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highjustice) wrote2024-02-11 03:53 am
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OOC Information
Name/handle: Nael
Discord contact: downedmoon
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Pronouns: he/him
Permissions link: pchoo
Other characters played: mod stuff
Do you have a reserve for this character?: yes
IC Information
Canon: Genshin Impact
Character: Neuvillette
Canon point:Patch 4.3 (Between Naviaquest and Muskets and Roses event quest)
Canon intensity: Middle-teens rated elemental magic fantasy world - although there is plenty of dark aspects to the world's history and occasionally directly in the story, for the most part Genshin is cheerful-toned and everyone makes friends and lives at the end. There are some unreality elements and things designed to psych the player out, but no true horror.
World information: Elemental magic fantasy world, may or may not be in a pocket dimension. Originally home to dragons, thousands of years ago, a Something crashed in, usurped the power of the dragons, and created humanity. This Something has maintained an order of seven nations each led by an elemental god unto the current era, with occasional Punishments from Heaven for those that transgress against its rules. On a more day-to-day level, the technology is largely pre- or cusp-of industrial; humans with elemental abilities are reasonably common, and so are magical creatures and natural sources of elemental energy. Fontaine, specifically, is magitech steampunk Wet France; Neuvillette gets news from other nations, but has never actually been outside its borders.
Character biofacts: Male, FUCKING OLD I GUESS (appears ~30s), human-shaped water dragon
About the character: The imposing, distant, ever-formal figure of the Iudex is known throughout Fontaine. Neuvillette's reputation is virtually unimpeachable, both as a person and in matters of the court, which he devotes himself to with the utmost seriousness. Although he isn't a cold figure persay, his is a position that discourages people from interactying with him casually - making him, in many ways, the perfect foil to Fontaine's Archon, Furina, who behaves more like a celebrity idol than a god. This has been Fontaine's familiar status quo for the last four hundred plus years.
However, for anyone who knows how to look, Neuvillette is not nearly as untouchable as he seems. Indeed, it stretches credulity a little that no one has pieced together a children's rhyme about rain being dragon's tears and the fact that it's an observed pattern that the weather frequently turns to rain during and after major trials where Neuvillette presides. Perhaps it's that the average Fontainian encounters far less of the fantasy elements of their world in their technologically advanced nation (Melusines aside), or perhaps it's simply that Neuvillette holds enough of the people's regard that those who figure it out don't say anything.
His face is not particularly expressive, and his body language tends towards awkward and stiff, but even aside from the supernatural rain-sad Neuvillette connection, his voice is tellingly expressive (at least in the English version lmfao). Neuvillette feels virtually everything deeply, as is only to be expected of the dragon of Hydro, the element most deeply connected with emotion. The majority of his actions can be traced back to this. Neuvillette is a just man, because seeing injustice causes him great grief, even when the people involved are strangers. Despite the final call on guilt or innocence being made by the Oratrice (which he is notably always in agreement with), Neuvillette is the one in charge of sentencing, and it is quite notable that the death sentence has never been executed in Fontaine at his hand. Not that anyone acknowledges, but Neuvillette chooses mercy every chance he gets.
Indeed - that trait was something the true Focalors pinned all her hopes on. Although it's hard to know exactly how involved she was in Neuvillette's human form and his arrival in Fontaine, it's clear that her intent was for him to live among humans and come to understand them, rather than giving in to the hatred of both humans and gods that is typical of the surviving dragons. After all, once she was gone and the full power of the Hydro Sovereign had been restored to him, it would come down to that: Neuvillette's decision between pardoning and punishing the people of Fontaine for the sin of being human. Fortunately, it was a gamble that paid off (as though it could ever do anything else - as though he would ever choose anything else).
