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swordofajerk) wrote2024-05-26 12:52 pm
swordofajerk) wrote2024-05-26 12:52 pm
Application for Abraxas
OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Fae
Are you over 18?: yes
Contact: DM
Other Characters in Game: none
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Canon: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Canon Point: post Silver Snow route (the route you take if you don't side with Edelgard after choosing Black Eagles)
Age: 22-23
Background: Here
Arrival Scenario: He will be arriving in the Free Cities
Suitability: Felix just spent the last nearly six years in the middle of a war between three different factions, though this specific Felix ended up taking a fourth option and sided with the church resistance army. He'll hate the idea of fighting in another war, but if it came down to it he could and would and would likely do very well.
However, Felix is going to do whatever he can to avoid that as much as he can. Felix is tired of fighting, though at the moment he thinks that's all he's good for. Being a new world with new problems that are nothing like his old ones will offer Felix a chance to explore options he previously ignored. He'll never be a diplomat or anything, but exploring things (or protecting those who are exploring things), helping to clear out bandits or other troublemakers, and other such activities will appeal to him at first. He might discover he likes to do other things more, though.
Powers: Felix, like most of Faerghus, has trained to use a weapon since before he could write his own name (his exact words). Felix is perhaps one of the best swordsmen in the country if not the entire Officer's Academy by the end of the game, and he knows a little about most other weapons. In this specific case, Felix will be arriving in Abraxas after undergoing extensive training as an assassin, meaning he has mastery level skills in swords and bows, but he's also just good at throwing a punch if he needs to. He's also very stealthy, agile, and good with lockpicks.
He is also a holder of a Major Crest of Fraldarius. In lore terms this is a big deal, as most crestbearers have only minor crests at this point. It allows him to safely wield his family's relics, the Aegis Shield and Sword of Moralta, and also grants him remarkable strength in battle. However this effect is random and he can't seem to control when it activates. Otherwise, he could have some skill in magic, but that would require him actually sitting down to study it and he would rather chop his own arm off thanks.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. Though Felix himself was not present, the Tragedy of Duscur is quite possibly one of the most impactful things to happen to the man. The Tragedy, a false flag operation designed to kill the royal family of Faerghus and blame the people of Duscur for it, sent sweeping negative changes throughout the Kingdom and utterly destroyed any stability the nation had. On a more personal scale, however, it destroyed Felix's family.
Felix's older brother Glenn was a knight serving the royal family at the time and one of the victims of the massacre. Glenn was, by all accounts, a fairly popular young man and adored by his friends and family, especially Felix. His death hit Felix hard, naturally, but it was his father's reaction to it that really set Felix off. He told Felix he was proud of Glenn, who "died like a true knight". This pissed Felix off, souring his relationship with his father. Both were grieving, and an outsider can look at the situation and see that the two simply had different ways of handling their grief that were incompatible, but the fact remains that Rodrigue and Felix never saw eye-to-eye and that neither really were willing to talk about it.
This was not helped by the other major change wrought by the Tragedy: the changes in the then-prince Dimitri. Felix and Dimitri were extremely close, with Felix saying there was a time no one knew the prince better. Unfortunately, Dimitri was present at the Tragedy and was in fact the sole survivor; naturally, the trauma left Dimitri scarred and changed, and in ways that scared Felix (though he'd never admit that). Two years after the Tragedy, he and Dimitri were sent out to put down a rebellion. During that mission, he happened to see Dimitri with a madman's smile on his face as he cut someone down. In that moment, Felix didn't recognize his former best friend and essentially cut all ties with him until the events of the game. And this was on top of Rodrigue pivoting to focus more on Dimitri and his care than that of his son after the Tragedy, leaving Felix more or less isolated from everyone he had ever held dear.
We're told through supports and conversations with other characters that Felix was at one time a bit of a crybaby. He was sensitive, always wanting to do things with Dimitri or Sylvain and getting upset when he couldn't, and he very clearly loved his older brother. Yet by the events of canon, a mere four years after the Tragedy, the Felix we see is a biting, antisocial young man who only cares about training and ignores most of his former friends (with Sylvain being the most obvious exception, and even then it's unclear who seeks the other out).
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Felix has a very particular set of standards. Unfortunately, the best way to explain them is to contrast them with the standards of Faerghus, since he strives to be everything his homeland is not.
Faerghus is a country of knights. Felix's older brother was one such knight, and as far as Felix cares, being a knight and upholding knightly values is what got Glenn killed. That's not to say Felix is a scoundrel, of course, and he'd probably fight you if you suggested it. He simply thinks that the ideals knights are supposed to hold--fealty to their lord, chivalry, honor--are largely useless and do no actual good. He would much rather go and do whatever needs doing, however he can best do it, simply because it's the right thing to do.
