Deus Ex Machina: The Xenogears Tale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONA SHEET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Player Information ------------------ Name or Alias: Dave Cooper Age (optional): 18 Sex: Male E-mail address: lord_moogle@hotmail.com ICQ/AIM/Yahoo! Pager/etc. (if applicable): ICQ: 55288458 Character Information --------------------- -Name: Venate Klarestus -Age: 40 -Sex: Male -Occupation(s): Gear engineer -Substitutes which Xenogears Character? (if applicable): None. -Birthdate: July 15 -Height: 5'6" -Weight: 180 lbs -Eyes (colour and shape): Brown coloured, oriental type eyes -Build: Rotund -Complexion: Tanned, rough skin. -Facial Features: Slight wrinkles under the eyes, light stubble (around the nose and mouth, no sideburns), and quite large lips. -Identifying Marks: None. -Hair (colour and style): Brown with grey streaks, slightly receeding. -Voice: Medium pitched, jovial sounding, with a slight lisp. -Dress/Attire: A grey long-sleeved top with a dark brown V-neck vest over the top, black leather belt around the waist, dark brown trousers, dark brown sandals. -Jewelry (if any): Oval spectacles with a gold frame. -Weapons/Tools (if any): He wears a sandy brown leather tool belt around his waist with assorted tools in it. -Armour (if any): -Personality: Venate is a kindly person, who doesn't mind taking a few seconds to help someone in need of it. Unless, however, he is working on a gear, in which case he requires total concentration. -Background and History: Venate grew up in a close knit household in Aveh. With his father being a gear engineer Venate soon discovered that he had a natural talent with them, and was piloting the gears his father would repair by the time he was eight. On his eleventh birthday Venate was given his own gear by his father, which he named Kiane after his mother. He worked on it day and night for months, tweaking and honing everywhere that he could, until he he had tuned it to a standard almost as high as the Aveh military gears. As the years passed Venate's knowledge of gears increased, until at the age of twenty he was caught in a crossfire over the Aveh desert and was forced to crash land miles from anywhere. In a demonstration of his incredible prowess with machines he managed to temporarily repair what other engineers would have seen as a lost cause, and managed to get himself to the nearest excavation site. It was here that he discovered that his talent for, and love of working with gears could make him tremendous amounts of money. He stayed at the site, repairing peoples gears until he had made enough money to make permanent repairs to his gear, and a few upgrades too. After being shot down, he realised that he would need protection in the desert, and so fitted some weapons systems. He made his way back to Aveh, but when he returned home it was to a rather more sombre scene than he had been anticipating. It turned out that while he was away, his mother had died after falling down a tall flight of stairs. He was devestated by this news, and while his first instinct was to run back to the desert and let the sand-sharks have him, he knew that his family would need him here for support. His father was stricken by what had happened and completely lost the will to do anything, which left Venate as the sole provider for his father and three brothers. He stayed at home until he was thirty-two, by which time his brothers had left home and his father was living a happy life, making and selling specialist gear parts. Venate decided it was time to move on, and left the desert city of Aveh for the industrial steam town of Nortune. Here he has spent the last eight years living in the A Block, gaining a reputation as the best gear engineer in all of Kislev. -Birthplace: A house above the gear shop in Aveh -Mother: Kiane Klarestus -Father: Fontine Klarestus -Siblings: Sangen (brother), Guent (brother), Arlen (brother). -Mate: None -Children: None -Other relations: Various cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews, neices.etc. -Affiliation: Tries to stay out of the war, but his loyalties ultimately lie with Aveh. -Secondary Skills: He has become skilled at identifying ancient artefacts after his time in the desert. -Abilities/Disabilities (in addition to Ether): None. -Hobbies: In his spare time, he writes short stories. -Current residence: A small apartment in the A Block of Nortune. -Current Life Conflicts: At present, the Kislev government is asking him to work on their gears. He knows that doing this will doubtless cause many deaths, but not doing so may brand him as a traitor in the eyes if the people around him. -Deathblows (name and function): [Arcana's note: I recommend leaving the Deathblows section blank when applying.] -Other notes: -Gear name: Kiane -Gear model: Customised Aveh military Medium-attack gear -Height: 17.004 meters -Weight: 19.073 tons -Gear description: A white gear, with a cannon in the left hand and a large axe in the right. The hands and feet are black, as are the chest panels. Each hand has two large fingers and a thumb. The gear has a smooth, rounded look to it. It has aqua eyes (cameras), and a single rounded panel where the mouth would be. It has a jet-pack on the back. -Class: Medium-Attack. -Primary function: Transport. -Weapon(s): Large battle axe, modified solid projectile cannon. -Abilities/Disabilities: Has the ability to hover and fly at high or low velocity. -How your character acquired the gear: The gear was a present from his father, who had rebuilt the gear from the husk of an old Aveh military gear, left by a soldier who was killed in action.