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whettedmind) wrote2019-03-18 08:25 pm
whettedmind) wrote2019-03-18 08:25 pm
App for A Gentle Night
CHARACTER
Name Tyrion Lannister
Canon Game of Thrones
Age 38
Birthright Jewel Opal by way of RNG
Dreams made flesh While it would be a matter of some internal debate, Tyrion would ultimately request a way to protect the living against the White Walkers and their thralls, be it magical protection, or a means to counter their ability to revive those who fall against them. He's ultimately concerned with (what he believes to be) the best outcome for the most people, and not being slaughtered and raised again as part of an army of the walking dead certainly qualifies.
Canon point Tyrion will be coming in from the end of Season 7. He, Jon, and Daenerys have secured not just a ceasefire but a promise of aid against the Army of the Dead from Cersei - and while Tyrion doesn't typically trust his sister any farther than he could throw a draft horse, he does trust her self-interest, so he believes that promise. Their delegation is on the return trip back to Daenerys' base of operations, and he's only just realized that Dany and Jon are sleeping together (or rather, has seen them entering Dany's cabin together, and drawn the obvious conclusion).
Canon Powers None. Tyrion is completely human, and has shown no affinity for any magic that exists in his canon. Finding a Craft library won't quite be his first priority, but it'll be pretty high up there.
Personality Tyrion has, for the majority of his life, been an outcast in spite of the fact that he is descended from one of the most important noble Houses in Westeros. He's a dwarf in a culture that shies from physical perfection and infirmity, viewing it as something to be pitied at best and mocked and reviled at worst; he's a man whose skills lie in scholarship and social maneuvering in a society where masculinity is heavily tied to strength at arms. He is accustomed to being overlooked, ridiculed, and condescended to, and rather than fighting to be accepted by a world that is disinclined to cooperate, has turned his status as an outcast into his own social armour. When dealing with those who are already inclined to despise him, he plays up his faults as perceived by those people, using self-mockery and exaggerated vice to defang insults and put others off balance, allowing him to get his own verbal barbs in while giving the appearance of being unscathed. Even those he's more kindly disposed to aren't always spared his sharp tongue and someone cynical sense of humour, though it's more in line with verbal sparring than verbal melee.
Beneath Tyrion's cynical, irreverant, and often debauched exterior lies a shrewd mind. He's highly intelligent, and having accepted in childhood that he will never be - and does not particularly want to be - the bold knight that Westerosi culture holds up as an ideal, he's turned instead to honing his mind as a weapon. He has a keen sense of curiousity, and is well-read on a surprising number of subjects, from history and politics to strategy and engineering. His first instinct when confronted with something new is to attempt to learn as much as he can about it, in order to understand it as well as he can. This extends to new people as well as new ideas - Tyrion is exceptionally good at reading people, and at figuring out what they value and what they want. And while he will absolutely take advantage of this skill when there's a need for social maneuvering, he is generally fond of engineering mutually beneficial situations where possible. They're less likely to blow up spectacularly than outright manipulating people to his gain and their loss, and they satisfy his own sense of honor.
Because for all that he might claim not to be an honorable man, Tyrion most certainly does have a sense of honor and justice. He believes in dealing fairly with those who deal fairly with him, in rewarding loyalty with loyalty, and kindness with kindness. He takes a very dim view of the strong preying on the weak, and will step in to defend or deflect attention from someone being victimized, banking on his own wits (and, to some extent, his family name) to keep him safe from retribution. He puts a high value on human life, and when engaged in planning battle strategies, will prioritize in preserving it as much as possible - even his plan to burn Stannis Baratheon's fleet during the Battle of Blackwater saved more lives than it took, as horrific as the casualties are. He has difficulty accepting 'the ends justify the means' as a valid argument, both because he believes that sufficiently vicious means will taint any objective achieved by them, and because he's familiar enough both with history and with how people think to realize that from an outside perspective, the means are what matter. Very few people are going to look past a pile of corpses to see the motive behind it.