He also sees no reason in doing things to "honor" the dead (or so he claims). He snaps at his father for seemingly wanting to save a village because it was important to the late King Lambert rather than because the villagers needed protecting; people trying to claim doing something is what Glenn would have wanted just piss Felix off. People die, and when those close to Felix die he'll mourn them for the rest of his life, but most of the time he sees no point in wallowing in the grief.
One thing that Felix absolutely loathes is when people are violent just for the sake of it and seem to enjoy it. He likes a good fight, probably more than might be considered healthy by most people, but he enjoys sparring and training. He likes to fight because it helps him get stronger, and he wants to be strong. Mindless violence, on the other hand, serves no purpose except to be violent. This is actually part of his problem with Dimitri for much of the game, as he perceived Dimitri's behavior when sent to put down the rebellion as Dimitri enjoying the violence of it all.
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Strength. Felix wants to be strong and admires strength in people. Often this is strength in battle, but as we see in some of his supports and paired endings he admires strength of all sorts. A prime example is some of his endings with Lysithea; she dies very young, but Felix admires her for living her best life in spite of that. He's fairly straightforward in that respect.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? For all that Felix tries to be the opposite of everything Faerghus is, for all he claims not to be sentimental or emotional...the fact remains that he very much is all of those things, to some degree. It's notable that most of his endings when not on the Azure Moon route are at best bittersweet. Without his friends, Felix almost always ends up ambitionless, wandering the continent looking for fights because that's all he has left. He pretends to hate Dimitri, and on some level it's not entirely a lie, but when Dimitri dies on most routes and Felix remains alive, Felix is devastated and begins to take after his former best friend in seeking vengeance for the dead.
He talks about how someone needs to stop Dimitri, but he never offers to help or try it himself. He can leave Faerghus and its culture behind, but it always ends poorly for him. He sees problems, but Felix either can't or won't address them.
Felix is on some level a hypocrite, and he hates it. He'll never acknowledge it openly.
What is their sign, and why? The Magician (I marked Emperor on the TDM but that was more just a placeholder). Felix is all about mastering the sword and whatever other weapons he thinks will help him in a fight and very little else. He simply sees no point in wasting his energy on anything else, much to the dismay of those who know him.
SAMPLES
Samples: TDM toplevel here
Player Name: Fae
Are you over 18?: yes
Contact: DM
Other Characters in Game: none
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Felix Hugo Fraldarius
Canon: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Canon Point: post Silver Snow route (the route you take if you don't side with Edelgard after choosing Black Eagles)
Age: 22-23
Background: Here
Arrival Scenario: He will be arriving in the Free Cities
Suitability: Felix just spent the last nearly six years in the middle of a war between three different factions, though this specific Felix ended up taking a fourth option and sided with the church resistance army. He'll hate the idea of fighting in another war, but if it came down to it he could and would and would likely do very well.
However, Felix is going to do whatever he can to avoid that as much as he can. Felix is tired of fighting, though at the moment he thinks that's all he's good for. Being a new world with new problems that are nothing like his old ones will offer Felix a chance to explore options he previously ignored. He'll never be a diplomat or anything, but exploring things (or protecting those who are exploring things), helping to clear out bandits or other troublemakers, and other such activities will appeal to him at first. He might discover he likes to do other things more, though.
Powers: Felix, like most of Faerghus, has trained to use a weapon since before he could write his own name (his exact words). Felix is perhaps one of the best swordsmen in the country if not the entire Officer's Academy by the end of the game, and he knows a little about most other weapons. In this specific case, Felix will be arriving in Abraxas after undergoing extensive training as an assassin, meaning he has mastery level skills in swords and bows, but he's also just good at throwing a punch if he needs to. He's also very stealthy, agile, and good with lockpicks.
He is also a holder of a Major Crest of Fraldarius. In lore terms this is a big deal, as most crestbearers have only minor crests at this point. It allows him to safely wield his family's relics, the Aegis Shield and Sword of Moralta, and also grants him remarkable strength in battle. However this effect is random and he can't seem to control when it activates. Otherwise, he could have some skill in magic, but that would require him actually sitting down to study it and he would rather chop his own arm off thanks.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. Though Felix himself was not present, the Tragedy of Duscur is quite possibly one of the most impactful things to happen to the man. The Tragedy, a false flag operation designed to kill the royal family of Faerghus and blame the people of Duscur for it, sent sweeping negative changes throughout the Kingdom and utterly destroyed any stability the nation had. On a more personal scale, however, it destroyed Felix's family.
