OOC: Application and Info
PLAYER INFO
NAME: GG
LJ: ggmoonycrisco
AGE: 22
CONTACT: AIM: FullArmoredGG
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Mountain Time, yeehaw
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: None. NOOB ALERT
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Godot (AKA Diego Armando. He does not answer to this name anymore.)
EDENSPHERE NAME: Vladimir
SERIES: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
RESERVED: Yes
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:
Let's get one thing out of the way first. Godot loves coffee. Loves it. Even italicized, this is the understatement of the millenium. To say that Godot "loves" coffee is like saying that China is "crowded" or that the universe is "big." He has a countless number of his own personal blends and can tell them apart by both scent and taste. Godot drinks more coffee in a day than most people do in a week, and seems completely immune to caffeine at this point. He reportedly partakes in 17 cups per trial day (six hours or so) and with that staggering statistic, one can only imagine how much he drinks the rest of the time. When he is not drinking coffee he is probably talking about it somehow. It is the favorite theme of a good chunk of his metaphors.
Behind the omnipresent coffee cup and just below the creepy glowing mask is a cryptic smile that rarely falters. Godot revels in his self-made "mysterious" persona. He is forever cocky and usually smug, coming off as a little too self-assured at best and an arrogant douchebag at worst. He speaks predominately in baffling metaphors that make little sense to anybody else and often require him to explain them. He often quotes his own personal "rules" that seem bizarrely suited for whatever the given situation and are probably made up off the top of his head. Godot is also very charismatic and something of a flirt, though when it comes down to it he takes little interest in other people and prefers to keep to himself, aside from offering unsolicited sarcastic commentary to the people around him. Getting a rise out of people seems to be one of his hobbies.
If you somehow intrigue him or you manage to get past the cool facade, you will see a very different side of Godot. Under the mask, he is a passionate individual with extreme dedication to whatever his personal cause. He's very bullheaded and obsessively holds grudges. Deeper still, he is the slightest bit unstable and very self-loathing, carrying the burden of a failing body and the mental scars of a man who has been utterly broken by time and circumstance. He cares deeply for the very few people who are important to him and would do literally anything to protect them, no matter the cost. Despite all the bitterness and cynicism he exudes, Godot is a good person at heart and dedicated to the virtue of justice. He simply counts on the identity he created for himself in order to hide that fact.
TIMELINE: Midway through Trials and Tribulations- PRE-3-5
BACKGROUND:
Diego Armando was a popular and talented defense attorney at the Grossberg and Co. Law Offices, located in Los Angeles, California. Despite his reputation as a shameless playboy, his disturbing addiction to coffee and his arrogant, devil-may-care attitude, he was very dedicated to putting true criminals behind bars and defending the innocent accused. Diego was content in his role as the hotshot lawyer until he met Mia Fey, a young attorney fresh out of law school and the newest hire onto the Grossberg staff. Diego was immediately taken by Mia's beauty and more than likely planned on seducing her when he offered to take her under his wing, but he was intrigued when he found the young lawyer shared his passion for justice and belief in her clients.
Serving as her mentor, Diego was by Mia's side when she argued her first case, States vs. Fawles. The trial took a turn for the horrific when Mia's client committed suicide on the stand, under the influence of Dahlia Hawthorne, the prosecution's star witness-- and the true murderer in the case at hand. Mia was so traumatized by her client's death that she suffered a nervous breakdown, and Diego watched in fury as Dahlia left the courtroom a free woman.
Driven by their mutual thirst for justice, Diego and Mia dedicated the next six months to their investigation of Dahlia Hawthorne and her prior crimes, their ultimate goal to put her in prison where she belonged. Also over the course of these six months, the two of them fell in love and started dating. The extent of their relationship remains something of a mystery to anybody but the two of them, but it was the first time that the flighty playboy Diego ever connected so deeply with a woman. Finally getting somewhere in their case, Diego arranged a meeting alone with Dahlia at the courthouse cafeteria to ask her a few questions. Over the course of the meeting, Dahlia slipped a specialized chemical poison into Diego's coffee cup, and after drinking it, he collapsed within moments. Paramedics found him unresponsive when they arrived, not breathing with no pulse. Diego Armando was pronounced dead on the scene a little after noon on August 27, 2012.
