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cosmographia
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exceptionallybrightPlayer Info:
Name: Myco
Timezone: EST
Contact: DW:animatedsmoke
Plurk: Mycophobia
Character Info:
Name: Justice Knight
Age: Young Adult.
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Canon, Wakfu
Summary:
If he has any say over it, then he'll do his best to gloss these incidents over. Image and presentation is practically half the job to him, so he puts the extra effort into looking good and its corollary, not looking bad. He especially takes advantage of opportunities when other parties are not able to check facts out for themselves, like how when delivering exposition he described how he and his father were vulnerable to Rubilax's attack due to "training" rather than being in the middle of playing board games. That said he's not the type to outright fabricate events or accomplishments. He's earnest in his duty and his perceived greatness in it, and would see no need for that.
Despite all of the American superhero references he's not really a goody-two shoes type of hero (that would be Yugo, the actual protagonist of the show). His idea of justice is more about giving punishment to the wrongdoing, and he's not bothered if that extends to death. He didn't have any sympathy for the thief Remington when he ended up trapped in hell, even though it was because of a selfless action to save his brother (granted, Remington is the reason why a portal to hell got opened up in the first place, but still. Yugo, who has a forgiving heart, was at least a little bummed out).
Behind it all he's genuinely well-intended. He wouldn't be able to apologize so easily to those he accidentally hurts if he wasn't (such as when he says he was mistaken in calling Sadlygrove a failure of a knight that got his father possessed, after seeing him help the hardest to stop Anathar). Ultimately his motivation isn't to stroke his ego, it's to help people and make the world a better place. Justice has no hesitation in helping out a fellow adventurer such a Yugo, so despite his eccentricities in the end he's simply a (slightly obnoxious) friend.
Gem Considerations: Pyrite. Everything associated with the Justice family has a gold motif; gold armor, golden swords, even their architecture has gold accents. So it's appropriate that his gem would be one that's most known for looking like gold, and Justice is all about appearances. Justice will be unchanged appearance wise except for a large-ish (fist sized) square of pyrite on top of his collarbone.
While Justice is an inherently goofy character, I would like to see how he would deal with things if he had more screentime and faced a threat on his own. He has the potential to be a competent good guy and leader, even if he does trip over himself sometimes. On the flip side I would also like to see him in super casual interactions, since between being a noble and a full-time superhero he doesn't seem to have spent a lot of time being personal with other people.
Power considerations:
In the Wakfu world, humans have magical powers depending on which of the 12 gods they worship. Association with a god gives people distinctive characteristics analogous to the "races" of other fantasy, like horns, pointy ears, or green hair. Since Justice looks like a "normal" human and shows no magical abilities in any of his appearances, it's a safe assumption that his family is one of the rare humans that aren't aligned with any of the gods and has no magic. So basically in Cosmographia Justice is only gaining power, not losing any. Justice will probably be stoked. For someone that already tries his hardest to be a superhero, what could be more welcome than literal superpowers.
Sample: While the Lone Wolf hero was a long established and entirely legitimate concept, Justice admittedly had little experience with it himself. The closest he had gotten to it was the brief stint he had operating the Justice Train alone while his father was out of commission, but he didn't like thinking about that time period. What he did have to think about was the present. Justice had so far spent his time in Waverly Beach as unintentionally aloof. Justice never outright patronized or was unfriendly to "civilians", but as he saw it they lived their own lives while he lived his own (very prestigious) one. Everyone else who lived in the Temple was supposed to be a hero in their right, but how could he judge that so soon? And if not everyone with a gem was an adequate hero, that only muddled the situation of how to treat who even further. It was such a straightforward way of life back in his own world.
And Justice had found out another reason to work with other people - being out in the wilderness by himself was incredibly boring. He had gone to this seemingly empty field to hunt a monster. Reports of a monstrous creature that attacked some mischievous kids that snuck out of town. He figured that the monster must be attracted to human activity and had set up a campfire to bait it out. Despite the pull of boredom he reinvigorated his attention to the flame. He would have to internally smack himself if he messed up at the one thing he was familiar with.
Name: Myco
Timezone: EST
Contact: DW:
animatedsmokePlurk: Mycophobia
Character Info:
Name: Justice Knight
Age: Young Adult.
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Canon, Wakfu
Summary:
- Justice was born into a family line of Knights that fight against evil Shushu (the Wakfu equivalent of demons), with his father being the immediate predecessor. He always looked up to his father but apparently didn't spend much time with him or bonded with him much until he took up knight training under him.
- Justice and Justice Sr. ended up very close and fought together as a father-son duo even as Sr. entered old age.
- After one of the main characters is killed at the end of the first season, his Shushu-possessed sword Rubilax takes over his body and goes on a rampage. Justice and his father have the misfortune of ending up on his path. During the fight Justice Sr. uses his own Shushu-possessed item, a cape containing the powerful Shushu Anathar. Anathar ends up being too strong for Sr. to control and fully possesses him. Justice is forced to imprison up his own father.
