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Name: Gourry Gabriev
Fandom: Slayers
Canon point: After Evolution-R
Alignment: Neutral Dumb True Neutral
History: Here's a wiki, there's a wiki
Personality: Gourry is a good-natured and easy-going swordsman. He might not be the smartest crayon in the shed, but he's definitely the kind of guy you can have a beer with or vote into office. When left to his own devices, he proves to be generous, chivalrous, and very nearly responsible. He's a superb fighter and/or grunt laborer, and whether or not he's actually happy to help, he'll do it anyway, particularly if women and children are involved. His grandma always told him to be nice to women and children.
Of course, Gourry is rarely left to what devices he may have, and is generally reliant on the bossiness of Lina Inverse, whom he has decided (quite stubbornly and with little provocation) to protect for the rest of his life. It's a recurring joke that he has the brains of a jellyfish, and that's not an inaccurate sentiment. He drifts along after Lina without much brain or spine, and though he takes his protection of her with the utmost of seriousness, the rest of the world just goes by in a blur. It's not that Gourry's completely stupid - he's a good judge of character and someone you'd want on your side in a fight - but he is about a thousand blond jokes waiting to happen. He forgets names, faces, events, and big words. He spaces out during important plot moments. He makes constant streams of tactless observations that will guarantee he ends up in pain. That's just how he floats.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Gourry loves to eat. He loves to eat meat. He loves to eat potatoes. He loves to eat Lina's meat and potatoes. He loves to eat the green-blooded worm monster that an assassin put in Lina's meat and potatoes. You name it, and Gourry will eat it. (But not red peppers. He picks those out.)
SERVANT ABILITIES
Class: Saber
Special Ability: Gourry has fantastic stats. Quick on his feet, ridiculously strong, keen senses, good instinct, and an ability to strategize in battle that goes well beyond his perceived or applied intelligence.
Noble Phantasm: The Sword of Light. It's basically a souped-up lightsaber, which can be used in conjunction with magic (assuming one can use magic, which Gourry cannot) or shot as a projectile.
Weakness: He eats enough to feed a small army, can't fight girls, and is quite genuinely dumb. He's also a lot less useful when unarmed, particularly against anything that can't be taken down with a regular physical attack, as he is completely incapable of using magic.
Stats: Gourry min-maxed all of his stats into stabbing-related areas. High ATK, SPD, and DEF, low MDEF and INT.
OTHER
Any preferences for Master personality?: Gourry works best with flat-chested loudmouths who will take advantage of him (see below).
Player Availability: PST. Hours tend to be erratic but frequent, as I am a jobless bum/full-time student.
Apping with a Master? I am apping with laserdragon and wish to have her Yuffie as my Master.
SAMPLES
First-person:
Hey, I'm really sorry about this. I was raised better than to be a bandit, but she can be pretty stubborn, you know? I don't want to take anything from you, but if you had a little extra money or maybe some some meat you could give us, we'd be very grateful. And it'd be a lot easier for me to keep her from beating you up. I wouldn't even ask that much, but we've been eating trash all day. Actually it wasn't half bad, though I feel kinda sorry about the puppy we took that sausage from this morning...
I guess what I'm saying is we'd be really, really grateful, and it'll save you from having to hear her sob story about the Wutang clan or whatever it was, and I promise I'll make her put down the knife.
Third-person:
Gourry had no idea what was going on.
Normally, that was okay. Most of the time, he didn't have a lot of interest in what was going on to begin with. If something important happened he'd ask Lina, and she'd talk and talk and talk, and if he got too bored he could tune her out and imagine what it'd be like if she had boobs. He supposed he could ask that Yuppie girl again, but he just didn't feel right imagining the boobs of a stranger, no matter how much she could really use them.
Gourry didn't quite get why he had to do what this girl said, and he was rather annoyed about having to be in this weird city in the first place, but he figured there wasn't much he could do about it, so he might as well give it his best. And even if he didn't quite know what was happening (or where he was, or what he was doing, or how he was going to find Lina, or when he'd get to have lunch), he was darned well going to give it his all. So he headed out into Fuwhatsis City to try and find out just exactly what a Grail War was.
He stopped at a bar, because bars were always a good source of beer if not information, and over his seventh bowl of noodles (which he would feel very bad about dine'n'dashing on), he asked the bartender about grails. Surprisingly - to Gourry more than anyone - he actually listened to what the man had to say. To his shock and delight, he found that he actually had an interest the subject. He listened avidly, and didn't immediately forget much more than half of what he was told. When he returned to what's-her-face's Secret Ninja Box back in the alley, it was with the pride of someone who, however briefly, had paid attention to something!
Yessir, Gourry Gabriev knew all about grails, and he shared this information with gleeful abandon, lest it sieve out of his mind like so many other things in the 20... something... ish... however-many years of his life! He told that girl all about coal temperature, marinade, flipping the meat over so it wouldn't get burnt...
Gourry had no idea why he'd been kicked out of the box.