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✥ NAME & DEVICE USERNAME: Archeval (a.k.a. Darth Imperius, Sith Inquisitor) / usernames: [handmaiden of unsheathed swords], [darth imperius]
✥ CANON: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMO)
✥ ONE-LINE PITCH: Short, cranky, pretends to be an evil overlord for his day job, doesn't enjoy it. Okay, maybe a little.
✥ DEAD / ALIVE / IT'S COMPLICATED: A...live? It's complicated. Probably alive. His heart beats, anyway.
✥ ARC OF ARRIVAL: Beginning of Arc I: Sa-Hareth
✥ INVENTORY:

✘ A plain, battered old LIGHTSABER. To the layperson it looks like a beaten-up cylindrical metal carry case protecting a fancy crystal inside, with a ring on one end to hang from a belt.
✘ A semi-armored set of dark ROBES in black and deep brown.
✘ A metallic HELMET somewhat resembling a skull called Kallig's Countenance, passed down from his ancestor. The helm has air-filtering qualities, but otherwise no known special features.
✘ His personal COMLINK, currently picking up nothing but static and the occasional transmission from Mingyu.
✘ A SMALL TRINKET that looks suspiciously like a cat collar with a pink bow attached to it.
✘ Some LOCAL CLOTHING, mostly simple, warm, and in dark colors, obtained in Sa-Hareth.
✘ A FINELY-WROUGHT KNIFE he's dubbed Lumis, carved with small runes in Eleven's language that read 'hidden light'.
✘ A few battered BOOKS AND PAPERS representing his efforts to comprehend the Sa-Hareth local language, all he could recover from Anurr's wrecked farmhouse.
✘ Some LOCAL ODDS AND ENDS for daily living such as a few sewing supplies, hygiene, etc.

OUT OF CHARACTER
✥ PLAYER: Loren (they/them)
✥ PREFERRED CONTACT: Discord or my contact post up top. Drop me a message for my Discord name.
✥ BACKTAGGING: I do my best work when we're both online and tagging at the same time -- if you enjoy a little boomerang tagging then you and I will be very compatible (of course not a requirement though). I will backtag to a certain point, but I tend to lose interest if the thread is older than a couple weeks, sorry. I try my best to not start anything that I don't think I'll finish, but of course sometimes life happens; feel free to get in touch with me at any time if you need to figure out handwaving details for any old threads or need to pick up something that really has to be finished.
✥ THREADJACKING: Go right ahead!
✥ FOURTH-WALLING: I'm not into it, sorry, please don't. If your character would definitely say something about a dude with a Star Wars lightsaber etc., a generic "wow, this is like something out of a sci-fi movie" sort of thing is fine.
✥ ACTION vs PROSE: Either is okay - I'm better at prose, but action tags are fine. I can handle either tense but years of RP have got me used to present tense so sometimes I mess up and have to edit my tenses real fast, sorry whoops.
✥ SEX: Probably won't come up for this character, but I do fade-to-black on all sex scenes. Sex related plots/references/whatever are all fine. Arche is an adult.
✥ DEAL-BREAKER SCENARIOS: I avoid plots/scenes where the main focus is drug use (mentions are totally fine), pretty much anything else is fair game.
✥ STAR WARS CANONMATES:
 ・Feel free to recognize Darth Imperius as a footnote in some historical document your character read if you think that makes sense for them.
 ・We've established in Eastbound's canon that specifically KOTOR/SWTOR-era Galactic Basic does not sound like English, but 3000-plus-years-later Basic sounds really different from it so feel free to do what you want there.
 ・Generally speaking when it comes to what I consider canon about the SW universe for my character, I stick to facts presented on screen in SWTOR and if there aren't any + no strong fandom consensus about X topic, then I do what I want. If you are playing from later eras of SW, stuff can always have changed. Feel free to get in touch and coordinate about shared galaxy facts/lore if need be.
 ・Trivia for anyone else who plays SWTOR: Archeval is a Light V Corruption Sorc saboteur lol. Started on Ebon Hawk, currently on Star Forge, feel free to add me. (Pub side main is Kylland Erst)