This doesn't mean he's incapable of being ruthless or manipulative, however. While Tyrion may prefer compromise, mutually beneficial arrangements, and a minimum of bloodshed, he's aware enough of how the world works to know that diplomacy isn't always an option. And when diplomacy isn't an option, he deals with threats as efficiently as possible. Large army preparing to attack by both land and sea? Send a single ship loaded with alchemical incendiaries out to meet their fleet and blow it up. Untrustworthy captain of the guard who betrayed the last man he took orders from, who he can't have killed because that betrayal served the interest of his family and current king? Banish him to serve as a guard on the Wall in the far North, where someone else will take care of him if the cold doesn't. His solutions are typically not what would be expected, but they work, and that's what matters to him.
If Tyrion's greatest strength lies in his mind - in his intellect, his wits, and his ability to put people off balance and do the unexpected - his greatest weakness lies in his heart. For all that he has largely given up on acceptance in the wider social arena of Westeros, he still craves acceptance on a personal, individual level. He wants love and friendship very badly, enough so that he will accept the appearance of such things from people he's paid, and forget that appearance isn't necessarily reality. This has led to his darkest moment - accused of murder by his sister, tried by his father who knew full well he wasn't guilty, humiliated by false testimony given by the woman he loved (who was, it should be noted, a prostitute he'd originally paid to be his exclusive mistress, and not someone who was in a social position to refuse to give testimony demanded to do so by the Queen Mother or her Hand, something Tyrion would probably realize were it anyone else involved), he snapped. He nearly threw his life away in his betrayal and fury and blind hurt, and then when his brother rescued him from the consequences of his rash decision to demand a trial by combat, he detoured during his prison break to confront and ultimately kill his father - as well as his lover, who he found in his father's bed, though the show muddies the waters in the latter case, having her attack him with a knife so as to make it ambiguous whether he acted in self-defense or would have lashed out at her perceived betrayal regardless. He proceeded to spend the next several months attempting to drink himself into an early grave, before finally being prodded out of his self-loathing first by Jorah Mormont, and then by Daenerys Targaryen. In Daenerys, he has found both someone to believe in, and someone who believes in him, and so has begun to heal - but it is a beginning, and the process is ongoing.
History Tyrion on the Game of Thrones wiki
SAMPLES
Network Sample TDM thread with Katniss
Log Sample
Thread with Sansa from the previous TDM.
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Name Tyrion Lannister
Canon Game of Thrones
Age 38
Birthright Jewel Opal by way of RNG
Dreams made flesh While it would be a matter of some internal debate, Tyrion would ultimately request a way to protect the living against the White Walkers and their thralls, be it magical protection, or a means to counter their ability to revive those who fall against them. He's ultimately concerned with (what he believes to be) the best outcome for the most people, and not being slaughtered and raised again as part of an army of the walking dead certainly qualifies.
Canon point Tyrion will be coming in from the end of Season 7. He, Jon, and Daenerys have secured not just a ceasefire but a promise of aid against the Army of the Dead from Cersei - and while Tyrion doesn't typically trust his sister any farther than he could throw a draft horse, he does trust her self-interest, so he believes that promise. Their delegation is on the return trip back to Daenerys' base of operations, and he's only just realized that Dany and Jon are sleeping together (or rather, has seen them entering Dany's cabin together, and drawn the obvious conclusion).
Canon Powers None. Tyrion is completely human, and has shown no affinity for any magic that exists in his canon. Finding a Craft library won't quite be his first priority, but it'll be pretty high up there.
Personality Tyrion has, for the majority of his life, been an outcast in spite of the fact that he is descended from one of the most important noble Houses in Westeros. He's a dwarf in a culture that shies from physical perfection and infirmity, viewing it as something to be pitied at best and mocked and reviled at worst; he's a man whose skills lie in scholarship and social maneuvering in a society where masculinity is heavily tied to strength at arms. He is accustomed to being overlooked, ridiculed, and condescended to, and rather than fighting to be accepted by a world that is disinclined to cooperate, has turned his status as an outcast into his own social armour. When dealing with those who are already inclined to despise him, he plays up his faults as perceived by those people, using self-mockery and exaggerated vice to defang insults and put others off balance, allowing him to get his own verbal barbs in while giving the appearance of being unscathed. Even those he's more kindly disposed to aren't always spared his sharp tongue and someone cynical sense of humour, though it's more in line with verbal sparring than verbal melee.
