553, Gmuer Sabourin(Muouk)
Posted by Odrirg on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Well. Got myself a 100 dollar laptop. At first, it was really painful being forced to be away from cf, now I'm not sure if I still have the "chops" to come back. With some RL stuff going on at the moment, I unfortunately feel my "unlimited interesting roles" producing organ has failed. I used to come up with 10 roles a day that I would like to play, sometimes based on my dreams. Now I can't think up any.
Anyway. Here is Gmuer's role. I really liked it, but at first was surprised when it won the role contest, because I thought it wasn't as good as some of my past ones that only got honorable mentions, or didn't place at all. Until I started playing it, and I probably had more fun playing this role than any I've ever played.
***I had many other role additions waiting to go in, but never got to go in, so I won't include those. And I am going to excise some personal information that I put in there, as an explanation to the immstaff on why I dissapeared for a month the first time, that's not pertinent to the role***
desc + Epicanthic folds drawn tight nearly completely hide the purplish hue of his desc + eyes that sneaks out and seems to dart back and forth in a feaverish urgency. desc + His round, flat face carries an otherwise open expression, if it could be desc + said to carry any, which might be a stretch. desc + desc + His thick, sandy-brown hair, a full 4'9 from the ground, is shaved away from desc + the lower part of his head, leaving a round helmet-like pate with a bottom desc + parallel to the ground and even with his nearly non-existant eyebrows. desc + desc + Upon a closer look, it is not that his eyebrows are thin, it is more that desc + their light blond color fades almost perfectly into his pale complexion. desc +
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Role subject Read this first, quick personality summary. role + role + To quote from "Serenity": role + ****************** role + role + Operative: I'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground,leave no ground to role + go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your role + fault? role + role + Malcolm Reynolds: I don't murder children. role + role + Operative: I do. If I have to. role + role + Malcolm Reynolds: Why? Do you even know why they sent you? role + role + Operative: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater role + than myself. A better world. A world without sin. role + role + Malcolm Reynolds: So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can role + live in your better world? role + role + Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me role + there...any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster.What I do is role + evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done. role + role + ****************** role + role + Basically he hates evil. Despises having to do evil. But is convinced that role + pure Order and Justice, without the defiling influence of the corruption and role + whim that is rife in the Empire, will bring about perfect peace and harmony role + to the whole world. role + role + He does what he does, because he himself thinks it would be a worse sin to role + see the path to the better future for all creatures till the end of time, but role + not do what is necessary to bring that world about because of a squeemish role + stomach. role + role + He is fond of using this rationale, at least to himself, to justify role + what he is doing and to convince himself that he is not really "evil" inside. role + role + role + If the sacrifice of one lightwalker's pinky finger could bring about eternal role + bliss for an infinite number of beings for all eternity, would it be worth role + it? role + role + What about that Lightwalker's hand? Arm? Both legs? Life?.......soul? role + role + What about 10 Lightwalkers? 100? 1000? role + role + He is willing to be the one lightwalker to lose his soul for this goal. role + Because the goal is worthy. But he also has no compunctions in making any role + number of other law-breaking lightwalkers pay with their lives. Because it role + will bring the greater good. role + role + He also has somewhat of a "short person" complex. role +
role subject Read this second, outline of history Part one. role + role + This will give the basics instead of the 14 page version. This will just role + attempt to touch on the parts that formed his beliefs and personality as it role + exists now. role + role + Born in a far off, civilized, corrupt, evil society. Doesn't know where it role + is now. role + role + Loved his Mother very much. Oedipal? not really, he was too young. role + role + His Father, hating the corruption and evil, faught against the government, role + Robin Hood style, leaving his family for long periods of time. role + role + The Govt found out his father's identity, and came looking for him, but could role + not find him. According to the Law, his family must pay. This started him role + down the road of hating his Father. role + role + He and his mom were sentenced to 10 years. The first five they would be role + Seperated. She was to work as a palace whore, he was to stay in the "hole". role + After five years, they were moved to a "rehabilitation" camp where they role + helped feed the Govt by growing crops. After their term, they would be role + free. role +
