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Feb. 6th, 2022 09:12 pmPlayer
Name: Rio
E-mail: lamia _ forte [at] yahoo [dot] com
Preferred Contact: plurk @ lamiaforte
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character
Name: Hermes
Series: FFXIV
Timeline: After MSQ "Verdict and Execution"
Canon Resource Links: Here!
Personality: Hermes is a kind and gentle researcher in what is essentially a paradise of a society. His job as chief overseer is to monitor and test living creations made by his people's creation magic to see if they are fit to be released into the wild. It's a tough job as not every creation can pass, some are either too violent or would wreck havoc on the existing ecosystems.
Outwardly, Hermes is described as quiet and a bit withdrawn, though none can deny his passion and kindness for his job. They also can't deny seeing his pain at the tougher aspects of his job.
Unlike most of his colleagues, Hermes views the creations as the individuals they are and he takes no pleasure in seeing any of them being unmade, even if he finds no faults in the reasoning for why they must do so. I would say it's because of his views and his kind soul that he goes to such lengths to give every creation every possible opportunity to pass. He doesn't care if for perfection, he loves all life despite it's flaws.
Things aren't perfect for Hermes though. He feels othered in his society for his views on life and is plagued by doubts when it comes to his job. Is he really doing the right thing? To put it simply, this man is suffering from depression in a time where depression was largely an unknown thing (at least we see no other examples of someone suffering from doubts as much as Hermes does). See in their society, for man, death is a willing thing. An honor one chooses when they feel they've fulfilled their purpose in life. Not everyone chooses to return to the planet when they retire, but that is the most common. It's something beautiful.
Not for Hermes. He struggles to understand why his mentor would choose to retire when there is still so much good he can do in the world. He struggles thinking of all the creations he had to unmake who barely got the chance to live, let alone feel fulfilled. He, himself, struggles in finding a purpose to live for.
To better their planet is what they all strive for, but he's unhappy with that answer. When everyone is fulfilled will they all just choose to die together? This line of thinking is what makes Hermes feel othered, it's clear from the other Ancients we see interact with him, he is absolutely the odd one out in his thinking and if he's the odd one out, does that mean something with him is broken?
Things aren't all hopeless for him though. In secret he's made a creation (many actually) to search the stars for life and ask other societies what they live for. It's a naive question, but it shows he still has hope that there is an answer out there for him.
Finally, while I'm apping Hermes it would remiss of me to not touch on his soul further down the timeline. Once his soul was sundered and warped after countless rebirths it's pretty apparent what plagues his soul. The biggest one is always struggling with an answer for living, but we can notice other patterns too. He seems to get attached to very few individuals and depending on how things play out, adopts their answer for his own. Hermes' attachment to his mentor and not being able to accept his decision to die for example or Amon, one of Hermes' other lives put all his hope in reviving a long dead Emperor to bring glory back to his society. He succeeded, but the recently brought back Emperor Xande broke his perception with the answer that 'Nothing matters."
Hermes who put all his hope into his creations traveling the stars gets a similar answer past where I'm apping him from, everyone is dead out there. Nothing matters. He put his hope into that, and if that's the answer, well he said he wouldn't dismiss what they found out of hand...
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Applin
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Test Drive here!
Victory Road Sample:
[Despite the culture shock of waking up in what appeared to be some youth's bedroom with a stranger calling themselves his mother, Hermes was taking this whole different world thing pretty well! He was confused, yes, but everything was so different, so new. Wasn't this the sort of opportunity he had hoped for back in Elpis? The chance to meet people far different from the society he was used to? How he arrived here from Elpis he could only guess. Perhaps it was all just a dream? Only time would tell if this dream would last.
After getting rushed out of the house with no time to ask questions, he was finally left alone. A fish out of water awkwardly standing in the middle of New Bark town with his strange garb and the sudden feeling something was missing...?]
Hmm? Ah! Meteion!
[It was no use though, while she was always his shadow in Elpis, she was no where to be found here. Either they were separated or she simply wasn't brought along.... or the dream thing. He hadn't disproved that one yet. With a sigh and nothing else to do for the moment he turned his attention to the items given to him. The booklet helped the most, giving him an idea of what his duty would be while he was here and it wasn't too different than his usual duties as chief overseer in Elpis it seemed like.
Stranger yet was this companion he was supposed to have stored in this strange ball. Perhaps it was like their concept crystals? Only his didn't seem to contain a creature, but an apple... Confused he bent down to inspect it (was it because the device knew he was hungry and conjured his favorite fruit? There was something wrong with his powers, he didn't think he could anymore...), picking it up and turning it around in his hands. Finally with no movement from his Applin, he took a bite--]
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
[Only to be knocked onto the ground by a loud noise coming from his apple. The poor Applin, now with a bite out of it's apple, had used astonish on it's trainer and began angrily squeaking at him for what he had done.]
