personality: rational, cunning and persuasive. He enjoys in coversation and discussion, especially if he can educate others and display his ‘intellectual perfection’ (although sometimes he might actally wish to truely help people).
however he is also deceitful and arrogant, viewing himself as above others but is concious about his image; wishing to uphold his reputation as a 'perfect horatio. He is also paranoid that people are out to reveal his past and sell him out to hostile organisations.
Expertise: Hacking, AI and computer system repair, communications, social skills (persuasion/HR), sabotage and stealth operations.
Dust related powers: articles of clothing with varying abilities that utilise dust. Gloves that cut an mold metalic and stone objects, a robe that allows the user to [redacted]
Bio: Following his creation on a small, underfunded horatio colony on the eastern edge of the galaxy, he quickly found out he was a deviant. mantovani lacked key knowledge present in most horatio from 'birth' but more importantly, he was just terrible at standard artistic skills. This normally would have had him disposed of immediately by the higher members of his society, however he was gifed in different arts. Arts like lying, copying and convincing others that 'this painting is mine not his'. The latter skill often resulted in the death of his peers for being uncreative and thus ugly.
He could not keep this up for long though and planned his escape from the we. The nature of the plan was finalised following a ‘suprise promotion’ to the rank of support diplomat to the lumeris. Whether such a position existed before mantovani convinced the 'major diplomat' that it did exist doesn’t matter, as he used his new found connections to smuggle himself out of horatio space; for a couple ‘borrowed’ canisters of dust that is.
Horatio blood still pumped through his veins despite his faulty nature, beauty was in his soul, he just needed a way practicing his arts freely without fear of being thrown into an incinerator for low quality. After spending some time as a smuggler working in the UE (no easy feat), He gained citizenship on a pilgrim world and used his time to educate himself in internet and communications technology, AI theory and other such subjects. These felt like something that were easy to learn considering his intellect as a horatio and easy enough of a skill that he can effortlessly complete and get on with whatever artistic piece he was doing beforehand.
mantovani signed on to the saviour to get away from the constant pilgrim preachers barating him (and the WE who he suspected was certan to eventually find out about how he got his fellow horatio executed for the unartistic crimes they didn't commit).
(for why there is no picture
firstly, mantovani is a horatio which all look the same and constantly change their clothes in esoteric ways.
secondly, believe it or not i am terrible at anything involving technology... ironic)
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Y'know, it's funny. It's still Alien's call to let you in, but we have an unnamed Horatio NPC working in IT on the Saviour already. Ghost's character could easily drop in and replace him.
The character is approvable as such, however I need to give a warning. With an arrogant personality and no interest in the mission beyond getting away from the pilgrim (for which a multi-year deep space exploration seems a weirdc choice compared to just skipping to another system as he's done before) it's very likely that character will be considered abrasive and not fun to roleplay with and be avoided by other crew members.
I'm not saying this will 100% happen because it depends on roleplaying style, but a personality with primarily negative traits always bears this danger.
i am aware of the dangers this character poses, due to his personality.
i have some ideas on how to try to fix some of the bigger problems associated with uppity attitude.
How knows he is on the saviour for the long run, so making an enemy out of the whole crew is not a solid option. he is a fualty horatio and his 'up bringing' would have left significant doubts about himself. he would rarely reflect those feelings outwardly but should still shine though in his actions.
he will be more willing to improve himself and act more empathetically than most other narcissistic horatio but still feel and act like one.
is there anything you would recommend to make him more enjoyable to interact with?
(he signed on to the saviour as a means of semi permanent escape. he will eventually be hunted down by the WE so a long journey away intobthe unkown was an effective way to escape his pursuers. The saviour also had quite the mixed ethnic crew; reducing the amount of annoying pilgims pestering him.)
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I would say, as a man who put the original horatio IT guy into place, that I have no problems with your vision of him. The personality you created seems to, oddly, fit the current image, so it's only a matter of renaiming. I give the green light. I think you should start "defrosting" him ASAP, though.
How would Alice be conducting her examination? I'm wondering whether it would be more similar to a medical examination or a mechanical one. To an outside observer would it look like she is actively removing systems, or just moving them around as if they were organs?
As in, have his character develop to be more likeable.
Anway, approved.
I also edited the character roster to point at the correct links for the character profiles and the new characters. I also silently bumped Decius up to Chief of Security to make sure the brass is made of active people.
Going off Alien's recent post in the Roleplay thread, who wants to RP the debriefing and why/why not?
I personally want to, so we can outline our in-game plans for the loot we got from the ruins in-character. This just feels like something that shouldn't be skipped over.
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