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: Things would derail quickly from his father's master plan, however. Gogonji natural intelligence, paired with his mother's cunning and his father's stubborn nature, resulted in a mind that was quickly turned from the seemingly mundane fate his father planned for him at the forge. He quickly became an avid reader, especially in the matter of historical battles, tearing through tome after tome on the subject and anything else that caught his interest. Once he learned of Arcanima, however, his full division from his family's goals seemed set in stone. | : Things would derail quickly from his father's master plan, however. Gogonji natural intelligence, paired with his mother's cunning and his father's stubborn nature, resulted in a mind that was quickly turned from the seemingly mundane fate his father planned for him at the forge. He quickly became an avid reader, especially in the matter of historical battles, tearing through tome after tome on the subject and anything else that caught his interest. Once he learned of Arcanima, however, his full division from his family's goals seemed set in stone. | ||
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− | : In what free time he had, he | + | : In what free time he had, he dove into the subject, soon learning of the ancient civilization of Nym and its place in the War of the Magi. A numerically inferior nation that held its own against two greater powers through a superior grasp of knowledge and tactics. Such strength in intelligence struck a chord to the Lalafell living in Garlean-occupied Doma. And not only did he see the patriotic use for such things, he saw a monetary gain as well. Unlike weapons, information and knowledge would be forever useful and profitable - and much easier to manipulate and update than steel blades and iron shields. Young Gogonji, full of all the impetuous attitude and spirit of a young adult, saw a better path for his family and possibly a better future for his nation as a whole. |
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− | : His father, however, disagreed. | + | : His father, however, disagreed. The two nearly came to blows over the matter, resulting in Gogonji's egress from the Gegenji house. Boarding a trading vessel from Limsa, he sought to prove his business concept in Eorzea - the land where the ruins of the Nym could be found. He spent the following five years studying warfare, serving as a tactician in both training and live military exercises. One such mission resulted in him delving into the depths of the Wanderer's Palace - a notable Nymian site - and procuring a soul crystal for his services therein. That one crystal - and the knowledge held within its faceted depths - would set his business venture on a new path. |
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=====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Hypothesis''</div>===== | =====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Hypothesis''</div>===== | ||
− | : | + | : The idea that knowledge could be passed on more efficiently through crystallized aether was a fascinating concept to the Doman Lalafell. Ancient skills and techniques could be recovered and utilized through merely handling and possessing the solidified knowledge of ages past. As he communed with his own crystal - resulting in his bond with the Fairy Ezra - he documented and studied his progression in the Scholastic arts. The results were astounding - without the crystal, it might have taken ''cycles'' to unearth and then subsequently learn what he had managed in a matter of moons. Not to mention Gogonji would not have gained access to Ezra, who was crucial in both his learning process and the practice of Nymian magic. |
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+ | : His obsession with the idea grew deeper as he unlocked greater Scholastic ability and studied deeper into Arcanima's complex history. The Dunesfolk's research into the development of marketable soul crystals faltered rather early on, however. Creating a crystal for such purposes was easy enough - the Skysteel Manufactory would later prove this as the crux of their Machinistry - but it was little more than a blank slate. To fill it with enough knowledge and experience to make a suitable product would take suns upon suns of manpower from hundreds of individuals. It simply wasn't feasible, at least not in the short term. | ||
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+ | : Plan B, then, was to figure out how to properly utilize the unknown number of soul crystals in existence. So, even while new crystals were being filled, Gogonji could still market the ones he had. It would be quite the product - selling the ability to learn new skills and techniques in a matter of months! But again, he hit a snag. The only soul crystal he had - his own - seemed to be "attuned" to him and seemed almost adamant about relinquishing its secrets to others. | ||
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+ | : Stymied, Gogonji started doing research on aether crystals and then on the nature of aether itself. The Lifestream, the liquefied aetheric power source cereleum, and anything else that seemed remotely related to the topic. And then, late one evening, he was struck with an almost manic idea: what if the crystals themselves were responsible for this "attunement"? What if, in some strange semi-conscious way, they would "choose" who could use them? And such a link determined the capability - and perhaps even speed - to wrest the knowledge from their crystalline depths? | ||