Name: Rio
E-mail: lamia _ forte [at] yahoo [dot] com
Preferred Contact: plurk @ lamiaforte
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character
Name: Hermes
Series: FFXIV
Timeline: After MSQ "Verdict and Execution"
Canon Resource Links: Here!
Personality: Hermes is a kind and gentle researcher in what is essentially a paradise of a society. His job as chief overseer is to monitor and test living creations made by his people's creation magic to see if they are fit to be released into the wild. It's a tough job as not every creation can pass, some are either too violent or would wreck havoc on the existing ecosystems.
Outwardly, Hermes is described as quiet and a bit withdrawn, though none can deny his passion and kindness for his job. They also can't deny seeing his pain at the tougher aspects of his job.
Unlike most of his colleagues, Hermes views the creations as the individuals they are and he takes no pleasure in seeing any of them being unmade, even if he finds no faults in the reasoning for why they must do so. I would say it's because of his views and his kind soul that he goes to such lengths to give every creation every possible opportunity to pass. He doesn't care if for perfection, he loves all life despite it's flaws.
Things aren't perfect for Hermes though. He feels othered in his society for his views on life and is plagued by doubts when it comes to his job. Is he really doing the right thing? To put it simply, this man is suffering from depression in a time where depression was largely an unknown thing (at least we see no other examples of someone suffering from doubts as much as Hermes does). See in their society, for man, death is a willing thing. An honor one chooses when they feel they've fulfilled their purpose in life. Not everyone chooses to return to the planet when they retire, but that is the most common. It's something beautiful.
Not for Hermes. He struggles to understand why his mentor would choose to retire when there is still so much good he can do in the world. He struggles thinking of all the creations he had to unmake who barely got the chance to live, let alone feel fulfilled. He, himself, struggles in finding a purpose to live for.
To better their planet is what they all strive for, but he's unhappy with that answer. When everyone is fulfilled will they all just choose to die together? This line of thinking is what makes Hermes feel othered, it's clear from the other Ancients we see interact with him, he is absolutely the odd one out in his thinking and if he's the odd one out, does that mean something with him is broken?
Things aren't all hopeless for him though. In secret he's made a creation (many actually) to search the stars for life and ask other societies what they live for. It's a naive question, but it shows he still has hope that there is an answer out there for him.
Finally, while I'm apping Hermes it would remiss of me to not touch on his soul further down the timeline. Once his soul was sundered and warped after countless rebirths it's pretty apparent what plagues his soul. The biggest one is always struggling with an answer for living, but we can notice other patterns too. He seems to get attached to very few individuals and depending on how things play out, adopts their answer for his own. Hermes' attachment to his mentor and not being able to accept his decision to die for example or Amon, one of Hermes' other lives put all his hope in reviving a long dead Emperor to bring glory back to his society. He succeeded, but the recently brought back Emperor Xande broke his perception with the answer that 'Nothing matters."
Hermes who put all his hope into his creations traveling the stars gets a similar answer past where I'm apping him from, everyone is dead out there. Nothing matters. He put his hope into that, and if that's the answer, well he said he wouldn't dismiss what they found out of hand...
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Applin
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Test Drive here!
Victory Road Sample:
[Despite the culture shock of waking up in what appeared to be some youth's bedroom with a stranger calling themselves his mother, Hermes was taking this whole different world thing pretty well! He was confused, yes, but everything was so different, so new. Wasn't this the sort of opportunity he had hoped for back in Elpis? The chance to meet people far different from the society he was used to? How he arrived here from Elpis he could only guess. Perhaps it was all just a dream? Only time would tell if this dream would last.
After getting rushed out of the house with no time to ask questions, he was finally left alone. A fish out of water awkwardly standing in the middle of New Bark town with his strange garb and the sudden feeling something was missing...?]
Hmm? Ah! Meteion!
[It was no use though, while she was always his shadow in Elpis, she was no where to be found here. Either they were separated or she simply wasn't brought along.... or the dream thing. He hadn't disproved that one yet. With a sigh and nothing else to do for the moment he turned his attention to the items given to him. The booklet helped the most, giving him an idea of what his duty would be while he was here and it wasn't too different than his usual duties as chief overseer in Elpis it seemed like.
Stranger yet was this companion he was supposed to have stored in this strange ball. Perhaps it was like their concept crystals? Only his didn't seem to contain a creature, but an apple... Confused he bent down to inspect it (was it because the device knew he was hungry and conjured his favorite fruit? There was something wrong with his powers, he didn't think he could anymore...), picking it up and turning it around in his hands. Finally with no movement from his Applin, he took a bite--]
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
[Only to be knocked onto the ground by a loud noise coming from his apple. The poor Applin, now with a bite out of it's apple, had used astonish on it's trainer and began angrily squeaking at him for what he had done.]
