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mankind is a slave to duty,
and there is no greater duty
than to purge one's enemy from the star.

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BALALAIKA

IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE FROM HERE.

 GARLEAN   though the mark of the third eye is not visibly present, between his heavy accent and tendency to step around the topic of where he's from, it's not hard to put two and two together. he can be recognized in passing by those sharing associations with the frumentarium, or a quick glance to familiar facial scarring from his time in one of the many castrums.

 PARANOID  laika can often be caught staring at people, exits, or weaponry for long periods of time. he does not seem totally aware his staring may be considered rude. or maybe, he just doesn't care.

 HOUNDS  often described by locals to have a 'wolf-like' stare and has been caught growling at things that bother him. like his reflection. or a very fast shadow. his own shadow. occasionally a noble. he is frequently followed by a white warg and the local strays no matter where he goes.   VOIDSENT  to those with pacted voidsent, that use black magicks, or are just a voidsent in disguise; he is watching you. he knows what you have done. he knows what you are, or what you have bound yourself to. you may hide it well- but he's hunted voidsent for a long, long time. it taints his skin and blade. (within reasonability. im not trying to metagame. lmao)  

  OOC.    author is 25+. | he/they. | pst/est.character is lgbtq+ and so am i. there is no toleration any type of homophobia, transphobia, racism, so on so forth. do not talk to me if you lala-lewd; do not talk to me if you use terms like 'trap' 'futa/+' or 'femboy' to describe your character.i dont like to join discords or share my disc unless we've rped more than once. adding me ingame is promoted because i communicate better there.please be 18+ ic and ooc; character is mature oriented & the rp i enjoy tends to be as well. this does not necessarily mean nsfw.consistently inconsistent my sleep schedule was made by god as a jokeima be real. the timeline is mega confusing to get into with RP. there's the years people have committed to RP vs what yoshi-p thinks is the timeline vs the timeline that makes most sense. please be nice to me if things do not wholly line up.

  I will;    
- para / multi-para / mirror rp.
- medium / heavy topic rp; combat, medical, mature, etc
- be in open world or venues for rp; never IC in cities/shb zones.
- give & receive consequences for character actions.
- lore-bend for 'rule of cool' or if you've got something written for explanation.  I'm looking for;    
- slowburn; longterm connections + stories.
- walk-ups; laika is callous and rude but it's funny please bother him.
- willingness to hit brick walls. laika is a hard nut to crack socially.
- fun! nothing matters thematically as long you & i are both having fun rping.  Not looking for;    
- fixing laika's physical disabilities. they're a part of him!
- wol-esques, scions, important NPCs, direct current MSQ influence.
- 'garlean supremacy' types or adjacent garlemald-restructuring rp.
- immediate ERP or relationship rp.
- IC / OOC blending; personaplay. OOC relationships. i am not my character.

  PERSONALITY   described in passing as 'self-destructive & unconcerned with the affairs of others'. he is devoted to duty and to duty alone. he has made it clear he holds no loyalties to anyone except himself and his own whims or passing heavily predictable desires. while his devotion to his work could be classified as obsession; beneath that reclusive, calloused surface is a heart of tarnished brass. he has a soft spot for the orphaned, the abandoned, and the forgotten. they are as kin to him and are the few who could slow his ever-forward march to inevitable oblivion.

  biography   presumed dead pre-calamity; laika has re-emerged from the ashes of garlemald no longer as a warden to wayward lemures & voidbound. without the means to reform or imprison them, he's taken to the next best option. mercy for the weak-willed voidtainted and more malleable reapers via a quick, painless death. though much worse for wear; he has stuck to his calling in culling voidspawn and those who'd see their rise.his history is one interlaced with the empire's hidden files and forgotten organizations. all records lost in expunged or classified documents that burnt with the city. there is little to glean of his history mind mark of his citizenship; though he has long since abandoned his rank. he has no more love in his heart, blood to shed, or tears to weep for his once-tolerated country. the rose-tinted glasses of propaganda shattered some time ago when the horrors of ala mhigo began to gain traction across the star.

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i always thought the choice was mine,

i was right but i just chose wrong.

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  THE WARDENS    a small organization that worked alongside the frumentarium deep within garlean borders originally as a way to root out old lemurian insurrectionists. nowadays, it is little more than a forgotten shadow within garlemald's brief history.