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[Character Name] Canas
[Canon] Fire Emblem (Rekka no Ken)
[Point Taken from Canon] After the fight with both Nergal and the dragon
[Age] 20-30ish?
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero! He's married. :D
[Eye Color] Purple
[Hair Color] Purple
[Height] Average?
[Other] Well, he has a monocle.
[Clothing] This. In other words, typical mage fare.
[Background]
Not much is known about Canas before he joins Eliwood’s army. We know that he is the son of a powerful and famous mage, Niime, and that he is married. We can theorize that Nino is his niece, and we know that his three brothers were all overwhelmed by their use of dark/elder magic. And we know that Canas was wandering the world to study, but especially with the intent to study the Dread Isle, and, it seems, Nergal’s morphs. This is when he meets and joins up with Eliwood. It doesn’t take much to recruit him; in fact, when he learns that Eliwood’s army’s destination is the Dread Isle, he more or less begs to come.
After, he assists Eliwood in searching for his father, and later with the intent to defeat Nergal. So as to avoid spoilers here and simply rehashing the game, here is a summary of events in the game. (Canas joins the troupe during the Port of Badon level: Chapter 23x)
[Personality]
Canas embodies the bright-eyed but rather klutzy and clueless scholar. He is very intelligent, and also rather humble; he never flaunts his skills or his heritage on purpose, simply because he sees no purpose to it. Surely everyone loves to learn, right? Right? They’re all intellectuals in his mind.
He doesn’t entirely understand why people wouldn’t want to learn. To him, there isn’t anything more exciting or exhilarating than learning something new or studying. So while entirely well-meaning, he can sometimes annoy or anger others through accidentally making them feel unintelligent. He doesn’t mean to flaunt his intelligence, but he really can’t help it. Canas speaks using an impressive vocabulary, and refers to mathematical, scientific and magical theories and properties as if he expects everyone to know exactly what he’s talking about. And he does expect that. Canas tends to have a very generous, if rather naïve, view of people and their intelligence.
On the flip side, Canas is a klutz. He is physically ungraceful, with the tendency to trip over his own feet-generally when carrying a stack of books-or to have butterfingers. And, as intelligent as he is, he is certainly lacking in common sense, as it seems he had thought that reading in the middle of a battlefield was a good idea.
He generally does put his studies above everything else, however, even his physical safety. Though almost his entire family was swallowed up by darkness in the pursuit of the elder arts, he still studies and uses them (because clearly he cannot properly understand them unless he himself uses them, and he does have an aptitude for them). It isn’t that he doesn’t have any consideration for his safety or health-he admits quite frankly to Lord Pent that he is afraid that the same thing might happen to him. But quite simply, it is worth it for the chance to discover something new. It isn’t for fame or recognition either. He truly does love the thrill of discovery and understanding, and aims for the unattainable goal (he is aware it is unattainable) of learning everything there is to know.
So while Canas is honestly a good person, he is easily distracted by the promise of learning something new. He is married, but he left his wife at home with their two year old child to go study the Dread Isle. And it is entirely possible that they only got married to study each other’s magics anyway, as she is an anima mage. And Canas sees nothing wrong with this.
He has some difficulty understanding things out of an academic context, especially people and emotional attachments. He does try, and he does care about people, but…how long will it be before he breaks off all contact to study the way the stars move in relation to the strength of his magic, or how the rotation of the seasons affects the magical triangle? Who knows? He doesn’t try to be unreliable or socially awkward. But on a list of things important to him, his research comes first, and everything follows that in a nice, jumbled mess that even he can’t quite untangle.
Otherwise, when it comes to his personality, Canas is always well-meaning, even when he does stick his foot in his mouth or do something unintelligent. This happens often; he lacks common sense, after all, and add that to a failure to understand people, and he ends up with the tendency to make comments that, while not hurtful, aren’t very tactful either.
He is very, very, very easily excitable. Especially when it comes to new discoveries, knowledge, experiments, books, ect., and he does fanboy. IC-ly. When that happens, he will simply be more incoherent than usual. (Canas has an interesting way of being incoherent, too. He can get the words out just fine, but he rarely makes any sense as he babbles about science and discoveries.)
Canas is also a bit of a doormat. He doesn’t get angry easily, being the good-natured sort, and when he does, it is more of a flustered, incoherent mess than anything particularly angry. He doesn’t stand up for himself well either-even when Vaida feeds her wyvern his precious books-instead making ineffectual arguments and half-hearted protests. He’ll always turn to discussion as the answer before any physical violence because he is a mage, and mages bruise easily because to his educated, logical mind, surely enlightened discussion can solve anything?
In other words, he’s a good-natured, somewhat derpy scholar married to his research.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Canas uses dark magic (he is, in fact, the only recruitable character in FE7 able to).
His spells, like all Fire Emblem mages, depend on his tomes, which will break after prolonged use.