But the fact that the choice to be merciful is second-nature to him does not leave Neuvillette without conflicts. He has lost people, both directly to death, and to the hard decisions he has had to make in the name of justice. Justice is something he wrestles with, because injustice takes so very many forms. Although Neuvillette is one who serves as the very face of jsutice by the law, he is all too aware of how it is inadequate. A dear friend who he had to sentence for fulfilling vengeance in ways that the law never could; a boy who had no choice but to take justice into his own hands, who offered himself up freely for punishment afterwards: these are the forms of injustice that Neuvillette wrestles with within himself, behind the scenes, unseen to everyone except those wise enough to look to the skies.
And it isn't only questions of justice - his own identity, too, is soemthing that Neuvillette wrestles with. He is the Hydro Dragon Sovereign - but what does that mean, when the dragons are hidden away or gone, except for him? When he lives among humans, who he understands only through observation and practice when he understands them at all? Although he's an incredibly emotional person, by his own accounting, Neuvillette doesn't understand his own emotions very well at all. He couldn't recognize the anxiety he had surrounding crimes targeting Melusines as such, much that it was linked to the harassment that Carole received in the past. He could only ever offer Navia condolences that seemed condescending for her father's passing in a court duel, because he didn't understand the emotions of anyone involved enough to truly know the hows and whys. There's a disconnect there that mirrors his disconnection from other people - it's only by seeing those emotions in the mirror of humanity that he truly comes to understand them.
Despite this, especially since the death of Focalors, there is a certain degree of overwhelming confidence to his actions. He may not understand why he was born in a human form, he may not understand his own emotions, but Neuvillette is a person committed wholly to the purpose he has now. In the short term, that is preserving Fontaine and helping it through the adjustment period of Furina departing the stage and leaving him with control over the nation in addition to the element of Hydro. In the long term, it is the judgement of the heavens and the gods - a judgement that will, no doubt, be as unexpectedly fair and merciful upon those deserving of it as any he has delivered from his seat in the courthouse.
Abilities: Oh God Nael Play A Character With a Normal Powerset Challenge failed again!
Neuvillette is the Dragon Sovereign of Hydro, which means that 'if you can think of it, he can do it' at least so far as the Hydro element is concerned. This is not only the most literal interpretation (water), but also the fact that Hydro governs such things as "emotions" and "the origin of life." This results in such bullshit as:
-> Read the memories off an at least 500 year old rock mural to find out what the image meant
-> Controls the weather (mostly the rain) both with intent and unintentionally
-> Told the concept of water pressure "not today" and walked it back into the pressurized valve. it stayed there.
-> Turned the people of Fontaine into true humans by supposedly changing their blood into real blood? or something?
-> Whatever he's doing with manipulating the Primordial Sea for the entire duration of narwhal fight
-> Basically if it's literally or symbolically wet he can do it
-> Also he's the guy who grants Hydro Visions now, that's a thing
For the obvious sake of my sanity, I'm assuming that a lot of this power in fact comes directly out of his link to the Primordial Sea of Teyvat, so things on the world-altering scale, Visions, etc are off the table. So aside from his "controllable PC" combat set (which is at like, the bottom of his abilities to control water, even though it's a Massive Pressure Washer Cannon), I'm limiting to to:
-> Can get emotions off of water and especially wet things (NOT directly off people)
-> Line of sight teleportation (as in the Childe takedown cutscene)
-> Water manipulation (general) within a 30 foot or so radius - further out gets more difficult especially when storms are active
-> The above includes that it still rains around him when he's sad but only in a very localized area
-> Hydro-aspected barriers/"locks"
-> Other similar utility effects
Additionally there's the standard issue Genshin Minor Hammerspace, the fact that he glows in the dark when actively using his powers on the major scale, probably a couple extremely minor effects I've forgotten.
Noteworthy items: Clothes, presumably come catalyst type weapon idk they're barely in his combat animations, cane, Fancy Goblet (everything but clothes in the minor Genshin hammerspace).
Mixed gender room ok?: OK! I say, like I'm not the one doing housing assignments.
