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Player name: Tsu
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Characters currently in-game: None!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Lance
Character Age: 18
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Canon Point: S7, E9
History: VLD on Wikipedia / Lance's personal page on the Voltron Wiki.
Personality: Generally speaking, when you take a first look at Lance you might think to yourself what you see is what you get โ and you'd be right, at least on a few superficial levels, because at first gLance he's. Loud. Cocky. Sure of himself and his abilities to a point that it seems a little questionable. ( Maybe โฆ a lot questionable, but we're trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here. ) And he continues to project himself that way until you dig a little deeper, get beneath those barriers he's put up around himself in order to keep up with his fellow paladins.
But first. A little bit of expansion on those aforementioned superficial levels, because it's generally what we see the most unless there are dire circumstances, which usually involve extreme situational duress. Or if he thinks he might be dying or something. Situational duress.
Lance spends a rather sizable chunk of his time engaging the rest of the team with his antics, generally spazzing out over every little thing that could possibly fall within his field of perception ( anyone remember the way he wigged out when Pidge admitted that she was a girl, and the rest of the group took it with a grain of salt? this face right here? ); he tends to only be, uh, calm and cool and collected when he hones in on a pretty little thing in need of some flirtation, and even then he's pretty damned extra when it comes to garnering the sort of attention that he's convinced he wants.
And ends up not getting. Because there have been very few instances in which his flirting has seen him getting anywhere that isn't tied to a tree. ( And he totally deserved that, whether he thinks he did or not. )
He's pretty much the first to use humor as a coping mechanism, to make light of any situation that might otherwise be too heavy for him to handle โ that's right, for him to handle, not necessarily anyone else, because the other members of the group might just be a little more mature than he is, and understand what it means to take things seriously. That isn't to say that he isn't capable of it when it really counts, but there might just be a reason behind Pidge declaring that he's the goofball of their little ensemble. And by there just might be I mean of course that's why, because it honestly never fails that he ends up being the comedy relief in any given situation, sometimes whether he wants to be or not.
Which is a perfect sort of segue into those deeper levels. The ones that aren't so superficial and have a tendency to be revealed only when Lance is by himself, or he thinks no one is paying attention; he cares deeply for the other members of his team, his friends even despite engaging Keith in a constant sort of rivalry that has them both effectively at one another's throats in their earliest moments. What little faith he has in himself ( despite all of that hemming and hawing about being the best sharpshooter ever ) is mirrored by that which he places with the others and their abilities, their smarts and their technical prowess. He'll never be as book-smart as Pidge or Hunk, or the sort of common sense ( or โฆ maybe just peripheral awareness ) to, say, keep him from being tied to a tree but he makes up for it in other ways.
And not just with his impulsiveness. He tends to have a wandering mind and finds himself easily distracted but he does listen when it counts, and even ( every so often! it's been known to happen! ) chimes in with his own one-and-a-half cents when he has a thought that might actually do the team some good. It's rare, but it has been known to happen before. Best to just leave the higher thinking to the ones with the brains made for it, or something.
Because when he doesn't have anything of value to add to any given situation, the sarcasm and snarkity-snark-snark comes out and that's never helpful, and he ends up. Making more of an ass of himself than he would prefer, which comes right back around to if you can't say anything nice, yadda yadda yadda.
In โฆ not quite as short as it probably should be, Lance is like an onion. In that he has layers โ and it might take a while to peel the outer ones away in order to get to the real meat of him, and those outer layers might not exactly be the most enjoyable. Or even tolerable. He cares deeply and he loves fiercely and be more than believes in the power of the paladins coming together as a whole in order to protect the universe, and if that means the power of friendship or something like that โฆ well. There you have it. He doesn't think he's the strongest or the fastest or the smartest โ but it's that level of self-awareness that has allowed him to mature as he has, taking the smallest of baby steps in the direction of the kind of person he would like to be, and hopefully the sort he'll grow into once he's become more confident in himself outside the bravado that covers him like a shroud.
