#[ooc] specifically how he's both repulsed to it and drawn to it and bound by it

[nathaen-blog1]

Appearance 

Gender: Male

Race: Human (Mother hails from pre-scourge Lordaeron nobility, father is a Stormwind Marquis)

Height: 6’2

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Black

Age: 24

The Facts 

Occupation: Paladin, Heir-Apparent

Sexual identification: Heterosexual/Bi-curious

Romantic identification: Heteromantic (Very Selective)

Alignment: Lawful Neutral, borders on true neutral

Criminal History: None

Relationship Status: Single

Sweet on: None

Favorites 

Treat: Beer-Basted Boar Ribs

Drink: Sulfuron Slammer,  Rhapsody Malt

Artist: N/A

Scent: Leather, Sandalwood

Person: Kethair de Laurentis, Aidrian de Laurentis, Adoth de Laurentis

Deeper Knowledge 

Ten Details:

1 - Nathaen is the son of the Marquis of Windforge, whom is a noble of the Kingdom of Azeroth (Stormwind). His mother is the only surviving member of the Mardenhall family from Lordaeron. He has ties through his paternal aunt to Kul Tiras, and is close with his Kul Tiran cousins.

2 - Nathaen had an exemplary childhood. He was a happy, high-achieving boy with doting parents.

3 - Nathaen spent a large portion of his youth pursuing a working knowledge of medicine and anatomy (much to his father’s distaste), with the belief that he would only be able to serve in a military capacity as a physician. To a large degree, he was correct.

4 - Nathaen is asexual (his self-identification, in practice a little bit different). However, under the right circumstances, he is still a voracious flirt because he loves the word play, the attention, and the chase that it brings.

5 - Nathaen will instinctively play whatever part he subconsciously believes will be best received by the person he is interacting with. He will enhance or play down elements of his upbringing, mannerisms, or personality without thinking about it.

6 - Nathaen took his vows as a paladin at the age of 16, during a small ceremony attended by his mentor and a handful of other retired paladins from Windforge. He considers this more formative than his Age of Ascension in terms of defining him as a man. He became a paladin of the Order of the Silver Hand at the age of 23.

7 - Nathaen is a skilled combatant. Medicine was his ‘plan b’. He is excellent with a shield, and a gifted swordsman. If he had been born into another life, it would be easy to envision him as the victor of melee tournaments and gladiatorial matches.

8 - Nathaen’s first kill in battle was a cultist outside of the gates of Stormwind, during the elemental invasions that preceded the Shattering. He doesn’t lose sleep over it, or any of the others that have perished by his hand in the context of battle. The few times faces haunt him, they are those that he couldn’t save.

9 - Nathaen is marginally fearful of sailing. He would never admit it to his cousins, whom are proud Kul Tirans, but there’s something about the idea of being out at sea that he finds unsettling. It’s nearly without merit, as he is both a strong swimmer and a competent sailor, and he’s certainly not afraid of the ocean itself. He’s good enough at hiding that fear that he’s pretty sure no one knows.

10 - Much like how ‘I’d ask the genie for 100 wishes!’ is a great cop-out to not being able to come up with a single good wish, Nathaen is a very complex… and it’s far too difficult to select only one detail to fill round this out.

Five Things 

Things Preferred:

Alcoholic drinks served in shot glasses

Aesthetically pleasing, hand-forged armor of the highest quality, regardless of the culture that created it.

Quel’dorei. Not so much in a romantic sense, but as a people. He’s encountered quite a few over the past year in the Order of the Silver Hand, and finds them fascinating. Their tenacity and diligence inspires him.

Windforge. He can’t think of a better place to be than home. While he hasn’t travelled extensively by any stretch of the imagination, he loves his ancestral land.

Solitude. Though one might be tempted to describe Nathaen as extroverted, he prefers his own company or the company of a few close companions.

Things Disliked:

Horde Members, Horde Sympathizers, or Scourge (Or things that resemble scourge/were formerly scourge)

Idealogues

Non-Carbonated Wine (of any color/variety)

Pandaren Food

People who claim to be good fighters, but hide behind ranged weaponry

Habits (Good or Bad):

He’s schedule-bound, and very predictable because of it.

He paces at all given opportunities.

All personal criticisms are lumped in with insults and redirected to the ‘these people aren’t worth my time’ box.

He always sleeps on the right side of the bed. Always.

There must be a clock in every room he sleeps in. Checking the time is the first thing he does in the morning, before he even rolls out of bed. He has a collection of Gilnean pocket watches that accompany him when he is travelling.

Personality Traits Drawn To:

Passionate

Calculating

Ambitious

Confident

Intelligent, Specifically Logical/Tactical

This isn’t a personality trait so much as a skill, but he is drawn to people who know how to play the game. He’s a politician by birthright.

Personality Traits Repelled From:

False Ego

Emotional, Mental, Spiritual or Physical Frailty/Imbalance

Willful Ignorance or Ineptitude

Cowardice

Victim & Martyr Complexes

None of these are irredeemable if they are balanced out by other traits that he is drawn to. The only thing that he is unshakably, irrevocably repulsed by is poorly controlled emotion.

Fears:

Sensory Deprivation

Deep Sea Sailing

OOC Notes 

I prefer to write him in a very uncontrolled way, meaning that I refuse to OOCly dictate the direction his story takes and will instead allow IC to develop in a natural way according the the actions and words of the characters involved. This does mean that I am open to things like character injury and illness if the circumstances are realistic and genuine. I don’t suffer OOC drama well, and will cut off interaction at the first whiff of it.