by Guest 9th April 2020, 7:45 amName: Faustein Kuroyakushi
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Gender: Male
Age:
Birthday: August 2nd
Horoscope:
Birthplace: Frostgard, Iceberg
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Profession:
Education Level: M.D./Ph.D. (Fully Earned, Both Magical and Non-Magical)
Non-Magical Skills/Talents:
Special Characteristics:
NOTE: FAUSTEIN’S FULL CYBORG BODY IS COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE IN ARTIFICIAL SKIN WHICH LOOKS LIKE REAL HUMAN SKIN, SO THE DIFFERENCE CAN ONLY BE DISCERNED THROUGH CLOSE CONTACT METHODS OR BY SOME PARANORMAL MEANS OF DETECTION.
Personality:
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General Appearance
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 140 lb.
Hair Color:
Eye Color: Crimson Red (or brilliant amber yellow when he is using his special lineage powers and/or any of his magics or other such supernatural abilities)
Skin Tone:
Appearance:
Guild: Elysium
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- Given / First: Faustein
- Surname / Last: Kuroyakushi
Aliases:
- Faust/Stein (his family, clan members, and other authorized acquaintances [e.g., his allies, acquaintances, pets, and summons] use this form)
- Dr. Stein/Prof. Kuro (his colleagues, patients, and test subjects/specimens use this form)
- Mr. Stein/Mr. Kuro (the Kuroyakushi Group’s employees and other personnel including its Board of Directors as well as other formal contacts use this form)
- Master Faust/Commander Stein (his clan’s/family’s household servants, his personal employees, pets, and summons use this form, the latter using this only in serious and important circumstances)
- "Dr. Doom" (his job clients and any antagonists/enemies/opponents he has met thus far use this form)
- "Super-Freaky Nerd" (his former classmates and some of his current professional colleagues use this form)
- "Foolstein" (one of his Elysium guildmates, specifically the one called Maddox, uses this form)
Gender: Male
Age:
- Apparent: 30 years
- Real: 130 years and counting (due to immortal, true cyborg body w/ installed lich overlord’s heart)
Birthday: August 2nd
Horoscope:
- Western: Leo
- Eastern: Metal Horse
Birthplace: Frostgard, Iceberg
Origins:
- Ethnicity: Part Iceberg/Part Midian
- Nationality: Iceberger turned Fiorean
Orientation:
- Sexuality: Asexual (from his POV)
- Romance: Un-Romantic (from his POV)
Profession:
- Public: Physician-Scientist
- Private: Freelance Mage
Education Level: M.D./Ph.D. (Fully Earned, Both Magical and Non-Magical)
Non-Magical Skills/Talents:
- Physician-Scientist’s + Businessman's Knowledge and Skills (Sources: parental tutelage, formal education, and professional experience)
- Advanced Strategist’s Skillset (Source: indulgence in war/strategy gameplay since teenage years and plethora of lectures on all aspects of business)
- 200+ IQ (Source: the combination of associated genetic inheritance from both sides of family)
- Advanced Outdoor Survival Skillset (Source: multiple camping trips w/ family during childhood and further experience in later life)
- High Society Life and Behavior Skillset (Source: parental tutelage, formal education, and practical experience)
- MMA and JKD (Source: parental tutelage, formal education, as well as practical experience)
Special Characteristics:
- A mismatched skin patch around his right eye area bounded below by a paraboloid suture line (Source: self-experimentation from his time in plastic surgery training back during medical school)
- Constantly present dark circles under eyes (Source: sleep deprivation from stress due to demands of professional practice and from intense personal effort put into never-ending, ever-burgeoning research goals)
- Constant cyanotic discoloration of lips (Source: inherent genetic defect + chronic exposure to substances and other stressors over the course of research work)
- Thick rope-burn skin scar seen encircling neck (Source: near-fatal encounter w/ ancient rope artifact spirit during one past research trip)
- Two, symmetrical, diagonal healed scars on top of inner eyebrows (Source: precise scalpel slash wound incurred from past jealousy-driven violent encounter w/ treacherous professional colleague)
- Large, diagonally placed, discolored, skin graft patch bounded by two healed suture lines on torso from left shoulder to right hip (Source: sword slash wound in near fatal encounter w/ ancient sword artifact spirit during one past research trip)
- Other healed scars, suture lines, blemishes, and imperfections (Source: daily wear and tear side-effects from his ongoing, ever-burgeoning research work)
