RPC Library:Rhu'to Brom

Rhu'to Brom
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Detective
Gender	Male
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Keeper of the Moon
Citizenship	Limsa Lominsan
Age	28 (in Hyur years)
Nameday	8th Sun, 6th Umbral Moon
Deity	Not Applicable
Occupation	Private Investigator
Birthplace	Within the Shroud
Pronounciation	Rue-Toe Brahm

Rhu'to Brom

The Basics

Family

• Father: Xha'a Brom (estranged)
• Mother: Rhu Brom (estranged)
• Brother: Rhu'a Brom (estranged)

Friends & Enemies

• No Current Associations

Appearance

• Height: ~5 fulms 7 ilms

• Weight: 130 ponz

• Body: He's pretty damned thin - not sickly thin - but more like often-forgets-to-eat-meals thin. His muscles are also pretty toned as well, he keeps himself pretty fit due to his present and past lines of work.

• Hair: Navy blue, medium-length, extending to 3/4 of the way down his neck and is naturally slicked back into a spike pattern in the back. He has a neatly trimmed beard- really the only thing on him that it appears he puts any effort into at all.

• Eyes: Beautiful bright vibrant amber color, normal Hyur shape.

• Skin: Bluish-gray.

• Clothing: Normally seen wearing something similar to the Miqo'te racial clothing - that is to say - anything that's comfortable and fits, and sometimes not even the latter. Brom doesn't particularly care to look fancy.

The Rumor Mill

• Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
  • "Brom? BROM? That guy's a dick. Just stay away. Seriously."
  • "He's an ass. Nothing more to be said."
  • "He used to own this detective agency, Umbral Investigations. They went bankrupt because he's a jerk. Seriously, I'm not making that up."

• Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
  • "Pretty sure he used to live in Ul'dah. I wish he'd go back... Let them deal with him."
  • "He was a soldier or something like ten years ago, I dunno. Can we talk about someone else?"

• Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
  • "You know he was THERE, right? They say he looked Bahamut in the eyes and it stole his soul or something."
  • "I met his wife once, she was sweet. What? Yes, I'm PRETTY sure we're talking about the same Brom, why?"

• PC Rumors (From Other Characters)
  • "Go away." -Rhu'to Brom
  • "What? He says I'm a cheap prostitute? *laugh* Well, I charge by the inch... for him that's cheap!" - (Actually heard in Soliloquy RP) Adriel Marchand
  • "I have it on good authority that he's such an arse because he's overcompensating. Seriously, you'd need tweezers." - Tyriont Gaidal
  • "He's all right, I suppose. If he hurts my sister, he'll find himself laid out by my...associates." - Erisande Marchand
  • "Brom? Oh Sure he is a lackluster cheapskate, but Ah hear that is all just a ruse...secretly he's...wait yer gonna spread this aren't ye..." - Abaigeal Causland

• Things You Can't Possibly Know (But I want you to know OOCly)
  • There are REASONS Brom is such an asshole!
  • Anything specifics in the history section not communicated by Brom himself or heard through rumor.

• Wanted for Interesting Roleplay
  • Everyone.

You May Know Brom From

• The Mist

Personality

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Morals: Pfft.

Likes: 1 Puzzles/Mysteries 2 Solving Those Puzzles/Mysteries 3 Learning Useless Talents 4 Making People Feel Uncomfortable 5 Extremely Attractive Women

Dislikes: 1 People 2 People's Problems 3 People Lying 4 Stupid People 5 Pears

Fears: 1 Losing His Intelligence 2 Winding Up Alone (Ironic Fear!) 3 4 5

Strengths: 1 Extremely Intelligent 2 Stubborn 3 Brutally Honest 4 Detached 5 High Alcohol Tolerance

Weaknessses: 1 Extremely Intelligent 2 Stubborn 3 Brutally Honest 4 Detached 5 Rude