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+ | : And, more importantly, could such a thing be modified? Or improved? Or ''forced''? | ||
=====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Experiment''</div>===== | =====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Experiment''</div>===== | ||
− | : | + | : Initial attempts were terrible for the dementedly inspired Lalafell. He took his idea to the one place he could think of that might be able to devise a way of pulling his idea off: the Garlond Ironworks in Mor Dhona. Ideas of raising the resonance ratio through an admittedly cockamamie fusion of cereleum - liquified aether - and re-purposed Garlean magiteknology. However, much to the egotistical Doman's chagrin, he was rebuked and outright ignored. The Ironworks seemed content enough to work on reapers and replicas of Garlean equipment to be peddled to the prosperous adventuring caste. |
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=====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Result''</div>===== | =====<div style="padding:0px 0px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">''The Result''</div>===== |
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Main Job(s): | • Scholar • Summoner | ||||||||
Main Tradeskill: | Culinarian | ||||||||
Preferred Role: | Healer? | ||||||||
Server: | Balmung | ||||||||
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Alignment: | Neutral Evil | ||||||||
Reputation: | Unknown | ||||||||
Occupation: | Strategist/Information Broker | ||||||||
Education: | Home-schooled | ||||||||
Marital Status: | Engaged | ||||||||
Sexuality: | Heterosexual | ||||||||
Guardian: | Thaliak, the Scholar | ||||||||
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• Well-Worn Codex • Jeweler-style Bifocal Glasses • Cactaur Earring • Ruined Rouser Necklace | |||||||||
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Race: | Lalafell | ||||||||
Clan: | Dunefolk | ||||||||
Age: | 32 | ||||||||
Height: | 3 fulm, 1 ilm | ||||||||
Weight: | 35 ponze | ||||||||
Eyes: | Violet | ||||||||
Hair: | Green | ||||||||
Complexion: | Pale | ||||||||
Physical Build: | Bookwormish | ||||||||
Notable Features: | Looks permanently displeased |
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Gogonji Gegenji (17th Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon), also known as "Gogon" or by his common front name of "Tmesis Oan," is a dour-looking Dunesfolk Lalafell from Doma who greatly encapsulates the Dunesfolk stereotype of being intelligent, cunning, and looking out for himself (usually in a financial sense). He has made a name for himself under his front identity as a skilled tactician, providing guidance for numerous small skirmishes across Eorzea. Despite the bookish and sometimes even cuckold demeanor he displays in public, even those who have worked in passing can tell that beneath that veneer is a cold, calculating mind. Few manage to draw any closer to him to see if there is anything deeper, however, due to his arrogant elitism and rampant bouts of secrecy and paranoia.
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Basic Info
Chachanji Gegenji is the eldest son of Zozonji Gegenji, the most recent head of a family of Doman weapon and armorsmiths, and Jijinya Jinya, aspiring daughter of a middling Ul'dahn merchant family who seeks to spread knowledge of the family's wares throughout all of Hydaelyn. As heir apparent and eldest child to his sister Nininya Ninya and Chachanji Gegenji, he has held a position of responsibility and authority since his youth. The next head of the family, the prodigal son, and adored brother of his youngest sibling. Even now, away from the auspices of his family, he carries himself with an unshakable air of calm and superiority. Even the most outlandish situations are oft-faced with his seemingly ever-present look of flat disinterest.
While he was initially trained in the ways of the forge by his father, Gogonji's expertise lies in much more mental activities. He frequently tracks and seeks to profits on the markets of Eorzea, backing and connecting various businesses and clients, and even will purchase materiel from one source only to turn it around and sell it at a higher price to a willing customer without the items even actually crossing his vision. But that is not the only goods he deals in. The one business he has a personal hand in is the one that drove the wedge between him and his father; he deals in information.
To Gogonji, knowledge is the most potent tool and resource on Hydaelyn. One cannot make weapons without knowing how or knowing where to obtain the resources needed. One cannot use or combat magic without knowing of it, along with its strengths and weaknesses. And even possessing the mightiest blades and the greatest magicks, without knowledge on how to use them correctly... one is useless at best and an active detriment at worst. Even the greatest armies can crumble under the right tactics and tricks.