- In the actual series, Justice catches up to the main characters and antagonizes them for an episode over what Rubilax did and what ended up happening to his father. The main characters end up both accidentally releasing his Anathar-possessed father and freeing Justice Sr. from Anathar's control, so all ends well.
- Justice becomes a friend and ally to the main characters in later material (the comic series).
In the Wakfu world it's not uncommon for people to be known as adventurers or heroes and call themselves such. For Justice, adventure is his job, his life, and something that makes him happy. Justice puts a lot of undeniable work into fighting Shushus, operating crimefighting gadgets such as the Justice Train, and performing heroic poses. It also ties into his family, his love for his father and how he continues that legacy. It all builds up into something he takes an enormous amount of pride in. A tacky amount of pride - there's only so many giant portraits of oneself and gold initial decorations you can see before you start suspecting someone of being an egotist.
If he has any say over it, then he'll do his best to gloss these incidents over. Image and presentation is practically half the job to him, so he puts the extra effort into looking good and its corollary, not looking bad. He especially takes advantage of opportunities when other parties are not able to check facts out for themselves, like how when delivering exposition he described how he and his father were vulnerable to Rubilax's attack due to "training" rather than being in the middle of playing board games. That said he's not the type to outright fabricate events or accomplishments. He's earnest in his duty and his perceived greatness in it, and would see no need for that.
Despite all of the American superhero references he's not really a goody-two shoes type of hero (that would be Yugo, the actual protagonist of the show). His idea of justice is more about giving punishment to the wrongdoing, and he's not bothered if that extends to death. He didn't have any sympathy for the thief Remington when he ended up trapped in hell, even though it was because of a selfless action to save his brother (granted, Remington is the reason why a portal to hell got opened up in the first place, but still. Yugo, who has a forgiving heart, was at least a little bummed out).
Behind it all he's genuinely well-intended. He wouldn't be able to apologize so easily to those he accidentally hurts if he wasn't (such as when he says he was mistaken in calling Sadlygrove a failure of a knight that got his father possessed, after seeing him help the hardest to stop Anathar). Ultimately his motivation isn't to stroke his ego, it's to help people and make the world a better place. Justice has no hesitation in helping out a fellow adventurer such a Yugo, so despite his eccentricities in the end he's simply a (slightly obnoxious) friend.
Gem Considerations: Pyrite. Everything associated with the Justice family has a gold motif; gold armor, golden swords, even their architecture has gold accents. So it's appropriate that his gem would be one that's most known for looking like gold, and Justice is all about appearances. Justice will be unchanged appearance wise except for a large-ish (fist sized) square of pyrite on top of his collarbone.
While Justice is an inherently goofy character, I would like to see how he would deal with things if he had more screentime and faced a threat on his own. He has the potential to be a competent good guy and leader, even if he does trip over himself sometimes. On the flip side I would also like to see him in super casual interactions, since between being a noble and a full-time superhero he doesn't seem to have spent a lot of time being personal with other people.
Power considerations:
In the Wakfu world, humans have magical powers depending on which of the 12 gods they worship. Association with a god gives people distinctive characteristics analogous to the "races" of other fantasy, like horns, pointy ears, or green hair. Since Justice looks like a "normal" human and shows no magical abilities in any of his appearances, it's a safe assumption that his family is one of the rare humans that aren't aligned with any of the gods and has no magic. So basically in Cosmographia Justice is only gaining power, not losing any. Justice will probably be stoked. For someone that already tries his hardest to be a superhero, what could be more welcome than literal superpowers.
- The power to manipulate and make light. Not make it tangible or shoot laserbeams, just regular "brightens up your room and helps plants grow" light. Maybe form it into holographic images with enough practice.
- OK maybe the power to shoot laserbeams too. Like sparkles that are so splendid it feels like they're actually bouncing and physically hitting you.
- And super strength. That would be cool.
Sample: While the Lone Wolf hero was a long established and entirely legitimate concept, Justice admittedly had little experience with it himself. The closest he had gotten to it was the brief stint he had operating the Justice Train alone while his father was out of commission, but he didn't like thinking about that time period. What he did have to think about was the present. Justice had so far spent his time in Waverly Beach as unintentionally aloof. Justice never outright patronized or was unfriendly to "civilians", but as he saw it they lived their own lives while he lived his own (very prestigious) one. Everyone else who lived in the Temple was supposed to be a hero in their right, but how could he judge that so soon? And if not everyone with a gem was an adequate hero, that only muddled the situation of how to treat who even further. It was such a straightforward way of life back in his own world.
And Justice had found out another reason to work with other people - being out in the wilderness by himself was incredibly boring. He had gone to this seemingly empty field to hunt a monster. Reports of a monstrous creature that attacked some mischievous kids that snuck out of town. He figured that the monster must be attracted to human activity and had set up a campfire to bait it out. Despite the pull of boredom he reinvigorated his attention to the flame. He would have to internally smack himself if he messed up at the one thing he was familiar with.
