application [route 29]
Player
Name: LA
Livejournal Username: possiblyevil
E-mail: lacarlson85@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: hunterofpenguins [aim]
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: n/a
Character
Name: Caesar Silverberg
Series: Suikoden III
Timeline: Post-canon
Canon Resource Links: Gensopedia Profile
Personality:
First impressions of Caesar are more often than not that he’s lazy, bored, and entirely indifferent. The next few impressions will most likely add rude and highly opinionated to that list, thanks to his casual lack of tact when doling out his ever-so-helpful honest opinions. While there isn’t an excuse for his poor handling of tact, the boredom, in large part, has to do with a very bright kid finding everything around him far too uninteresting to inspire him to any effort. Though the lazy part, well, he really is pretty damn lazy. His ability to nap at any time, in any place, is nigh legendary. As for the indifference...
That part is a carefully constructed facade. Caesar comes from a long line of military tacticians and a tactician is supposed to regard a situation without attachments or emotions messing up the difficult decisions that go hand in hand with war. For all his underachieving, he learned that lesson well. Behind the facade, he really does mean to be a good guy, even if his seemingly cold-hearted strategies won’t be winning him any popularity contests. There was plenty of uproar over his plan to flood a valley to route the opposing army, for example, but he saw that as the best way to minimize causalities and to buy more time. A little dam destruction would just have to be tolerated for the greater good. He believed his job was to plan battles in ways that would save the most lives, regardless of what side they were on. It’s a belief he’ll always carry with him, factoring it into other aspects of life in other ways, not just as war strategies. It translates well into how he cares about people: not as the most comforting friend, but as the one that sticks by your side and knocks some sense into you when things go wrong.
There’s also a small problem of his involving pride. Caesar feels that he is, nearly always, right about things and that his plans are likely to always work. It doesn’t help that he’s good enough at reading a situation that he tends to be right about being right, which just feeds to that fire. It also makes his ego easily injured. He doesn’t enjoy losing or being told off when he feels ‘in the right’ and he’ll wander off to sulk if it’s bad enough. Likewise, he hates being left out of important decisions or meetings and, to combat the lack of knowledge that might leave him with, he has developed a habit for eavesdropping.
His relationship with his brother, Albert, deserves some mention here. The two of them have not seen eye to eye for a while and a rivalry is still alive and well between the two even after the canon ends. He has a lot of mixed feelings about the elder Silverberg brother; anger, confusion, abandonment to name a few. Thus, family is a sore subject for Caesar. He doesn’t like to bring it up, not unless it’s to make fun of his brother in particular, and that’s it. Being compared to Albert and then deemed the lesser of the two is an injury to his ego that won’t ever really go away until he finally, truly surpasses him.
When he isn’t in the midst of a fight or busy dodging as much responsibility as possible, he can warm up a bit, though he is still slow to consider people friends before they’ve proven themselves as allies. Still, Caesar has a soft spot for the truly naive and will set aside the usual snark to offer somewhat less harsh advice than he’d otherwise hand out. And he does have a sense of humor, really, though it comes along with quite a bit of snark and teasing. He loves a good joke and is always willing to lend a hand in a spot of mischief. He’s helped people escape the authorities before simply because putting a thorn in their sides seemed a lot more fun than sitting back and doing nothing. And all the laziness and complaints aside, once he does find something that inspires him to act, such as when he sided with the Grasslanders to, at first, oppose his brother and then, later on, when he pledged to be the Flame Champion’s loyal tactician, he’s a committed ally until the very end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Caesar comes from a long line of strategists and has been trained from an early age to think things through tactically.
+ Cool and collected in tough situations (well, usually).
+ Confidence in spades. He knows he’s good at what he does and doesn’t care what other people think.
+ Easy-going. He likes to meander lazily on through life whenever he can and is generally good-humored.
+ Decisive and straight to the point. It’s a part of being a strategist, able to make split-second decisions and get what needs to be done through to people as comprehensibly as possible.
+ Intelligent. Caesar is a bright kid and is well-read and very well educated, much to his own dismay. He is very capable of in-depth research and planning when he absolutely has to do it.
+ Honest! Very honest.
- Lazy, lazy, lazy. Caesar hates to work, study, or doing anything that isn’t deemed ‘important’.
- Nosy. Lazy as he is, he’s still very intrusive with other people’s business. He’ll barge into conversations that manage to get his attention and is prone to eavesdropping.
- Brother issues. The one gaping hole in his confidence is his older brother, who is still considered the better strategist of the two brothers. It rubs him the wrong way.
- He is a supporting character in his canon; he has had no special powers, no physical training to fight, no weapons training beyond 'how these things work'. He is by no means physically strong.
- Opinionated and sharp-tongued. He’s very happy to share his opinions on anyone and anything without mercy.