Finding Gogonji - or at least his front name of Tmesis Oan - is not too difficult a task. At least, it is easy for him to learn that you are looking for him. His slowly growing network already has hands in the marketplaces of Eorzea, and he holds interest in any place that harbors knowledge in any form. Simply dropping a word here and there stating you are looking to buy or sell information can find you face-to-face with the Lalafell or, more likely, a front man to gauge you first. Once his requirements have been appeased, his knowledge and web of connections could prove quite useful.
If you prefer a more casual interaction, his front's public engagement to Annunu Nunu has resulted in his frequenting events involving high Ul'dahn society. Hobnobbing with the nobles, attending high-brow events, making token appearances at charities. However, one will likely only see the face he shows to the populace here, and won't let the facade fall unless there is a place private enough and the situation intriguing enough. However, even he has places he likes to frequently visit...
As of late, he seems to be making heavy use of a cane. His movements are slow and measured, oft making use of it or his mate for support when he is without it. Like Gogonji, though, the object is more than it appears. A panel on the underside of the handle can be pressed to cause the seemingly normal metal tip to split into a padded claw. It usually gets displayed whenever he is seeking a tome out of his reach due to his Lalafellan height. What other tricks that might lie within it, like its owner, are yet to be seen.
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Appearance & Personality
Quirks
- His face is naturally set in a very displeased look, a trait inherited from his father. This makes any emotion that he may display look foreign and out of place. Even his smiles look condescending, though - truth be told - they usually are.
- Similarly, his laughs are notable due to how dry and emotionless they are. More often than not, they sound as if he is forcing one because a laugh seems like it belongs there. If he can laugh with any sort of actual emotion behind it beyond some level of derogation, it has yet to be heard.
- Many of his actions and the way he speaks to people can be likened to a teacher in a classroom. School seems to always be in session, and whoever he's talking to is either part of the class or a particular student pulled aside for some private talking-to.
- Oddly enough, he actually becomes a bit more lenient and personable when drunk. While he might still remain in a sort of "teacher mode," he becomes more of a supportive, pushing-for-you-to-succeed teacher instead of the one no one wants.
Strengths
- Dangerously intelligent. If he does not know something, he likely knows a way to obtain the information, and might already be in the process of obtaining it. This can also include things his own clients might not want him to know.
- His own stubborn nature, along with recent events, has developed his will into something approaching superhuman. Any attempts to possess or control him, or even just peer into his mind, will find themselves stopped by a wall of sheer, unrelenting willpower.
- Highly skilled in mathematics and economics, and to some degree even a bit of magiteknology - if it involves numbers in any shape or form, he is quick to learn and become adept at it.
- Given the above, it should be no surprise he is quite adept at Arcanima and its predecessors - Nym Scholasticism and Allagan Summoning. He is also currently teaching himself to read and draw knowledge from the stars, but it is slow going.
- While he seems to have few real connections with people, those he shares such bonds with are protected with an almost frantic passion beyond what he usually displays.
Weaknesses
- He is clinically sociopathic, along with all that entails, including:
- difficulty making meaningful connections
- rarely learning from his own mistakes, and
- possessing little to no empathy regarding most people.
- He can suffer almost sudden bouts of paranoia, and keeps almost everything close to the vest even when not in one of these fits.
- His vision is absolute garbage, needing his glasses both see the world around him and read anything that is not an ilm or two in front of his face.
- He currently needs to make use of a cane, though not nearly as much as he puts on. His actual level of need for it seems to be linked to how much mental stress he's under.
Biography
Childhood and Teenage Years
- Gogonji, eldest child in the Gegenji family, had much expected of him from the start. It was seen as a given that he would take the place as family head once Zozonji and Jijinya stepped down, so even his earliest memories involve being taught and molded into that purpose. How to make weapons and armor, how to sell them, how to repair them, how to improve on them. Even as his two other siblings were born, the brunt of the focus was set on Gogonji to prepare him for his role. Gogonji even took to living a bit vicariously through his younger brother's seeming complete freedom compared to him, which aided in the bond between the two brothers.
- Things would derail quickly from his father's master plan, however. Gogonji natural intelligence, paired with his mother's cunning and his father's stubborn nature, resulted in a mind that was quickly turned from the seemingly mundane fate his father planned for him at the forge. He quickly became an avid reader, especially in the matter of historical battles, tearing through tome after tome on the subject and anything else that caught his interest. Once he learned of Arcanima, however, his full division from his family's goals seemed set in stone.