Compared to the other two magics (light and anima), dark magic is powerful against anima and weak against light. It also is the strongest of the three, though the casting time is longer. From the time I am taking him, Canas would have already been promoted from shaman to druid, and consequently will be able to use basic staves as well.
As generally the characters are able to hold five things, Canas will be bringing with him to Somarium:
Flux (Usage: 45) - Lowest leveled dark magic tome. It creates a ball of dark energy.
Nosferatu (Usage: 20) - Drains the damage it inflicts as health given to Canas.
Luna (Usage: 20) - Negates magical resistance (Which probably will need to be cut back in some way, or discussed with the other characters, as I know this will vary based on different canons.)
Fenrir (Usage: 20) - B-level dark magic. It packs a punch, but is rather slow.
Heal Staff (Usage: 45) - Lowest level of healing staff. It heals basic injuries, but nothing like illnesses or side-effects
Physically, he’s a pansy. He says so himself; he’s simply not cut out for long treks, physical battles or carrying heavy things. He’s a mage and a scholar, not athletic in the least. Along these lines, his defense is deplorable, and he depends entirely on defeating his enemies before they reach him, through his ranged magic.
Mentally, he’s extremely intelligent. Truly, he knows a lot of random things about a lot of random subjects, simply because of his insatiable need to learn. Don’t be surprised if he happens to know all about some obscure subject (like cryptopaleontology), because chances are he read a book on it. Or ten.
[Affection]
Go for it! \o/ Chances are he won't know what to do with large public displays of affection, but he is a nice guy and will do his best to figure out how he's supposed to respond.
[Fighting]
I'm all for people getting into fights with Canas; the only problem is that he's too nice and too much of a doormat to fight unless he deems it absolutely necessary.
And despite his derpyness, his dark magic can be rather deadly, so fair warning there.
[Other Permissions]
Do anything you want~ He'll be amazed by mindreaders, and will likely want to figure out how they do it through any means necessary, so your character will, in all likelihood, become an experiment. As for his history...Breaking the fourth wall is fine, but try to avoid bringing up things we don't know much about.
Telling him how he dies is perfectly fine though.
[Other Facts]
* He reads. All the time. Even in the middle of battle.
* He ends up dying later by trying to stop a blizzard. Not too significant here, but it does show that, while he’s a genius, his common sense is nonexistent.
* He’s a Lord Pent fanboy.
* He has a son named Hugh, who survives the blizzard fiasco and goes on to become important in FE6.
[Canon] Fire Emblem (Rekka no Ken)
[Point Taken from Canon] After the fight with both Nergal and the dragon
[Age] 20-30ish?
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Hetero! He's married. :D
[Eye Color] Purple
[Hair Color] Purple
[Height] Average?
[Other] Well, he has a monocle.
[Clothing] This. In other words, typical mage fare.
[Background]
Not much is known about Canas before he joins Eliwood’s army. We know that he is the son of a powerful and famous mage, Niime, and that he is married. We can theorize that Nino is his niece, and we know that his three brothers were all overwhelmed by their use of dark/elder magic. And we know that Canas was wandering the world to study, but especially with the intent to study the Dread Isle, and, it seems, Nergal’s morphs. This is when he meets and joins up with Eliwood. It doesn’t take much to recruit him; in fact, when he learns that Eliwood’s army’s destination is the Dread Isle, he more or less begs to come.
After, he assists Eliwood in searching for his father, and later with the intent to defeat Nergal. So as to avoid spoilers here and simply rehashing the game, here is a summary of events in the game. (Canas joins the troupe during the Port of Badon level: Chapter 23x)
[Personality]
Canas embodies the bright-eyed but rather klutzy and clueless scholar. He is very intelligent, and also rather humble; he never flaunts his skills or his heritage on purpose, simply because he sees no purpose to it. Surely everyone loves to learn, right? Right? They’re all intellectuals in his mind.
He doesn’t entirely understand why people wouldn’t want to learn. To him, there isn’t anything more exciting or exhilarating than learning something new or studying. So while entirely well-meaning, he can sometimes annoy or anger others through accidentally making them feel unintelligent. He doesn’t mean to flaunt his intelligence, but he really can’t help it. Canas speaks using an impressive vocabulary, and refers to mathematical, scientific and magical theories and properties as if he expects everyone to know exactly what he’s talking about. And he does expect that. Canas tends to have a very generous, if rather naïve, view of people and their intelligence.
On the flip side, Canas is a klutz. He is physically ungraceful, with the tendency to trip over his own feet-generally when carrying a stack of books-or to have butterfingers. And, as intelligent as he is, he is certainly lacking in common sense, as it seems he had thought that reading in the middle of a battlefield was a good idea.
