Player: Psi Pronouns: she/her Contact:PsiYamaneko | denofwolves @ discord Anything Else?: I really love video games. I talk about them, play them, and make them for a living. I spend my non-gaming time being an elderly woman who lives with her dog and three cats in coastal Maine. Sometimes I eat Thai food. Truly I am the most fascinating human ever.
My fandoms are Suikoden, Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate, Devil May Cry, DC Comics, Marvel 616, Monkey Island, Metal Gear, Legend of Zelda, Tales of, and other gaming/nerd franchises too numerous to list.
Character: Fandaniel Canon: Final Fantasy XIV Canon Point: Immediately after The Dark Inside
Crime: Despair
Background: A flamboyant, whimsical, nihilistic shadow being living in the body of a dead samurai.
When he was mortal, Fandaniel lived as a scientist and mage in a cyberpunk society. By the time he was born, the society had become hedonistic and sadistic. The state of imminent decay alarmed him so he resurrected the first emperor who led them into war and renewed their sense of purpose. Fandaniel made many atrocities in these mortal days including robot vessels for demons, giant kaiju-fighting weapons, and a moon-battery full of permanently tortured dragons. In his studies of vivimancy he also searched for ways to attain eternal life and performed many lovely little acts of nonconsensual human experimentation. He also cut off the head of a court mage and replaced it with multiple dogs. You know. For fun.
After a while his society destroyed itself. This and his long existence afterward combined with the nightmarish memories he had from his first life (he is the reincarnation of another very sad scientist, it's a long story stay with me here) drove him into madness and despair. The despair has broken him so completely that he believes life only creates suffering and to end suffering he needs to end all life. To accomplish this, he decided to destroy the world as well as himself.
Due to his current canon point, he believes has successfully induced the apocalypse in his own world which makes him a little calmer here. He is leaning more toward the science side of his personality than the destruction one. But he is still a miserable sadist and is always one bad day away from losing it. Mount Fandaniel may erupt at any moment and drown Aldrip in rivers of molten crazy.
TLDR: Flamboyant, theatrical, whimsical, and lively shadow being. He acts like a clown to distract anyone from seeing that he's actually a miserable, sadistic, incredibly cruel man who has no belief in the sanctity of life. Used to be a scientist, and basically still is one. Desperately wants to die and stay dead and would prefer to create as much destruction as possible when he goes.
Abilities:
Conjure shadow chains and bind people with them
Possess dead bodies (but he has to return to his current vessel after a time)
Chuck spells around like a wizard
View the memories of others by observing the person while they are remembering something
Fly
Create objects with his own aether which he usually uses to create clothes and disguises
Teleport
Also, he has no shadow. Weird, right? Probably nothing to worry about.
It's worth noting he rarely uses his more combat-focused abilities. He doesn't like fighting unless he's very sure he can win.
His greatest "ability" is his intelligence. He's an obnoxious turbo-genius.
Plans: Fandaniel will be continuing to experiment on NPCs (uh). Beyond this he is curious about the resetting of the AI. He is thinking a reset might be a good idea but is wary about what it could mean. He WANTS to get to it so he can program backdoor access for himself into the AI. Do not let him do this. Unless you want to live in the setting of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream for a while.
CR I CAN OFFER!
MAD SCIENCE BRO! Do you play a scientist or someone who is too curious to let morals get in their way? Fandaniel wants to team up to study the glitches.
Villain CR! Want a villain to torment your hero? I've got the man for you. He is very cruel and manipulative.
Weird friendship. Fandaniel may be a mad sadist but he is also very old, patient, and nonjudgmental (it is impossible for him to unilaterally hate all living things more than he already does). He could be an uneasy ally for certain character types.
Echo bullshit. With the Echo, Fandaniel can experience your character's memories as if he lived them himself. He can only experience the memory they are actively remembering. Using the Echo he can also understand all languages because he's resonating with the other person's soul to communicate. Normally not worth mentioning but if people run into language related glitches he can help them out.
TECHNOLOGY! Fandaniel can do not-so-mad science to work with people on technological upgrades to devices, weapons, etc as long as he has the resources. The levels of tech he worked on when he was a mortal (elf) were insane.
Fandaniel enjoys finding sponsors for his projects. He will act servile toward these people and do things for them in exchange for funding and resources. He thinks of these people as his patrons.
Fandaniel is also a very complex person. He will usually present himself as a flamboyant, whimsical eccentric. Past that one can get the sense of his cold cruelty. Past that is his despair which can honestly be depressing to be around. And there is more. But expect that "getting to know" him will take multiple interactions.
