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sha-ming. ([personal profile] bonobos) wrote in [community profile] expiationooc 2024-03-01 04:45 pm (UTC)

sha-ming | gnosia

Player: Vi
Contact: [plurk.com profile] moontrip, feel free to add me if you'd like to do things!
Anything Else?: Hey guys! My name's Vi, I'm in my mid 20s, I'm currently going through a career transition but I used to work in finance. Activism and original writing are big parts of my life and I talk about them sometimes. My main fandoms are Nier, Final Fantasy (7 in particular), Metal Gear, Undertale/Deltarune, Disco Elysium, Mr. Robot and so much more. I'm a big Gamer TM, from mainstream ones to indie, niche works, so if it's out there I've probably played it.

Character: Sha-Ming
Canon: Gnosia, a werewolf/mafia style single player game adjacent to the visual novel genre!

Crime: Escaping/running away from his shithole of a home planet, Arsla.

Background: Oh boy. Sha-Ming is...A Guy. He'll say anything for any reason. Annoying, foul mouthed, always joking, an asshole, rebellious, a huge clown all in all. He's also uh, notably hypersexual and an incorrigible flirt (and unfortunately, canonically bi/pansexual so nobody is spared, really) -- naturally, your character will not be dealing with this unless I know it's fine, but yeah.

Despite all of this, he's remarkably good at not standing out. He never wants to be the center of attention, he's very up for being the good-for-nothing side character that has nothing to do with the plot, thank you! Survival is his priority. If there's a way to live, he's going to find it, even if he has to forfeit his nonexistent pride/dignity to make it happen. However, at his core, he is actually... a good guy? With some pretty serious issues that he does not want to reveal or talk about in any capacity. Sha-Ming was socialized amongst and as an animal, and he unironically struggles to connect with and understand human conventions as a result.

Deep down, he's genuinely quite compassionate and kind, but his inability to be emotionally vulnerable let alone trust others really precedes him. He resigns himself to being extremely lonely because he thinks it's the only way he can keep himself safe, but he can't help but care for others regardless even if he really wants to pretend like he doesn't.

Abilities: Absolutely none lmaooooo. For the first time in my life, I'm playing some guy with completely normal physiology. As for like, noteworthy skills... Sha-Ming IS a survivalist, and he did grow up somewhere where resources were notably scarce. This means he has the capacity to be very useful on this front -- but only if you manage to get him to be, because he's very keen on hiding this part of himself.

Plans: SO. Sha-Ming, surprisingly, goes onto become one of the most famous zoologists and scientists in the galaxy in his canon. I want to work towards this here and have him get involved with bestiary and ecology research in particular. This is going to be a longterm goal -- he's got [personal profile] memori3s helping him out already, but if anyone else wants to get involved, let me know! And if your character isn't human/has animalistic qualities, I'd love to do something, as he'd take an interest in them and we could open up some dialogues about it.

That aside, positive and negative CR alike is absolutely good with me. I'd love for him to develop actual attachments and hate himself for it, especially platonic and familial ones, but he's also so annoying and SUCH an asshole that negative CR is going to be inevitable. Your character is absolutely free to hate him, whack him over the head, shittalk him, throw rocks, the whole gamut. He sucks! Go for it.

Also, I love the idea of him third wheeling people. If you need a third wheel to make extremely out of pocket commentary he's your guy.

How can you run into my character? Right now, he's bumming it out at the inn. He and [personal profile] memori3s are neighbors. Due to that horribly high stealth stat of his, he's shockingly hard to come by and good at blending in/hiding, but that won't stop me. He'll likely be at the farm often and wherever nature takes him.

???: Good summary of his canon.

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