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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Delphine Angua von Uberwald
Canon Name: Discworld
Background: Series wiki and character article.
Angua was the descendent of a long and infamous family of werewolves (lycanthropy being an inherited trait on Discworld, not one that is spread by biting, though there seems to be some myths that it can be spread that way.). Angua disliked the savage violence that the rest of her family took for granted, and so in an act of rebellion she became a vegetarian, moved to the distant city of Ankh-Morpork, and joined the City Watch.
While she was initially viewed with some suspicion by her mostly male colleagues, Angua eventually earned the respect of the Watch through a combination of hard work, determination, intelligence, and most importantly her incredible sense of smell and ability to crack a man's skull in her jaws. She is now one of Commander Vimes most trusted...er...men, a feared face in the criminal underworld, in a happy, if strange, relationship with one of her fellow officers, and has achieved the rank of Captain.
Canon Personality: Werewolves are humans who have a bit of wolf in them. In a similar vein, dogs are wolves who have a bit of human in them. There is a certain amount of similarity between the two. Most werewolves let the wolf do as it pleases, and are the terror of the night, but those that try to hold the wolf back, like Angua, find themselves naturally taking an obedient role. There's a part of them that is happiest when someone says "Good girl!" (Metaphorically, of course. If you literally said "Good Girl!" to Angua she'd likely do something pointlessly hideous to you.). She likes being praised for doing a good job, but at the same time she knows this little personality quirk about werewolves, and so she's rather embarrassed by it.
Angua hates wild werewolves. It is the special kind of hate that is saved for that which you hate about yourself. Angua knows that if she's not careful she could end up just like them, and so she distances herself from them as much as possible.
Being able to physically take on just about any human instills a certain confidence and lack of fear of physical danger in oneself. In times of crisis, Angua is not one to freeze up. She's more likely to leap into action, possibly without thinking things through all the way. That's the wolf in her. She keeps it MOSTLY under control.
Knowing that she only keeps it MOSTLY under control, Angua lives her life accordingly. She can't stand the smell of blood because it makes her want to tear people's throats out, so she avoids it whenever she can and doesn't eat meat. Sometimes during the full moon she gives in and hunts down some chickens, but she very conscientiously pays the owners afterwards by slipping some money under their door. When pressed on why she does it, her answer is "Because animals don't pay."
She hates being around vampires. Discworld vampires have incredible poise and grace, and that combined with the smell makes werewolves feel like dumb shaggy animals. Even more, though, people just want to LIKE vampires. They think they're COOL. Whereas werewolves are just viewed as dangerous beasts that you need to keep an eye on. While around a vampire, Angua has to override the wolf inside her second by second to not go for its throat. It leaves her short tempered and irritable.
In conversation, she has a very dry sense of humor and is relentlessly practical. She feigns incomprehension when people try to be sexist at her and keeps pushing it until they break down and explain exactly what they're trying to say, which usually makes them sound very foolish. She isn't very good at dealing with emotions in general, feeling that getting too closely involved with anyone is doomed to heartbreak (Which makes her relationship with Carrot rather complicated.). As such she tends to keep her feelings to herself, telling herself that a non-werewolf wouldn't understand.
Canon Abilities:
Strengths
- As a werewolf, Angua can switch freely between a fully human shaped form and a fully wolf shaped form. Direct exposure to the light of a full moon forces her to immediately take the wolf form. If she were repeatedly badly injured enough times in a short period and really forced to rely on her regenration, the forms might start blending together, but in a sort of patchwork way rather than a "wolfmonster" way.
- Angua's sense of smell is superhuman. She can track people by scent, can smell what mood you are in, what you had for breakfast, even what color clothes you are wearing. It gets even stronger in wolf form.
- It is difficult (but not impossible) to kill a werewolf without silver weapons. In canon, Angua recovers from five gunshot wounds to the chest in a matter of hours.
- While in wolf form, Angua is still in control of her own actions and can think like a human, although doing so is harder, and it continues to get harder the longer she stays a wolf.
- In human form, Angua is stronger and faster than the average human, though not by a huge amount.
- Angua can speak to and understand the language of dogs and wolves.
- Most animals are instinctively afraid of werewolves.
Weaknesses
- Silver weapons can kill her quite easily. Just touching the metal won't kill her, but it is very painful and will leave her too weakened and confused to really do much of anything.
- Fire will also do the trick. Burning a werewolf will work just as well as burning a regular human.
- Rapidly switching between forms a lot can confuse the body, leading to behavior like the wolf trying to talk or walk on two legs, or the human trying to run on all four or pounce on people.
- When she transforms, her clothes don't come with her. She has to carry something with her, or be naked when she turns human again.
- The longer she stays in a wolf form, the harder it is for her to think like a human, and vice versa.