How can you run into my character? Fandaniel is usually at the Aetherochemical Research Facility these days doing non-consensual experiments on the NPCs to determine if they have souls. As far as he can see no, they do not.
When he's not there he spends lots of time just wandering around Aldrip with his altered welcome robot Hyperetes and people watching.
IMPORTANT NOTE Fandaniel is usually a playful, whimsical eccentric and as much comedy relief as a villain but this character can get very intense. Themes around him include suicide, despair, existential horror and hopelessness, nihilism and extreme self-loathing. You can read more about this on his OPT OUT. Please do not hesitate to opt out of interactions if you want to. I understand some of this character's themes are more heavy than people might want to deal with in RP.
This is the best character who has ever existed in a Final Fantasy game by the way.
Fandaniel | Final Fantasy XIV (Endwalker spoilers)
Pronouns: she/her
Contact:
Anything Else?: I really love video games. I talk about them, play them, and make them for a living. I spend my non-gaming time being an elderly woman who lives with her dog and three cats in coastal Maine. Sometimes I eat Thai food. Truly I am the most fascinating human ever.
My fandoms are Suikoden, Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate, Devil May Cry, DC Comics, Marvel 616, Monkey Island, Metal Gear, Legend of Zelda, Tales of, and other gaming/nerd franchises too numerous to list.
Character: Fandaniel
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Canon Point: Immediately after The Dark Inside
Crime: Despair
Background: A flamboyant, whimsical, nihilistic shadow being living in the body of a dead samurai.
When he was mortal, Fandaniel lived as a scientist and mage in a cyberpunk society. By the time he was born, the society had become hedonistic and sadistic. The state of imminent decay alarmed him so he resurrected the first emperor who led them into war and renewed their sense of purpose. Fandaniel made many atrocities in these mortal days including robot vessels for demons, giant kaiju-fighting weapons, and a moon-battery full of permanently tortured dragons. In his studies of vivimancy he also searched for ways to attain eternal life and performed many lovely little acts of nonconsensual human experimentation. He also cut off the head of a court mage and replaced it with multiple dogs. You know. For fun.
After a while his society destroyed itself. This and his long existence afterward combined with the nightmarish memories he had from his first life (he is the reincarnation of another very sad scientist, it's a long story stay with me here) drove him into madness and despair. The despair has broken him so completely that he believes life only creates suffering and to end suffering he needs to end all life. To accomplish this, he decided to destroy the world as well as himself.
Due to his current canon point, he believes has successfully induced the apocalypse in his own world which makes him a little calmer here. He is leaning more toward the science side of his personality than the destruction one. But he is still a miserable sadist and is always one bad day away from losing it. Mount Fandaniel may erupt at any moment and drown Aldrip in rivers of molten crazy.
TLDR: Flamboyant, theatrical, whimsical, and lively shadow being. He acts like a clown to distract anyone from seeing that he's actually a miserable, sadistic, incredibly cruel man who has no belief in the sanctity of life. Used to be a scientist, and basically still is one. Desperately wants to die and stay dead and would prefer to create as much destruction as possible when he goes.
Abilities:
Also, he has no shadow. Weird, right? Probably nothing to worry about.
It's worth noting he rarely uses his more combat-focused abilities. He doesn't like fighting unless he's very sure he can win.
His greatest "ability" is his intelligence. He's an obnoxious turbo-genius.
Plans: Fandaniel will be continuing to experiment on NPCs (uh). Beyond this he is curious about the resetting of the AI. He is thinking a reset might be a good idea but is wary about what it could mean. He WANTS to get to it so he can program backdoor access for himself into the AI. Do not let him do this. Unless you want to live in the setting of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream for a while.
CR I CAN OFFER!
Fandaniel is also a very complex person. He will usually present himself as a flamboyant, whimsical eccentric. Past that one can get the sense of his cold cruelty. Past that is his despair which can honestly be depressing to be around. And there is more. But expect that "getting to know" him will take multiple interactions.
How can you run into my character? Fandaniel is usually at the Aetherochemical Research Facility these days doing non-consensual experiments on the NPCs to determine if they have souls. As far as he can see no, they do not.
When he's not there he spends lots of time just wandering around Aldrip with his altered welcome robot Hyperetes and people watching.
IMPORTANT NOTE Fandaniel is usually a playful, whimsical eccentric and as much comedy relief as a villain but this character can get very intense. Themes around him include suicide, despair, existential horror and hopelessness, nihilism and extreme self-loathing. You can read more about this on his OPT OUT. Please do not hesitate to opt out of interactions if you want to. I understand some of this character's themes are more heavy than people might want to deal with in RP.
This is the best character who has ever existed in a Final Fantasy game by the way.