Player content notes/squicks: I got it covered, mods, I promise d:
Voice samples: top-level at the TDM
Name/handle: Nael
Discord contact: downedmoon
Other contact:
Pronouns: he/him
Permissions link: pchoo
Other characters played: mod stuff
Do you have a reserve for this character?: yes
IC Information
Canon: Genshin Impact
Character: Neuvillette
Canon point:Patch 4.3 (Between Naviaquest and Muskets and Roses event quest)
Canon intensity: Middle-teens rated elemental magic fantasy world - although there is plenty of dark aspects to the world's history and occasionally directly in the story, for the most part Genshin is cheerful-toned and everyone makes friends and lives at the end. There are some unreality elements and things designed to psych the player out, but no true horror.
World information: Elemental magic fantasy world, may or may not be in a pocket dimension. Originally home to dragons, thousands of years ago, a Something crashed in, usurped the power of the dragons, and created humanity. This Something has maintained an order of seven nations each led by an elemental god unto the current era, with occasional Punishments from Heaven for those that transgress against its rules. On a more day-to-day level, the technology is largely pre- or cusp-of industrial; humans with elemental abilities are reasonably common, and so are magical creatures and natural sources of elemental energy. Fontaine, specifically, is magitech steampunk Wet France; Neuvillette gets news from other nations, but has never actually been outside its borders.
Character biofacts: Male, FUCKING OLD I GUESS (appears ~30s), human-shaped water dragon
About the character: The imposing, distant, ever-formal figure of the Iudex is known throughout Fontaine. Neuvillette's reputation is virtually unimpeachable, both as a person and in matters of the court, which he devotes himself to with the utmost seriousness. Although he isn't a cold figure persay, his is a position that discourages people from interactying with him casually - making him, in many ways, the perfect foil to Fontaine's Archon, Furina, who behaves more like a celebrity idol than a god. This has been Fontaine's familiar status quo for the last four hundred plus years.
However, for anyone who knows how to look, Neuvillette is not nearly as untouchable as he seems. Indeed, it stretches credulity a little that no one has pieced together a children's rhyme about rain being dragon's tears and the fact that it's an observed pattern that the weather frequently turns to rain during and after major trials where Neuvillette presides. Perhaps it's that the average Fontainian encounters far less of the fantasy elements of their world in their technologically advanced nation (Melusines aside), or perhaps it's simply that Neuvillette holds enough of the people's regard that those who figure it out don't say anything.
His face is not particularly expressive, and his body language tends towards awkward and stiff, but even aside from the supernatural rain-sad Neuvillette connection, his voice is tellingly expressive (at least in the English version lmfao). Neuvillette feels virtually everything deeply, as is only to be expected of the dragon of Hydro, the element most deeply connected with emotion. The majority of his actions can be traced back to this. Neuvillette is a just man, because seeing injustice causes him great grief, even when the people involved are strangers. Despite the final call on guilt or innocence being made by the Oratrice (which he is notably always in agreement with), Neuvillette is the one in charge of sentencing, and it is quite notable that the death sentence has never been executed in Fontaine at his hand. Not that anyone acknowledges, but Neuvillette chooses mercy every chance he gets.
Indeed - that trait was something the true Focalors pinned all her hopes on. Although it's hard to know exactly how involved she was in Neuvillette's human form and his arrival in Fontaine, it's clear that her intent was for him to live among humans and come to understand them, rather than giving in to the hatred of both humans and gods that is typical of the surviving dragons. After all, once she was gone and the full power of the Hydro Sovereign had been restored to him, it would come down to that: Neuvillette's decision between pardoning and punishing the people of Fontaine for the sin of being human. Fortunately, it was a gamble that paid off (as though it could ever do anything else - as though he would ever choose anything else).
