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[color=silver][sup][b]“Our best course of action might be what's called a 'tactical withdraw'.”[/b][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
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[COLOR=silver][INDENT][sub][color=#009C1A][b]True Self[/b][/color] 
Charles Gaillard

[color=#009C1A][b]Persona[/b][/color] 
Anders

[color=#009C1A][b]Pathos[/b][/color]
Thyrien

[color=#009C1A][b]Role[/b][/color]
Tank

[color=#009C1A][b]Weapon of Choice[/b][/color]
Spear

[color=#009C1A][b]Domains[/b][/color]
Earth, [b]Metal[/b]; Divination, [b]Enhancement[/b], Protection

[color=#009C1A][b]Playstyle & Attitude[/b][/color]
Battlefield Controller; Pragmatist[/sub]

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[color=#009C1A]C H A R L E S  G A I L L A R D : A L L  T H A T  G L I T T E R S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=silver][indent]Affluence. Privilege. Prestige. These words describe much of the life Charles Gaillard has led. While he was not born into the ultra-wealthy, Charles' parents skirted the margins just enough to ensure their son would never want for anything, be it material things or, as he grew from boy to man, opportunities to climb ever higher on the social ladder and secure a position even higher than their own. A natural extrovert and keen study, it was all but assured that Charles' schooling was an easy affair. He passed through his secondary schooling at the top of his class. When it came time for higher education, familial connections assured him a place in the Ivy League. As connections spawned connections and his magnetic personality won him fast friends during his raucous college years, a degree in business and finance transitioned him to a cushy position at a prestigious New York firm. 

And so life turned and turned. Financially secure and content in the business of making money off of other's money, Charles' life played out like so many others. He tomcatted around for a while, met that special someone, tied the knot, and bought a house out in Queens. Their marriage proved fruitful, and three beautiful children followed. It was familiar. Comfortable. 

It was [i]boring[/i].

For those so deprived, a lifestyle of conspicuous consumption seemed luxurious beyond measure. But for Charles, a lifetime of so easily achieving one's desires did little to quell his desires. So he found a thrill in other things. Alcohol, women, and the occasional illicit substance. Evermore he found himself at home less and less, focusing more on his career than his family. His excuses grew lamer and lamer. Eventually, his wife stopped asking what was on his breath, or where that glitter came from. Eventually, he stopped bothering to make up the stories. It was familiar. Comfortable.

Until it wasn't.

Three days after his youngest set off for Upstate, she served him in the papers. It hurt, at first. Then it hurt even more when he realized how much it hurt. It was easy to become bored with routine. With the constants in life. To take them for granted and push them from one's mind in search of something new and exciting. But all too often, only after it is too late, does one realize just how necessary they are. That was a lesson even Columbia failed to teach him. 

The divorce went as smoothly as could be expected, after twenty years of marriage. And in the absence of his wife and children, Charles fell back into bad habits. But substance abuse, he knew, was a young man's game. So in place of the bottle, he searched for other frontiers to occupy his mind. Virtual reality was a strange one, especially for an old hound like himself, but it was cheaper than pills. Pariah Online swiftly became a refuge to escape a reality that, for the first time in a long time, ceased to readily welcome him. 
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[color=#009C1A]A N D E R S : T H E  W A L L  W H I C H  S T I N G S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
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Anders has been playing Pariah Online since day one of its launch—as he pre-ordered it a few days after the lawyers finalized his divorce—and so considers himself something of an old hand, even if the game is relatively new. A smooth-talking wisecracker, he proves to be an amiable and entertaining partner, though popular as he may be with random party members, he's made only a few concrete bonds in the game. Instead, he fancies himself a wanderer, moving from place to place and helping out wherever newer players need it. His experience in dealing with more difficult raids and tendency to enable more reckless DPS players assures that he has little difficulty sliding in and out of parties.

