Abyss CANONPOINT: The month following the lowering of the Outer Lands, or post-game entirely, are probably the most flexible points. But I can adjust as the meme demands! AGE: 35 HEIGHT: 6'1" SPECIES: Human FIRST IMPRESSIONS VISUAL: Tall and generally sharply-dressed in sleeved layers and heeled boots, good posture and assured body-language; most of the time he seems relaxed and at ease, hands in his coat pockets and a pleasant smile on his face when he's idling. Unnaturally red eyes (probably nothing to worry about), always wearing glasses. Will generally be found in the teal Malkuth colonel's military uniform seen in his icons (included: a rad pacman belt). SOUND: Voiced by Kirk Thornton in the English dub, and Takehito Koyasu in Japanese! I tend to reference his diction in the dub when writing his voice, but feel free to imagine whichever VA you like. There's also a distinctly melodic background reverb to the type of magic he uses when it's activated; see the magic information section further below for more details! SCENT: Nothing terribly notable, pretty average as far as a cleanly and put-together adult human male tends to go; apparently he does like to use some kind of nice cologne on a typical day, though. DEMEANOR: Jade always seems to be running at a baseline of disingenuous cheer. It's an attitude that tends to remain constant and fluctuates very little, and so this seemingly unflappable vague amusement of his is often regarded by others as obnoxious or dissonant at worst and enigmatic at best. After all, when he's constantly smiling, it's difficult to tell what he's truly thinking or feeling at any given time. Not helped by this is a nagging sense that he's noticing more things about you than he'll say out loud; those with inexpert lies and poor facades might occasionally find those weak points poked at and idly cajoled about, hinting but rarely actually confronting, as Jade is usually content with just sowing discomfort until you either fess up yourself or become an active detriment to others. Then there's his penchant for bright sarcasm, and a general positively terrible sense of sardonic humor...overall, he can be rather difficult to get along with. But muster the patience, and eventually you might yet catch a glimpse through his carefully composed front sometimes too. There is something more genuine in there, after all, but part of the issue is that Jade often has just as much difficulty accessing it as everyone else... IC PERMISSIONS PHYSICAL AFFECTION: He'll pretty much never initiate any, but nobody's stopping you! He does like his personal space, though, so casual touching will generally be received rather stiffly and dubiously (if not downright awkwardly), and he unfortunately has all the hugging responsiveness of a wood plank. Good friends will be tolerated and maybe, slightly reciprocated; strangers won't be reciprocated at all, but won't get outright shoved off unless it gets egregious...though they should probably be prepared to get their ears snarked off the whole time they're doing it. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: If you insist! Though we may want to talk it out and hash an outcome if it's a conflict more extended than a few exchanged blows? Jade has been a career soldier for many years and is no stranger to fighting; while he generally prefers to neutralize hazards from a distance with fonic artes, he's actually not particularly squishy in the usual mage fashion either, and so will not hesitate to throw more direct hands as necessary! He has a decent amount of physical strength, and a spear magically stored in his right arm that he can summon and dismiss on a dime as needed. INJURING / KILLING Am generally quite down for knocking him around a fair amount! I'd like to discuss things beforehand for anything more severe than broken bones, though, and would definitely like to plot out any actual dying beforehand as well. MENTAL INFORMATION: Jade has a very sharp mind, and is regarded as a genius in the field of fonic artes for a reason; in general he's often a lot more perceptive than he lets on, even if he tends to keep various findings to himself instead of voicing them aloud most of the time. While his analytical abilities are plenty robust, though, his perception of his own emotions is, uh...disastrously bad by comparison. He does have feelings, but there's a weirdly muted quality to them most of the time, until concentrated bursts occur under extraordinary circumstances. Of course, all of this is the upper iceberg of his headspace; bracket text is generally free game, but if somebody's wanting to delve deeper for more details, contact me so I can provide! Mindreading isn't a terribly common phenomena where he's from, and so Jade has no mental barriers with which to resist. Should he ever realize it's happening, he probably won't be too happy about it. MAGICAL INFORMATION: Jade is referred to as a highly accomplished "fonist" back home; a fonist is a practitioner of fonic artes, which are essentially spells utilizing the power of resonant particles called "fonons". Much the same way atoms compose some worlds, atoms and fonons compose Jade's world; there are seven types of fonons, each with a spectrum of vibration. Jade can harness all six of the fonons that correspond to a natural element of the planet: darkness, earth, wind, water, fire, and light. The seventh fonon is Sound, which