But the fact that the choice to be merciful is second-nature to him does not leave Neuvillette without conflicts. He has lost people, both directly to death, and to the hard decisions he has had to make in the name of justice. Justice is something he wrestles with, because injustice takes so very many forms. Although Neuvillette is one who serves as the very face of jsutice by the law, he is all too aware of how it is inadequate. A dear friend who he had to sentence for fulfilling vengeance in ways that the law never could; a boy who had no choice but to take justice into his own hands, who offered himself up freely for punishment afterwards: these are the forms of injustice that Neuvillette wrestles with within himself, behind the scenes, unseen to everyone except those wise enough to look to the skies.
And it isn't only questions of justice - his own identity, too, is soemthing that Neuvillette wrestles with. He is the Hydro Dragon Sovereign - but what does that mean, when the dragons are hidden away or gone, except for him? When he lives among humans, who he understands only through observation and practice when he understands them at all? Although he's an incredibly emotional person, by his own accounting, Neuvillette doesn't understand his own emotions very well at all. He couldn't recognize the anxiety he had surrounding crimes targeting Melusines as such, much that it was linked to the harassment that Carole received in the past. He could only ever offer Navia condolences that seemed condescending for her father's passing in a court duel, because he didn't understand the emotions of anyone involved enough to truly know the hows and whys. There's a disconnect there that mirrors his disconnection from other people - it's only by seeing those emotions in the mirror of humanity that he truly comes to understand them.
Despite this, especially since the death of Focalors, there is a certain degree of overwhelming confidence to his actions. He may not understand why he was born in a human form, he may not understand his own emotions, but Neuvillette is a person committed wholly to the purpose he has now. In the short term, that is preserving Fontaine and helping it through the adjustment period of Furina departing the stage and leaving him with control over the nation in addition to the element of Hydro. In the long term, it is the judgement of the heavens and the gods - a judgement that will, no doubt, be as unexpectedly fair and merciful upon those deserving of it as any he has delivered from his seat in the courthouse.
Abilities: Oh God Nael Play A Character With a Normal Powerset Challenge failed again!
Neuvillette is the Dragon Sovereign of Hydro, which means that 'if you can think of it, he can do it' at least so far as the Hydro element is concerned. This is not only the most literal interpretation (water), but also the fact that Hydro governs such things as "emotions" and "the origin of life." This results in such bullshit as:
-> Read the memories off an at least 500 year old rock mural to find out what the image meant
-> Controls the weather (mostly the rain) both with intent and unintentionally
-> Told the concept of water pressure "not today" and walked it back into the pressurized valve. it stayed there.
-> Turned the people of Fontaine into true humans by supposedly changing their blood into real blood? or something?
-> Whatever he's doing with manipulating the Primordial Sea for the entire duration of narwhal fight
-> Basically if it's literally or symbolically wet he can do it
-> Also he's the guy who grants Hydro Visions now, that's a thing
For the obvious sake of my sanity, I'm assuming that a lot of this power in fact comes directly out of his link to the Primordial Sea of Teyvat, so things on the world-altering scale, Visions, etc are off the table. So aside from his "controllable PC" combat set (which is at like, the bottom of his abilities to control water, even though it's a Massive Pressure Washer Cannon), I'm limiting to to:
-> Can get emotions off of water and especially wet things (NOT directly off people)
-> Line of sight teleportation (as in the Childe takedown cutscene)
-> Water manipulation (general) within a 30 foot or so radius - further out gets more difficult especially when storms are active
-> The above includes that it still rains around him when he's sad but only in a very localized area
-> Hydro-aspected barriers/"locks"
-> Other similar utility effects
Additionally there's the standard issue Genshin Minor Hammerspace, the fact that he glows in the dark when actively using his powers on the major scale, probably a couple extremely minor effects I've forgotten.
Noteworthy items: Clothes, presumably come catalyst type weapon idk they're barely in his combat animations, cane, Fancy Goblet (everything but clothes in the minor Genshin hammerspace).
Mixed gender room ok?: OK! I say, like I'm not the one doing housing assignments.
Player content notes/squicks: I got it covered, mods, I promise d:
Voice samples: top-level at the TDM