app; dynos; haven

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Name: January
Contact Info: snowesque
Other Characters Played: Zohra Rom (hammy) / Sekreuz Trenkel Navarus (defriends)
Preferred Apartment: None.

Character Name: Dynos Garcia
Canon: Arc Rise Fantasia
Canon Point: Post-death.
Background/History: Wiki entry! I also have his history pre-game written up here.
Personality:

Copied from a previous app for castleinthemist.

Dynos has earned the nickname "Douchechanter" among fandom, and for good reason: he is not a nice person, if not possessing psychopathic tendencies. He has no qualms about killing whomever he deems an obstacle (and then some) or even fighting his own sister, explicitly saying that if she stands in his way, he'll "kill [her] like all the rest". In fact, he seems rather unremorseful over the fact that they've become enemies, instead appearing more bitterly amused and resigned than anything. Despite her attempts to be friendly, still valuing him as her little brother, he refuses to see her as anything abut a friend of the Imaginal Diva—and therefore, his enemy. Their previous relationship and the fact that they're blood relatives seem to mean little to him in face of his goals.

That being said, his rudeness is hardly exclusive to her. With the exception of Adele, he shows no respect for anyone around him, generally treating everyone the same way: with disdain. Dynos is a smug, moody, and somewhat bratty and anti-social individual. If he's not smirking, then he's frowning, and if he's not doing either, then he's probably yelling and/or trying to beat someone up. His complete disregard for life can also be seen in his decision to use necromancy, which seems to be uncommon, as he's the only Deathchanter seen in the game. He's not above using fallen soldiers or threatening to turn others into his "undead slaves", even at one point lamenting the lack of corpses to use while on a Rogress hunt with the others. He doesn't care if people think it's wrong—he was just a puppet his entire life, so why not treat others the same way? Furthermore, he's constantly dismissing others' opinions and thoughts in favour of his own or the Real Diva's, showing a considerable lack of empathy—not because he can't understand, but because he doesn't care. If it doesn't have to do with the Real Diva, then it's of no significance to him.

So, needless to say, Dynos is very dedicated to his cause. Or rather, the Real Diva and her cause. He is single-mindedly devoted to her, whoever it may be (first Rafil, and then her daughter), and it wouldn't be an exaggeration at all to say that his life purpose is to protect her. Even to a smaller scale, he essentially follows her around, carrying out her every order. Although the party that he belongs to is perhaps led more by the Child of Eesa, Alf, Dynos has no loyalty or even fondness for him. Rather, he will take Adele's side in everything, for she's the only one that he has sworn his allegiance to. Thus, as should go without saying, she is the sole person that he will be polite to, addressing her with nothing but respect and expecting others to do the same.

Consequently, Dynos's life tends to revolve around his devotion to what the Real Diva stands for and his subsequent hatred towards Imaginal and those who take its side (and if that includes his sister, then so be it). Not because he necessarily believes Real is any better objectively—though he dislikes Imaginal's Law for existing only to save humans—but because Real is whom the Real Diva supports, obviously. Therefore, he supports Real as well, crystallization and rebirth and all. He clings to everything to do with the Real Diva because, after the incident with his father, she's his only source of stability.

After all, Dynos is broken. There's no way around it, other than to say that he's a messed up brat. His father's attempt to kill him convinced him that he's a failure, for else why would his father want him dead—or at least be willing to sacrifice him to kill the Real Diva? In a cruel sense of irony, Dynos was nearly murdered because he couldn't even kill a bug, let alone another human being, and because of that incident, he's become callous enough to slaughter others without a second thought. The overall event left him feeling bitter towards the world, feeling that his father abandoned him even though all Dynos ever truly wanted was to win his approval. Then, because of his loyalty to the Real Diva who saved his life, he presumably knew that he'd be shunned by the rest of the Divine Race, even though it was their devotion to Imaginal that almost killed him. He no longer had anything to care about other than Rafil, believing that he was an unwanted existence to the rest of the world. Rafil's assassination didn't help at all, as Dynos grew to hate himself more for not being able to protect her.

During the course of the game, he translates that into dedication towards her daughter—who then proceeds to die as well. It's then that Dynos finally loses all hope, wanting nothing but for Real's crystallization to happen, both as a continuation of the Real Diva's will and as a means of taking the world down with him. As he puts it, the world's already betrayed him so many times, so now it's his turn to betray it. For that, he'd even kill his sister. Hell, he'd even sacrifice himself, which is just what he does. Again, there's a sense of twisted irony here, as he tries to do exactly what his father wanted him to do before, with the difference between then and now being that Dynos no longer gives a damn about his life. Even before Adele's death, Rafil's might have pushed him over the edge, with one of his allies claiming that Dynos "was always looking for a place to die". In the end, for someone who seems so arrogant, Dynos, in reality, completely and utterly loathes his existence.