Felix's older brother Glenn was a knight serving the royal family at the time and one of the victims of the massacre. Glenn was, by all accounts, a fairly popular young man and adored by his friends and family, especially Felix. His death hit Felix hard, naturally, but it was his father's reaction to it that really set Felix off. He told Felix he was proud of Glenn, who "died like a true knight". This pissed Felix off, souring his relationship with his father. Both were grieving, and an outsider can look at the situation and see that the two simply had different ways of handling their grief that were incompatible, but the fact remains that Rodrigue and Felix never saw eye-to-eye and that neither really were willing to talk about it.
This was not helped by the other major change wrought by the Tragedy: the changes in the then-prince Dimitri. Felix and Dimitri were extremely close, with Felix saying there was a time no one knew the prince better. Unfortunately, Dimitri was present at the Tragedy and was in fact the sole survivor; naturally, the trauma left Dimitri scarred and changed, and in ways that scared Felix (though he'd never admit that). Two years after the Tragedy, he and Dimitri were sent out to put down a rebellion. During that mission, he happened to see Dimitri with a madman's smile on his face as he cut someone down. In that moment, Felix didn't recognize his former best friend and essentially cut all ties with him until the events of the game. And this was on top of Rodrigue pivoting to focus more on Dimitri and his care than that of his son after the Tragedy, leaving Felix more or less isolated from everyone he had ever held dear.
We're told through supports and conversations with other characters that Felix was at one time a bit of a crybaby. He was sensitive, always wanting to do things with Dimitri or Sylvain and getting upset when he couldn't, and he very clearly loved his older brother. Yet by the events of canon, a mere four years after the Tragedy, the Felix we see is a biting, antisocial young man who only cares about training and ignores most of his former friends (with Sylvain being the most obvious exception, and even then it's unclear who seeks the other out).
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Felix has a very particular set of standards. Unfortunately, the best way to explain them is to contrast them with the standards of Faerghus, since he strives to be everything his homeland is not.
Faerghus is a country of knights. Felix's older brother was one such knight, and as far as Felix cares, being a knight and upholding knightly values is what got Glenn killed. That's not to say Felix is a scoundrel, of course, and he'd probably fight you if you suggested it. He simply thinks that the ideals knights are supposed to hold--fealty to their lord, chivalry, honor--are largely useless and do no actual good. He would much rather go and do whatever needs doing, however he can best do it, simply because it's the right thing to do.
He also sees no reason in doing things to "honor" the dead (or so he claims). He snaps at his father for seemingly wanting to save a village because it was important to the late King Lambert rather than because the villagers needed protecting; people trying to claim doing something is what Glenn would have wanted just piss Felix off. People die, and when those close to Felix die he'll mourn them for the rest of his life, but most of the time he sees no point in wallowing in the grief.
One thing that Felix absolutely loathes is when people are violent just for the sake of it and seem to enjoy it. He likes a good fight, probably more than might be considered healthy by most people, but he enjoys sparring and training. He likes to fight because it helps him get stronger, and he wants to be strong. Mindless violence, on the other hand, serves no purpose except to be violent. This is actually part of his problem with Dimitri for much of the game, as he perceived Dimitri's behavior when sent to put down the rebellion as Dimitri enjoying the violence of it all.
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Strength. Felix wants to be strong and admires strength in people. Often this is strength in battle, but as we see in some of his supports and paired endings he admires strength of all sorts. A prime example is some of his endings with Lysithea; she dies very young, but Felix admires her for living her best life in spite of that. He's fairly straightforward in that respect.
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? For all that Felix tries to be the opposite of everything Faerghus is, for all he claims not to be sentimental or emotional...the fact remains that he very much is all of those things, to some degree. It's notable that most of his endings when not on the Azure Moon route are at best bittersweet. Without his friends, Felix almost always ends up ambitionless, wandering the continent looking for fights because that's all he has left. He pretends to hate Dimitri, and on some level it's not entirely a lie, but when Dimitri dies on most routes and Felix remains alive, Felix is devastated and begins to take after his former best friend in seeking vengeance for the dead.
He talks about how someone needs to stop Dimitri, but he never offers to help or try it himself. He can leave Faerghus and its culture behind, but it always ends poorly for him. He sees problems, but Felix either can't or won't address them.
Felix is on some level a hypocrite, and he hates it. He'll never acknowledge it openly.
What is their sign, and why? The Magician (I marked Emperor on the TDM but that was more just a placeholder). Felix is all about mastering the sword and whatever other weapons he thinks will help him in a fight and very little else. He simply sees no point in wasting his energy on anything else, much to the dismay of those who know him.
SAMPLES
Samples: TDM toplevel here