- Trasnforming isn't PAINFUL, but it is described as extremely disturbing and unsettling to watch.
- Wolves have a natural dislike of werewolves, and will frequently attack them on sight.
AU INFORMATION:
Race: Hume
Job: Knight, no subclass
Nation Affiliation: Crimson Rose (Formerly of Dalvarus)
AU Background: Uberwald is, in this world, a small but rich province in Dalvarus, high in the mountains. The land is harsh and cold, but the mineral wealth is very high, making it an importal supplier of metals to Dalvarus' massive industries. The Uberwald family has been ruling the land for so long that their name is the same as their home, and they are all of them a pack of bastards. Canny politicans and powerful warriors, but also remorseless, cunning, backstabbing, and brutal. They wear their reputation with pride, banking on the fear it instills in others, and generally just make everyone uncomfortable. Their loyalty to the Emperor (and now to the Empress) has always been conditional, in the "we follow you with loyalty and passion as long as we're sure you are stronger than us!"
Angua didn't fit in. She was plenty competent at keeping up with intrafamily politics and not getting murdered in the night by an ambitious cousin, but she had a fatal weakness that made it impossible for her to fit in: a conscience.
So when the skullduggery grew too much to put up with, she left. She was just eighteen, but she was also smart, driven, and tough as hell. She left in the middle of the night and made her way almost all the way across the empire to the Licaen border. She didn't actually flee to Licae; she still had a bit of patriotism floating around inside her. Instead, she joined the Crimson Rose out of spite, because it felt like the LAST place anyone from her family would want to work. This happened about a year ago, and she's made some headway towards building a new life completely cut off from her family.
Unfortunately, they recently figured out where she had gone, and after their initial surprise they have started to lean on her. They want her to either come back home, or to stay in the Crimson Rose and feed them information, and don't really believe her when she says she's done with them.
AU Deviation: Werewolves are powerful, but also generally not thought very highly of on Discworld. They're either fearsome nighttime predators to be avoided, or a target for an angry mob. As such, all werewolve end up either as incredibly aggressive or incredibly jumpy. Canon Angua tends to fall more in the latter category. THIS Angua, however, grew up entirelyhuman hume. As such, a lot of the internal skittishness and second guessing herself is gone. There might even be a hint of the unthinking arrogance you get from growing up as an aristocrat from a family feared by commoners in the area, though she is aware of this quirk in her and tries to keep it in check.
Angua also is going to have a very different attitude towards magic. Magic is Discworld's version of nuclear power, in that it can be used for good or for evil, but is incredibly dangerous and makes people nervous. Magic in final fantasy, on the other hand, is just another tool to be used by anyone who has access to it, and is as wonderous as a screwdriver or lawn mower.
RP Sample: You find yourself adrift in a sea of gentle green and white light. A warm, comforting and parental voice speaks to you. It has no distinct gender, being both male, female, and neither all at once, but it is warm and kind, overflowing with tenderness for you.
"Great one of old," it says, "it is time to once again awaken. The world is in peril, but the will of mortals is to live on even in the face of adversity. See. Remember. Awaken."
Images flood your mind as knowledge flows into you. It, like the sensation around you, is warm and comfortable. It's like coming home.
As the flood subsides, the voice speaks again.
"You remember now, at least a little. But memories are not all that define mortal life. Tell me, child, who are you?"
And with that query, a flood of questions enters your mind. You may answer or ignore them, as you will. Upon answering, you will awaken.
-What is your deepest heart's desire, and why?
Gods I don't know. Just to put my past behind me so it stops jumping me in dark alleys at night. Metaphorically. I want a fresh start.
-What is it you fear the most, and why?
That I might be just like them after all.
-What can you never forgive, and why?
Giving in to your crueler impulses without a fight. Being born a cruel monster and being content to stay like that.
-What qualities do you seek in comrades, and why?
Thinking of the lower classes as actual people and not just livestock that happens to walk on two legs is a good start. The mark of a real friend is someone who will point it out when I'm being a bastard.
-What kind of people you seek to surround yourself with, and why?
Good people, who do the just and kind thing without thinking. Maybe if I do it enough I can become like them. But probably not.
-It is the night before a great battle, where are you and what are you doing?
Pretending to sleep. Actually quietly freaking out.
-It is the night before a life-changing exam, where are you and what are you doing?
Seeking a distraction. Anything will do. Just don't think about it.
-In your time of leisure, how do you choose to occupy yourself and why?
Get a group. Then...honestly just go with whatever the group decides. I don't want a lot of attention on myself right now.
-Why is it you serve your liege?
Lie: It's better than sleeping in the streets.
Honest: The Crimson Rose's dedication to peace and reconciliation creates a good atmosphere for keeping my darker impulses in check, and also it annoys my mom.