- Honest! Too honest, to the point of being utterly tactless.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Munchlax
Name: LA
Livejournal Username: possiblyevil
E-mail: lacarlson85@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: hunterofpenguins [aim]
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: n/a
Character
Name: Caesar Silverberg
Series: Suikoden III
Timeline: Post-canon
Canon Resource Links: Gensopedia Profile
Personality:
First impressions of Caesar are more often than not that he’s lazy, bored, and entirely indifferent. The next few impressions will most likely add rude and highly opinionated to that list, thanks to his casual lack of tact when doling out his ever-so-helpful honest opinions. While there isn’t an excuse for his poor handling of tact, the boredom, in large part, has to do with a very bright kid finding everything around him far too uninteresting to inspire him to any effort. Though the lazy part, well, he really is pretty damn lazy. His ability to nap at any time, in any place, is nigh legendary. As for the indifference...
That part is a carefully constructed facade. Caesar comes from a long line of military tacticians and a tactician is supposed to regard a situation without attachments or emotions messing up the difficult decisions that go hand in hand with war. For all his underachieving, he learned that lesson well. Behind the facade, he really does mean to be a good guy, even if his seemingly cold-hearted strategies won’t be winning him any popularity contests. There was plenty of uproar over his plan to flood a valley to route the opposing army, for example, but he saw that as the best way to minimize causalities and to buy more time. A little dam destruction would just have to be tolerated for the greater good. He believed his job was to plan battles in ways that would save the most lives, regardless of what side they were on. It’s a belief he’ll always carry with him, factoring it into other aspects of life in other ways, not just as war strategies. It translates well into how he cares about people: not as the most comforting friend, but as the one that sticks by your side and knocks some sense into you when things go wrong.
There’s also a small problem of his involving pride. Caesar feels that he is, nearly always, right about things and that his plans are likely to always work. It doesn’t help that he’s good enough at reading a situation that he tends to be right about being right, which just feeds to that fire. It also makes his ego easily injured. He doesn’t enjoy losing or being told off when he feels ‘in the right’ and he’ll wander off to sulk if it’s bad enough. Likewise, he hates being left out of important decisions or meetings and, to combat the lack of knowledge that might leave him with, he has developed a habit for eavesdropping.
His relationship with his brother, Albert, deserves some mention here. The two of them have not seen eye to eye for a while and a rivalry is still alive and well between the two even after the canon ends. He has a lot of mixed feelings about the elder Silverberg brother; anger, confusion, abandonment to name a few. Thus, family is a sore subject for Caesar. He doesn’t like to bring it up, not unless it’s to make fun of his brother in particular, and that’s it. Being compared to Albert and then deemed the lesser of the two is an injury to his ego that won’t ever really go away until he finally, truly surpasses him.
When he isn’t in the midst of a fight or busy dodging as much responsibility as possible, he can warm up a bit, though he is still slow to consider people friends before they’ve proven themselves as allies. Still, Caesar has a soft spot for the truly naive and will set aside the usual snark to offer somewhat less harsh advice than he’d otherwise hand out. And he does have a sense of humor, really, though it comes along with quite a bit of snark and teasing. He loves a good joke and is always willing to lend a hand in a spot of mischief. He’s helped people escape the authorities before simply because putting a thorn in their sides seemed a lot more fun than sitting back and doing nothing. And all the laziness and complaints aside, once he does find something that inspires him to act, such as when he sided with the Grasslanders to, at first, oppose his brother and then, later on, when he pledged to be the Flame Champion’s loyal tactician, he’s a committed ally until the very end.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Caesar comes from a long line of strategists and has been trained from an early age to think things through tactically.
+ Cool and collected in tough situations (well, usually).
+ Confidence in spades. He knows he’s good at what he does and doesn’t care what other people think.
+ Easy-going. He likes to meander lazily on through life whenever he can and is generally good-humored.
+ Decisive and straight to the point. It’s a part of being a strategist, able to make split-second decisions and get what needs to be done through to people as comprehensibly as possible.
+ Intelligent. Caesar is a bright kid and is well-read and very well educated, much to his own dismay. He is very capable of in-depth research and planning when he absolutely has to do it.
+ Honest! Very honest.
- Lazy, lazy, lazy. Caesar hates to work, study, or doing anything that isn’t deemed ‘important’.
- Nosy. Lazy as he is, he’s still very intrusive with other people’s business. He’ll barge into conversations that manage to get his attention and is prone to eavesdropping.
- Brother issues. The one gaping hole in his confidence is his older brother, who is still considered the better strategist of the two brothers. It rubs him the wrong way.
- He is a supporting character in his canon; he has had no special powers, no physical training to fight, no weapons training beyond 'how these things work'. He is by no means physically strong.
- Opinionated and sharp-tongued. He’s very happy to share his opinions on anyone and anything without mercy.
- Honest! Too honest, to the point of being utterly tactless.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Munchlax