- True full cyborg body w/ chest-centric “Alchemyōdō Engine” (Source: custom, full-body re-engineering project via application of research findings)
- Lich Overlord’s heart implant in chest’s cardiac region (Source: Acquired on past vampire slaying job as trophy and used to replace surgically excised natural human heart)
- Forehead-centric crimson reddish-black rhomboid sigil (Source: the passive spell called “Hundred Healings Seal” in his “Asklēpian Bioalchemy” which is the first of his eventual three magic systems)
NOTE: FAUSTEIN’S FULL CYBORG BODY IS COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE IN ARTIFICIAL SKIN WHICH LOOKS LIKE REAL HUMAN SKIN, SO THE DIFFERENCE CAN ONLY BE DISCERNED THROUGH CLOSE CONTACT METHODS OR BY SOME PARANORMAL MEANS OF DETECTION.
Personality:
- Spoiler:
Faustein is a stereotypical mad physician-scientist mage in thought, word, and deed and his various personality traits apply as much in battle as they do outside it. Due to his insatiable curiosity, he pursues knowledge at any cost and views the whole world and everything in it, including himself not as individuals worthy of respect and care, but rather merely as experimental specimens to use in this eternal quest for knowledge. As if this were not bad enough, he blatantly disregards the personal rights of others (especially his specimens and/or research volunteers) and brooks no complaints from them, either about his research or the methodology therein. This already reprehensible aspect of him is exacerbated further by his utter lack of inhibitions or qualms of any kind which could possibly regulate the methodology of his quest for knowledge. Due to this, he often tends to irritate and even anger those around him who may have issues with this willful ignorance of common human decency.
Apart from the traits mentioned above, due to the rigorous demands and high focus which his research and work as a physician-scientist mage requires, he is strictly objective almost all the time, which means that he can usually be moved to act only by the cold logic of a situation or by his desire for knowledge. In keeping with this strictly objective view, his face typically looks stern, distant, and inscrutably emotionless almost all the time. That said, he is very protective of and is wholly invested in his research and so, he usually tends to be very reclusive and reticent about its exact nature and content. He was also quite paranoid in the past as he believed most people around him wish to restrict and oppress him. Nevertheless, this aspect has been lessened to some degree in more recent times due to the positive influence that others he has met have had on him. Still, his allegiance lies mostly with himself and of course, his pets, servants, and summons as they are his experimental specimens, research assistants, and guardians. His allegiance to everyone else and everything else is secondary to this priority.
Furthermore, he has an incorrigible superiority complex towards others which often gets him into trouble with them since it makes him act in a condescending manner towards them. However, this is only towards those whom he is certain are less capable than himself. Despite this, he realizes that nothing and no one in the world is completely perfect. In fact, he abhors the concept of perfection and ridicules anyone and anything that claims to be perfect since to him, perfection is a completely stagnant state which cannot accommodate any further improvement. Additionally, he is highly manipulative of others, including his pets, specimens, summons, and servants. Of course, in the latter case, he does hold back a little on his manipulative aspect since he knows that he needs their support and eternal allegiance for his research to truly reach success.
Then, there is also his egregious hedonism which causes him to crave and try to acquire or experience all the finer things in life such as gourmet cuisine, vintage wines, expensive imported magic mobiles, etc. This is especially true since he has known it all the while from childhood till present day due to his ultra-wealthy and influential family and clan’s highly privileged social status. So, he tends to enjoy these things, but he is still rather uncomfortable in formal settings due to his introverted nature and his obliviousness to common social mores. That said, this aspect has decreased somewhat in recent years due to external influences, so he is able to tolerate formal settings which usually include such high society life at the very least. However, he would attend such occasions only to satiate his hedonism or if he is forced to attend by someone else superior to him.