role subject Outline of history part two. role + role + During his time in the hole, he hated the unceasing, hateful, blinding, total role + darkness. He yearned for the Light. role + role + His one comfort during this time, was a friend in the next cell, Dimity, a role + young girl who was to be released from the hole to work the rehabilitation role + farm a month before he was to be. role + role + They became fast friends, and fell madly in love as only young children can, role + making long plans for the future when they were free. role + role + That last month in the hole without Dimity to talk to was torture, finally, role + he was released, and taken to the rehab farm. Dimity was there to meet him. role + role + She was ugly as sin. Worse, if that is possible. role + role + But he had learned to try to be honorable, and nice, and he really did role + remember how great a personality she had, so he resolved to "get used to" role + her appearance. role + role + She placed a hand over her mouth, and he saw tears in her eyes, and thought role + them to be tears of joy...before she started laughing. Of the Bust-a-gut, role + painful to breathe variety of laugh. role +
role subject Outline of history part three. role + role + She was laughing, because he is a Runt. Very short. In a society that values role + physical prowess, it was looked down upon as almost on the level of a crime role + to be so short and thin. role + role + The Ugly bitch rejected HIM! After he had resolved to be the gentleman and role + suffer through having to look at her face! Anger. Rage. Rejection. role + Depression. Finally a bottomless pit of sadness. role + role + This was the beginning of his eventual revelation, years later, that the role + Darkness was an equalizer. Shine too much light on a group of people, and role + what you see are differences. This one has too long a nose, that one is too role + fat. This one too short. But in the Darkness. Everyone begins equally. Role + role + And equality is the beginning of Justice. And pure Justice, is the role + beginning of bliss. role +
role subject Outline of history part four. role + role + The next three years were hard. All of the children, and even the guards, role + would mock, and often beat, him. role + role + What kept him sane (if he can be said to be sane anymore, which might not role + TECHNICALLY be true)was his Mother. She taught him of the law. And Justice. role + How it was right that they pay for the crimes of his father, because role + that was the Law. And without law, there would be only Anarchy. role + role + Sure, the govt was corrupt, but corrupt law is better than no law. role + role + She gave him unconditional, shining, love. role +
role subject Outline of history part five. role + role + Time at the Rehab Farm was just becoming bearable, and in two short years, role + he and his mother would be Free! role + role + Then his father returned. Found his family in a slave camp, and snuck inside. role + He spoke at length about the evils of the govt. About how it was the job of role + every lightwalker to stand against evil. role + role + How it was evil for his beloved wife and son to be slaves, just because he role + was a "freedom fighter". role + role + He convinced his wife. They took their son, and tried to escape. role +
role subject Outline of history part six. role + role + Rare is the night that he does not have nightmares linked to those three role + hellish weeks on the run. Filled with conflicting emotions. role + role + Desperation to convince his parents they were doing wrong! role + Frustration at them not listening to him. role + Desire to return to the Farm, and finish his term and gain freedom. role + Despair in knowing it was too late to do that, and that he was condemned to a role + life on the Run, if he wanted to live. role + role + And growing anger and hatred of his Father, for even in his dreams, he knows, role + loathes, and cowers from what always comes next. role +
role subject Outline of history part seven. role + role + They were captured. Of course. His Mother was put to death as an escapee. His role + Father rightly Impaled. He too, should have been put to death as an escapee. role + role + But one of the corrupt officials saw this small, lithe boy. And un-natural role + desires took hold of his flesh. He was put upon a ship, to be sent to this role + official's winter palace, and there to become a sex slave for the rest of role + his life. role + role + (here is where he learns to hate corruption in the law, which is why he would role + never knowingly join an organization as corrupt as the Empire). role + role + He spent winter and spring in an....icky...torture. At the end of spring, he role + was shipped to the official's summer palace. role + role + A late spring storm blew them off course, for weeks it seems. Finally to be role + ground into the coral reefs in a strange sea (turns out to be the western role + aryth). role + role + By pure force of will, he survives the shipwreck, and makes his way towards role + the signs of Civilization...and find himself in a massive city he had never role + heard of before (seantryn modan). role +
role subject Carefully Crafted Cowardice. role + role + For much of his life, he plans on carefully crafting a persona of complete role + cowardice, at least as far as he can take it without it affecting his rise role + through the mortal leadership. role + role + Why? A few reasons. role + role + His father, damn him, used to try to teach him tactics. There is a thing role + called a "baited ambush". When you first make contact, you run away as fast role + as you can, only to turn and strike in full force after your pursuing foe has role + decided you will be easy meat. role + role + Such a tactical device can also be used strategically. role + role + In his time at the Farm, he used to play cards with his Mother. Games even role + like Spades, and poker (when you are desperate, you can even play those as role + two-player games). role + role + In spades, it is possible to bid low, to make the other side bid high, then role + you come out strong, and make them not hit their mark. role + role + In Poker, if you play very tight, and always check and fold, it opens up your role + opponents to believe you when you bluff and bid alot of money. role + role + As such, he intends in his early life to try to make very sure that his role + enemies see him as a non-entity, a coward who will run at the first sign of role + trouble. role + role + This way, when the time comes and he comes into power, his enemies will fall role + before him like straw, never knowing what hit them. role +
