Robert Colt

Robert Colt
Gender	Male
Race	Hyur
Clan	Midlander
Citizenship	Formerly Ishgardian
Place of Birth	Ishgard
Guardian	Menpina, the Lover
Nameday	20th Sun of the Fifth Umbral Moon (Age: 35)
Marital Status	Widowed
Occupation	Unknown
Theme	Outward Theme Inward Personal Theme

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Basic Info

Quote

"Mess with me and I will let karma do its job. Mess with mine and I'll become karma." —Robert Colt

Appearance

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 165 lbs

Complexion: Fair skinned

Hair: Dark brown with blue streaks

Eyes: Deep reddish-brown

Particular Traits: Has extensive scars from claws, teeth, swords, burns, and other weapons along his body. Most notable is his chest and left arm in which an automail prosthesis extends from his shoulder down to his hand. On his chest is a receptacle containing an elemental sprite core which powers the arm.

Clothing Style: Tends to wear duster coats, riding kecks, and gloves to hide his prosthetic.

Tastes

Hobbies

• Mixing drinks
• Cooking
• Training his mind and body

Likes

• Women
• Good food
• Wine
• Peace and gods damned quiet

Dislikes

• Rude people
  • Specifically loud ones...
    • Even more so, people who consider themselves gods or invincible
• Unnecessary violence

Favorites

• Color: Green
• Food: Anything he can make
• Drinks: Lagers and ciders
• Scent: Smell of a fresh snow
• Place: Anywhere quiet with a view of the stars

Goals

• Find personal peace
• Spread peace and love throughout the world

Religion

• Not anymore, bucko!
  • Touchy subject... press this topic at your own risk

Alignment

• Good and evil are always relevant. He walks the line between.

Personality

Quirks

• Has a tendency to try to laugh off everything
  • Finds his peace through humor

Flaws

• Continually will put himself in physical danger to prevent harm to others
  • Despite not being armored enough for it

Fears

• Harming the people around him directly or indirectly
• Flying in airships

Talents

• Coming up with exotic drink combinations
• Cooking fresh food

Intelligence

• Pretends to be an idiot most of the time
  • Actually does this to try to put those around him at ease

Comparisons

Other Characters: Malcolm Reynolds

Anime Characters: Vash the Stampede, Spike Spiegel, Roy Mustang

Abilities and Skills

Personal

• Has a big heart and uses it to protect and help as many people as he can

Weapons

• Skilled with all physical weapons in combat
  • Chooses to use few of them

Magic

• Magic and Colt don't mix too well.
  • Anymore...

Crafting

• Armorer
• Culinarian
• Blacksmith
• Carpenter

Family and Relationships

DISCLAIMER


All what is written here bears absolutely no OOC feelings, and may be subject to change as the story develops. If your name doesn't appear in this list, I have probably forgotten, or my character just doesn't remember you. Please do not use these information to affect you ICly or mess with my character's feelings. Use of OOC information will be flagged as god-moding and I will not react to it ICly if I feel this is what you're doing.

Relatives

• Yuna
  • Colt's neice
    • Very talented summoner, lives with mother now
• Amelie
  • Colt's sister
    • Inquisitor of Ishgard

Positive

• Arala Makeo
  • Skilled Paladin he met over a random dinner one day
  • Partner in the formation of his free company
    • Cannot Cook Enjoys her Donuts... excessively.
• Aya Foxheart
  • Former coworker and waitress at the Quicksand
• Ninifae Nira
  • Skilled alchemist and mage who has accompanied Colt over many adventures
  • Partner in the formation of his free company
• Leih'a Relanah
  • Partner in the formation of his free company
• Aviha Chai
  • Quiet but resourceful associate whom always helps out in a bind
• Tana Firesong
  • Has had a very rocky relationship with Tana at first but has since resolved their troubles
• Markus Krosse
  • Later recruit to the NC
    • Showing great promise in the growth of his skills

Negative

• Amelie
  • Mother of Yuna
  • Tasked with recapturing Robert Colt and seeing his death sentence carried out

Rumors

Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.

"Colt is the kindest man you can ever come across....even if he can come off as a womanizing pervert." - Arala Makeo

"I love it when he's working the bar ~ he's so much fun!" - Aya Foxheart

"..He is.. A rather interesting man.. But it is in a good manner. It seems like there is more to him then meets the eye. But I am happy I got to meet someone like him." - Mizore Dorne

"I adore Robert. I don't think there is one bad bone in his body. Always so caring and sweet." - Yuki Kurenai

Recent History

DISCLAIMER

This is not common knowledge of this character. You may only utilize this information IC if you have actually spoken to a person who knows it or were present throughout the time it happened. If you truly wish for your character to know this information you may approach someone who knows the story and simply ask them. Once again, use of this OOC information will be flagged as god-moding and I will not react to it ICly if I feel this is what you're doing.

Name and Lifestyle

Nicknames

• Colt
• Emerald of Thanalan (By Arala only)
• Crimson Dragon

Current Residence

• Stays wherever there is a place to lay his head
  • Currently lives in a Free Company home in the Goblet

The following is in chronological order of his current history.

