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Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
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Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

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Character Name: Pascal
Canon: Tales of Graces
Reference Link: http://aselia.wikia.com/wiki/Pascal

Character History: Pascal was born an Amarcian, and while that may sound like the typical JRPG race of ancients, nnno, they’re actually just a caste of engineers that never bothered reintegrating into society and instead decided to hang out in ruins and SCIENCE!! Pascal excels both at hanging out in ruins and SCIENCE! (specifically, engineering), but after some of her experiments proved to be unworkable, she decided she was going to wander the world to look at ruins and science, instead of doing it in backwoods tales Russia, bringing her into contact with the main party. While originally she joins out of her desire to touch the party loli, the party decides to allow her to stick with them because she is inarguably useful for dealing with those ruins JRPG parties inevitably trip over, and at decoding the ancient Amarcian writing that’s complete gibberish to everyone else.

Eventually, they end up back on the freezing continent of Fendel, where Pascal finds her sister has taken and is attempting to finish her research from before her travels, but isn’t aware of the disastrous flaws contained within (her real speciality being biology). Pascal confronts her sister and is made aware for the first time of her sister’s, who she has always admired, bitterness at Pascal, who has always imitated & then effortlessly surpassed her. But they do stop the experiments, & Pascal is properly cemented into the party, promising to finish her research properly to help save Fendel now being more cognizant of her nation’s suffering. She sticks around for the rest of the game’s plot arc, fighting monsters, fixing heat ray canons and occasionally harassing the loli. By the end of the game she and her sister are mending their relationship and Pascal is working seriously on making life less miserable in tales Russia.

Personality: Pascal may be genius level when it comes to machines, but she’s pretty clueless emotionally. She genuinely means well, but she never even noticed the bitterness building at in her sister, at always being overshadowed by someone who would just pick up what she was doing, effortlessly surpass her, and then whirlwinding on to something else. Pascal honestly admired her sister, and it was her looking up to her that inspired her to try all the same things she did, never once thinking how her actions negatively impacted her. Sssso yeah, Pascal is not good at understanding others’ feelings, or even recognizing them. She needs to be explicitly told she is fucking up, and it might take a bit to get through to her even then.

On a less serious note but also regarding the feelings thing, she tends to get inappropriately excited about things she find interesting but are objectively probably awful. For instance, swallowed by monster: WOW I BET THIS IS SOME KIND OF HORRIBLY TOXIC ACID!! :D, wondering if the corpse of the guy who wrote the notes is still around, HM I WONDER IF IT WOULD BE EASIER TO LEAVE THROUGH THE BUTT!! :D. On the other hand, her lack of awareness is sometimes a bit charming too, when the rest of the party is down she’s unlikely to let it get to her much, and when someone in the party has distrusted her and is openly suspicious, she’s going to save him anyway, ‘cause we’re friends, right?

She also is bad at social mores, and most basics like uh. Things like remembering to bathe. Things like remembering to tell the party OH YEAH, I’M AN AMARCIAN. :D? It’s a good thing she’s quite friendly and upbeat to make up for the rest of her social lackings. Basically, when it comes to anything outside of machines, she’s really an airhead.

Writing Sample:
01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?
Pascal! You can call me other things, buuuut I won’t know you’re talking to me, so you’d better just stick with that.
02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?
Nope!
03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?
Oh gosh, ask all the hard questions first why don’tcha? Lemme think, the longest waaaaas probably that time I was working with Fourier and she said she needed quiet to concentrate! Since we were nearly done by the time I forgot and it went all BANG-KWAPOW on us, that had to have been quite a while!
04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?
No, again!
05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?
Domestication’s more of my sister’s thing, but now that you mention it, why not the egret? Saying it like that just makes me wonder! Oh, wow, egret totally sounds just like regret. I wonder if is this some harbinger of misery thing? But leaving all those wild harbingers in the wild, that sounds like a super bad idea too. No wonder it’s an egret, no matter what I pick I’ll regret it!
06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?
I don’t think so? I don’t think I’ve noticed enough misery to really say, but that’s probably when I’ve got to get my act together and work the hardest!
07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?
I’m not picky. As long as it’s not hands, imagine smudging up a blue-print with frosting and then ants swarming on it and eating the paper! That’d be a tragedy!
08. Do you trust yourself?
Yep! I mean, it’d be really hard to go around behind my own back, you know? I don’t even think that’s possible!
09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.
Hey, the minute I say it, you’ll know too! Ooh, this one’s a trick question!
10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?
Hmm. . . I think Fourier knows I’m working really hard on this, and it’s not like the Amarcian enclave is exactly close to anything, and I know Captain Malik’s really hard at work in the capital too, work has really got him swamped. . . I bet it’d take at least a week!

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