IN CHARACTER
✥ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE LIMITS:
 ・I welcome combat threads! A quick combat rundown: Archeval is very comfortable in a fight, being an active-duty Dark Lord of the Sith Empire and having fought in a couple of wars at this point. His skills broadly include lightsaber fighting, long-distance attacks via lightning and telekinesis, Force-assisted acrobatics, and mental manipulation among other things. At his current canon point he's one of the top-ranking Sith in the Empire so pretty supernaturally powerful, but not at godlike status.
 ・Please ask permission first, but generally I am okay with getting him seriously injured. He has healing talents that can knit up most wounds given enough time.
 ・If your character would like to try to kill him, that could be fun. Due to some necromantic shenanigans it is unclear in his canon whether it's actually possible for him to die. I'm not up for permadeath at this time, though.
 ・I don't mind descriptions of gore or specific body parts getting injured, but if you're describing something you're doing to my character, please try not to get too super graphic and detailed.
✥ OPEN TO MANIPULATION? Please discuss with me first and keep communication open. Generally the character considers himself a manipulator rather than the manipulated and is very, very suspicious of anyone he perceives as trying to control or gain power over him.
✥ ...AND MIND CONTROL? Please discuss with me first. Could be really interesting, but Arche's powers make it complicated; however it is absolutely a known thing in his canon for characters to be brainwashed, even Force-users.
✥ MENTAL CONTACT: Telepathy (i.e. speaking to him mentally) is a-ok anytime. Please discuss with me before sensing thoughts/feelings/etc to see what your character might learn and how their powers will interact. Arche is a Force-sensitive character, which essentially means he has psychic powers and is used to dealing with other people who have similar powers, so guarding his thoughts and feelings is a normal part of his skill set.
✥ WHAT KIND OF MENTAL PRESENCE DO THEY HAVE: Those familiar with the Force will note that at rest, he's very good at hiding his presence in it. He's usually detectable only as a mundane, or someone with very mild Force-sensitivity, unless he chooses to unleash the full force of his presence which he has an excellent command over (he's a light sider in the Sith, he's had a lot of practice okay) -- he can summon up the dark side to make himself feel quite intimidating. Emotionally, he does his best to cloak what he's feeling from all and sundry with his own powers, though strong feelings probably slip out here and there.
✥ ...AND MAGICAL? They're kind of the same thing for him. He's usually only detectable when using Force powers of the kind that require active effort/channeling the Force out into the world. Some of his powers have a sinister dark energy that might make sensitive characters feel a little queasy, particularly his Force lightning and the Corruption discipline healing he employs; some of his powers have a more subtle, almost soothing energy to them. In a certain mood he might also blatantly employ the light side of the Force to fuel his techniques, but he's tried to train himself not to touch it too much as it's a liability for him.
✥ RELATIONSHIPS: Unless your name is Theron Shan, he's taken -- twice even. I really enjoy shipping actually but sadly it doesn't make sense for this particular character.
✥ WHAT PUSHES THEIR BUTTONS: Physical contact/touching -- it's fine by me OOCly, but he may react violently depending on his mood. Other than that, uh... he's a cranky bastard, he basically pushes his own buttons, ha. Any mention of slavery or buying/selling sentient people will generally get under his skin. He also dislikes being called out on acting nice. :)
✥ WARNINGS ON THEIR LABEL: When getting to know this character, some sensitive topics that may come up include slavery, extreme poverty, child abuse, forced child labor, torture, murder, war crimes, descriptions of gore, and very casual discussion of death. In general you can expect horror-inspired themes. Also the character can be a real asshole at times, so be prepared for some sarcasm or rudeness. I think you're cool, Arche is just a jerk lol.


FIRST IMPRESSIONS
✥ VISUAL: You'd be forgiven for wondering if you're looking at a teenager, as the first thing you'll certainly notice about Arche is he's startlingly short and deceptively scrawny. He has pale skin, short tousled black hair with a small thick braid hanging down against his right cheek, and intensely green eyes peeking out from beneath some forbiddingly thick eyebrows. A small beauty mark dots the side of one cheek, and he's rarely seen without some dark kohl drawn or smeared around his eyes, whatever he can get ahold of here. He typically dresses in dark colors, favoring loose black robes or, back home, his favorite lightweight Sith battle armor. Usually his lightsaber hangs perpetually from his hip, but even if it's not there at the moment you can be assured some kind of sharp object has been squirreled away on his person.
✥ AURAL: Archeval has a very deep voice, most of the time speaking in an aloof, disinterested tone that occasionally dips into sarcasm or subtle derision; it's extremely rare for him to shout or scream regardless of how angry he's feeling. The character is played by Euan Morton.
✥ OLFACTORY: If the group's been anywhere near safe water in the last couple weeks, you smell absolutely nothing. Maybe a little bit of dust. Arche goes to near-obsessive lengths to keep himself and his surroundings clean whenever possible.
✥ DEMEANOR: Is he looking at you? He's scowling at you. Is he looking at an enemy? He's scowling at the enemy. Is he looking at a lovely sunset? He's scowling at the lovely sunset. If you haven't been around him for long, you've almost certainly never seen him lighten up.