-What is necessary to earn your loyalty?
Just...be a good person. Or even better, make me believe I can be a good person!
Name: Eric
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Characters Currently Played: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Delphine Angua von Uberwald
Canon Name: Discworld
Background: Series wiki and character article.
Angua was the descendent of a long and infamous family of werewolves (lycanthropy being an inherited trait on Discworld, not one that is spread by biting, though there seems to be some myths that it can be spread that way.). Angua disliked the savage violence that the rest of her family took for granted, and so in an act of rebellion she became a vegetarian, moved to the distant city of Ankh-Morpork, and joined the City Watch.
While she was initially viewed with some suspicion by her mostly male colleagues, Angua eventually earned the respect of the Watch through a combination of hard work, determination, intelligence, and most importantly her incredible sense of smell and ability to crack a man's skull in her jaws. She is now one of Commander Vimes most trusted...er...men, a feared face in the criminal underworld, in a happy, if strange, relationship with one of her fellow officers, and has achieved the rank of Captain.
Canon Personality: Werewolves are humans who have a bit of wolf in them. In a similar vein, dogs are wolves who have a bit of human in them. There is a certain amount of similarity between the two. Most werewolves let the wolf do as it pleases, and are the terror of the night, but those that try to hold the wolf back, like Angua, find themselves naturally taking an obedient role. There's a part of them that is happiest when someone says "Good girl!" (Metaphorically, of course. If you literally said "Good Girl!" to Angua she'd likely do something pointlessly hideous to you.). She likes being praised for doing a good job, but at the same time she knows this little personality quirk about werewolves, and so she's rather embarrassed by it.
Angua hates wild werewolves. It is the special kind of hate that is saved for that which you hate about yourself. Angua knows that if she's not careful she could end up just like them, and so she distances herself from them as much as possible.
Being able to physically take on just about any human instills a certain confidence and lack of fear of physical danger in oneself. In times of crisis, Angua is not one to freeze up. She's more likely to leap into action, possibly without thinking things through all the way. That's the wolf in her. She keeps it MOSTLY under control.
Knowing that she only keeps it MOSTLY under control, Angua lives her life accordingly. She can't stand the smell of blood because it makes her want to tear people's throats out, so she avoids it whenever she can and doesn't eat meat. Sometimes during the full moon she gives in and hunts down some chickens, but she very conscientiously pays the owners afterwards by slipping some money under their door. When pressed on why she does it, her answer is "Because animals don't pay."
She hates being around vampires. Discworld vampires have incredible poise and grace, and that combined with the smell makes werewolves feel like dumb shaggy animals. Even more, though, people just want to LIKE vampires. They think they're COOL. Whereas werewolves are just viewed as dangerous beasts that you need to keep an eye on. While around a vampire, Angua has to override the wolf inside her second by second to not go for its throat. It leaves her short tempered and irritable.
In conversation, she has a very dry sense of humor and is relentlessly practical. She feigns incomprehension when people try to be sexist at her and keeps pushing it until they break down and explain exactly what they're trying to say, which usually makes them sound very foolish. She isn't very good at dealing with emotions in general, feeling that getting too closely involved with anyone is doomed to heartbreak (Which makes her relationship with Carrot rather complicated.). As such she tends to keep her feelings to herself, telling herself that a non-werewolf wouldn't understand.
Canon Abilities:
Strengths
- As a werewolf, Angua can switch freely between a fully human shaped form and a fully wolf shaped form. Direct exposure to the light of a full moon forces her to immediately take the wolf form. If she were repeatedly badly injured enough times in a short period and really forced to rely on her regenration, the forms might start blending together, but in a sort of patchwork way rather than a "wolfmonster" way.
- Angua's sense of smell is superhuman. She can track people by scent, can smell what mood you are in, what you had for breakfast, even what color clothes you are wearing. It gets even stronger in wolf form.
- It is difficult (but not impossible) to kill a werewolf without silver weapons. In canon, Angua recovers from five gunshot wounds to the chest in a matter of hours.
- While in wolf form, Angua is still in control of her own actions and can think like a human, although doing so is harder, and it continues to get harder the longer she stays a wolf.
- In human form, Angua is stronger and faster than the average human, though not by a huge amount.
- Angua can speak to and understand the language of dogs and wolves.
- Most animals are instinctively afraid of werewolves.
Weaknesses
- Silver weapons can kill her quite easily. Just touching the metal won't kill her, but it is very painful and will leave her too weakened and confused to really do much of anything.
- Fire will also do the trick. Burning a werewolf will work just as well as burning a regular human.
- Rapidly switching between forms a lot can confuse the body, leading to behavior like the wolf trying to talk or walk on two legs, or the human trying to run on all four or pounce on people.