role subject First years in Seantryn Modan role + role + He lived as a street urchin, never stealing but lowering himself to egging role + to survive. Slowly, he learned of the world, and the ways of Thera. role + role + When he was old enough, he applied and was admitted to the paladin guild in role + the City. role + role + After the first week, it was clear that very few paladin trainees ever had role + the zeal and determination to work hard to make the world better. role + role + Unfortunately, this was not to last. In the fifth week of training, he got role + into an...argument might be too light a term...with the guildmaster. role + role + It centered around where the "line" should be drawn. What tactics should role + or should not be taken, in defense of the weak and innocent. role + role + It was Gmuer's decision that to save the life of the greatest number of role + innocents, you must be as hard as your enemy, you must defeat him utterly. role + role + His attitude, and zeal, scared the Paladin guildmaster, and he was ejected. role + role + He was not back on the street for a full week before he was approached by role + a shady figure. role + role + This figure talked long with Gmuer, about a guild in which nothing was role + forbidden. A guild where the only limit on your strength and power and role + influence on the world was you yourself, not some wrong-headed morality role + that would force you to hold back from doing what needs to be done. role + role + Thus, the young Gmuer entered the Necromancer's guild, on the promise that role + he may one day gain the strength to bring order, peace, and bliss to the role + World. role +
role subject Slave's name role + role + Gmuer is not above buying slaves to help him. Infact, he enjoys doing such role + and will do so whenever possible. role + role + Partly, it gives him a chance to force evil creatures who are slaves to work role + with him towards bringing endless bliss to Thera. role + role + Mostly, he likes to buy the biggest, ugliest ones he can find, so he can role + tell them that their name is "Dimity". role + role + Just some small, ongoing revenge against that young girl from his time in the role + Hole and the Farm. role +
role subject Some clarification re:personality and alignment role + role + In Gmuer's own mind, he is a lightwalker who is just willing to do evil role + things, and lose his soul, to bring about paradise for the whole world. role + role + In reality, such a decision has changed him to be truly evil, despite what role + he thinks of himself. role + role + It would probably devastate him if his conscious mind ever became aware, but role + he has started to really like the pain he inflicts on others, especially role + the innocents that "get in his way". Even though he could never admit this role + to himself. role + role + Also, he likes to think of himself as quite "even keel'ed" never getting role + too upset. He tries very hard to not speak ill of others or use profanity, role + as in his mind a true lightwalker wouldn't. role + role + But, there are times when he explodes in rages. And as he grows older, it role + seems these times when anger grabs hold of his mind grow harder to hold off. role +
Role subject rp reason behind absense part 1 role + role + Gmuer has had a crisis of faith, and come out on the other side wiser, role + sadder, stronger, and with a better understanding of the True meaning of role + Justice. role + role + In his early life, he had largely convinced himself that much of his vast role + reserve of inner strength sprang mostly form his ability to emotionally role + distant himself from the necessities of life, and victory in building a role + better world. role + role + Rage, anger, fear, depression, even joy, happiness and humor, he thought were role + completely foreign to his nature. role + role + Indeed, he took great pride in his calculating world-view. He was about role + bringing Justice, not about emotionally tangling in the world. role + role + But then, he started down the road of the True Religion, the Religion of role + Justice. role + role + He was reborn, and in his rebirth, his father gave him what he thought at role + first was a curse. role + role + For the first time in his life, an anger seethed within him in such force role + that he could not ignore it, or say it wasn't there, even to himself. role + role + He thought of this as a weakness. role + role + But Gmuer is not stupid, of all the things that can be said of his corrupt role + and secretly shriveled soul, stupidity is truthfully not one of them. role +
