[hider=Archer][h3]Archer[/h3][hr]WHAT WAS YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME? WHAT IS THE CODENAME THEY NOW GO BY AS A ZE? [color=C2EC2C]Names aren't important. Archer, or The Archer, is all there is now.[/color] DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER'S MASK AND APPEARANCE. [color=C2EC2C]Archer's mask was a gift by a passing motorcycle tribe: it's molded and etched out of tarnished old machine parts to resemble a deer's head, with its own built-in solar panels that power its scanners and green illumination. Archer wears practical clothing, mostly long and loose browns and greens, with a little light armor when the situation calls for it. Most of the time she looks like she just arrived out of the woods. ([url=https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e01rq6]Inspiration![/url])[/color] WHAT IS A STRANGER'S FIRST IMPRESSION UPON MEETING THEM? HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER SEE THEMSELVES? [color=C2EC2C]From a distance, a stranger would first question whether Archer is a robot or a person, because of the convincing lights where her face should be. Then she speaks in her lilting, smiling way, and almost anyone is put immediately at ease. She carries herself like a puppet with the strings loose, fluid and always moving in a slightly unbalanced way. How she sees herself isn't anybody's business but her own, really. And anyway it doesn't matter.[/color] WHERE DID THEY GROW UP? WHERE DO THEY FEEL AT HOME? [color=C2EC2C]Whoever she was before has no bearing on the present. Home is Rig. Home is the Blinking Fortress. Home is the tops of the trees and the shelter of roots. Home is wherever she is right now.[/color] WHO ARE (WERE) THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES? [color=C2EC2C]Let's not get into that. It's boring.[/color] WHAT IS THEIR PROFESSION, SKILL OR LIFESTYLE? WHAT DO THEY THINK THEIR STRENGTHS ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR ACTUAL STRENGTHS? [color=C2EC2C]Professionally, Archer is a leader. She keeps track of what's wrong and who's most qualified to help. Her best skill is that she knows things and discovers things, both about situations and about people. She's got a sense for people, and a keen trust. She has a few thoughts about herself, but isn't likely to tell you that.[/color] WHAT ARE THEIR FEARS, FLAWS AND SECRETS? [color=C2EC2C]This is the kind of question that can get people killed.[/color] WHAT DO THEY WANT MOST? WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY NEED? [color=C2EC2C]Archer wants to understand everything and everyone. She wants to save everyone from everything that makes them miserable. What she needs is ... well, again, not your business.[/color] WHY DID THEY JOIN THE ZEPHYR EXTINCT? [color=C2EC2C]Doesn't matter. What's important now is the choices she makes going forward. Maybe she'll make better ones this time.[/color][/hider] [hider=Fluke][h3]Fluke[/h3][hr]WHAT WAS YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME? WHAT IS THE CODENAME THEY NOW GO BY AS A ZE? [color=B6C6AB]Born Miss Jinnow Arthur, which was scrapped for awhile in favor of Arthur Arthur as a lark. Now he goes by Fluke.[/color] DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER'S MASK AND APPEARANCE. [color=B6C6AB]Fluke's mask is made of metal scrap and pipes, and changes occasionally depending on how bored he is. Sometimes he tries to build a miniature city on his face, but takes it apart again when it gets too heavy. He's short and skinny for his questionable age, usually disheveled and dusty in secondhand clothes, shorts, sneakers or sandals. He likes to draw on himself, but can't commit to a tattoo.[/color] ([url=https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/27539897]Inspiration![/url]) WHAT IS A STRANGER'S FIRST IMPRESSION UPON MEETING THEM? HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER SEE THEMSELVES? [color=B6C6AB]Strangers tend to be slightly unsettled by Fluke's presence. He's quiet, stands a little too close, and doesn't ever seem to catch social cues to leave. He mostly communicates by tapping and slapping and nudging people, which doesn't always work in his favor. He is generally tolerated, ignored, and overlooked. Fluke thinks of himself as someone who fits in the little gaps between what people expect and what they see. He spent much of his life feeling like a ghost-- invisible and unimportant --but now has embraced his ghost-ness as an asset.[/color] WHERE DID THEY GROW UP? WHERE DO THEY FEEL AT HOME? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke was born and raised here in Rig, specifically the tree huts high up in the branches. He grew up swinging through the leaves and breaking bones, learning to hang-glide and chase squirrels and build pulleys and bridges and suncatchers. Fluke is still most comfortable in high places, but recently has grown fond of the high catwalks beneath the stained-glass ceiling of the old feasting hall. He's collected a little nest in a sunny corner, where he goes to read or listen to storytelling podcasts or watch the weddings and parties from above. (And eat his fill when no one's looking, of course.)[/color] WHO ARE (WERE) THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke's parents were (are) around but not really, so he never thinks much about them. The Archer is definitely the most important person in his life. Archer was the first person to really [i]see[/i] Fluke, to trust him with important jobs, to teach him real lessons about life and give him a sense of purpose. Fluke trusts Archer more than anyone.[/color] WHAT IS THEIR PROFESSION, SKILL OR LIFESTYLE? WHAT DO THEY THINK THEIR STRENGTHS ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR ACTUAL STRENGTHS? [color=B6C6AB]He's an inventor, a builder, and a problem-solver. While everyone else is bickering or debating options, Fluke is the one going behind their backs to quietly solve the issue on his own. He thinks he's smarter that most people, free to come up with solutions that no one else can see because he doesn't care how others might react. His truest strength is his willingness to take risks, to take the blame for whatever happens even if it's not his fault. He can let it all wash over him, but he knows other people are not so resilient.[/color] WHAT ARE THEIR FEARS, FLAWS AND SECRETS? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke is afraid of the dark. He's afraid of causing harm to other people, so much that he keeps his emotional distance. He doesn't speak: not because he can't, but because he feels it isn't worth the effort of trying to be understood. He never trusts anyone to do anything right, but he will wait for them to mess up before he steps in. He keeps all of his thoughts-- his past, his dreams --a secret. He feels that if he tells someone, they might empathize and relate. He won't be special anymore.[/color] WHAT DO THEY WANT MOST? WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY NEED? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke hates attention and the spotlight, but more than anything he wants to be the unsung hero. He wants to save everyone, and watch the world get better because of him, as long as he can remain anonymous. He needs someone to believe in other than himself: he needs to feel equal to someone else, and to put forward the effort to understand another person instead of dismissing them.[/color] WHY DID THEY JOIN THE ZEPHYR EXTINCT? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke was immediately attracted to the idea of becoming someone else, especially the mask and the codename and the opportunity to be seen as [i]other[/i] by the general population. There's a sense of freedom that comes with anonymity. Saving people from the Nox, and the opportunity to learn magic, sealed the deal. The ZE is everything he could ever want. So when Archer-- after weeks of sending him on minor errands --invited him to initiation, he cried with joy. He's never looked back.[/color] HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THIS CHARACTER CHANGE AND DEVELOP? [color=B6C6AB]Fluke needs to understand that everyone is human, including himself. He's taken on a persona of Something Else, viewing other people like a naturalist studies a strange species. He sees their happy lives as something that's simply not meant for him. If he can let other people in, let himself acknowledge that they're all the same in the end, he might also let go of his fear.[/color] PITCH A SMALL SUBPLOT THAT WOULD BE PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOUR CHARACTER. [color=B6C6AB]Something as simple has having someone depend exclusively on Fluke for an extended period of time could significantly alter his point of view. A child, or someone elderly or sick, who trusts him completely and needs him, would go a long way to soften his heart. He also has never really felt the pain of loss: he never lets himself get close enough to anyone to significantly feel their absence. To lose someone he cares about would be a significant lesson.[/color] [/hider]