To his credit though, despite having all these defects, he does have some saving graces, though some may consider these to be a blessing and a curse simultaneously. The first of these is his determination which lets him persevere till the end in all his ventures, for better or worse. However, this is also a drawback since it does also cause him to have a rather recalcitrant mentality at the same time. As a result of this headstrong aspect, he can be quite intractable to any attempts to sway him toward any path other than the one he sees lying before him. Aside from this, there is his objectivity of view and his ability to stay emotionally detached regardless of whatever may be going on around him. While this does help him keep a calm and clear mind in all but the most trying of situations, it also means he is utterly oblivious to the emotional needs of others. Besides this, he can be quite passionate, driven, and hyper-focused when he is engrossed in some task or activity that intrigues him and this gives him the advantage of being able to avoid many common distractions which may otherwise impede his research or work. However, it can also be a negative because it does cause him to ignore everything else, like the basic everyday things such as personal maintenance which normal people would not forget so easily.
In addition to this, he prefers to be as efficient as possible in thought, word, and deed and this is a boon since it allows him to delegate resources properly to where they are needed and saves time which he can then spend on other projects or studies, but it can also be a curse since it makes him speak very bluntly because, to him, hiding the truth behind any kind of façade just to make it palatable to his audience, regardless of their social standing or other characteristics and background, is a complete waste of his time and energy. Naturally, this tends to get him into trouble with others, especially those among his audience who may take issue with his lack of verbal filters. When confronted with most emotional issues, especially the issue of romance, his face tends to turn blank and clueless. Then, there is his tendency to warn people of potential dangers when he sees them coming, but if it is a source of new, unfamiliar knowledge which intrigues him enough to want it, he has no qualms in lying and doing whatever he has to acquire said knowledge source, even though his actions may cost him and his allies a crucial victory or even if doing so would lead to massive casualties on his side.
After that, there is his innovativeness as well as his cerebral and eccentric nature. His innovative side and his cerebral nature do give him the ability to solve most if not all the problems he may face, but they also give him that insatiable curiosity which causes him to want to take apart and analyze everything and everyone around him if they happen to intrigue him enough. This tendency to want to analyze everything and everyone that intrigues him, when combined with his innately observant aspect of his nature, leads him to lurk about observing everyone and everything around him in order to glean valuable intelligence about them which he can use in one way or another and so, he is usually able to notice things that most others without this quirk would tend to overlook in their surroundings. Besides this, there is the cautious aspect of his nature which he has because he not only inherited it from his parents, but also trained steadily since childhood. This means he never even enters an area or situation without researching it thoroughly via remote means, whether that be by sending his pets, servants, specimens, and summons ahead of him, planting various hidden surveillance devices on one of his purported allies, or some other ways as well.
Meanwhile, he usually opts to stay at their main operations base so he can thus collect the necessary battle data in a safe manner while his allies and minions take the brunt of the risks inherent to that situation. He also usually ensures that he has at least a handful of main action plans, some backup plans to handle common contingencies that may crop up in his main plans, and even a few escape plans for the worst-case scenarios wherein nothing he can do would be sufficient to resolve the situation successfully. This careful nature combined with his innate, insatiable curiosity also causes him to use every situation he enters as a field test for any new techniques, spells, magitek gadgets, or anything else he may be developing at the time; with him, his allies, and any opponents/enemies they are facing being the lab rats for these field tests. In such situations or in any battle, he tends to keep his distance from his opponents while gleaning information on them which he then uses to overwhelm them slowly but surely over the course of his confrontation with them.
