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convictionary) wrote2016-01-28 10:32 pm
convictionary) wrote2016-01-28 10:32 pm
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Name: Gaius
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon Point: Post-chapter 11, pre timeskip. Everyone’s going yeah, we done good, we saved the world. Let’s go home.
Age: 21. Ages are ambiguous, especially given the standard anime babyface, but it gives him a couple of years up on Chrom.
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Appearance: Link.
History/Background: Link to a wiki with a plot synopsis.
Personality: Gaius is, for a lack of a better term, an interesting sort of dichotomy.
On one hand, he’s a repentant thief who holds to a moral code that’s more complex than just looking out for himself. He shows remorse for some of his past actions - his supports with Maribelle basically entail him being really sorry for what happened to her and her family because of him and wanting to make good on what he was partially responsible for. Also, in Fire Emblem: Awakening, there’s a gameplay feature called supports. Basically who can bond with who. In terms of story it’s two people hanging out for three to four conversations, gradually becoming better friends in the process and possibly hooking up in the end. Opposite sex couples are rather unrestricted in scope because the children are a gameplay feature, thus pretty much all of the women need to be able to talk to all of the men. Same sex couples are far more restricted in scope, with most characters only getting two or three tops. (Which makes sense, when you’ve got 11 or so required 4-scene conversations per character in the first generation, with the second generation and miscellaneous characters adding on more, you need to draw the line somewhere.) But as a result of this, whoever people can strike up friendships with tends to be telling of who they are as a person, because when you only have two or three chances you have to make them count.
Gaius? He can support with Chrom, the protagonist and the Exalt (essentially a king) of his realm, and Libra, a priest. And in terms of first conversations he gets along better with both of them than he does with some of his required supports: Sully all but accuses him of theft, and Cherche asks if he’s going to abandon the army and be a deserter.
Heck, he’s open to joining Chrom in the first place simply because he was under the impression that they were going to rob the Exalt (who was at this point Chrom’s sister, Emmeryn), and then he discovered that that murder was involved and drew the line there.
So that’s the one hand.
On the other hand, though, he’s a thief and rogue and hardened criminal. The only ending that doesn’t explicitly have him returning to ‘less savory’ enterprises is if he hooks up with the avatar, and that’s mainly because the avatar ends up so legendary that the only mention of their spouse is, “Scholars, poets, and bards agreed on one thing alone - s/he loved his/her wife/husband, [Name], above all else.” And all of his supports pretty much make it clear that he’s really good with his hands and is a skilled craftsman and if he wanted to he could make an honest living as a jeweler or some other tradesman. He makes a belt, fixes a spear, makes a pendant, and makes the ring when he proposes. Damn good with his hands. Always returns to ‘less savory’ enterprises.
He’s basically got his own moral code. He’d rob the Exalt blind...but he wouldn’t harm her. Nobles with more money than sense are fair game. He steals things or otherwise picks up things of value on his own time...to sell and help fund the army, and doesn’t want anyone to know about that secret. When a cutpurse stole the money of common folk out to enjoy a festival he promptly headed off to find the thief, because what better way of catching a thief than siccing a second one on them? And he did this voluntarily, without being ordered to do so. He’s a bit discerning in his targets. After all, they wouldn’t tell tales of Sticky-Fingers Gaius in taverns if he stayed small and hit small targets. But at the same time, while he’s been a bandit and assassin before he doesn’t just go out trying to kill people. It’s a weird balance.
He’s got a crippling addiction to sugar.
Normally I’d elaborate but that’s all you really need to know. The man loves his sweets to the point in which I see ‘personality’ and go, “Okay, I should mention his sweet tooth.”
The in game barracks profile describes him as ‘a cool and capable Ylissean thief who will take any job for the right price.’ Which is reasonably accurate. Granted, his crippling addiction to sweets colors his interactions and influences his decisions, but really. Everyone in Chrom’s Shepherds is wacky in his or her own way and his sweet tooth isn’t anything too special. The loyal knight who has stood by the Ylissan royal family for generations posts naked (or at least really suggestive) pictures of his sworn lord without realizing why this is a bad idea. The skilled pegasus knight pines for the aforementioned lord but takes it up to 11. Gaius would be weird if he came from a different canon. In his it’s kind of more of the same. Everyone’s quirky in Chrom’s Shepherds in their own special way.
And it’s made clear that he’s good at what he does. The reason he acts as a thief even after joining the Shepherds, even though it pretty much makes everyone distrust him, is because he’s good at it. Because someone needs to do it. If the dirty jobs aren’t done more lives would be at risk. As he says, “It takes more than pretty words and noble purpose to build a better future. Someone’s gotta dig the latrine sand haul out the rubbish. If it’s not me, it’s gonna be someone else. And why not me, right? Then you fair-haired do-gooders can concentrate on saving the world. And you can do it without having to fret about getting your hands dirty.” A cool, calculated decision.
Which isn’t to say that he’s perpetually cool and calculated, especially when sugar is involved. But just that when he’s accused of theft or of being a possible deserter he just accepts it and says that it makes sense they’d distrust him, it’s all part of being a thief. No argument. No fuss. It is what it is.
