Deus Ex Machina: The Xenogears Tale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONA SHEET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Player Information ------------------ Name or Alias: Alexander (call me Alex) Age (optional): 15 Sex: male E-mail address: alexsg1@hotmail.com ICQ/AIM/Yahoo! Pager/etc. (if applicable): ICQ # is: 40453138 (I'm not online that much though) Note: I’ve also sent you pictures of my character and his gear that I drew. See the two attatchments.(My scanner’s not all that good though...) Character Information --------------------- -Name: Alexander La'Grant (prefers Alex or Mr. La'Grant) -Age: 17 -Sex: male -Occupation(s): Adventurer, excavationist, traveling salesman (how he gets his money) -Substitutes which Xenogears Character? (if applicable): none -Birthdate: April 27, V-481 -Height: Five foot eleven and growing! -Weight: one hundred fifty six pounds. -Eyes (colour and shape): Green, with speckles of grey. They always seem to have a glint of light in them. -Build: Lean, kind of skinny, but muscular. He's small but he's not a wus and can hold his own with many a opponent. Not very imposing, though. -Complexion: Light skin with a normal tan. -Facial Features: Just his smiling face and striking green eyes. -Identifying Marks: Has a small scar on his left cheek, which he got on a careless adventure. -Hair (colour and style): Dark brown, he always wears his hat and a tuft of hair juts out of the front. In the absence of his hat his hair is short but very unruly. -Voice: Normal for a seventeen year old. Like a singer, his voice never wavers, even under danger. He also has a good singing voice that he got from his mom and loves to hum tunes he hears on his travels. He often associates a town with the music that's played by the locals. -Dress/Attire: Always has his hat, wears a navy blue tee-shirt with a brown leather jacket with slight armor underneath. Wears faded jeans with a satchel on one side of his belt and his dagger on the other. He has black leather boots. -Jewelry (if any): His armlet on his right arm that is brassy in color. Also a pendant that his father gave him. The pendant consists of a translucent gold spare about the size of a marble with a filmier one winged angels holding hands scene in the middle. It was given to him by his mother. His armlet is brassy in color (a little faded) and bears his family crest, a triangle over a curving design, that has been in his family and has always been past down to the males. -Weapons/Tools (if any): Dagger, he uses it in battle if he needs it. Also his excavation kit which contains various tools and gadgets to help him in a cavern or dungeon situation (includes rope, picks, grapnels, tinder box, brushes, small tent, flashlight, etc...). -Armour (if any): His leather jacket is equipped with some armor in side and he wears a little light armor here and there but nothing heavy. -Personality: Alex is somewhat of a complex character. He longs for adventure and freedom but knows that he must carry on his business or be live in poverty (gotta keep that cash flowing). He also wishes to make his own mark in the world, and escape his father's shadow to live in his own sunlight. A heroic side has caught him and has never let go, and Alex bases his values on the stories and legends his parents told him when he was little. Alex was brought up to be a gentleman to ladies(though he doesn't have much luck with them) and fair in a fight. -Background and History: Hopefully I'll set him up in the first story, but basically it's this... His life as a child was as normal as it could be, he was always traveling with his father to different places. At home his mother taught him and he is fairly knowledgeable for his class, with his knowledge of archeology self taught, he picked up a few books here and there and his uncle Barry helped with his education, too. Now Alex is seventeen and his father has passed on the business to him, giving him the family gear, Messenger(it has been passed down and its past is unknown). His father then hears a 'tip' from one of his old friends that there is a ruin on some island that has lots of treasure, which he passes on to Alex. Alex is thrilled to go, and quickly leaves for the site, before anyone else can get there... -Birthplace: Ahev, where his parents reside. -Mother: Faraylin La'Grant; Nurse and singer. -Father: Robert La'Grant; Well respected traveling salesman and excavationist. -Siblings: none -Mate: Single but looking (hopefully this will change) -Children: None -Other relations: Uncle Barry. Lives in Kislev, he is a banker there. upper class man with a lot of influence, and he loves Alex like his own son. -Affiliation: He will help any body in need, but doesn't really belong to a group. He is neutral when it comes to wars, and the armies generally