Of course, if it means getting his hands on some exciting source of new or otherwise unfamiliar knowledge, this cautious aspect of him tends to take a backseat, though he will still try to maintain some modicum of it even when hunting said knowledge. Finally, there is his extreme, unbridled eccentricity which, though beneficial in that nobody who is willing to hang out with him would be assured of never getting bored and any potential enemies can never quite accurately predict his next move, can also be quite the obstacle in his interpersonal relationships since he is not only highly unconventional and prone to doing things which others find rather disconcerting, but also because it makes him a very difficult subordinate for those authority figures who may have trouble accepting his highly whimsical behavior.
This eccentricity is even ingrained deeply into his professional practice as a physician-scientist mage. When combined with his amoral outlook, this eccentricity means that he usually employs highly unorthodox treatment methods. These may come with some unsavory side-effects as well for any patient that puts themselves in his care. Of course, despite the dubious nature of his work methods, they are undoubtedly efficacious and that causes many of his clientele to be confused about his intrinsic nature, motives, and the like. In other situations, this peerless eccentricity of his may cause him to become more light-hearted and gregarious, and he may end up making jokes at his own expense and having a mirthful laugh about them afterwards. In his interactions with others, it may cause him to be irritatingly smug or selfish, even more so than normal, and so, he would purposefully upset them just so that he can rile them up with his facetious antics. Even when entering combat, if he should be under the effects of this eccentricity of his, he would be even more ostentatious than usual in his self-introductions, even striking kabuki poses and giving melodramatic speeches worthy of the finest theater. Finally, if some individual(s) interrupts these intros or his other eccentric and whimsical behavior when he is under the influence of this eccentricity, then he would be quick to express his annoyance at the responsible party.
The last effect of this eccentricity is that he occasionally tends to behave in a very uncharacteristic way, which may surprise others around him. Some examples of these include things like making esoteric puns and references and trying to fluff some particularly fluffy entity when they least expect it and uttering a booming maniacal laugh like some stereotypical supervillain/ mad scientist when one of his research projects comes to fruition. Other cases of these may involve him displaying a disturbingly high level of excitement along with a feral grin when encountering sophisticated technology or anything completely unfamiliar to him and making impromptu and unorthodox changes to battle plans while still in battle.
Likes:
- Research and Development (all variants therein):
Faustein like this because engaging constantly in further and further research allows him to acquire ever more knowledge which is what he craves more than anything else. - Hedonistic Pursuits (all variants therein):
Faustein likes this not only because he has known a luxurious life since childhood, but also because these pursuits give him the endorphin rush that he craves almost as much as he does knowledge. - Fluffy Entities (Non-Dog and Non-Wolf Type Only):
Faustein likes to fluff any fluffy entity he can get his hands on or encounter as they are yet another source for his insatiable thirst for an endorphin rush and because they make excellent hug pillows.
Dislikes:
- Prejudice and Bigotry (all variants therein):
Faustein despises prejudice and bigotry because they cause their victims to persecute that which they cannot comprehend and subject these mysteries to needless violence due to their phobia of them. - Inadequacy (all variants therein):
Faustein abhors inadequacy, whether in him or in others, as he has come to realize that this state can leave its victims vulnerable to assault, exploitation, and other unsavory things at the hands of others. - Anyone and Anything Unbearable (all variants therein):
Faustein hates anyone and anything intolerable, especially those who nag him, those who are loud, and those who are perfectionists as they irk him and deprive him of his rest and peace of mind
Motivations:
- Knowledge of All Things and Phenomena (all variants therein):
Faustein’s foremost motive is to unlock and study all the mysteries of magic, nature, and beyond as this will bring him the knowledge that he craves so much beyond anything else. - Power (all variants therein):
Faustein desires to have power in all its various forms as he can rely on it to protect him and his research as well as his vast and ever burgeoning specimen collection from those with ill intent towards them. - Resources (all variants therein):
Faustein is constantly seeking more resources of all kinds since he needs them to advance his ongoing and ever-burgeoning research and development continually and also because, together with power in all its forms, can bestow upon him the ultimate freedom to pursue his desire for knowledge to the utmost.
