thetube | Potential CR Planning/ATP: July 2015

Thinking of joining the Underground? Come tell us all about it. This post is for prospective players to discuss their characters' AU backgrounds with canonmates and other characters, and to establish pre-existing CR (character relations). The aim is to help you figure out what to write in the background section of your application and to give you a starting point for building CR when you join the game.

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• Share your ideas on how you'd like to adapt your character's background to the game.
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• Discuss potential shared history with canonmates and build in cross-canon CR.

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Hey, this is Tetra, and currently I play Heiji and Faust VIII. I'm batting around the idea of Zelgius from the Fire Emblem Tellius games (Radiant Dawn in particular).

Background:
Zelgius is a loyal knight taken to the extreme: the only two things in his life are the sword and serving his master. Canny, reasonable, and even honorable in his official capacity as an ally general in the first game, Zelgius nevertheless spends most of the Tellius plotline completely betraying everyone by also acting as the Black Knight, a general for the opposing army. :'). He kills the main character's father in Path of Radiance and then poses as a friend, it's literally terrible.

Plans:
In game, I'd similarly like to attach his loyalties to a single character and have him act as a double agent for an opposing side. I was thinking he'd support Daybreak or maybe Redbright officially, and use his alter ego, the Black Knight, to act on behalf of one of its enemies (the fae seem like a natural choice for a weirdo swordsman who never shows his face, but I'm still thinking things through).

Long term, I'd like to have his duplicity be revealed and have someone kill him off.

Possible connections:
* Zelgius would most likely be a metahuman who would identify with other misfits. He's actually a pretty nice guy on a one-to-one basis, it's just that his one instance of personal loyalty trumps all others. I'd like for him to have friends on both sides.

* Obviously, he'd need a character to devote himself to. I'm okay with handwaving this as a shadowy NPC but I think it would be a lot more fun and meaningful to have it be an actual character in-game. So basically he needs a Sephiran in his life.

* Zelgius would also seek to enter the service of a powerful member of the opposing side, all the better to prove himself and be a more convincing double agent. He would be a ruthless, tireless supporter of this character's cause and participate in every conflict he could in their interest without also compromising his loyalty to Daybreak/Redbright (so basically a free minion). Plus he's a knight. Who doesn't want to be backed up by a hulking, threatening Black Knight?

Well you know me, I'll take minions. Mab is greedy. If the betraying happens to her though, there will be torture involved. I don't know if you want so many of your characters directly linked to Mab though so I won't feel bad if you choose someone else.

Nah, I'd be cool with it! I think we have a pretty good vibe going with our characters, so it'd be pretty easy to work things out. I'll give it a little bit and see if anyone else might want a minion, but I think Mab would work out well since she'd kinda old-timey and so is Zelgius.

Mab likes her some clever backstabbyness not directed at her. All righty, I'll keep an eye on your thread and see what happens!

I'd offer Ekko, but he's a scrawny little 17 year old. :') That said, he'd really like Zelguis and look up to him.

THAT SEEMS LIKE A TERRIBLE IDEA but I'd be cool with it :').

He'd probably get along well with Redbright types, obviously, so that could definitely be a thing!

A fellow meta? Who's also a misfit? SIGN HIM UP

also when he dies Ekko will try to rewind time to save him. And fail and fail and fail. I shouldn't look forward to that so much.

That's... super sad :C

Therefore we should do it

Yes good.

It's actually part of his canon character introduction comic. Though that was a twelve year old street rat.

FAILING TO SAVE PEOPLE. THE MOVIE. THE GAME. THE LIFE.

Potential CR Planning/ATP: July 2015

Zelgius/The Black Knight | Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

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