However, as demonstrated in Allwise (an alternate world/afterlife of sorts, where he exists as a 'record'), he's not always such a jerk. While never quite friendly, he's at least a semi-decent person when not being antagonistic, likely because he has no real reason to be hostile. He's still rather frank, admitting that he doesn't really like L'Arc and his friends, and not the cheeriest of people. He even has the audacity to give two other characters less than flattering nicknames, as he asks for a favour from them (albeit phrased more as a threat). On the other hand, he's actually willing to work with them for the most part, and, well, isn't trying to kill them. One could say that parts of whom he once was—or whom he could've been had he not died—rise to the surface here, as he shows some compassion for Cecille, with the aforementioned favour being for them to take care of her (or else). He also demonstrates a bit of social awkwardness, as he fails to understand why the others would joke around before facing a difficult monster. He's not angry about it, merely very confused.

In short, he's kind of a lost kid who got screwed over by the world one too many times, and thus responded by lashing out.

Abilities/Powers:

Stats-wise, Dynos is a pretty balanced fighter, though he especially excels in speed, being one of the fastest characters in the game.

Firstly, he's a talented martial artist, having been trained since he was extremely young. Of note, though, is that he seems to prefer shooting energy from his hands, rather than straight-up close combat. As he has an Add Sickness Arm Force permanently attached to his gloves, he has a decent chance of inflicting the Sickness status effect to his target, which (aside from presumably making them feel sick) renders them unable to heal/be healed until the status effect is removed.

Ultimately, he leans more towards magic—that is, he's a capable mage as well. As he'll be bringing a Level 4 Fire Gem and a Level 4 Earth Gem with him to Haven, he's able to cast fire, earth, and dark (created by a fire + earth combo) magic across all four levels. As an additional note, he can 'sync' spells, which increases the effectiveness of the spell in some way, whether it be increasing the effects or adding new ones.

A list of the spells he can use is listed here.

He also has three Excel Acts (aka special skills):

Three Cries: Three particularly powerful consecutive punches, with the last one possessing extra power.

Doubly Dark: A beam mixed of light and dark power. It also has the chance to inflict the Confusion and Poison status effects on the target(s).

Death in the Dark: An attack that unleashes massive dark power from the ground across a wide range of area.

Dynos is also a Deathchanter, using Real's magic, which is a fancy way of saying that he's a necromancer. Aside from being able to reanimate and control corpses, he is also able to summon a variety of undead monsters.

Items/Weapons: His Orb, a Level 4 Fire Gem, and a Level 4 Earth Gem.
Sample Entry: Test drive post!
Sample Entry Two:

Mostly copied from previous app, altered to suit Haven.

It wasn't the first time Dynos had woken up like this. Disoriented, surrounded by others like him, some sleeping, some awake—once he'd risen at the sudden sound of the alarm, that is. That was decidedly different (but he wasn't afraid of the dark—never afraid of the dark, not anymore). Otherwise, there was a remarkable sense of deja vu when he sat up, blinking as his eyes grew accustomed to the darkness.

This time, though, there was no father who opened his eyes. This time, he was fifteen, not twelve. This time, what he was awakening from wasn't a thousand-year long sleep, but death.

It took a few moments, as he tried to fight the pounding his head, before the memories resurfaced in his mind. They didn't flood in, however, as so much as they came in fragmented pieces—pieces that he had to put together.

(You're really going to fight me?

—now it's my turn to betray the world!

Dynos... it's over.)

Then, he remembered. He ripped off his own Dragon Gem, and then Cecille killed him. It was amusing, in a bitter sort of way, how at the age of twelve, she was willing to kill her own brother when he couldn't even kill a stranger at that age. There was no doubt in Dynos's mind as to why their father chose to sacrifice him over her—and to think that she felt that she had been the expendable one. It'd been him. It'd always been him.

A glance at his forearm confirmed what he had done, so he knew that that wasn't merely a dream (a regret of what should've happened, if it would've won his father's love?). His death was a reality, in which case perhaps this was the dream. After all, here he was, sitting with legs with blood flowing through them, breathing in the air of the living, and examining the world through eyes that should no longer see anything.

He was neither a Feldragon nor dead, and that was an impossibility.

"... But the dead don't dream," he muttered, stretching his arms that felt as if they hadn't been used in years, even though he'd fought just moments ago. Whether it was from the pain of his would-be transformation or an effect of his awakening—wherever it might be—he didn't know. To be honest, he didn't particularly care either.

More so than the soreness in his arms, there was a sense of discomfort in his stomach, spreading through the rest of his body so that he couldn't shake it off. It took a few moments before he realized what the cause was: he was disappointed. Truth be told, being alive (in whatever sense of the word) was a let down. He didn't want to be alive; that much was clear. His death was supposed to be the one thing that he actually did right, barring the fact that he hadn't succeeded in turning into a Feldragon. His immediate fate was—should've been—inevitable.

And yet he was still alive.

Of course, he would fail even at that. Of course, the world wouldn't even give him that much.

He let out a low laugh at that, for reasons he couldn't entirely decipher, before examining his surroundings further. That was all that he could do at this point, wasn't it?

It wasn't as if anything mattered anymore, after all.