generally promotes healing and some Other Things; Jade cannot control the seventh, and will adamantly refuse to try to ever again. Though it's a system viewed through a practically scientific lens where Jade's from, it's still essentially a particularly resonant type of magic at the end of the day--other characters are free to parse it as such, and detect that Jade practices it. The attuned might notice, as well, that Jade's unnatural eye-color has been invoked by unnatural means: he applied fonic glyphs directly onto his eyes quite awhile ago, in a practice he coined 'fonic sight', and the glyphs are still visible if you get up in his grill enough to examine them. Should you ask him what fonic sight does, the first answer he'll give you will probably be blatantly false and/or unnecessarily ominous, but uh. Don't worry about it! The main thing is that his glasses keep it in check! MEDICAL INFORMATION: Overall pretty hale and hearty, no immediate illnesses or dire problems. Fit enough to routinely pass military physicals! He's built some moderate lean muscle from spearmanship reps and such, maintained by pretty routine combat training, and so he's normally capable of fielding at least some heavy-lifting or close-up melee if absolutely necessary. He might lament about aching joints and a bad back on account of his ""old age"" around the youths, but please don't believe him. The glasses don't even correct his sight, he already has 20/10 vision in both eyes without them........ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Unethical cloning practices...and an overtly casual disregard for artificially-created beings in general, be they doppelgangers or constructs or what have you, should said beings exhibit anything in the way of consciousness and intelligence. Treat these things with anything less than respect in front of him, and you'll be running into a pretty sharp disagreement with Jade in turn. Flagrant resurrection of the dead, or discussion of it as an easy and ideal sort of thing to do, is also liable to get a knee-jerk reaction that's more negative than not. .....Yes, it's very ironic, considering his Necromancer title. No, he still doesn't want to talk about it!! (Talk to him about it anyway tbh--) OOC PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: No problem! THREADHOPPING: Please ask me first. FOURTHWALLING: Would prefer not to get into anything explicitly about him being a fictional character in a jrpg or anything along those lines, thanks! SHIPPING: I'm quite open to the idea! Jade himself just, generally isn't, because feelings are hard and he's a very emotionally limited sort of person. He'll have a hard time finding the pulse on his own interest, if it develops to start with; conversely, he might have an easier time spotting others directing it his way, but what he does with that information is dicey at best, and so one-sided situations are a constant risk. In short: It's gonna take some hassle! But I'm happy to work with other players to angle this into Actually Happening if it's a direction we'd like to go! As it's likely to be a slow burn, I'd generally prefer to have something built up over threading, or at least to hash out some assumed cr beforehand for shippier memes and such. Gender is no issue, m/f or m/m or m/* all fine; ICly adults aged 20+ would be ideal. Crosscanon is always a+; otherwise, if you're a castmate that's interested in shipping and would like to hash something out beyond the stated prefs above, feel free to contact me! DO NOT WANT: I'm not great with explicitly graphic descriptions of gore (implied is fine), but otherwise there isn't much else that's an issue. I'll contact you if something comes up! ANYTHING ELSE? - Player timezone is CST - I default to action brackets out of habit, but if you prefer prose just let me know! I'm happy to match - I tend to err towards longer tags even in texting threads, so I'm not great at sustained boomeranging. Am happy to pursue a thread across multiple weeks, though! I also don't mind shorter tags in return at all; me being long-winded plus Jade just having a Lot happening in his obnoxiously big brain at all times just tends to up the word count on occasion, and the important thing at the end of the day is that the thread keeps moving and stays fun for all parties! - Open to all forms of crosscanon and crossmedium; handwavey jamjar situations are fine, but I also don't mind winging some assumed cr if that would make things easier, or AUing Jade into your character's verse/vice-versa (he slots pretty easily into military mage/military scientist/military scientist mage roles). As I'm canonblind to a lot of things, though, I might need to ask for some details beforehand or during threading! - By extension this also means I'm real open to threads with other Tales characters ofc!! I'm most familiar with Phantasia, Symphonia, and Vesperia, but I welcome any of the other games with open arms! I've played through what we had of Crestoria as well (rip and goodnight sweet prince......), so feel free to ask or specify if you'd like for me to take Jade from that AU or bring his vanilla Abyss iteration for some recognition shenanigans with Crestoria folks! This applies to the other mobage/Tales of the World-origin characters too, though I'm not yet very familiar with these canons, so we'll probably need a bit more discussion there. - rp wishes list tba...!