ooc; inigo app for haven

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Name: Jelle
Contact Info: queeningsquare | aim: Lunixhime
Other Characters Played: Ange Ushiromiya (entreats)
Preferred Apartment: None.

Character Name: Inigo
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon Point: Right before the final chapter.
Background/History: here. As a note I will be playing Inigo as Henry's (and Olivia, but that's by default) son!

Personality: The most apparent thing about Inigo that anyone would notice in a matter of mere moments is that Inigo loves girls. Really, really badly. He's shown to be flirting with girls all the time in game and all his supports with girls (except for his sister, if he has one in the playthrough) are based on him flirting with girls. Heck, even his supports with male characters tend to center around it. The very first time we see Inigo in the game he's already flirting with a girl and telling her he'll take out some bandits to help her out (and he's clearly hoping for a reward that isn't necessarily money). He never seems to be lucky in any of his endeavours with girls though and gets rejected and slapped all the time. Even so, Inigo seems to be unable to take no for an answer, both when it comes to girls and to other things. Even when a girl clearly shows no interest in him and rejects him, he still tries to flirt with her again and again (this is especially apparent in his supports with Kjelle and Severa). He also harasses Gerome over his mask and despite the guy obviously not wanting to take it off, Inigo just grabs it and takes it. He can be fairly obnoxious in this regard and can also come across as extremely self-centered and even childish. This also shows in the way he can be slightly unpolished sometimes, like how he uses the sword that's the heritage of the royal family to cut an apple or when he says the best part about wielding that sword would be that girls would probably be into it (when he's Lucina's brother). Often it seems like he has a complete one track mind that only seems to think of women and how to score with them. Inigo also acts overconfident most of the time, especially when it comes to trying to impress girls. When a girl suggests he might be killed by a group of bandits he completely waves off the idea with a smile and says: "Don't be silly. I'd never let anyone ruin this perfect face."

Inigo is not nearly as cool as he'd like to make himself seem though. He's a pretty emotional kind of guy and it definitely shows, he completely sucks at holding back his emotions. When Inigo feels something, it seems to show immediately, like how he's easily startled and will scream when he's approached out of nowhere or when Gerome's wyvern seems to get mad at him ("K-Keep her away from me! I'm too young to be mauled!") and how he easily gets worked up and will start getting grumpy and pouty over someone at the slightest thing (he calls Gerome stupid just since the guy watched him dance in secret and often gets mad or sarcastic at another guy when they score more easily with girls than him). He also cries easily - he says he's a mess for days after girls turn him down and in his supports with Gerome he actually starts crying since he says he tries to hard to get girls and then Gerome comes along and all he does is being mysterious with a mask and gets all the girls without effort while Inigo keeps getting rejected. Often he will try to cover up his emotions with his womanizer front when he wants to seem cool, but he isn't particularly good at it. He can't convincingly tell a lie or cover anything up - Brady notes this at one point when he tells Inigo: "If you'd be anymore transparent, you'd be invisible." He just seems to be the kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. This stems mostly from the fact that despite the way Inigo acts, he's actually shy under it. The reason he even flirts with girls so much is since he was really shy as a kid and his mother told him he'd get over his shyness by talking to a lot of girls.. which he ended up taking too far and making him into the Inigo we see flirting with girls all over the place. Even now sometimes his shyness is shown though, like when he talks to his mother for the first time in the game and starts blushing because she shouldn't "look at me so intently, it makes me bashful". After that the conversation practically boils down to an out-shying competition with his mother where he literally tells her he's shyer than her and she says she's shyer while they both blush.. even Chrom can't take the secondhand embarassment from seeing it. Inigo is also really shy when it comes to his true dream, which is being a dancer like his mother. But people don't really like male dancers so it's a pretty embarassing dream and he only dares to practice dancing at night when he sneaks out of the camp to do it. He sometimes even spaces out in the middle of battle and imagines himself dancing. He's really self-conscious about his dream though and whenever someone confronts him about it, he just completely freaks out.

