Application and Info for xi_rpg
Here is Godot's application and profile information for xi_rpg.
All entries below this one are relevant to daisychainrpg.
Name: GG
LJ: ggmoonycrisco
Email: sailorstarcomedy@hotmail.com
Messenger: FullArmoredGG (AIM)
Feel free to use this post as an HMD. If you have any issues with the way I play Diegodot, please bring them to my attention in whatever method makes you the most comfortable.
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Diego Armando
CODENAME: "Godot"
SERIES/SOURCE: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
AGE: 33
GENDER: Male
ROLE: Staff- Guidance Counselor. Being a former criminal defense attorney, Godot is especially good at legal counsel, and he's the kind of guy who gives pretty good regular counseling too. He's happy to help students who need to talk about life issues, social problems, academic troubles and the other trials and tribulations of growing up and/or growing up mutant. He can also offer career advice or assist in academic scheduling, help introduce new students to the school and intervene with students who have discipline problems. Of course, his advice comes in the form of extended metaphors and every student gets a complimentary/mandatory cup of coffee upon entering his office, but he generally knows what he's talking about and it is guaranteed to be the best goddamn coffee you've ever tasted.
Godot is also on standby in case the Institute or any of its students or faculty require his legal services.
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. Typical 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, State 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. Attempts at resuscitation failed, and Diego Armando was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital.
En route to the hospital morgue, the pulse monitor started to beep again and against all odds or expectations, Diego was revived. He remained in a deep coma that doctors couldn't explain or hope to rouse him from. Medical tests showed that somehow, his body was processing the poison that nearly killed him. It was discovered that the lawyer possessed a mutant gene that gave him a superhuman metabolism and tolerance for drugs and toxins. His body was slowly breaking down the poison and there was no telling how long it would take for him to regain consciousness.
Five years later, thanks to the aroma of a doctor's morning coffee, Diego finally opened his eyes. Any other person might have been comatose for the rest of their life, but Diego was able to bounce back-- not without a cost, though. The poison had not killed him, but as his body processed it, it 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 in worse shape than that of a man over twice his age.
Of course, learning he was a mutant and now a cripple didn't bother Diego too much. 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 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 cleared for release from the hospital. The doctors were understandably quite concerned about his mental health and in an attempt to reintroduce him to society in a productive way, suggested that he find somewhere to go that would serve as rehabilitation, training to help him understand his mutation and a way for him to work with others. A psychiatric work release program found him the position at Xavier Institute. With his charisma, his law background and his experience in public relations, he accepted the position of guidance counselor and also volunteered his legal services, just in case one of these young mutant hooligans or the Institute itself find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
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 with no ill effects. 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, a talented communicator who is surprisingly good with people when he wants to be. When he doesn't want to be, he comes off as an asshole of the highest caliber. Beyond everyday chitchat, though, he 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.
APPEARANCE:
Unmistakeable, that's for sure. Godot is a tall and well-built man of Latino descent, but beyond that it's hard to discern much about him from his appearance. His hair is (now) naturally shock white, he keeps his facial hair well-trimmed in a chinstrap goatee (inexplicably still black) and he has two hoop earrings pierced in his left ear. He's actually quite handsome, but most people don't spot that past the extremely conspicuous metal visor he wears over his eyes. If you somehow get to see him without his visor on (and you probably won't), his eyes are blank and white, obviously blind. He prefers to be well-dressed and always wears slacks, button-up shirts in various colors and ties.
POWERS:
Godot's mutation is the absorption and emission of chemicals. He possesses superhuman level of metabolism-- his body can break down and absorb all types of inorganic chemicals, poisons, drugs, etc. without the usual side effect of, you know, death. Once absorbed, he can concentrate and release these chemicals from his body, through tears, sweat, exhalation, or simply gathering it in his palm. This makes him, basically, a human chemical plant.
This sounds cool, but it actually really sucks to be him, for several reasons. Firstly and most inconveniently, his ability makes medical drugs useless, leaving him forced to deal with his chronic pain and nervous symptoms in other ways. The poor guy can't even get drunk-- his metabolism makes him immune to alcohol and any other perception-altering drugs.