treat him that way. He really doesn't have a sense of duty to Ahev, but that's where he was born. -Secondary Skills: Excavation, field first aid(his mom was a nurse). singing(to keep himself occupied) -Abilities/Disabilities (in addition to Ether): Abilities: Knows some martial arts and is very skilled in the use of his dagger and is always willing to stop and learn a new technique or move. Disabilities: No training in the use of ether, and he can't use it very well. He finds it hard to channel his energy like there's always something there to block him... -Hobbies: enjoys humming and dueling to sharpen his skills, always attends the Ahev tournaments. -Current residence: His parent's house, in Ahev. -Current Life Conflicts: Alex wishes people would recognize him for who he is, not what his father was. He longs to be his own man and make his own mark in the world. That and a curse...(I'll cover it more fully in the first story, but I'll tell you a little about it at the end) -Deathblows (name and function): [Arcana's note: I recommend leaving the Deathblows section blank when applying.] -Other notes: Here you go! I think Alex will make a great character, and I have a lot planned for him, everything to defining the solaris army, to vieing for power against and age old curse, and an incredible journey in which he'll (hopefully) cross paths with just about everyone in the IF. I'll explain his first story for you and give you an idea of where I'll be going because you may find it necessary in accepting or rejecting my character. -Gear name: Messenger -Gear model: Not sure -Height:16.2 sharls -Weight: 16.8 karn -Gear description: Very distinct gear. His name comes from the fact that he looks very like the messenger god, with wings on his back, helmet, and feet. His primary colors are blue, grey and greyish white. It is a hominoid gear and is used by Alex as a transportation means, although it's primary function is not known. -Class: Light attack -Primary function: Unknown, has never really been inspected. -Weapon(s): Two Gear daggers, ether amp. (This is new and I think it is very cool)and adapter plug that allows an equip with standard gear parts (currently equipped with Destablizer, a shock/stun weapon for quick escapes). These are standard and just about every shop sells different little gadgets or gizmos that can be equipped to the gear. -Abilities/Disabilities: Abilities: Quick and agile, Messenger also has a durability uncommon for its class. Much like his human pilot, this gear's ether is unfocused. Disabilities: Just the norm. for it's class. -How your character acquired the gear: In a sentence, he inherited it. His father gave it to him, like his father did and like his father did and so on and so fourth. It has always been in his family, and really wasn't considered special (like a family car that no one has the money to replace). It's past is shrouded in mystery, but it's future seems to be designed for Alex... And now to the good stuff! Like I said earlier, Alex speeds to the mysterious ruins. At the ruins he finds a little treasure(enough to pay for a Messenger revamp) but is intrigued when he finds his family crest engraved into a rock. That's when his gauntlet begins to feel hot and glow. In seconds the floor immediately ahead of him disappears and a hole big enough for him and his gear appears. “wow..” Alex say breathlessly, and of course, decides to investigate. In the uncharted depths Alex searches for some unknown treasure, and when he is about to turn back a mysterious force beckons him on. In the final chamber Alex finds ancient machines, and in the center was a stasis tube. Inside there are the shriveled remains of something that, to Alex, looks humanoid. When his gear enters the room a strange voice speaks to Alex... “Ahhh... messenger... you have returned... but who is this?” “Alex La'grant's the name! who's there?!” Alex demands. “La'Grant?!” the voice was stunned. Through a series of events Alex awakens a sinister dark mage who(as he later find out) was a failed experiment of Deus as a weapon of destruction. Not only that, he want's his gear back, and he wants to posses Alex's body! Now Alex is searching for a way to rid himself of this curse and learn his true identity as well as the identity of his gear. To fill you in even more, although it will seriously injure my plot, and this is confidential, only for you to read, Alex is the descendant of the dark mage. Messenger is a gear made specifically for the channeling of the mage's ether power, which was almost uncontrollable in his time on the living plane. Alex doesn't have a fraction of the mage's power, which is so great he pulls his earthly form directly from the ether to manifest to the real world, but he does have ingenuity, cunning, and the fact that he's my main character on his side!