Name: Gaius
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon Point: Post-chapter 11, pre timeskip. Everyone’s going yeah, we done good, we saved the world. Let’s go home.
Age: 21. Ages are ambiguous, especially given the standard anime babyface, but it gives him a couple of years up on Chrom.
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Appearance: Link.
History/Background: Link to a wiki with a plot synopsis.
Personality: Gaius is, for a lack of a better term, an interesting sort of dichotomy.
On one hand, he’s a repentant thief who holds to a moral code that’s more complex than just looking out for himself. He shows remorse for some of his past actions - his supports with Maribelle basically entail him being really sorry for what happened to her and her family because of him and wanting to make good on what he was partially responsible for. Also, in Fire Emblem: Awakening, there’s a gameplay feature called supports. Basically who can bond with who. In terms of story it’s two people hanging out for three to four conversations, gradually becoming better friends in the process and possibly hooking up in the end. Opposite sex couples are rather unrestricted in scope because the children are a gameplay feature, thus pretty much all of the women need to be able to talk to all of the men. Same sex couples are far more restricted in scope, with most characters only getting two or three tops. (Which makes sense, when you’ve got 11 or so required 4-scene conversations per character in the first generation, with the second generation and miscellaneous characters adding on more, you need to draw the line somewhere.) But as a result of this, whoever people can strike up friendships with tends to be telling of who they are as a person, because when you only have two or three chances you have to make them count.
Gaius? He can support with Chrom, the protagonist and the Exalt (essentially a king) of his realm, and Libra, a priest. And in terms of first conversations he gets along better with both of them than he does with some of his required supports: Sully all but accuses him of theft, and Cherche asks if he’s going to abandon the army and be a deserter.
Heck, he’s open to joining Chrom in the first place simply because he was under the impression that they were going to rob the Exalt (who was at this point Chrom’s sister, Emmeryn), and then he discovered that that murder was involved and drew the line there.
So that’s the one hand.
On the other hand, though, he’s a thief and rogue and hardened criminal. The only ending that doesn’t explicitly have him returning to ‘less savory’ enterprises is if he hooks up with the avatar, and that’s mainly because the avatar ends up so legendary that the only mention of their spouse is, “Scholars, poets, and bards agreed on one thing alone - s/he loved his/her wife/husband, [Name], above all else.” And all of his supports pretty much make it clear that he’s really good with his hands and is a skilled craftsman and if he wanted to he could make an honest living as a jeweler or some other tradesman. He makes a belt, fixes a spear, makes a pendant, and makes the ring when he proposes. Damn good with his hands. Always returns to ‘less savory’ enterprises.
He’s basically got his own moral code. He’d rob the Exalt blind...but he wouldn’t harm her. Nobles with more money than sense are fair game. He steals things or otherwise picks up things of value on his own time...to sell and help fund the army, and doesn’t want anyone to know about that secret. When a cutpurse stole the money of common folk out to enjoy a festival he promptly headed off to find the thief, because what better way of catching a thief than siccing a second one on them? And he did this voluntarily, without being ordered to do so. He’s a bit discerning in his targets. After all, they wouldn’t tell tales of Sticky-Fingers Gaius in taverns if he stayed small and hit small targets. But at the same time, while he’s been a bandit and assassin before he doesn’t just go out trying to kill people. It’s a weird balance.
He’s got a crippling addiction to sugar.
Normally I’d elaborate but that’s all you really need to know. The man loves his sweets to the point in which I see ‘personality’ and go, “Okay, I should mention his sweet tooth.”
The in game barracks profile describes him as ‘a cool and capable Ylissean thief who will take any job for the right price.’ Which is reasonably accurate. Granted, his crippling addiction to sweets colors his interactions and influences his decisions, but really. Everyone in Chrom’s Shepherds is wacky in his or her own way and his sweet tooth isn’t anything too special. The loyal knight who has stood by the Ylissan royal family for generations posts naked (or at least really suggestive) pictures of his sworn lord without realizing why this is a bad idea. The skilled pegasus knight pines for the aforementioned lord but takes it up to 11. Gaius would be weird if he came from a different canon. In his it’s kind of more of the same. Everyone’s quirky in Chrom’s Shepherds in their own special way.
And it’s made clear that he’s good at what he does. The reason he acts as a thief even after joining the Shepherds, even though it pretty much makes everyone distrust him, is because he’s good at it. Because someone needs to do it. If the dirty jobs aren’t done more lives would be at risk. As he says, “It takes more than pretty words and noble purpose to build a better future. Someone’s gotta dig the latrine sand haul out the rubbish. If it’s not me, it’s gonna be someone else. And why not me, right? Then you fair-haired do-gooders can concentrate on saving the world. And you can do it without having to fret about getting your hands dirty.” A cool, calculated decision.
Which isn’t to say that he’s perpetually cool and calculated, especially when sugar is involved. But just that when he’s accused of theft or of being a possible deserter he just accepts it and says that it makes sense they’d distrust him, it’s all part of being a thief. No argument. No fuss. It is what it is.