Secondly, though he processes drain cleaner the way that most people process cheeseburgers, he still gets the "fat" and "cholesterol" too-- chemicals he absorbs are left floating around his body. Getting rid of these chemicals can be quite dangerous, depending on what it was. Alcohol and mild drugs are fairly harmless, but potent chemicals make him literally poisonous, and capable of killing plants by breathing on them or making people sick simply by touch. Though he can control this, to a point, it's not exactly healthy to have those kinds of toxins floating around in his system and his body must eliminate them, one way or another-- left alone too long, they will start to cause further damage to his organs.
To prevent this from happening, Godot does not take any drugs or expose himself to any substances that might activate his powers.
Luckily, possibly as a part of his mutation or possibly because he's just a freak of nature anyway, the only chemical that has a positive effect on Godot's body is caffeine. In large quantities, the stimulant minimizes his symptoms like pain and seizures, and also prevents him having to take any drugs that might end up leaking out his hands. Godot prefers to take his caffeine in his favorite form, so he now actually has a medically viable reason why he drinks so much coffee. You can bet he relishes in this fact.
Incidentally, his hypermetabolism also makes it so he doesn't have to pee half as much as you'd think he would.
Also, contrary to popular rumor among the students, Godot's visor does not shoot lasers.
Yet.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
Mentioned vaguely above but just for the sake of completionism, it's worth mentioning that without his visor, Godot is completely blind. With his visor, he still has rather poor vision and is for all intents and purposes colorblind, particularly to the color red.
He owns 20 coffee machines, which all have names. Half of them line the walls of his office and the other half line the walls of his bedroom.
He genuinely enjoys listening to jazz music and likes to do crossword puzzles, filled out in a thin-point black marker.
He would actually prefer to be addressed by his codename "Godot," and he answers more readily to it than his real name. He's not about to explain himself or argue about it to anybody, but it is obvious that the use of his real name makes him very uncomfortable. Incidentally he is the only staff member whose codename comes by way of nervous breakdown rather than dashing heroics.
All entries below this one are relevant to daisychainrpg.
Name: GG
LJ: ggmoonycrisco
Email: sailorstarcomedy@hotmail.com
Messenger: FullArmoredGG (AIM)
Feel free to use this post as an HMD. If you have any issues with the way I play Diegodot, please bring them to my attention in whatever method makes you the most comfortable.
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Diego Armando
CODENAME: "Godot"
SERIES/SOURCE: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
AGE: 33
GENDER: Male
ROLE: Staff- Guidance Counselor. Being a former criminal defense attorney, Godot is especially good at legal counsel, and he's the kind of guy who gives pretty good regular counseling too. He's happy to help students who need to talk about life issues, social problems, academic troubles and the other trials and tribulations of growing up and/or growing up mutant. He can also offer career advice or assist in academic scheduling, help introduce new students to the school and intervene with students who have discipline problems. Of course, his advice comes in the form of extended metaphors and every student gets a complimentary/mandatory cup of coffee upon entering his office, but he generally knows what he's talking about and it is guaranteed to be the best goddamn coffee you've ever tasted.
Godot is also on standby in case the Institute or any of its students or faculty require his legal services.
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. Typical 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, State 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. Attempts at resuscitation failed, and Diego Armando was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital.
En route to the hospital morgue, the pulse monitor started to beep again and against all odds or expectations, Diego was revived. He remained in a deep coma that doctors couldn't explain or hope to rouse him from. Medical tests showed that somehow, his body was processing the poison that nearly killed him. It was discovered that the lawyer possessed a mutant gene that gave him a superhuman metabolism and tolerance for drugs and toxins. His body was slowly breaking down the poison and there was no telling how long it would take for him to regain consciousness.
Five years later, thanks to the aroma of a doctor's morning coffee, Diego finally opened his eyes. Any other person might have been comatose for the rest of their life, but Diego was able to bounce back-- not without a cost, though. The poison had not killed him, but as his body processed it, it 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 in worse shape than that of a man over twice his age.