- When she transforms, her clothes don't come with her. She has to carry something with her, or be naked when she turns human again.
- The longer she stays in a wolf form, the harder it is for her to think like a human, and vice versa.
- Trasnforming isn't PAINFUL, but it is described as extremely disturbing and unsettling to watch.
- Wolves have a natural dislike of werewolves, and will frequently attack them on sight.
AU INFORMATION:
Race: Hume
Job: Knight, no subclass
Nation Affiliation: Crimson Rose (Formerly of Dalvarus)
AU Background: Uberwald is, in this world, a small but rich province in Dalvarus, high in the mountains. The land is harsh and cold, but the mineral wealth is very high, making it an importal supplier of metals to Dalvarus' massive industries. The Uberwald family has been ruling the land for so long that their name is the same as their home, and they are all of them a pack of bastards. Canny politicans and powerful warriors, but also remorseless, cunning, backstabbing, and brutal. They wear their reputation with pride, banking on the fear it instills in others, and generally just make everyone uncomfortable. Their loyalty to the Emperor (and now to the Empress) has always been conditional, in the "we follow you with loyalty and passion as long as we're sure you are stronger than us!"
Angua didn't fit in. She was plenty competent at keeping up with intrafamily politics and not getting murdered in the night by an ambitious cousin, but she had a fatal weakness that made it impossible for her to fit in: a conscience.
So when the skullduggery grew too much to put up with, she left. She was just eighteen, but she was also smart, driven, and tough as hell. She left in the middle of the night and made her way almost all the way across the empire to the Licaen border. She didn't actually flee to Licae; she still had a bit of patriotism floating around inside her. Instead, she joined the Crimson Rose out of spite, because it felt like the LAST place anyone from her family would want to work. This happened about a year ago, and she's made some headway towards building a new life completely cut off from her family.
Unfortunately, they recently figured out where she had gone, and after their initial surprise they have started to lean on her. They want her to either come back home, or to stay in the Crimson Rose and feed them information, and don't really believe her when she says she's done with them.
AU Deviation: Werewolves are powerful, but also generally not thought very highly of on Discworld. They're either fearsome nighttime predators to be avoided, or a target for an angry mob. As such, all werewolve end up either as incredibly aggressive or incredibly jumpy. Canon Angua tends to fall more in the latter category. THIS Angua, however, grew up entirely
Angua also is going to have a very different attitude towards magic. Magic is Discworld's version of nuclear power, in that it can be used for good or for evil, but is incredibly dangerous and makes people nervous. Magic in final fantasy, on the other hand, is just another tool to be used by anyone who has access to it, and is as wonderous as a screwdriver or lawn mower.
RP Sample: You find yourself adrift in a sea of gentle green and white light. A warm, comforting and parental voice speaks to you. It has no distinct gender, being both male, female, and neither all at once, but it is warm and kind, overflowing with tenderness for you.
"Great one of old," it says, "it is time to once again awaken. The world is in peril, but the will of mortals is to live on even in the face of adversity. See. Remember. Awaken."
Images flood your mind as knowledge flows into you. It, like the sensation around you, is warm and comfortable. It's like coming home.
As the flood subsides, the voice speaks again.
"You remember now, at least a little. But memories are not all that define mortal life. Tell me, child, who are you?"
And with that query, a flood of questions enters your mind. You may answer or ignore them, as you will. Upon answering, you will awaken.
-What is your deepest heart's desire, and why?
Gods I don't know. Just to put my past behind me so it stops jumping me in dark alleys at night. Metaphorically. I want a fresh start.
-What is it you fear the most, and why?
That I might be just like them after all.
-What can you never forgive, and why?
Giving in to your crueler impulses without a fight. Being born a cruel monster and being content to stay like that.
-What qualities do you seek in comrades, and why?
Thinking of the lower classes as actual people and not just livestock that happens to walk on two legs is a good start. The mark of a real friend is someone who will point it out when I'm being a bastard.
-What kind of people you seek to surround yourself with, and why?
Good people, who do the just and kind thing without thinking. Maybe if I do it enough I can become like them. But probably not.
-It is the night before a great battle, where are you and what are you doing?
Pretending to sleep. Actually quietly freaking out.
-It is the night before a life-changing exam, where are you and what are you doing?
Seeking a distraction. Anything will do. Just don't think about it.
-In your time of leisure, how do you choose to occupy yourself and why?
Get a group. Then...honestly just go with whatever the group decides. I don't want a lot of attention on myself right now.
-Why is it you serve your liege?
Lie: It's better than sleeping in the streets.
Honest: The Crimson Rose's dedication to peace and reconciliation creates a good atmosphere for keeping my darker impulses in check, and also it annoys my mom.
-What is necessary to earn your loyalty?
Just...be a good person. Or even better, make me believe I can be a good person!
