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[loyaltydriven]

player info

Username: Michi
Contact: cloudatlas (plurk), resonatenoise (aim), michiichi#2427 (discord)
Rules and Conditions: I agree.

character application info

basic info

Name: Gilbert Nightray
Age: 25
Canon: Pandora Hearts
History: link from the Pandora Hearts wiki

personality

Strengths: Gilbert Nightray is generally polite and well-mannered. As a servant, he's highly capable and uses his skills to fuss over and take care of others. It's the way he's always lived, and that's how he's most comfortable. From a young age he protected his brother and now he serves a young master he cares deeply about. He's extremely loyal; his loyalties being unwavering even after events he considers to be like betrayal to him. Earning his loyalty can be difficult at first but as he gets to know people and care about them as individuals, so too do his desires to protect and take care of those people.

He's a very self-sufficient person; requiring and wanting very little for himself. He knows how to cook, clean and has supported himself financially outside of the wealthy family he was adopted into for a long time. He's happier giving than receiving, a trait that suits his position as a servant to the Vessalius house.

Gilbert was also trained with a weapon-- a gun, to be precise. He learned quickly and was far better than his brother at picking up the skill; something that Vincent mentions is common for Gilbert. With half of the effort of most, he learns what he needs and excels without ever letting it go to his head. All in all he has a good heart that wants to see good people taken care of and succeed and if he can help them without neglecting the people he cares for most, then he will do what he can even if he is a bit socially awkward.

Flaws: Gilbert does have a habit of offering tough love to those he cares about, even willing to go so far as to smack some sense into them physically. He can get very loud and quite angry in an argument, especially on topics relating to people being self-value, being reckless or putting themselves or others in danger by their actions. There is a part of him that is cruel and manipulative-- using others to achieve his goals. He's killed as well, in order to protect his master and he isn't afraid to dirty his hands in whatever means are necessary to keep the people he cares about safe.

That said, due to certain fears he is also somewhat clingy and dependent on certain individuals. He clings to those he can be useful such as his brother or Oz. He's socially awkward, especially in large crowds and feels incredibly out of place among high-society despite being adopted into a wealthy and powerful family. He has a hard time relating to those types of people and prefers being treated as a servant-- the path he chose for himself as opposed to the family he joined simply because there was a possibility of obtaining it's Chain as well as reuniting with his brother.

As for what he's afraid of... his physical fear is of cats. He'll cry and panic at the sight of them. Can't deal with them at all. In his heart though he's also afraid of being abandoned. The idea that there might be a day that no one needs him is terrifying to him and for that reason he clings to the things he's able to do for people and what he's good for. He's also afraid of losing the people he cares about most. He's very dependent on others. Being separated from (physically or emotionally), much less losing them altogether is a fear he struggles with internally.

Miscellaneous: Things Gilbert likes includes cigarettes, being generally helpful to others, cooking/baking, and too a certain extent-- solitude. Or at least quiet, low-key gatherings. On the other hand he doesn't much care for parties or social expectations, liars, and again, for the most part-- women. Or more specifically mature women. Tomboys whom he doesn't really see as girlish he manages to do fine around but due to the fact that a lot of women tend to fawn over him for his dark and mysterious good looks, he's ill-equipped to respond to them and is overall uncomfortable around them.

game plans

Starting Faction: The Empress, to the East.
Goals: There are a lot of things I'm looking forward to-- not really anything I'd like to avoid at this point. I'd like to push Gilbert's personal boundaries regarding his comfort with women. I also have ideas of how I'd like to see him struggle with the idea of switching sides somewhere down the road for different reasons (especially with his stupid brother on the other side), although that's just kind of a vague idea at this point.