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half_elvenBASICS
Your name or nickname: Miri
Your year of birth: 1978
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Referral: Lily
Character name: Elrond Peredhel
Character type: Fandom
Fandom/Canon: Tolkien
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Does this character have previous CR?: N/A
HISTORY
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What is your canon exit point?: TA2980 ~ Post-The Hobbit events, but before any events covered in Lord of the Rings.
PERSONALITY OVERVIEW
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PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
What skills does your character bring to the situation?
Elrond has a history of commanding various armies and is a skilled fighter, capable of wielding sword and bow. He is also a well-versed scholar and is quite capable of reading runes/languages of all kinds. He is also well known for his healing ability, and Aragorn even comments that he was a healer of great power. Within 6I, Elrond could bring his skills in either leadership and tactics, his fighting ability as a means of defense, he could also aid in research or help tend to wounds.
Why did you choose this specific character for 6I, and how do you picture them fitting into the game?
He seemed the best fit currently out of the characters I play. While he's no stranger to rebuilding, this will be the first time he'll be doing it akin to how his brother no doubt did after Elros had made his choice to be counted among mortal men. It should be an interesting experience, given that while he may have observed men for so long, he's never actually experienced life without the senses and gifts he was born with. Once he's moved past dealing with his dulled senses and the other downsides of being mortal, he's apt to turn his attention to his surroundings and the differences in them from what he's used to. While some of it is not far from what he's used to, other things, electricity for one, are things he's apt to not understand easily, even if someone attempts to explain it, unless they do so in terms he might grasp better.
I suspect he'll be willing to learn new things if people are willing to teach him about them with patience and a willingness to help him understand what they're trying to teach him if it involves any science related terms. Arda has a very rustic form of technology, so he'll understand basic concepts involving wheels and pullies for example, but using wires to conduct electrons and thus provide power, is apt to be outside of his immediate understanding. His communicator is apt to be a mystery in itself to him even if it won't take him long to learn how to operate it.
As long as people are willing to work with him respectfully and patiently, he will bow to their superior knowledge when it comes to things he doesn't know much or anything about. Those who tend to come off as disrespectful or hostile will thus also earn his scorn and he'll likely end up giving them an earful. If they continue to be disrespectful/hostile toward him after, he'll likely avoid them after.
When it comes to using what he's learned, if he feels he's capable of using it to the benefit of someone or the group at large, I doubt he'd have any qualms about incorporating those things into how he might do something. Especially, if he thinks that the new method might even work more efficiently than how he might have otherwise gone about it. Given Elrond was raised predominantly Ñoldorin, of which is said: "great became their knowledge and their skill; yet even greater was their thirst for more knowledge, and in many things, they soon surpassed their teachers. The Noldor were changeful in speech, for they had a great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things they knew or imagined".
Thus, I'd love to build CR with any medically inclined people, and especially the scholarly types. Also, it could be interesting to have Elrond help people as a counselor type, to give sage advice or thus one might say healing of the more spiritual sort.
How do you imagine your character will survive in 6I, and in what ways will they contribute to the settlement, if any?
He'll be confused on arrival for certain, but the most disconcerting things will be the changes in his senses and other traits and abilities he's come to take for granted due to having lived so long with them. Plus toss in the fact that the world and land where Tolkien placed his stories and the era that 6I is set in is rather different in a few ways. He's going to need time definitely to adjust to it all. Yet, Elrond has proven he's rather capable of adapting to curveballs that life decides to throw at him, so this should be no different.
Regarding contribution, Elrond can aid in defense if necessary, as well as play the scholar and turn his attention to gathering knowledge to record in hope of gaining answers more than they have in the beginning, and likely also play the healer as the need arises.
How will your character react to...Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable?
Elrond is no stranger to being separated from loved ones, permanently and otherwise. He'll loathe being separated from his children, but they're adults at least and can take care of themselves, small consolation, but at least it is some form of comfort. As for the rest of things, it is, fortunately, a time of relative peace during the point where I pulled him, and while he will quietly worry how Rivendell will fare without him, it isn't as though they or the rest of the world is in any immediate danger that he's aware of. Thus while it'll possibly always be there in the back of his mind, he'll be able to also focus on creating a life within 6I as well, even if he'll never completely give up hope of leaving it and returning to his previous life.
As for the loss of power and senses, well, that will definitely throw him for a while. He's spent well over six thousand years with his enhanced senses and elven traits. The loss of them will be more jarring to him than the loss of his other powers. He'll also be alarmed at the loss of his ring, Vilya, the ring of air and understandably so given its importance and power within his world. Yet, given time he'd learn to adapt and adjust to both his new limitations and his new surroundings.
Their environment being manipulated, possibly in strange or extraordinary ways, and possibly in ways which restrain them?
The environment being manipulated is not a new concept to elves given their history, so Elrond would withhold his judgment upon such changes or manipulations until he's learned if they're benign or malicious. He'll adapt and calmly deal with any such benign changes, and likely aid in helping others cope as well. If they're malicious, he'll seek ways to deal with the situation and look for ways to stop it or undo it. If there is none, he'll see about aiding others in dealing with it until it has run its course. Though ultimately, he'll desire to know why these changes happen and what causes them to happen.
Being physically and/or mentally manipulated, such as having hallucinations or suddenly possessing special abilities they did not have before?