It has to be said though that while Inigo seems that simple, some of his support conversations reveal there's a lot more to him. Most of his overconfidence is just a farce, it's him overcompensating since he's actually pretty insecure (which is probably tied to his underlying shyness). He can't help but compare himself to others all the time and think he's worse than them. He can also sometimes get serious instead of his acting like a loser in his supports and think about his duty, but it's clear that he just prefers not thinking and acting that way. At one point in his support with Lucina (when they are siblings) he doesn't really want to get serious about wielding the Falchion (the royal sword) since it means practicing for when she'd die and he would have to use the sword instead. Inigo is the type who doesn't want to think about bad possibilities or about the people he cares about dying (again) and instead have fun in the present, even if it, as he acknowledges himself, might be cowardice. And that doesn't just apply to himself, it stretches to all the people around him as well. Often he's seen telling people to smile - he's optimistic and wants people to forget about the war for a moment and be able to have fun too. As a kid he made a promise with Brady to use whatever talents they had (dancing and violin playing, respectively) to make other people's lives easier. His attitude seems a little strange though considering his background: he comes from a grim future that consisted of mainly just running and fighting and where his parents died. His parents in the original timeline wonder about this too and question him about it, like in his support with his father. ("For someone who came from an apocalyptic hellscape, you're awfully carefree. Seems like you haven't a care in the world past whose bed you'll be sharing tonight.") But the reason he keeps smiling and joking around and flirting with girls and generally just having fun and making other people have fun is exactly because he comes from that sort of place. He never was allowed to show weakness in the future, so he can't show it now either. People were depending on him to be strong, so he had to be strong and pretend he was fine all the time even when he wasn't. He hides his weakness through acting like some carefree idiot (although part, if not most, of it just really is his personality beyond the hardship) even when he feels pain. As he tells his father in their support:

"You may think me a dandy and a fool, but a lot of people depended on me in the future. Every day, I was out there fighting Risen and risking my life. With everyone looking to me to be strong, I had no choice. I HAD to be invincible. I couldn't complain or show any weakness. Not with everyone else struggling in that damn war-torn wasteland... Even with you and Mother gone, I had to pretend I was fine. That I wasn't hurting. I had to fight every day of my sorry life and wear a smile while I did it! ...You said I looked like I didn't have a care in the world? Well, I'm sorry to tell you, but that's not the case at all. I smile and joke around because I don't want to show the world any weakness... If that disappoints you...then I guess you just have to be disappointed."

It's also then mostly in battle that Inigo's serious side shows more and the strength he has in enduring his own pain and not showing it to others, that he can be strong for their sake. Despite the way he might act outside of battle, he's not a selfish person in the end and is willing to do anything for the people he cares about. He's even willing to sacrifce his own life for the sake of his friends' since he just doesn't want to let alone die or leave anyone behind. This mostly shows in The Future Past 2, where he doesn't want to let Owain hold off the Risen by himself so their friends can escape, so despite the fact that Inigo could have run away, he instead stays with Owain and fights by his side, fully knowing it might mean his own death. It also shows that Inigo isn't a coward when it comes down to it, he never hesitates on heading into battle.

Outside of battle we see that Inigo is much less serious and more of his idiot self once more though as if all of his courage is forgotten, like when he freaks out every since time Minerva roars at him or (in Lucina's sibling support) when he spots a bug and is actually scared of it.

Abilities/Powers: Inigo is seasoned in battle. His in-game class is Hero (the upgraded form of his original Mercenary class), which is a class that fights with swords and axes and has fairly balanced stats with nothing in particular standing out. It means he's good with a sword or axe (a little better with the former than the latter though), enough to face and often kill bandits and other warriors in battle.

The special skills he knows thanks to his class are:

- Armsthrift, which makes weapons last longer and break less easily.
- Patience, a skill that increases the chance of hitting the enemy and avoiding the enemy's attacks when the enemy is the one initiating an attack.
- Sol, a skill that activates based on skill stat (let's say about a third of the time) and makes the user recover health (HP) equal to the damage they delivered to the enemy.
- Axebreaker, which gives a higher chance of hitting the enemy and avoiding their attacks when said enemy is using an axe.
- Luck +4 (inherited from his mother), which.. well, makes the luck skill higher, pretty much what it says on the tin. Luck is the stat the influences your chance of getting hit (making that lower) or hitting the enemy (making that higher). So in other words, with all of this considered he's pretty nimble in battle.