Inventory: โ Paladin armor
โ Bayard โ Lance's can switch between an energy assault rifle, a sniper rifle and an Altean broadsword
Abilities: โ sharpshootin' pro! all things considered, he might be a bit of a doof in other areas, but you give him a rifle and a target he's on it like a fat kid on cake
โ he's a decent enough pilot, though he isn't anywhere near on Keith's level โ but it might just go without saying that piloting a lion as done a bit of good for this particular skill, and he'll only get better with time
โ does sarcasm count as an ability, because this boy has it in spades
โ quick wit, when it counts, and when it can be considered less-than-dull but not-quite-sharp
โ extraordinarily adaptive
โ he maintains this uncanny ability to annoy anyone within audible / visible range; that's a skill you can't fake, baby
Flaws: He's always been cocky in a way that sees him getting ahead of himself and in need of help getting out of sticky situations โ and it's more of a projection of the confidence he doesn't have in himself than anything else, always wanting to seem like he's more than he actually is, or be accepted for the kind of person he wants to be. ( Cool. Suave. Smooth. You get it. ) He's easily rattled, and flustered, and has kind of a temper in certain instances ( which made him a good candidate for the Red Lion, but that's neither here nor there ), altogether a jittery ball of restless energy that doesn't know what to do with himself when something ( probably bad ) is happening and there isn't anything he can do about it.
He's gullible in some aspects ( as has been mentioned before, he got himself tied to a tree and his lion was stolen, because he let a pretty girl pull the wool over his eyes ) but not in others, impulsive to a fault but again, I'm pretty sure that was just another thing that made him the best successor to pilot Red. He can be a bit of a snarky little bitch when he's being defensive, or when he thinks he's right and won't back down, and he โฆ uh. Can be kind of obnoxious on several different levels ( loud, too keyed-up, excited โฆ ) even if he doesn't necessarily mean to be.
But sometimes he means to be. And maybe that comes from being one of the youngest members of his family, but who knows.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: TDM top-level!
Player name: Tsu
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: None!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Lance
Character Age: 18
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Canon Point: S7, E9
History: VLD on Wikipedia / Lance's personal page on the Voltron Wiki.
Personality: Generally speaking, when you take a first look at Lance you might think to yourself what you see is what you get โ and you'd be right, at least on a few superficial levels, because at first gLance he's. Loud. Cocky. Sure of himself and his abilities to a point that it seems a little questionable. ( Maybe โฆ a lot questionable, but we're trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here. ) And he continues to project himself that way until you dig a little deeper, get beneath those barriers he's put up around himself in order to keep up with his fellow paladins.
But first. A little bit of expansion on those aforementioned superficial levels, because it's generally what we see the most unless there are dire circumstances, which usually involve extreme situational duress. Or if he thinks he might be dying or something. Situational duress.
Lance spends a rather sizable chunk of his time engaging the rest of the team with his antics, generally spazzing out over every little thing that could possibly fall within his field of perception ( anyone remember the way he wigged out when Pidge admitted that she was a girl, and the rest of the group took it with a grain of salt? this face right here? ); he tends to only be, uh, calm and cool and collected when he hones in on a pretty little thing in need of some flirtation, and even then he's pretty damned extra when it comes to garnering the sort of attention that he's convinced he wants.
And ends up not getting. Because there have been very few instances in which his flirting has seen him getting anywhere that isn't tied to a tree. ( And he totally deserved that, whether he thinks he did or not. )
He's pretty much the first to use humor as a coping mechanism, to make light of any situation that might otherwise be too heavy for him to handle โ that's right, for him to handle, not necessarily anyone else, because the other members of the group might just be a little more mature than he is, and understand what it means to take things seriously. That isn't to say that he isn't capable of it when it really counts, but there might just be a reason behind Pidge declaring that he's the goofball of their little ensemble. And by there just might be I mean of course that's why, because it honestly never fails that he ends up being the comedy relief in any given situation, sometimes whether he wants to be or not.