Favorite Places: 1 Alone 2 3 4 5

By The Numbers

(This is taken and modified from a post on teso-rp.com)

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1. Muscular structure

(4)You're fairly well-built and have either exercised a lot or done physical labor during your life

2. Health

(3)You're an average, healthy villager, but not above catching the common flu

3. Eye-hand coordination

(5)You could be a professional juggler with your quick and precise hands

4. Movement

(3)You stumble on occasion, but not too often, quickly getting back to your feet

5. Age (physical perspective)

(5)You're in your physical prime (humans: 25-30)

6. Race

(3)You're a Miqo'te

7. Weaponry

(2)You're equipped with hand-held tools or improvised weapons

8. Armor

(1)You're not armored - why bother

9. Talent, imagination, abstract thinking

(6)Abstract, geometrical and even insanity-bordering concepts are just your cup of tea

10. Willpower

(6)Would return back as a ghost to complete an unfinished task you set your mind into

11. Schooling

(4)Have studied in an actual academy, library or monastery for years - could be called a scholar

12. Age (mental perspective)

(3)You're in your physical prime or little beyond

13. Mental stability

(4)Having some sceptic tendency, you often oppose others and strive for critical thinking

14. Spirituality

(1)Your heart is closed to the world; you're capable of truly inhuman deeds

15. Appearance

(3)You blend well into the crowd with your fairly plain features

16. Influence

(1)You find it difficult to work with other people

17. Magnetism

(2)Carefree: you're often dismissed by others and don't have much authority

18. Alertness

(6)It is like you have eyes in your back too; you seem to notice everything around you

19. Intuition

(6)The invisible world is visible to you; you possess a magical awareness of things

20. Sensory perception

(6)One of your senses could be considered truly superhuman, regardless of what others are

21. Trade, profession or position

(4)Master of some trade, profession or position or hold an equal status

22. Upbringing

(4)Middle class: you likely received boons like advice, schooling, coin and contacts

23. Fortunes

(3)A career of really varying success

24. Combat training

(3)Militia training: you've received rudimentary training and can use blades and guns

25. Field experience

(4)Skirmishes: seen actual battlefield, comrades and enemies dying, but not too often

26. Scarring and traumatic experiences

(6)Personality-defining trauma: "You killed my father - prepare to die!"

RESULTS

Strength (STR): 12

Dexterity (DEX): 13

Constitution (CON): 11

Intelligence (INT): 16

Wisdom (WIS): 8

Charisma (CHA): 6

Awareness (AWA): 18

Combat Rating (CR): 18 Journeyman

Health Points (HP): 17 Two health points

Magical Potential (MP): 19 Moderate potential (2 spells)

Sanity (Sa): 2 Disturbed, quirky or neurotic

Wealth (We): 11 Mansions and guilds: The character is likely an established inhabitant.

Abilities

Adventurer:

Archer Conjurer Gladiator

Strengths: As he served in the military for a long while, he's fairly adept at multiple forms of combat, especially with a lance and a bow.

Weaknesses: Many forms of magic are foreign to him. He is good enough at healing magics to get by, but it is unreliable. He has almost entirely retired from combat of any kind unless absolutely necessary or serving his agenda.

Crafter:

Alchemist Leatherworker

Strengths: Alchemy is a private study of Brom's, one of his seemingly random down-time hobbies.

Weaknesses: He's crap at pretty much everything else.

Other Skills:

Deductive Reasoning Detection

Strengths: Brom is a master of deductive reasoning and an extremely skilled detective.

Weaknesses: Social skills are ....... somewhat lacking.

History

Before The Calamity

• Brom's childhood was unexceptional in almost every way. He'd always had the gift of intelligence, but his parents always 'allowed' him to squander it on things that his teachers would often call illogical. It was his imagination that flourished at such a young age. He was always the ring-leader amongst his friends, always coming up with new ways to get them into trouble, always coming up with new stories to act out, new imaginary enemies for them to pretend-fight.