He generally does put his studies above everything else, however, even his physical safety. Though almost his entire family was swallowed up by darkness in the pursuit of the elder arts, he still studies and uses them (because clearly he cannot properly understand them unless he himself uses them, and he does have an aptitude for them). It isn’t that he doesn’t have any consideration for his safety or health-he admits quite frankly to Lord Pent that he is afraid that the same thing might happen to him. But quite simply, it is worth it for the chance to discover something new. It isn’t for fame or recognition either. He truly does love the thrill of discovery and understanding, and aims for the unattainable goal (he is aware it is unattainable) of learning everything there is to know.
So while Canas is honestly a good person, he is easily distracted by the promise of learning something new. He is married, but he left his wife at home with their two year old child to go study the Dread Isle. And it is entirely possible that they only got married to study each other’s magics anyway, as she is an anima mage. And Canas sees nothing wrong with this.
He has some difficulty understanding things out of an academic context, especially people and emotional attachments. He does try, and he does care about people, but…how long will it be before he breaks off all contact to study the way the stars move in relation to the strength of his magic, or how the rotation of the seasons affects the magical triangle? Who knows? He doesn’t try to be unreliable or socially awkward. But on a list of things important to him, his research comes first, and everything follows that in a nice, jumbled mess that even he can’t quite untangle.
Otherwise, when it comes to his personality, Canas is always well-meaning, even when he does stick his foot in his mouth or do something unintelligent. This happens often; he lacks common sense, after all, and add that to a failure to understand people, and he ends up with the tendency to make comments that, while not hurtful, aren’t very tactful either.
He is very, very, very easily excitable. Especially when it comes to new discoveries, knowledge, experiments, books, ect., and he does fanboy. IC-ly. When that happens, he will simply be more incoherent than usual. (Canas has an interesting way of being incoherent, too. He can get the words out just fine, but he rarely makes any sense as he babbles about science and discoveries.)
Canas is also a bit of a doormat. He doesn’t get angry easily, being the good-natured sort, and when he does, it is more of a flustered, incoherent mess than anything particularly angry. He doesn’t stand up for himself well either-even when Vaida feeds her wyvern his precious books-instead making ineffectual arguments and half-hearted protests. He’ll always turn to discussion as the answer before any physical violence because he is a mage, and mages bruise easily because to his educated, logical mind, surely enlightened discussion can solve anything?
In other words, he’s a good-natured, somewhat derpy scholar married to his research.
[Specialties/Abilities]
Canas uses dark magic (he is, in fact, the only recruitable character in FE7 able to).
His spells, like all Fire Emblem mages, depend on his tomes, which will break after prolonged use.
Compared to the other two magics (light and anima), dark magic is powerful against anima and weak against light. It also is the strongest of the three, though the casting time is longer. From the time I am taking him, Canas would have already been promoted from shaman to druid, and consequently will be able to use basic staves as well.
As generally the characters are able to hold five things, Canas will be bringing with him to Somarium:
Flux (Usage: 45) - Lowest leveled dark magic tome. It creates a ball of dark energy.
Nosferatu (Usage: 20) - Drains the damage it inflicts as health given to Canas.
Luna (Usage: 20) - Negates magical resistance (Which probably will need to be cut back in some way, or discussed with the other characters, as I know this will vary based on different canons.)
Fenrir (Usage: 20) - B-level dark magic. It packs a punch, but is rather slow.
Heal Staff (Usage: 45) - Lowest level of healing staff. It heals basic injuries, but nothing like illnesses or side-effects
Physically, he’s a pansy. He says so himself; he’s simply not cut out for long treks, physical battles or carrying heavy things. He’s a mage and a scholar, not athletic in the least. Along these lines, his defense is deplorable, and he depends entirely on defeating his enemies before they reach him, through his ranged magic.
Mentally, he’s extremely intelligent. Truly, he knows a lot of random things about a lot of random subjects, simply because of his insatiable need to learn. Don’t be surprised if he happens to know all about some obscure subject (like cryptopaleontology), because chances are he read a book on it. Or ten.
[Affection]
Go for it! \o/ Chances are he won't know what to do with large public displays of affection, but he is a nice guy and will do his best to figure out how he's supposed to respond.
[Fighting]
I'm all for people getting into fights with Canas; the only problem is that he's too nice and too much of a doormat to fight unless he deems it absolutely necessary.
And despite his derpyness, his dark magic can be rather deadly, so fair warning there.
[Other Permissions]
Do anything you want~ He'll be amazed by mindreaders, and will likely want to figure out how they do it through any means necessary, so your character will, in all likelihood, become an experiment. As for his history...Breaking the fourth wall is fine, but try to avoid bringing up things we don't know much about.
Telling him how he dies is perfectly fine though.
[Other Facts]
* He reads. All the time. Even in the middle of battle.
* He ends up dying later by trying to stop a blizzard. Not too significant here, but it does show that, while he’s a genius, his common sense is nonexistent.
* He’s a Lord Pent fanboy.
* He has a son named Hugh, who survives the blizzard fiasco and goes on to become important in FE6.