Beneath Tyrion's cynical, irreverant, and often debauched exterior lies a shrewd mind. He's highly intelligent, and having accepted in childhood that he will never be - and does not particularly want to be - the bold knight that Westerosi culture holds up as an ideal, he's turned instead to honing his mind as a weapon. He has a keen sense of curiousity, and is well-read on a surprising number of subjects, from history and politics to strategy and engineering. His first instinct when confronted with something new is to attempt to learn as much as he can about it, in order to understand it as well as he can. This extends to new people as well as new ideas - Tyrion is exceptionally good at reading people, and at figuring out what they value and what they want. And while he will absolutely take advantage of this skill when there's a need for social maneuvering, he is generally fond of engineering mutually beneficial situations where possible. They're less likely to blow up spectacularly than outright manipulating people to his gain and their loss, and they satisfy his own sense of honor.
Because for all that he might claim not to be an honorable man, Tyrion most certainly does have a sense of honor and justice. He believes in dealing fairly with those who deal fairly with him, in rewarding loyalty with loyalty, and kindness with kindness. He takes a very dim view of the strong preying on the weak, and will step in to defend or deflect attention from someone being victimized, banking on his own wits (and, to some extent, his family name) to keep him safe from retribution. He puts a high value on human life, and when engaged in planning battle strategies, will prioritize in preserving it as much as possible - even his plan to burn Stannis Baratheon's fleet during the Battle of Blackwater saved more lives than it took, as horrific as the casualties are. He has difficulty accepting 'the ends justify the means' as a valid argument, both because he believes that sufficiently vicious means will taint any objective achieved by them, and because he's familiar enough both with history and with how people think to realize that from an outside perspective, the means are what matter. Very few people are going to look past a pile of corpses to see the motive behind it.
This doesn't mean he's incapable of being ruthless or manipulative, however. While Tyrion may prefer compromise, mutually beneficial arrangements, and a minimum of bloodshed, he's aware enough of how the world works to know that diplomacy isn't always an option. And when diplomacy isn't an option, he deals with threats as efficiently as possible. Large army preparing to attack by both land and sea? Send a single ship loaded with alchemical incendiaries out to meet their fleet and blow it up. Untrustworthy captain of the guard who betrayed the last man he took orders from, who he can't have killed because that betrayal served the interest of his family and current king? Banish him to serve as a guard on the Wall in the far North, where someone else will take care of him if the cold doesn't. His solutions are typically not what would be expected, but they work, and that's what matters to him.
If Tyrion's greatest strength lies in his mind - in his intellect, his wits, and his ability to put people off balance and do the unexpected - his greatest weakness lies in his heart. For all that he has largely given up on acceptance in the wider social arena of Westeros, he still craves acceptance on a personal, individual level. He wants love and friendship very badly, enough so that he will accept the appearance of such things from people he's paid, and forget that appearance isn't necessarily reality. This has led to his darkest moment - accused of murder by his sister, tried by his father who knew full well he wasn't guilty, humiliated by false testimony given by the woman he loved (who was, it should be noted, a prostitute he'd originally paid to be his exclusive mistress, and not someone who was in a social position to refuse to give testimony demanded to do so by the Queen Mother or her Hand, something Tyrion would probably realize were it anyone else involved), he snapped. He nearly threw his life away in his betrayal and fury and blind hurt, and then when his brother rescued him from the consequences of his rash decision to demand a trial by combat, he detoured during his prison break to confront and ultimately kill his father - as well as his lover, who he found in his father's bed, though the show muddies the waters in the latter case, having her attack him with a knife so as to make it ambiguous whether he acted in self-defense or would have lashed out at her perceived betrayal regardless. He proceeded to spend the next several months attempting to drink himself into an early grave, before finally being prodded out of his self-loathing first by Jorah Mormont, and then by Daenerys Targaryen. In Daenerys, he has found both someone to believe in, and someone who believes in him, and so has begun to heal - but it is a beginning, and the process is ongoing.
History Tyrion on the Game of Thrones wiki
SAMPLES
Network Sample TDM thread with Katniss
Log Sample
Thread with Sansa from the previous TDM.
PLAYER
Name PG
Are you 18 or older? Yes
Contact PM, or
Current character N/A