The game serves as an outlet for Anders' less appealing qualities. It allows him to seek the thrills that keep him titillated in a risk-averse way, carefully weighing the pros and cons of every engagement with the assurance even a mistake ultimately costs little more than a few minutes of wasted time. His focus on crowd-controlling and directing the flow of fights allows him to maintain a sense of control over the situations he finds himself in. An appealing prospect, given what awaits him when the headset is set aside. Perhaps most importantly, though he would be hard-pressed to admit it, it gives him a chance to prove he can be what he was not for his family. A positive influence. A protector. To prove he can be there when he is needed.
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[center][center][color=009C1A][b]Ready in Eight Directions[/b][/color]
[sub][color=gray]Divination + Enhancement[/color][/sub][/center]
[indent]A keystone of his defensive play, Anders rears back and assumes a wide stance with his weapon, enhancing both his senses and his reflexes in the process. Ready in Eight Directions allows him to enter an almost meditative flow state, immediately lashing out to intercept, parry, or otherwise deflect any attacks or enemies who enter into his reach with startling speed and precision, effectively turning him into a roadblock of flashing steel capable of warding off a great many enemies.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Thunderclap Rush[/b][/color]
[sub][color=gray]Enhancement[/color][/sub][/center]
[indent]Empowering the muscles of his legs, Anders moves in a direct line so swiftly as to almost appear instantaneous. He uses it to intercept or engage with enemies, or reposition himself while maintaining Ready in Eight Directions, as the rapidity of the movement allows his concentration to go unbroken. So named for the signature cracking noise caused by his displacement.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Liquid Steel Flow[/b][/color]
[sub][color=gray]Enhancement + Metal[/color][/sub][/center]
[indent]One of Anders' more underhanded, but doubtlessly effective tactics. Liquid Steel Flow allows him to alter the properties of his spear on the fly. Most commonly, he uses it to alter the length of his weapon, either shortening or extending its reach to best fit the situation he finds himself in. A favorite of his involves changing his weapon's range mid-strike, allowing him to keep his opponents constantly off-guard.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]The Earth Flows[/b][/color]
[sub][color=gray]Earth[/color][/sub][/center]
[indent]A strictly utilitarian form of magic, The Earth Flows allows Anders to shape the terrain around him to better suit his purposes. Whether it's creating higher elevations to attack from, creating a quicksand pit beneath an opponent to throw them off balance, or hurling an ally out of the way using a sudden bulge from the ground, it has proven an essential tool to disrupting his enemies.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Immortal Blade Triumphant[/b][/color]
[sub][color=gray]Enhancement + Protection[/color][/sub][/center]
[indent]One of the only truly offensive tools in Anders' arsenal, Immortal Blade Triumphant can broadly be broken down into two parts. The first part is the actual spell itself: a ward placed upon the head of his weapon that sits dormant until such a time as his weapon collides with something. Whether it be an enemy's blow, their flesh, or even magical projectiles, his spear absorbs a small portion of the impact, storing away the force throughout the battle. The second part of the spell makes use of that stored power, allowing Anders to release it to empower his counterattack. Usually released in bursts by way of explosively empowered thrusts, Anders is also capable of venting all the stored energy at once, hurling the weapon at an opponent to avoid the resulting detonation.[/indent][/center]
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[center][center][color=009C1A][b]Close Quarters Technician[/b][/color][/center]
[indent]Anders' is a masterful practitioner of defensive fighting, his style of battle akin to that of an out-boxer. His sense of timing and spacing are incredibly precise, and he leverages his reach and speed to counteract his opponent's attacks and corral them into favorable positions at spear-point, either shutting down their offensive potential or helping keep them off his less robust allies.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Long Haul Combatant[/b][/color][/center]
[indent]With his strategy being one of attrition rather than speed, Anders possesses a deep reserve of stamina and a living knowledge of how to best leverage it using patience and efficiency of movement. He is nearly impossible to exhaust and thrives in extended battles where an opponent might burn through their resources before he does his, whittling them down by a thousand cuts before they can land a telling blow to defeat him in kind.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Acute Awareness[/b][/color][/center]
[indent]Part of being a controller means having a sharp sense of the battlefield and the ability to keep track of multiple things at once with precision. Anders excels in this field. His spatial awareness and prodigious reflexes allow him to swiftly react to things mid-combat, whether it be allies losing their coordination or enemies launching unexpected attacks, and correct them before they manage to spell disaster, thereby dictating the flow of battle. [/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]By Any Means[/b][/color][/center]
[indent]An inherent danger that is thoroughly hidden beneath his friendly, devil-may-care attitude, Anders is a ruthless pragmatist. He has little qualms in using underhanded or dishonest tactics to get an advantage over his enemies, whether it's extending his spear through them amidst a gesture of surrender, or using his earth magic to throw loosened soil into their eyes. History, he reasons, is decided by the victors, and he has no intention of letting his side be forgotten by it.[/indent]

[center][color=009C1A][b]Silver-Tongued Devil[/b][/color][/center]
[indent]A skill born from a lifetime of experience and natural charisma, Anders is a smooth-talking man. Easy-going and sanguine, he is easy to like and difficult to dissuade when he decides to work his magic, carefully swaying others to his point of mind with rhetoric so carefully disguised as casual banter that few have the skill—or natural distrust—to see through it as a matter of course. [/indent][/center]
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