Fears:
- Ignorance (all variants therein):
Faustein fears the state of ignorance as he knows that it would cause him to succumb to the same urges towards prejudice and bigotry that it would all those prejudiced bigots in the world around him. - Canid Entities (Dog and Wolf Types Only):
Faustein fears these beings as he was attacked by them in quite a vicious manner during a particularly violent encounter that he had with them in his childhood years. - Prospect of Loss (all variants therein):
Faustein fears loss of any kind as it could impede the progress of his research and development back to varying degrees and that would mean that he could not pursue the knowledge he craves so much.
General Appearance
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 140 lb.
Hair Color:
- Base to Lower Middle: Ivory White
- Upper Middle to Top: Light to Dark Green Gradient (Bottom to Top)
Eye Color: Crimson Red (or brilliant amber yellow when he is using his special lineage powers and/or any of his magics or other such supernatural abilities)
Skin Tone:
- Un-Exposed Areas: Mostly Sallow
- Exposed Areas: Weather-Beaten
Appearance:
- Spoiler:
Physique:
Faustein is 5' 7" tall, weighs 140 lb., and has a medium-heavy bone structure. His skin is mostly sallow in complexion in the covered areas of his body due to a certain degree of melanin deficiency that he inherited from his parents. That said, this pallor is offset to some extent due to the weather-beaten texture and color that his skin now has in the uncovered areas of his body due to all the exposure it has had to the elements and other harsh environmental conditions he has had to face as well as from the effects of the multifarious, strange chemicals and other such exotic substances which he constantly tests on himself in his always unnerving and disturbing experimental work over the course of his ongoing research, both in the past and in the present, and well into the future. Apart from that, he has very thick, coarse, dry, brush-like hair that spikes up with two locks of hair that drape over his face and which is ivory white at its base and lower middle sections and slowly changes to a light green-dark green gradient towards its upper middle and top sections. Naturally the two locks of his hair that drape over his face also have this same color scheme.
However, he never bothers to care for his hair or even keep it tamed due to his inherently lazy nature and because it tends to get disheveled over the course of his research. He has a generally ovoid head with mostly unremarkable features like any other regular human. That said, he does have some distinctive facial features such as: gaunt cheeks with high-set cheekbones, a high and wide forehead (though this is somewhat obscured by his bangs), as well as thin, roughly almond-shaped eyes with the usual round pupils and crimson red irises. The last of his distinctive facial features are his gently tapered chin and his somewhat strongly set, somewhat sharply defined jawline. He has a slender, slightly longer than normal neck with a prominent Adam's apple. His back and shoulders are decently broad and somewhat well developed with lean, well defined, decently visible musculature due to his own basic physical conditioning and because he often exerts himself physically during his travels and research. Across his entire torso, both the front and back aspects, he has no more than an ounce of fat anywhere since he almost constantly forgets to maintain a proper meal schedule, especially when he is engrossed in one of his long-term research projects. His upper limbs are of average length and just like the rest of his body, they too possess somewhat lean, decently well-defined musculature.
Due to his medium-heavy bone structure, his wrists are slightly larger than normal, and his hands are also slightly larger and somewhat more muscular than average too; with this latter aspect being due to the near constant use in his various physical exertions. In contrast, however, his fingers are longer than average and have a rather skeletal look to them. He has a narrow waist and hips, again due to the veritable lack of body fat, especially the abdominal type. Below, he has lower limbs which are longer than average and like the rest of him, his lower limbs also have not more than an ounce of fat anywhere. As a result, like everywhere else on him, his lower limb musculature is also clearly visible and well defined, but also due to the impact of his physical exertions and specific training as well. Like his wrists, due to his medium heavy bone structure, his ankles are also slightly bigger than average as are his feet. However, like his fingers, his toes are also quite spindly in appearance. The rest of him is similarly well endowed due to the genetic gifts he has inherited from both sides of his family.