Arrival into Ul'dah

Little is known about Colt prior to the fall of Dalamud as he tends to share little about his past. What is known about him is that he recently arrived in Ul'Dah and started taking odd jobs just to make it day by day. One day, he decided to pull up a chair to talk to a local whom would soon become one of many companions in his life[1]. After some time he met Aya Foxheart whom helped encourage him to settle down into something he enjoyed. Bartending. He started working with her when he could and quickly came to enjoy the ambience of the Quicksand tavern. Today he continues to help out his friends from a more passive position, tending bar and offering advice to the young adventurers that he serves on occasion.

Formation of the New Conglomerate

After some time passed in Ul'dah he met several people whom he felt were upright strong individuals, capable of fulfilling his dream of protecting the innocent and bolstering the weak. He traveled with them a while and in time they decided to form the New Conglomerate Free Company. The founding members included Arala Makeo, Ninifae Nira, Leih'a Relanah, and himself. Together they grew the company together and worked hard to fulfill the needs of not just Thanalan, but all of Eorzea as a united force that transcended any individual Grand Company. Months later, the Crystal Braves formed and stole their thunder by copying their original idea and parading about the Warriors of Light and casting a dark shadow over the NC... bastards.

Leaving the Stables

Several moons after the formation of the New Conglomerate, Robert took a job for a simple delivery of weapons to an location in Northern Thanalan. The job was a success however; he had run into some people at the drop site that he had hoped were a long gone part of his past. There was a time in Colt’s life when he did some things he wasn’t particularly proud of, but he got a second chance and escaped that life. The people who’d previously ‘hired’ him thought he had died to a team who’d cheated in the Gladiator’s Guild seemingly killing him. After he was sent to the Lichyard following his defeat he had awoken, now with a brightly glowing firesprite core embedded within his chest.

The men he met at that job were his former ‘handlers.’ People assigned to keep him from escaping his new life of slavery within the Syndicate’s seedy underbelly. Knowing word would get back to their boss he immediately ran from them hoping to put as much space between himself and the New Conglomerate as possible to save them from any retaliation of his former owners. He got into a small scuffle with a few of the men and happened to break away from them. However, just as he was about to be out of sight of his pursuers they struck him with an arrow through his shoulder.

Wounded, he first hid within the Black Shroud where his friends had found him due to his linkpearl being easily tracked. Scarlet Snow was able to administer some first aid to the wound and restore some use of his arm. Rafael Cota and Arala Makeo arrived only shortly after this. In that moment the Syndicate sent a barrage of explosives toward the cave he was hiding in. The explosions sealed it off like a tomb, leaving him inside with his friends Rafael Cota and Scarlet Snow. Outside Arala Makeo was blasted backwards and immediately fought to tear apart the rocks that separated them. He had already brought harm to his friends by being too close to them. A mistake he wouldn’t make twice. Seeing a small glimmer of light in Scarlet’s packs he grabbed it thinking it was his linkpearl and slipped out in the darkness by traveling deeper in the cave toward Coerthas.

Riding the Nightmare through Hell

His firesprite core was greatly damaged in the explosion and his chest was bleeding badly. In a last ditch effort to keep alive he tore out the core opening the wound further. With nothing else he used the glimmering object he found and placed it in the wound to stunt the bleeding while he traveled home to see the only person he knew could help; Ninifae Nira.He escaped to the Free Company house and staggered into the doctor’s office. He was lucky enough to have her discretion as well as her help as she swiftly replaced the core from his chest with a more suitable firesprite core, saving his life. He knew he couldn’t keep them away much longer so he had only one option left, to fight back. Shortly after the operation with Nira he had started to develop a hatred for these people and he wouldn’t stand to let them hurt anyone else like they did to him.

His first target was a man who helped fund their operations. A man named Gel, currently imprisoned for crimes against a fellow member of the New Conglomerate. Colt used the short time he had left to track down the man to a Gridanian prison and ensure his funds would not continue in the fight against the company Colt helped form. He used glamours to pose as the man’s legal counsel and once inside killed him. In order to avoid trouble there he left the prison as quickly as wouldn’t be noticed, but it wasn’t long before the guard making rounds found the body. Now on the run from the Twin Adders as well as Syndicate grunts he traveled through the Black Shroud toward the place where he knew the Syndicate traded illegal skins with poachers. He found them and with great ease overpowered the poachers and pirates. The strength he had developed since his core was replaced was even greater than it felt in years. He quickly dispatched all remaining witnesses and took over the ship which he’d used to travel to the Silver Bazaar port. Here he found Scarlet Snow once more and helped her recover shortly before setting off once more on his mission. He brought her back to the Company house where he knew she would get help. Shortly before leaving he had heard grave news about Arala. He learned here he had only one way to save her, Thavnarian Mists. His heart shattered by this news he left at once toward Mor Dhona where he knew he would find the items he needed. Unfortunately, after he bought several and had them sent back to the home, he learned that those same Mists were stolen by the Syndicate he was hunting down. He had to face them if he was going to get them to Arala.