- In what free time he had, he dove into the subject, soon learning of the ancient civilization of Nym and its place in the War of the Magi. A numerically inferior nation that held its own against two greater powers through a superior grasp of knowledge and tactics. Such strength in intelligence struck a chord to the Lalafell living in Garlean-occupied Doma. And not only did he see the patriotic use for such things, he saw a monetary gain as well. Unlike weapons, information and knowledge would be forever useful and profitable - and much easier to manipulate and update than steel blades and iron shields. Young Gogonji, full of all the impetuous attitude and spirit of a young adult, saw a better path for his family and possibly a better future for his nation as a whole.
- His father, however, disagreed. The two nearly came to blows over the matter, resulting in Gogonji's egress from the Gegenji house. Boarding a trading vessel from Limsa, he sought to prove his business concept in Eorzea - the land where the ruins of the Nym could be found. He spent the following five years studying warfare, serving as a tactician in both training and live military exercises. One such mission resulted in him delving into the depths of the Wanderer's Palace - a notable Nymian site - and procuring a soul crystal for his services therein. That one crystal - and the knowledge held within its faceted depths - would set his business venture on a new path.
Pre-Castrum
The Hypothesis
- The idea that knowledge could be passed on more efficiently through crystallized aether was a fascinating concept to the Doman Lalafell. Ancient skills and techniques could be recovered and utilized through merely handling and possessing the solidified knowledge of ages past. As he communed with his own crystal - resulting in his bond with the Fairy Ezra - he documented and studied his progression in the Scholastic arts. The results were astounding - without the crystal, it might have taken cycles to unearth and then subsequently learn what he had managed in a matter of moons. Not to mention Gogonji would not have gained access to Ezra, who was crucial in both his learning process and the practice of Nymian magic.
- His obsession with the idea grew deeper as he unlocked greater Scholastic ability and studied deeper into Arcanima's complex history. The Dunesfolk's research into the development of marketable soul crystals faltered rather early on, however. Creating a crystal for such purposes was easy enough - the Skysteel Manufactory would later prove this as the crux of their Machinistry - but it was little more than a blank slate. To fill it with enough knowledge and experience to make a suitable product would take suns upon suns of manpower from hundreds of individuals. It simply wasn't feasible, at least not in the short term.
- Plan B, then, was to figure out how to properly utilize the unknown number of soul crystals in existence. So, even while new crystals were being filled, Gogonji could still market the ones he had. It would be quite the product - selling the ability to learn new skills and techniques in a matter of months! But again, he hit a snag. The only soul crystal he had - his own - seemed to be "attuned" to him and seemed almost adamant about relinquishing its secrets to others.
- Stymied, Gogonji started doing research on aether crystals and then on the nature of aether itself. The Lifestream, the liquefied aetheric power source cereleum, and anything else that seemed remotely related to the topic. And then, late one evening, he was struck with an almost manic idea: what if the crystals themselves were responsible for this "attunement"? What if, in some strange semi-conscious way, they would "choose" who could use them? And such a link determined the capability - and perhaps even speed - to wrest the knowledge from their crystalline depths?
- And, more importantly, could such a thing be modified? Or improved? Or forced?
The Experiment
- Initial attempts were terrible for the dementedly inspired Lalafell. He took his idea to the one place he could think of that might be able to devise a way of pulling his idea off: the Garlond Ironworks in Mor Dhona. Ideas of raising the resonance ratio through an admittedly cockamamie fusion of cereleum - liquified aether - and re-purposed Garlean magiteknology. However, much to the egotistical Doman's chagrin, he was rebuked and outright ignored. The Ironworks seemed content enough to work on reapers and replicas of Garlean equipment to be peddled to the prosperous adventuring caste.
The Result
Post-Castrum
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Miscellaneous
◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)
◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)
◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)
◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players)
Please feel free to add your own rumors!
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Footnotes
- Trivia:
- * Combat theme was picked due to Gogon's similarities to Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You, so I went through the OST for a song that might fit. The song most associated with Sho, however, is "Someday."
- General Theme:
- Tension Theme: Requiem for a Dream
- Combat Theme: TWEWY - The Transformation
- TV Tropes: Neutral Evil
- Templates by Bancroft Gairn and L'aenoh Tia