Role Subject rp reason behind absense part 2 role + role + He had begun his career as a Magistrate with many goals, amoung them the firm role + desire to prove to his enemies (and even friends) that he was a coward, so role + that in the future when he had the power he needed, surprise would be a role + weapon he could wield to cut the hearts out of those who's deeds cried out role + for Justice. role + role + But his Anger took a vote, and it was unanimous. No playing possum for Gmuer. role + role + It started out with him being assaulted by a Cow Village berserker. In a role + protected city no less. role + role + Caution, and his plan, led him to retreat at first. But then, his anger took role + hold, and he went out, hunted down, and alone brought this villager to role + taste Justice. role + role + More than once since then, his anger has forced him to act in ways that could role + not be seen in any way as cautious, but every time he has let his anger role + get the better of him, Justice has won the day. role + role + So even though he feared this anger, he saw the signs and knew it not for a role + curse from his Father, but a blessing. role + role + And after much introspection, he realized his Father had not given him this role + blessing of anger, but merely revealed what was already within his heart. role + role + This disturbed Gmuer, and went against everything he had based his role + understanding of Justice upon. role + role + So, he took a leave of absense from his work, and went travelling. He had role + never had a normal life, and he knew that somehow the answer to his internal role + debate stood in an understanding of what it meant to have a true life. role +
Role subject Rp reason behind absense part 3 role + role + At first, he visited many small villages, always invisible to the normal eye, role + and watched. He watched people at their worst, and people at their best, he role + watched funerals, and many hundreds of Weddings. role + role + **As a side note, having watched all of those weddings, he noticed something. role + **Without exception, the grooms are nervous, and the brides are calm and role + **serene...even glowing with joy. And he realized this probably would tell role + **him something about who really ran the world, if he took the time to role + **ponder it. role + role + After seeing the Joyful part of life, he needed to see the other side. He role + re-visited all of the happy couples he had seen married, a month of so after role + their nuptuals, and slew all of the women in their sleep. role + role + This was not (in his mind, as he told himself) something he relished. But, role + He knew he had work to do back in Thera Proper as a Magistrate, and that he role + could not do it without the understanding that seeing these small tragedies role + in life play out. role + role + He watched the men carefully, but did not learn what he needed. role + role + Next, he moved to larger cities, and began to watch crime, and it's victims. role + role + It is here that he finally, at long last, began to understand. role + role + Anger...this is a natural emotion. It is a necessary emotion. Even the beasts role + feel it. It springs from being wronged. role + role + More importantly, it serves to give strength to those who have been wronged, role + to give them the strength to seek to right those wrongs. role + role + In the most primitive sense, anger is the foundation upon wich the mansions role + of Justice are built. But it goes further than this. role + role + In beasts, anger, revenge, and Justice are all the same. But in the sentient role + mind. In beings with souls, it goes much deeper. role + role + Out of anger comes revenge. This is the basic formula. But in the Sentient, role + Revenge can transform itself. It can ascend to a higher plane of existance role + and transfigure into something truly divine. It becomes Justice, if done role + correctly. role +
role subject rp reason behind absense part 4. role + role + *explaining role contest rewards* role + role + In his travels, he had gone far, and now that he was ready to return, he role + had far to return. role + role + He had many trevails on his journey, as if the forces of chaos and injustice role + wished to prevent it. role + role + During these trevails, he noticed two things. role + role + With his acceptance of his own inner Anger, the acceptance of which was his role + most prized gift from his Father, he found new strength. role + role + He found that by tapping into his own anger when cursing the souls of the role + soon to be condemned, he could bring up a well of hurt and anger nearly role + bordering on rage from the first instant of dejection by the ugly whore role + named Dimity. He found this anger channel into his curses and fly towards role + the condemned with a power that astounded and came near to frightening him role + the first time he experienced it. role + role + Also, with his acceptance of this new well of strength within him, he finally role + had the strength to accept his short stature. Even though remnants of the role + culture of his youth where shortness was near to a crime still remain, with role + his acceptance of his own stature, he has found it easier to fight those role + stupid hulking brutes who take such pride in their own gargantuan size. role + role + Such people, he has realized, have such a deeply ingrained sense of how role + wonderful it is to be large, that they can not conceive of anyone thinking role + of any real ADVANTAGE of being small. role + role + And so, because they can not conceive of any advantage, and believe in their role + deepest, worm-eaten hearts that no one else can either, that someone who role + CAN find advantage in short stature can have an enormous advantage in role + combatting these lugs. role + role + And so he returns to Thera, the burning, all-consuming light of the Magma role + of his rebirth shining through him and newly forging him into a weapon for role + Justice. role +
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