anemoisity | Application Post

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Playing a villain will not count against your five character limit.

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For more information on villains, see this page.

Name: Your name or preferred handle, whatever you want us to call you..
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Character Name:
Character Series: Toss a link to a general overview of the canon. Canon-specific wikis or Wikipedia are accepted!
Background: Again, a wiki link to the character's background will generally suffice. If none exists, a bare-bones overview will do.
Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
Personality: This doesn’t have to be as detailed as an app for a normal character would be, but it still has to demonstrate an understanding of your character and how they operate. Three solid paragraphs is a good estimate of what we’re looking for.
Plans: You don’t have to outline a whole plot right here and now, just give us an idea of why you’ve chosen to app this character as a villain, and what sort of things you have in mind for them to do to antagonize the other characters.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

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Name: Jae
Personal LJ:

lyphia
Contact Info: krosophie[@]gmail.com (email), hymnomancy (AIM), lyphia[@]live.com (MSN), erinilliana (plurk)

Character Name: Saleh
Character Series: Tales of Rebirth (http://aselia.wikia.com/wiki/Tales_of_Rebirth)
Background: That's right, everything in the world is about give and take. (http://hystaria.livejournal.com/290.html#cutid1)

Personality:

Saleh is twisted because he can be. Cruel and overbearing, he toys with everybody around him and typically ends things with a mad man's laugh. He himself is more than aware of this obnoxious behavior, as when Mao points this out to Eugene and labels Saleh as "twisted," Eugene comments that Saleh would more than likely consider it a compliment. In any case, he has no qualms flaunting the power he possesses and talking down on people simply for the thrill of it. Because if anything, he just wants to have fun at the expense of others.

While he makes no effort to hide the sadist in him, Saleh is polite in mannerism; mockingly so half the time, but fact remains that he comes across as the sort of "gentleman" that exudes a creepy vibe. That is, if his childlike sadism isn't overshadowing the rest of his personality. He's capable of treating people right if he's obligated, one such occasion being his treatment of the Huma girls under Queen Agarte's orders, during which it's noted that Saleh hadn't harmed a single hair on them. That's not to say they're safe in every way -- he can reach whomever he desires with his words and that's the method he prefers to use. He isn't above throwing people high up in the air and threatening to drop them with his Force, either.

Saleh hasn't a single nice bone in his body, nor does he offer anyone his genuine respect. Even Agarte, the queen to whom he's sworn to protect, isn't exempt from his mockery; he practically babies her because as far as he's concerned, she's been nothing but a fooled child. Regardless of this blatant disrespect, Agarte thanks him since he showed her the truth about the goings-on of the castle. He's loyal to his country and place as one of the Four Stars when it boils down to it. In a strange way.

What's interesting is that Saleh places a limit on the things he says despite his willingness to speak his mind. He says enough but never too much (which is often too much for the receiving party). It's a skill he's acquired as someone who derives pleasure from riling others. He can instantly enrage the taciturn Vague with a few snide words. Coupled with his aptitude for acting, he makes for a verbal and verbose force to reckon.

His mean tendencies aside, Saleh is very open-minded if not simply "color" blind when it involves certain matters. In a kingdom ravaged by prejudice, he never calls out someone based on his race unless he does so out of retaliation. It's how he shuts up a guard who'd continually insisted against taking a Huma girl into the castle. Moreover, he seemingly harbors a great deal of bitterness toward the world as hinted in his last moments after Tohma betrays him. A harmonic world shared between Huma and Gajuma is a dream, nothing more, nothing less -- that's how he sees reality and that's the thought he dies with.

He's a sly one who knows far more than he lets on while belittling those that are a tad more ignorant. In fact, Saleh's mildly impressed when Agarte behaves like an actual queen after she'd lost everything and just then realized her adviser Zilva's true and ugly colors. And if there's someone he believes to be an utter fool, Saleh will do everything in his power to shove that person's flaw in his face. This very trait of his is what sends him down an obsessively destructive path to beat down Veigue's notions of the all-mighty power of the heart. The mere thought of it makes Saleh want to hurl.

Saleh is extraordinarily prideful to the point being defeated by the "heart," something he once viewed as weak and pitiful, causes him to snap. He can take losing (albeit begrudgingly and on his second loss demands that the party kill him); however, he can't accept defeat to something so mushy and hearty. His coldness shines here because he rules out the emotional aspect of strength, as much as he loves to see extreme misery in those around him. At any rate, he's downright irrational and crazier than usual when it comes to whatever bothers him.

He also likes blueberry jam. A lot. Other habits include flipping his hair and clapping when someone does something spectacularly stupid.

Sample Entry:

[The large hill where The Lab sits stands tall and over the rest of the city from the center. Given the altitude, it's the level of breeziness and cool air that Saleh can appreciate as he stands at a slope. He rests a hand flat on his forehead, pushing several strands of hair back whilst enjoying the scenery.]

Well, isn't this an unusual city as always. Though it feels like something is missing . . .

[Indeed, Sirocco appears just fine but he can't shake off the feeling that something -- or someone -- is lacking. Both the technology and architecture are superior here than back in the Kingdom, so those departments aren't lacking in the slightest. He's felt off for weeks on end for this very reason.]

What could it be, I wonder?

. . . Oh, yes. There isn't a single Gajuma here. Now isn't that funny? A world dominated by a single race that both Huma and Gajuma desire in Karegia is right before me. And to think I didn't share their ambition, but rather the royal family's wishes of the very opposite. How ironic.

I suppose I'll have to wait for the rest of the story to unfold in regards to this matter . . . That is, if it ends with the massacre of one race . . . or both. Or has coexistence become reality by this point?

[He can only giggle at that.]

Unlikely.

[And Sirocco may be housing creatures that simply appear Huma. There's already that white blob of a creature to account for in terms of non-Huma appearances.]

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