He certainly won't appreciate being manipulated, it's apt to remind him of others who manipulated his race in the past. Though they did so with ill-intent. Thus it's entirely possible that Elrond's reaction ultimately will depend on the aspect and end results of any manipulations. All in all, I suspect he may be distrustful of any physical or mental manipulations until he learns more about them or can observe them and see what comes of them. Hallucinations no doubt depend upon the nature of the visions shown on how heavy a mental toll they might take, but I believe that essentially he'll be wary and mistrustful of them.
POWERS & SPECIAL ABILITIES
Elves are resistant to the effects of alcohol and are not subject to disease or physical aging, though they could be killed by violence or by wasting away and losing the will to live.
They have by far better vision and hearing than Men.
They are also light of foot, can travel long distances without leaving tracks, and often can walk lightly across snow where the boots of Men would go through.
Elves do not require sleep but are able to enter a waking meditative state to regain their strength which means they can be exhausted and tire. Although the Elves are more resistant to adverse environments and lack of food than Men, they can succumb to them thus Elves do require sustenance.
Elves could manipulate sanwe-latya (Quenya for "thought-opening" or "telepathy") which allowed them to communicate with thought.
Elrond personally has the ability of foresight through which he could view lands and events far away from Rivendell.
Elrond is also rather adept at healing others, though whether this healing comes from medical knowledge or magic isn't known. (Personally, I suspect both herbal/medical knowledge *and* magical healing boosted by the ring of power he wore, thus he should be capable of it sans ring, it just wouldn't be *as* powerful without it.)
WRITING SAMPLES
SAMPLE 1
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SAMPLE 2
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Date: 2018-06-17 05:48 am (UTC)-------
The mirror holds Celebrían within its frame, it's not only just his wife but the fact his wife is in Rivendell and in good spirits that has him enthralled with what he's seeing.
It had been over four-hundred years since he'd last seen her fair face, and though he knew he would eventually see it again...who knew just how many more years it would be until he actually could leave to rejoin her at her side.
Even so far away, an entire sea parting them, Celebrían is there with him. In heart and in love. There's never a day that passes that she doesn't long to stand beside him, to embrace him or run a hand through his hair. Or just to know that there are a few rooms between them.
And even with so much distance between them, Elrond may feel a familiar embrace. One that she started many times, coming up behind him and wrapping her arms around his waist.
The scene in the mirror shifts as the familiar embrace makes itself known. Celebrían stands behind him now, her arms resting easily around his waist. It feels so real that he can't help but move a hand to rest down to where the arm appears but upon feeling nothing but the fabric of his own tunic, he pulls his gaze from the mirror to look down and then briefly behind him.
Seeing nothing, Elrond's eyes close, expression going pained. Returning his gaze again to the mirror he's uncertain if he should idle here any longer, for as much as he might desire to see her...seeing her and yet knowing she cannot be here with him is far more painful than being unable to see her at all.
Her expression imitates his own, fair features sad and longing. Celebrían lightly reaches a hand up and tries to fix a piece of his hair but nothing changes. Oh, what she wouldn't do to be there with him right now.
Resting her chin on his shoulder, she watches him. Almost content enough to just see him.
I miss you.
There's no sound but the words would be clear for him.
His eyes close once again at the words, wondering at the origins of the device before him. What purpose other than to cause melancholy and have the viewer waste away pining for what they couldn't have could such a thing have?
Sighing softly after a moment he responds to those silent words, eyes opening to again gaze at the one who leaned against him in the mirror.
"Guren níniatha n'i lû n'i a-govenitham.*"
Arwen does not see what holds him so, nor does she let her own gaze linger on the mirror. It makes her uncomfortable, and that it seems to have snared her father certainly doesn't inspire any comfort. "I do not like it." She said as much as a child might, her form coming to stand beside him, her brow drawn.
Elrond pulls his gaze from the glass with some effort at the sound of her voice, turning his gaze to his daughter. "It is...unnatural, yes."
He's still not entirely certain what to think of the mirror, but he doesn't think any good could come of such a thing. Why show someone what they desire when gaining those desires were likely close to, if not nigh impossible? It would only bring melancholy and pain to those with such desires. It felt akin to something that their Enemy might create to drive one mad. Mayhap that was, in fact, its purpose? A cunning weapon, if so.
Her eyes are steady on him, unwavering. "You've not moved from it. It pulls you." As it does everyone. Elf, man, hobbit - not one is safe from this magic. One hand delicately finding his arm, she pulled in turn, at his sleeve, as she'd done in her youth, pleading. "Do not look any longer."
Arwen's request forestalls his gaze from returning to the mirror's glass, and instead, his eyes fall to her fingers holding onto his sleeve, bringing back memories of happier times when their family was whole and the woman before him was but a small child.
He gives a small nod in answer to the first statements. He hadn't been able to pull himself away from the sight presented to him, at least not yet. Closing his eyes, a soft sigh escaped him. "I won't."
Although he gives his word, Arwen doesn't relax. Nor does she let go. "What did you see?" She sounds small, as though she felt she hadn't the right to ask. As though she might already have the answer. That look was one his daughter knew all too well, after all.
Elrond let his eyes remain closed for another moment longer if only to build the resolve to refrain from looking at the mirror before them again. He knew it was wrong to idle here before the thing, wishing for something he could never have.
When he opens his eyes to look at Arwen once again, he noted her discomfort and wondered silently if he should answer or no. He does answer, though his voice is soft as he does. "Imladris....and your mother residing within it."
*My heart will weep to the time when we will meet again