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PLAYER

NAME: Leigh
CONTACT: jhope
OVER 18? Yes
CURRENT CHARACTER: N/A

CHARACTER

NAME: Ernesto Salas
CANON: Arknights
CANON POINT: After joining and settling into Rhodes Island
AGE: Unspecified in canon. 25 seems about right
SPECIES: Perro
INFORMATION: There is a very bare-bones wiki.

Ernesto comes from a country called Bolívar on a planet called Terra. The long short of it is that Terra is a planet overrun by massive natural disasters known as Catastrophes, where a large portion of the population has contracted a deadly mineral poisoning known as Oripathy that causes the infected to become outcasts (or worse) in their own communities.

Bolívar in particular in a country that has been torn apart by ongoing civil conflict; one that existed before Ernesto was even born. As a child Ernesto bore witness both to a homeland torn apart by war, and a father slowly consumed and destroyed by it. When his mother passed away while he was still a child, his father, Pancho, enlisted a young Ernesto into the True Bolívarian army, having him trained with other children to be soldiers. Ernesto was not allowed respite from the army life until years later, when his father's friend died rescuing Pancho. His father then adopted the daughter (Rafaela) of his fallen friend, and left behind his own military career.

His family moved to a tourist trap city called Dossoles, and Ernesto quickly adjusted to the lifestyle there. Dossoles was a city of wealth and luxury, that was removed from the war that tore at the rest of the country. At the same time it was a city filled with corruption, as well as being hotbed of criminal activity. While Erensto began working directly for the mayor, Candela, and learned to genuinely love the city despite its flaws, his loyalty to his father meant he helped his not-so-retired old man hatch a scheme to send the city into an uproar.

The city was built on the suffering of the rest of Bolívar, and Pancho believed it needed to be stirred for the ongoing conflict to finally see a real resolution. Ernesto worked for Candela for three years while plotting a large scale domestic terrorism plot with his father and his men. Though Ernesto took great pains to make sure that the destruction would happen in the least populated areas and cause the lease amount of carnage, he still was the brains behind so much of the operation.

It might have worked too if operatives from a pharmaceuticals company known as Rhodes Island hadn't shown up, and very quickly thwarted their schemes. After a disruptive, public attempt at an uprising, Pancho was arrested, and his son and adopted daughter were left adrift with nowhere to go. It was at that point that one of the operatives, Ch'en, made the offer to Ernesto to join Rhodes Island as well, and his new life working towards the care and protection of people infected with Oripathy began.

CHARACTER PITCH: Ernesto has held a plethora of largely alarming titles during his relatively young life: soldier, former deputy director of trade, ex-revolutionary/terrorist, arms dealer, and operator for a militarized pharmaceutical company. Some of his unorthodox choices can be blamed on the fact that he grew up in a country (and world) in turmoil. He puts up a friendly and chipper front, but a lot of his personality is a facade used to mask his own complex morality and uncertain views on the world. While he may be somewhat fake, he is an excellent mediator, and does well both smoothing over problems and making friends.

In short, he's a friendly liar with a troubled mind, and a still shifting view on right and wrong.

POWERS: Ernesto doesn't have any particularly fancy powers. He's good with a sword, and any additional abilities he has (limited) access to are rendered moot by virtue of him being in a different world.

QUESTIONNAIRE

What is the worst or most malicious thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?

The most malicious thing that Ernesto has ever done was help his father try to overtake the city of Dossoles by force and fear. He spent meticulous years of planning to win over the trust of the mayor in order to accomplish this goal, but the irony is that his heart wasn't in it at all by the time the final stages of the plan were put into action. His feelings about his choices are complicated, though he was relieved to see his side fail, he was also lost his job, and ended up leaving his home of many years. While this action was likely a one time only event for Ernesto, it's not impossible that he would do something similar in the name of a cause he actually believed in.

What is the most altruistic or selfless thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?

It's hard to call Ernesto's decision to join Rhodes Island completely altruistic, because it was the last option given to a desperate man, but it is probably the choice that has allowed him to do the most good in the world. While a militarized pharmaceutical company doesn't sound like it would be a particular beneficial group, it's strangely one of few organizations that works to protect the infected individuals that have become outcasts in their own society, and provide them much needed medical care. Despite not suffering from Oripathy himself, Ernesto allows himself to be at an increased risk of infection in order to help these individuals.

It's also one of the choices in his life that Ernesto feels the best about. While he does eventually want to return to his own country to help with the ongoing conflict there, it's easier to do work that doesn't chafe against his own views of the world as badly as what he was doing before. It's currently a new precedent he set for himself, though likely one he will be interested in continuing in the future.

What do they desire above all else? How far would they go to accomplish their goals or fulfill those desires? Do they have lines they wouldn't cross?

Ah, now there's the rub. Ernesto himself is still trying to discover what his own desires are. During some very formative years he was presented with two worldviews that were deeply at odds with one another, and developed his own complex view of the world in the process. Does he want to do good in fixing a broken world, or is he more interested in making sure that he himself can enjoy life for the fullest while just minimizing his own harm in it? It's hard to say, because Ernesto is still trying to sort that out for himself.

Because his own future goals are so uncertain, it means he won't strive against impossible odds to achieve his half-formed and still shifting dream. Regardless, Ernesto's interest in causing hurt and destruction is minimal. Though he does find himself having to hurt others in his current job working for Rhodes Island, and did reap some small scale destruction to further his father's goals, Ernesto's one definite desire for himself is to put this kind of violence in his past.

GAME DETAILS

LEGACY: The Lover. While Ernesto keeps up his own walls, he's very interested in other people. He's extremely diplomatic, and works hard to build up friendly relations with just about everyone he meets. He's also takes great pains to be aware of the behaviors, inclinations, and experiences of the people around him.

Beyond that, he has a history of making choices that go against his own beliefs in order to help support people he cares about. He'll be the first to admit that his mind is easily influenced and swayed by the people close to him.
INTRODUCTORY SECT: Pleroma. There's a certain irony in Ernesto's draw to Pleroma, considering his own checkered past of causing intentional destruction and chaos. Still, his own desires for the future line up better with the sect that wants to preserve the life that already exists. He wouldn't call himself a particularly hopeful person, though he admires those who can be called starry-eyed dreamers. He has seem some truly horrific atrocities committed by people, and witnessing things like that tends to stick with a guy. Despite it all though, Ernesto has somehow managed to maintain a belief that good people do exist out there, and a better world is achievable no matter how bleak the situation looks. No need to raze it all to the ground first to build that world either.
SUITABILITY: Ernesto is a man who already sees the world in shades of gray rather than black and white, and is used to seeing some of the less pleasant sides of what humanity has to offer. While the ideals of Pleroma will better fit his general ideas and hopes for the world, he's shaky enough in his beliefs that with the right pressure applied he could be swayed over to Kenoma. I have no plans set into stone, but natural development that pushes Ernesto stronger into his commitment and support of Pleroma, or has him falling into the corruption of Kenoma are both equally likely. Both would also be fun to play out for me, and I look forward to seeing where the winds end up taking him.

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