  Theme for Following Two Chapters

Breaking the Colt

He went to his former boss’s home and submitted to them an ultimatum. They continued to supply the Mists for the recovery of his friend or they die. Simple. They agreed, and shortly after they captured, beat, and submitted him to torture for all the trouble he’d caused them. Keeping with their word they continued to send a small supply of the Mist under Colt’s name for the sake of Arala, however they weren’t content with just that. They extracted his firesprite core and placed a tracker inside of it. Should Colt ever disobey orders, try to run, or try to turn against his handlers again they would click a button and the core would detonate ending his life immediately. For roughly a moon Colt, broken and heartbroken, he followed orders from the Syndicate and returned to the life he desperately spent his last decade trying to escape.

Someone Left the Gate Open

One night, waiting for his handler to take him back to the headquarters he came across an old friend Yuki Kurenai. After seeing her again he’d realized the good that he put behind him and the monster that he’d become over the last moon. Overcome with guilt and shame he had made up his mind. He could no longer live this way and continue to bring dishonor to himself, his friends, and family. His handler, drunk as usual, passed out and he reported himself going back to base alone. As the base of his operations happened to also be within the Goblet he made a slight detour toward his former home. He knew there was only one way he could escape this life of bondage. He went to the New Conglomerate’s on the night of the 24th Sun of the 6th Astral Moon. After what was only a short discussion with his oldest friend, knowing he didn’t have long before his handlers came to search for him, Ninifae permanently disabled the tracking device on his heart granting him the freedom he’d lost track of for far too long…

Reawakening

After roughly a week dead, Colt was revived unexpectedly by a few of his friends. Yuki Kurenai, Scarlet Snow, and Veroga Clades were all present at his gravesite when he had awoken without vision or control over his body. He was brought back to Yuki's residence where she and Veroga cared for him during his recovery. Out of fear that the NC was involved with Colt's untimely death Yuki was adamant that no one else is to know about Colt's revival. Colt was in bad shape and his left arm was unrecoverable. At this time Veroga and Yuki determined that the best course of action was to amputate and reattach an automail arm in the hope of returning him to some level of his former function. The operation was a great success and after some time Colt slowly began to regain his vision and some extremely limited use of his body. Though Colt felt very welcome in his new environment, he found that his home sickness was much more debilitating than his current state of health. He asked Scarlet to carry him home as well as she could. With the help of a few friends, Scarlet made sure to give him that mercy. Colt returned home and slowly began his rehabilitation under the care of Yuki and Ninifae Nira.

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

The following is a private journal kept by Colt during a time he spent in Coerthas trying to get into Ishgard. This is not public knowledge.

Day 1
8 am - Today I am meeting with a contact whom was suggested to me by an old mutual friend. Supposedly he'd escaped Ishgard a while back out of fear of the dravarians. I don’t know if he can get me in... but if he could get out maybe I can just double back the way he came.
10 am - That was a bust… the damned fool was just a liar trying to get his “street cred” up with his gang… well now he’s got a black eye for his efforts. Back to the drawing board I guess. I wonder what N’osa is up to right now?

Day 2
3 am - Watching the guards change… it seems staggered which, I must say, is pretty smart of them. Instead of changing out the whole shift at once they do it one guard at a time over some intervals… guess the front door is out.

Day 5
9 pm - There is a lot of activity around the Stone Vigil of late. Sounds like a great deal more dravarian activity happening. I’ve counted at least seven high ranking dragoons and platoons of temple knights enter that place in the last few hours. It’s as if there might be a major offensive happening soon. I can only hope there is enough confusion for me to sneak in with them.
10 pm - Nope! It was a drill… they caught me sneaking around and one of the soldiers threw a stone at me telling me to stop dicking around and get back to my home. Instead I ran off screaming some aldgoat shit about the coming end of the world and they had a good laugh calling me a nutjob. Well I’d rather be an anonymous nutjob than a dead “heretic.”

Day 7
12 pm - Been a week without any progress… I wonder if I should just go home, sometimes, and just forget about the crystal... But to abandon it is to abandon all those I’d lost. I can’t give up now. Arala wouldn’t give up on them.. Newton probably would…
4 pm - Newton would definitely just go home by now.
4:15 pm - I wonder where Markus buys his pants…

Day 8
6 am - While I was out hunting for breakfast I came across some other hunters who didn’t seem to know what to make of me. They asked if I wanted to come back for some lunch later and I decided to join them. We got what we could with our traps but for some reason I feel like they were suspicious of me. Being the new person in the area, I suppose I can understand that.
12 pm - Lunch was… really pleasant actually. We discussed things that seemed far less trivial than that which I tend to hear around the NC house. We covered a wide range of topics ranging from the current state of weather and food supplies to the politics regarding Ishgard’s seeming abandonment of its citizens outside the walls. These guys don’t seem to care too much for the Holy See, save the fact that they keep the dravarians from just consuming the land. They invited me back to eat tomorrow. I definitely will.

Day 9
12 pm - I went to the same place as where I met the guys yesterday but no one was there.
4 pm - Set up camp for the evening outside of Whiterun to scout out more activity at the vigil. Tomorrow I’m probably going to (The writing stops abruptly)