A few minutes later, the dead man was miraculously resuscitated as medics transported him to a hospital. Doctors managed to stabilize his condition, but he remained in a very deep coma.
The shocking "murder" made newspaper headlines and remained unsolved, as Dahlia managed to pass off the damning evidence to a certain spiky-haired, hapless college student, Phoenix Wright. Eight months later, Mia Fey would find herself defending Phoenix against murder charges that once again centered around Dahlia Hawthorne. This time, however, Mia was successful. Dahlia was found guilty of both the murder at hand and that of Diego Armando eight months earlier. She was sentenced to death, and Mia had her revenge-- but an empty victory, as Diego was still comatose and doctors predicted he would never awaken.
Five years later, thanks to the aroma of a doctor's morning coffee, Diego beat the odds again and finally opened his eyes. The doctors gravely informed him of his condition-- the poison had badly damaged his central nervous system and his organs. The chemicals permanently bleached his coal black hair a ghostly white. He was blind, the nerves in his eyes irreparably damaged. At 33, the once-handsome attorney's body was weaker and in more pain than that of a man over twice his age. He would require extensive medications and other procedures just to stay alive.
The real blow came when he learned that Mia Fey had been murdered two years ago by a man she was investigating alone. The woman Diego loved was dead. There wasn't even anybody left to take revenge on, since both Dahlia and the man who killed Mia were already in prison. There was nobody waiting for him to wake up.
Utterly shattered, blaming himself for everything and unable to cope with what happened to him, Diego disgustedly cast away every aspect of his former life, his career and his identity. From that day on he assumed a new name and became an entirely different person, "Godot"-- the one that everybody waits for.
Godot underwent extensive physical therapy and received an infrared visor to correct his blindness (somewhat), and after several months was finally released from the hospital. He investigated the records of every case Mia took on while he was comatose, including the "death" of Diego Armando, the imprisonment of Dahlia Hawthorne and Mia Fey's own murder. One name stood out in all three cases: Phoenix Wright, Mia's protege and the man running her practice after her death. Not only had Phoenix been unwittingly responsible for the cover-up of Diego's murder, but according to Godot's desperate logic, he was responsible for Mia's death by failing to be there on the night she was killed. Desperate for someone to blame and determined to challenge the young attorney, Godot became a prosecutor so that the two of them could do battle in an equal arena. He faced Phoenix in court several times and though he lost each, he doggedly continued in his quest, accepting only cases that pit him against the "porcupine-headed idiot". Meanwhile, poor Phoenix could only wonder about the identity of the strange man in the metal mask, utterly clueless who he was or why he carried such a grudge against him.
ABILITIES:
Godot is an ordinary human being without any special physical abilities. In fact, though he is well-built and appears in good shape, he's actually very weak and can only endure strenuous activity for a few minutes before giving out. That's not to say that he's helpless in a fight. He hits surprisingly hard and for those few minutes he can hold out, he's a formidable opponent. His health problems resulting from his poisoning have been stalled from degrading any further in Edensphere, but he's still in very poor health and will need to have regular medical checkups.
Also of note is the extremely conspicuous visor Godot wears over his eyes. Without it he is completely blind, but as long as he wears the visor he can see through the visual signals it picks up. The visor is imperfect and can't fix everything-- he is still basically colorblind and the color red does not register at all.
The bulk of Godot's abilities lie in his sharp wit and intellect. He's extremely clever and has a mind for puzzles and solving logical problems. He is more of a thinker than a man of action. Along with his natural charisma and gift for words, he speaks and understands Spanish.
The one unusual skill he posseses is the mostly useless ability to identify any blend of coffee by roasting method and flavor breakdown within a sip or two. I will be highly impressed if this ever manages to come up in any practical respect.