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PLAYER INFO

NAME: Leigh
CONTACT:

jhope
OVER 18?: Y

CHARACTER INFO

NAME: Ernesto Salas
SERIES: Arknights
CANON POINT: After joining and settling into Rhodes Island
AGE: Unspecified in canon. 25 seems about right

CHARACTER SUMMARY: 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 while his sense of right and wrong is still in some flux, living through one world ending event already has started to solidify for him some lines that he is unwilling to cross.

POWERS: Extremely limited ability to use Arts to do some minor damage. Without the mineral known as Originium, however, he cannot use these powers at all.

GAME INFO

ASPECTS: ADVOCATE: Ernesto grew up in a country ripped apart by war, and has seen his fair share of people's lives uprooted or even ended by it. Rather than let the horrific things he's seen make him cold, Ernesto has allowed a sense of compassion to bloom, and nursed a desire to help better the situation of people he saw struggling. Though Ernesto does not always know what the best way to do that is, and has in the past been fast to turn to others in order to help figure this out. He has laid his own life on the line very literally for causes his heart is not fully in, out of loyalty for those who believe strongly that what they were doing is right, and though his feelings on his past choices are complicated, he doesn't exactly regret them.

Also he's easy-going on the surface, and that's one of the traits listed too.

STARGAZER: Ernesto's more surface level traits show up in the Stargazer aspect. He's a man who enjoys relaxing and having a good time. He has some hedonistic tendencies, and interest in the world (and now worlds) at large. Though he's never been the type to have a ton of wanderlust, learning about people and their cultures is right up his alley.

ANTICIPATED FACTION: MERIDIAN: Though Ernesto can appreciate the desire to start anew something beautiful and better than the mess of the worlds that came before, he also doesn't like the idea of giving up on something for being broken and hard to fix.

His own country is similar to this on a smaller scale, with the people suffering and the nation struggling. Despite this, events Ernesto has lived through has him realizing that razing things to the ground, and trying to build something out of those ashes is a horrible and brutal approach to fixing a problem. Even if the alternative is a slow and painful slog, the method that protects and supports the largest number of people is the one that appeals to him.

He'll harmonize to Meridian pretty quickly.

SUITABILITY: Ernesto as a character is fast to involve himself in things. He'll stay neutral just long enough to get a somewhat solid sense of the situation, and be pretty quick to make a decision for himself after that. While some of his talents will not be as needed as they were in the past, he has a multitude of other ones that he can bring into play, and he'll find the hustle and bustle of Springstar to be one that suits him just fine as he settles in and starts running jobs for the city and Cyrus.