Of course, learning he was a mutant and now a cripple didn't bother Diego too much. 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 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 cleared for release from the hospital. The doctors were understandably quite concerned about his mental health and in an attempt to reintroduce him to society in a productive way, suggested that he find somewhere to go that would serve as rehabilitation, training to help him understand his mutation and a way for him to work with others. A psychiatric work release program found him the position at Xavier Institute. With his charisma, his law background and his experience in public relations, he accepted the position of guidance counselor and also volunteered his legal services, just in case one of these young mutant hooligans or the Institute itself find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
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 with no ill effects. 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, a talented communicator who is surprisingly good with people when he wants to be. When he doesn't want to be, he comes off as an asshole of the highest caliber. Beyond everyday chitchat, though, he 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.
APPEARANCE:
Unmistakeable, that's for sure. Godot is a tall and well-built man of Latino descent, but beyond that it's hard to discern much about him from his appearance. His hair is (now) naturally shock white, he keeps his facial hair well-trimmed in a chinstrap goatee (inexplicably still black) and he has two hoop earrings pierced in his left ear. He's actually quite handsome, but most people don't spot that past the extremely conspicuous metal visor he wears over his eyes. If you somehow get to see him without his visor on (and you probably won't), his eyes are blank and white, obviously blind. He prefers to be well-dressed and always wears slacks, button-up shirts in various colors and ties.
POWERS:
Godot's mutation is the absorption and emission of chemicals. He possesses superhuman level of metabolism-- his body can break down and absorb all types of inorganic chemicals, poisons, drugs, etc. without the usual side effect of, you know, death. Once absorbed, he can concentrate and release these chemicals from his body, through tears, sweat, exhalation, or simply gathering it in his palm. This makes him, basically, a human chemical plant.
This sounds cool, but it actually really sucks to be him, for several reasons. Firstly and most inconveniently, his ability makes medical drugs useless, leaving him forced to deal with his chronic pain and nervous symptoms in other ways. The poor guy can't even get drunk-- his metabolism makes him immune to alcohol and any other perception-altering drugs.
Secondly, though he processes drain cleaner the way that most people process cheeseburgers, he still gets the "fat" and "cholesterol" too-- chemicals he absorbs are left floating around his body. Getting rid of these chemicals can be quite dangerous, depending on what it was. Alcohol and mild drugs are fairly harmless, but potent chemicals make him literally poisonous, and capable of killing plants by breathing on them or making people sick simply by touch. Though he can control this, to a point, it's not exactly healthy to have those kinds of toxins floating around in his system and his body must eliminate them, one way or another-- left alone too long, they will start to cause further damage to his organs.
To prevent this from happening, Godot does not take any drugs or expose himself to any substances that might activate his powers.
Luckily, possibly as a part of his mutation or possibly because he's just a freak of nature anyway, the only chemical that has a positive effect on Godot's body is caffeine. In large quantities, the stimulant minimizes his symptoms like pain and seizures, and also prevents him having to take any drugs that might end up leaking out his hands. Godot prefers to take his caffeine in his favorite form, so he now actually has a medically viable reason why he drinks so much coffee. You can bet he relishes in this fact.
Incidentally, his hypermetabolism also makes it so he doesn't have to pee half as much as you'd think he would.
Also, contrary to popular rumor among the students, Godot's visor does not shoot lasers.
Yet.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
Mentioned vaguely above but just for the sake of completionism, it's worth mentioning that without his visor, Godot is completely blind. With his visor, he still has rather poor vision and is for all intents and purposes colorblind, particularly to the color red.
He owns 20 coffee machines, which all have names. Half of them line the walls of his office and the other half line the walls of his bedroom.
He genuinely enjoys listening to jazz music and likes to do crossword puzzles, filled out in a thin-point black marker.
He would actually prefer to be addressed by his codename "Godot," and he answers more readily to it than his real name. He's not about to explain himself or argue about it to anybody, but it is obvious that the use of his real name makes him very uncomfortable. Incidentally he is the only staff member whose codename comes by way of nervous breakdown rather than dashing heroics.