Which is a perfect sort of segue into those deeper levels. The ones that aren't so superficial and have a tendency to be revealed only when Lance is by himself, or he thinks no one is paying attention; he cares deeply for the other members of his team, his friends even despite engaging Keith in a constant sort of rivalry that has them both effectively at one another's throats in their earliest moments. What little faith he has in himself ( despite all of that hemming and hawing about being the best sharpshooter ever ) is mirrored by that which he places with the others and their abilities, their smarts and their technical prowess. He'll never be as book-smart as Pidge or Hunk, or the sort of common sense ( or โฆ maybe just peripheral awareness ) to, say, keep him from being tied to a tree but he makes up for it in other ways.
And not just with his impulsiveness. He tends to have a wandering mind and finds himself easily distracted but he does listen when it counts, and even ( every so often! it's been known to happen! ) chimes in with his own one-and-a-half cents when he has a thought that might actually do the team some good. It's rare, but it has been known to happen before. Best to just leave the higher thinking to the ones with the brains made for it, or something.
Because when he doesn't have anything of value to add to any given situation, the sarcasm and snarkity-snark-snark comes out and that's never helpful, and he ends up. Making more of an ass of himself than he would prefer, which comes right back around to if you can't say anything nice, yadda yadda yadda.
In โฆ not quite as short as it probably should be, Lance is like an onion. In that he has layers โ and it might take a while to peel the outer ones away in order to get to the real meat of him, and those outer layers might not exactly be the most enjoyable. Or even tolerable. He cares deeply and he loves fiercely and be more than believes in the power of the paladins coming together as a whole in order to protect the universe, and if that means the power of friendship or something like that โฆ well. There you have it. He doesn't think he's the strongest or the fastest or the smartest โ but it's that level of self-awareness that has allowed him to mature as he has, taking the smallest of baby steps in the direction of the kind of person he would like to be, and hopefully the sort he'll grow into once he's become more confident in himself outside the bravado that covers him like a shroud.
Inventory: โ Paladin armor
โ Bayard โ Lance's can switch between an energy assault rifle, a sniper rifle and an Altean broadsword
Abilities: โ sharpshootin' pro! all things considered, he might be a bit of a doof in other areas, but you give him a rifle and a target he's on it like a fat kid on cake
โ he's a decent enough pilot, though he isn't anywhere near on Keith's level โ but it might just go without saying that piloting a lion as done a bit of good for this particular skill, and he'll only get better with time
โ does sarcasm count as an ability, because this boy has it in spades
โ quick wit, when it counts, and when it can be considered less-than-dull but not-quite-sharp
โ extraordinarily adaptive
โ he maintains this uncanny ability to annoy anyone within audible / visible range; that's a skill you can't fake, baby
Flaws: He's always been cocky in a way that sees him getting ahead of himself and in need of help getting out of sticky situations โ and it's more of a projection of the confidence he doesn't have in himself than anything else, always wanting to seem like he's more than he actually is, or be accepted for the kind of person he wants to be. ( Cool. Suave. Smooth. You get it. ) He's easily rattled, and flustered, and has kind of a temper in certain instances ( which made him a good candidate for the Red Lion, but that's neither here nor there ), altogether a jittery ball of restless energy that doesn't know what to do with himself when something ( probably bad ) is happening and there isn't anything he can do about it.
He's gullible in some aspects ( as has been mentioned before, he got himself tied to a tree and his lion was stolen, because he let a pretty girl pull the wool over his eyes ) but not in others, impulsive to a fault but again, I'm pretty sure that was just another thing that made him the best successor to pilot Red. He can be a bit of a snarky little bitch when he's being defensive, or when he thinks he's right and won't back down, and he โฆ uh. Can be kind of obnoxious on several different levels ( loud, too keyed-up, excited โฆ ) even if he doesn't necessarily mean to be.
But sometimes he means to be. And maybe that comes from being one of the youngest members of his family, but who knows.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: TDM top-level!