Items/Weapons: A steel sword, his mother's ring and dignity a Concoction which is basically a healing potion with limited use.

Sample Entry:

[ As Inigo starts his "broadcast" on the mirrors, he's already chuckling a little to himself, the grin on his face so wide it might as well be blinding. Sure, he might have been here in this place for a while already, but that doesn't hinder him from doing this kind of thing all the same. No matter what the nature of this place is. He's got to make a good impression even if it's a late one, right? ]

Dear ladies of Haven! Allow me to finally make my introduction, if you would forgive me for being so late. [ Yes, he's knowingly ignoring half of the population here.. ]

My name is Inigo, although "man of your dreams" might be appropriate as well.. [ Yes, he's being serious, even if he's still smiling his face off. ] But I will allow all of you beautiful creatures to call me that. I would not entirely be opposed to "darling" either, so feel free. I have to say I have seen quite a few of you around the village already and because of that I can hardly walk around without being simply astonished by all the beauty surrounding me! All of you will have to go a little more easy on me before I pass out!

[ That's.. probably more than just a little exaggerated, but Inigo is always over the top when it comes to these kind of things. How he can say all those corny things with a straight face is anyone's guess. He pulls his hand through his hair. ]

Perhaps that could be done through a little bit of.. alone time. [ He he. If you know what he means. You do know, right.. ] Now, now, no need to line up! I can assure you that each and every single one of you will get their turn, and I shall devote all of myself towards making sure you will get my full attention. So what do you say..?

[ Inigo, do you really expect to get any enthusiastic reactions to that.. ]

Sample Entry Two:

He knew it was dangerous. Sure, even though it might not be as dangerous in this time as it was in the future with the Risen all over, there were still threats to take into account even in this time. Bandits, their direct enemies, even some Risen as well..

It was why sneaking out of the camp at night probably wasn't the best idea. But there was hardly enough space in his tent to practice without knocking things over or running into a wall at least three times. He had tried already and it hadn't exactly been easy to provide an explanation for the bruise on his forehead the next day, mostly since he wasn't a very good liar. Not to mention that he was deadly afraid that any other member of the group would waltz right into his tent while he was in the middle of a dance. How would he ever survive that kind of embarassment? So after that time he decided it would be for the best to not practice in there anymore. But that left the question of where he could find a good place to practice. Even at night, there would be people around the camp who weren't able to sleep or had something urgent to do and during the day there would definitely even be people outside of the camp. Outside of the camp at night would be the only place with no people, huh? The only things to deal with would be bandits. Maybe Risen. Maybe-- okay, so maybe there were a lot of potential dangers. But somewhere in Inigo's head dealing with danger actually sounds a whole lot better than dealing with the embarassment of people seeing him dancing. Not like he was scared of those bandits, right?! What's an arrow in your shoulder compared to the humiliation of your secret hobby being known to everyone?!

.. Well, maybe he was a little nervous. By the time he actually left the camp and was surrounded by the darkness he had to gulp to himself at least. Not like he wasn't used to being by himself or fighting alone, but even so.. there was something about the idea of whatever there was out there lurking in the darkness that he didn't quite like. But the young man swallowed down the nervousness. Who cares, if one of those things shows up, he'll just get rid of it..! No problem! Even false confidence was confidence.

He comforted himself with the idea that at least in the darkness like this, truly nobody would be able to see him. And with that knowledge he could easily start on the dance routine he had practiced for so long already that he could dream it up any moment. The one his mother left him. A step to the right, a twirl..

In a few moments he had already almost forgotten the danger. If not just because dancing like this made him feel a little more safe, a little closer to his mother. All the times he had practiced this by her grave back home he had felt like she was watching over him, and here in the darkness with nothing but himself visible to him it felt a little like that once more. Almost as if she was right there. Sure, she was there in the camp as well, but he never did quite dare to show her in person. Maybe because even if she was his mother, she was still different like this, or maybe-- no, it was definitely just that he was too afraid of disappointing her. Especially after already being unable to save her in the future.

In the middle of a step he stopped, gazing up at the sky, even though everything looked the same in this lighting except for some faint stars. "Mother.. are you proud of me?"

It was hardly more than a whisper. He wasn't waiting for a direct answer, after all.