Of note is the fact that since he is a full and true cyborg, all parts of his erstwhile fully organic body described above are now completely organometallic in nature. Furthermore, though the skin covering his body from head to toe may look like real, organic human skin, it is in fact made of a special, inorganic, synthetic polymer that he invented at some point during his research in the past. Due to this transformation, he can store various hidden magitek mechanisms throughout his body which are just barely discernible to those astute enough to detect due to the very subtle bulges, creases, and other such marks upon his person made by the presence of the various compartments that house this series of mechanisms. Essentially, only the exceptionally talented and observant individuals can discern these marks (i.e., PCs and special NPCs aka event NPCs and player related NPCs).
NOTE: THIS IS MERELY THE BASIC APPEARANCE, BUT HIS FULL APPEARANCE INCLUDES ALL OF HIS SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED EARLIER IN THIS APP.
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Attire:
Faustein prefers to keep his outfit as simple and practical as possible, though he does give in to occasional flights of fancy due to his flair for the dramatic. When at home, either alone or with guests, over the usual male undergarments, he always wears a simple t-shirt and shorts combo (both non-pink) while going barefoot most of the time. If pressed to put on footwear, then he usually prefers closed toed sandals or otherwise may use traditional geta shoes as well. When out in the city or otherwise just traveling somewhere, his outfit of choice is some light-colored, full-sleeved, hoodie shirt with a thin dark-colored fleece jacket over it with a simple pair of dark colored jeans and sneakers below (he wears all of this over the usual male undergarments, and as usual, non-pink).
His work outfit is, of course, the same as that of any other standard physician-scientist, save for the few embellishments he may add on to indulge his dramatic fancies occasionally. Namely, over the usual male undergarments, he dons a formal light-colored, full-sleeved shirt with a red necktie and a typical white lab coat with multiple pockets over that while having formal dark colored pants and patent leather shoes below (his pants are held up by a tactical utility belt which holds some of the smaller magitek equipment pieces in his arsenal). His hands are covered by disposable light-colored surgical gloves. His eyes are protected by durable protective goggles if he is in the lab. This outfit is also what he usually wears when moving about as well, both on his research trips and when taking on client requests, jobs, or missions (when not in the lab, his eyes are protected and obscured from view by his smart holographic magitek glasses). On the dorsal aspect of his left wrist can always be seen his magitek spacetime manipulation chronograph. Along with all of these, he can usually be seen with his custom order military grade tactical backpack slung across both shoulders and this has a special enchantment woven into its compositional material that allows it to carry all of the remaining, medium to larger sized pieces of his vast magitek equipment and magitek artifact collection which are not held in his personal hyper-dimensional storage space that is inextricably and intrinsically associated with his Re-Quip magic.
When attending some formal occasion, like anybody else, over his male undergarments, he wears the usual formal attire with his being either a standard three-piece black suit ensemble with a white formal shirt, red necktie, and his standard patent leather shoes, of course. Lastly, his winterwear consists of some light colored full-sleeved shirt with a 6 feet long red scarf which is wrapped loosely around his neck; a moderately thick, weatherproof, Sherpa type jacket over that while below he wears some simple pants and a pair of shoes with good traction. This is also the outfit he tends to wear when called to be a T.A. at his alma mater. Obviously, as in all other occasions, under this outfit are his usual male undergarments as well. For other types of inclement weather or special situations such as the beach he uses the appropriate clothing for the situation. NOTE: Regardless of the outfit he may be wearing in any situation; the multifarious, well-curated, and meticulously cataloged pieces of magitek equipment in his private collection will always be either on or near him as they are always held within his backpack and other load-bearing equipment holders strapped to his person in various areas so that he can and will always have the right tools available for almost any situation.
Guild: Elysium
Tattoo:
- Color: Ivory white w/ metallic silver border
- Style: Basic guild tattoo w/ electric blue cybernetic and circuitry designs as well as jet black suture lines running in a sometimes overlapping and sometime not manner across its body
- Location: Applied to his thorax’s precordium region (aka on the skin right above where his heart lies within his body, but since he is always fully clothed, this is almost never visible unless he himself shows it or if the observer is using some paranormal detection method)
- Basic Shape (ignore purple color in the depicted image, the color of his particular tattoo is as described above in the color section):
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