• To clarify, saying that Brom's parents 'allowed' him to use his gifts as he saw fit would be something of a misnomer. Truth be told, his parents weren't around very much. They were lower class citizens, and as Brom himself always says, "Those who work 8-Gil-an-hour jobs tend to need those 8 Gil very much." Brom was raised in infancy by his grandparents, and as an adolescent, he was largely responsible for himself while his parents were away. His father was harsh on his failures. Nothing ever seemed to be good enough for Brom Sr, a trope that played out well into Brom's adulthood.

• When he was 16, Brom met, courted, and fell in love with a young Hyur by the name of Leyara by way of introduction from his best friend and her sister, Alsa. Brom and Leyara were married by the age of 19, a wedding that was nearly derailed by Brom's enlistment in the Gridanian militia - he was being transferred to Ul'dah to assist with the oncoming Garlean forces. Leyara refused to lose him, however, and enlisted right alongside him (it was the only way, due to certain circumstances surrounding Brom's father), purposely requesting transfer to Ul'dah - a request that was begrudgingly approved, so long as they served in different units.

• From age 19 to 23, Brom, Leyara, and eventually Alsa, though she lived separately, lived happily in Ul'dah as a loving family. Though Brom had always been slightly abrasive and difficult to get along with, the worst of him was yet to come, and Leyara kept him in check, as she was generally considered to be a sweet, even if somewhat snarky, girl.

Post Calamity

• Brom was a broken man following the calamity. His wife, Leyara, had disappeared that day along with the other Warriors of Light. Determined to find out what happened to their mutual loved one, Brom and Alsa moved to Limsa Lominsa and opened Umbral Investigations, a private investigations firm created simply to find and bring home those who disappeared that day. There were very few leads, and the ones that were, were few and far between, so the pair started taking cases on a private basis, sometimes even going so far as working for the Eorzean Alliance members.

• As time marched on, Brom's depression at losing his wife ate away at him. He became reclusive, bitter, downright angry. He drove away everyone who tried to get close to him, he focused solely on his cases so that he never had to deal with actual people. He became obsessed with his puzzles, like they might hold some kind of hidden truth for the world.

• Together with his team of employees and Alsa, they moved throughout Eorzea, taking cases, completing puzzles, solving mysteries. For roughly two years, this continued, until finally, Brom's self-destruction had gone too far. He'd been drinking heavily, he'd been hiring prostitutes for twelve-knows-what on an almost daily basis. Sometimes he even hired them *just* to go out on cases with his team and antagonize them. Shortly thereafter, after over two years of working together, his team unceremoniously left him, moving onto other jobs, other agencies - less asinine people.

• It was Brom and Alsa alone for a long while after that. Alsa was extra sweet to people to make up for Brom's malicious attitude. When asked why she hung around him so often, she always replied, "Oh, he isn't so bad, once you get to know him!" Though, toward the end, even she didn't sound like she believed it anymore. One day, Alsa left, every bit as unceremoniously as the rest of his team. Rumor has it that she didn't even tell him she was going, she just disappeared.

• Brom was alone then. And that was how he stayed for over a year. Alsa wasn't there with him when the Warriors of Light returned and his wife wasn't among them. Nobody was. He was alone - and he was sure he would be forever. He continued taking cases, though his ability to focus on even them waned as he got angrier and angrier, drunker and drunker, lonelier and lonelier. After a while, Umbral Investigations went bankrupt, the storefront closed, and Brom started taking cases on a personal basis - he still did love his puzzles after all.

Present Day and Beyond

• Brom was briefly associated with Alothia Starkwood's investigation firm, Jutat De. Ever the self-saboteur, Brom ran. He, in his own words, "Stepped off the world, watched it turn for a spell," before returning to Limsa Lominsa to start anew ... again..

Additional Info

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Theme Songs

• Let Go by The Dear Hunter
• Crooked Man by Susan Ashton

Inspiration Images

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