Post by Haldor Ergos on Nov 12, 2013 20:33:06 GMT -5
Name: Haldor Ergos
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Haldor is an interesting person. Someone gentle, somewhat naïve and more than a little absent-minded, but only up to a point, crack that surface and underneath lies something much darker and more than a little twisted, a distinct syzygous and cynical nature that burns like a dark sun. It is within this nature that he finds himself helplessly trapped, a vicious cycle of depression, obsession and fugue that, whilst it spawns excellent poetry, at the same time is not really all that useful for someone attempting to normal life. Rather, he lives each day with a different masque, having awoken fresh from the battles of his own psyche, and returns to the battlefield each night in order to help quell his own inner demons.
The type of person who goes through Education not for the nice shiny piece of paper you get at the end but rather for the process of Learning in itself, and it is to that he has devoted himself. A student of Philosophy, Mythology and all things vaguely mystical and misunderstood, it was a minor hobby for a long time, something to keep him entertained. He is the kind of person who has been out seen enough of the world to know that he hates it and has spent enough time staring into the void of postmodern Duelling Theorem to drive a normal person over to the edge. A drifter-type individual, mostly in the sense that he is not quite sure what he will be doing the next day unless it is that it will inevitably arrive no matter how much he resists it. His nihilistic attitude and oddly kind demeanor contrast brightly against his fervently studious personality and solid, if unorthodox, duelling style. He has a dependable record as a duellist and is someone who would make a satisfactory professional were he actually able to apply himself, however the alternative, that is to say teaching, is at least more entertaining. His teaching style to that effect is a combination of intellectual bludgeoning and glib persuasiveness, and he wields he considerable intellect like a mace, although not always effectively.
History: As a child Haldor was bright, inquisitive and more than a little rash, all things perhaps that have worn off with age. Indeed, he is not a smart person but an intelligent one, someone possessing a great deal of information and ideas but not the ability or motivation to apply it, and thus as a result has suffered for it. This could almost be said to be the ruling factor throughout his life. Whilst he excelled in a classroom, examinations, tests and any other form of assessment always placed him ‘average’ and thus he has lived, and been content to live, an average life, attend an average high school, attend an average college, spend a few average years in a University somewhere and thus go on to have an average career in whatever field he chose to pick … or at least that was what should have happened.
During his time at College, where he studied Philosophy and Advanced Deck Construction, he wrote a widely circulated and criticised philosophical paper called ‘A Duellist’s Manifesto’, in which he viciously attacked the Meta standards at the time for “sapping the soul out of the Game”, a hotly debated topic at the time. Needless to say, it is a piece that still comes back to haunt him on occasion, along with its Psychological follow-up piece ‘Role of Psychosomatic Metaphysics on Deck Construction’, a much less well-known work exploring the construction of the Decks of several well-known Duellists both past and present and providing a concise analysis as to the thought-processes that went into them.
It was the latter that won him his job in Domino City, or rather, it was a friend of a friend that dropped his name somewhere in some board meeting that inevitably led to a very shiny man in an expensive suit arriving on the doorstep of his flat and asking him to come and work for them. Under normal circumstances he might have refused, however he was kind of broke at the time, getting work as a paid speaker is hard, so he took the job offer, and thusly, here he is.
Status: Professor – Deck Construction
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Haldor is an interesting person. Someone gentle, somewhat naïve and more than a little absent-minded, but only up to a point, crack that surface and underneath lies something much darker and more than a little twisted, a distinct syzygous and cynical nature that burns like a dark sun. It is within this nature that he finds himself helplessly trapped, a vicious cycle of depression, obsession and fugue that, whilst it spawns excellent poetry, at the same time is not really all that useful for someone attempting to normal life. Rather, he lives each day with a different masque, having awoken fresh from the battles of his own psyche, and returns to the battlefield each night in order to help quell his own inner demons.
The type of person who goes through Education not for the nice shiny piece of paper you get at the end but rather for the process of Learning in itself, and it is to that he has devoted himself. A student of Philosophy, Mythology and all things vaguely mystical and misunderstood, it was a minor hobby for a long time, something to keep him entertained. He is the kind of person who has been out seen enough of the world to know that he hates it and has spent enough time staring into the void of postmodern Duelling Theorem to drive a normal person over to the edge. A drifter-type individual, mostly in the sense that he is not quite sure what he will be doing the next day unless it is that it will inevitably arrive no matter how much he resists it. His nihilistic attitude and oddly kind demeanor contrast brightly against his fervently studious personality and solid, if unorthodox, duelling style. He has a dependable record as a duellist and is someone who would make a satisfactory professional were he actually able to apply himself, however the alternative, that is to say teaching, is at least more entertaining. His teaching style to that effect is a combination of intellectual bludgeoning and glib persuasiveness, and he wields he considerable intellect like a mace, although not always effectively.
History: As a child Haldor was bright, inquisitive and more than a little rash, all things perhaps that have worn off with age. Indeed, he is not a smart person but an intelligent one, someone possessing a great deal of information and ideas but not the ability or motivation to apply it, and thus as a result has suffered for it. This could almost be said to be the ruling factor throughout his life. Whilst he excelled in a classroom, examinations, tests and any other form of assessment always placed him ‘average’ and thus he has lived, and been content to live, an average life, attend an average high school, attend an average college, spend a few average years in a University somewhere and thus go on to have an average career in whatever field he chose to pick … or at least that was what should have happened.
During his time at College, where he studied Philosophy and Advanced Deck Construction, he wrote a widely circulated and criticised philosophical paper called ‘A Duellist’s Manifesto’, in which he viciously attacked the Meta standards at the time for “sapping the soul out of the Game”, a hotly debated topic at the time. Needless to say, it is a piece that still comes back to haunt him on occasion, along with its Psychological follow-up piece ‘Role of Psychosomatic Metaphysics on Deck Construction’, a much less well-known work exploring the construction of the Decks of several well-known Duellists both past and present and providing a concise analysis as to the thought-processes that went into them.
It was the latter that won him his job in Domino City, or rather, it was a friend of a friend that dropped his name somewhere in some board meeting that inevitably led to a very shiny man in an expensive suit arriving on the doorstep of his flat and asking him to come and work for them. Under normal circumstances he might have refused, however he was kind of broke at the time, getting work as a paid speaker is hard, so he took the job offer, and thusly, here he is.
Status: Professor – Deck Construction