Player Name: Zorn E-mail: n/a Preferred Contact:ZornSable | Discord: Zanono#5772 Timezone: PST Current Characters in Victory Road: Emet-Selch & Thanatos
Character Name: Lanque Bombyx Series: Hiveswap Timeline: End of act 2 Canon Resource Links:Lonk
Personality:
Where does one even begin with the level of absolute NastyBoy™ that is Lanque? Between being shamelessly aware of how terrible he is, perhaps even proud of his level of venomousness, and his willingness to manipulate others through adapting to a situation and the company it holds in order to get the best outcome for himself despite what it costs to others...needless to say, Lanque wears the descriptor well. Lanque is a bit of an emotional vampire, not to mention a social chameleon, and so if the situation calls for him to fake niceness, he can and will, but if it's more fortuitous for him to be his scathing self, well, he will do that as well.
Being one of the chosen Jades to become an eventual space nun means that for most of Lanque's life he was shut away in the brooding caverns of Alternia. His, and the other jade blooded trolls of the selfsame fate's, duty is to tend to the mothergrub and the newly hatched troll grubs as they go on their way to pupate and eventually undergo their trials. This is a duty that Lanque in no way chose and in every way is resistant to. After all, jade bloods are almost exclusively female, and is the troll caste that has the most gender-specific role in their society. This distinction is pretty important to why Lanque is the way he is.
Being a male troll in an almost exclusively female caste, with a lot of female/mother-adjacent expectations on him, on top of being robbed of any autonomy over his own future, let alone his present, it's at least understandable why he'd act out the way he does. Not that it makes him any less of an asshole, but it certainly doesn't come from nowhere. It doesn't help either that jades are pretty notoriously gossipy and passive-aggressive. But what can one expect when you've been locked up with maybe four other people your whole life and expected to attend to a duty you have no choice in at all.
The cloister is effectively treated like a catholic school, in that there's strict laws and expectations that come from religious texts—one of which being chasteness. That one Lanque certainly doesn't care for. With Lanque being robbed of his freedom, he tries to take it wherever he can get it, and has adopted a very self-centered point of view and a chillingly aloof personality. Considering the jades he's been stuck with, this isn't too surprising, because almost all of them are similarly self-centered and venomous—basically all of them can't stand each other, but are stuck together regardless, which only breeds further resentment.
With this in mind, it makes sense that Lanque has become the self-serving narcissist he is. Between having to combat against the toxicity of his cloistermates, and wanting to defy the fate that's been decided for him, he'll stop at nothing to try and achieve his freedom. And I mean nothing. In an attempt to orchestrate a distraction so that he could take advantage of the one time a sweep his group of jades are allowed to leave the brooding caverns, he effectively created a situation that could (and depending on the player's choice) lead to someone dying. Whether it be one of the jades (Lynera) or Joey (the main character, whom of which he kills himself by tossing her off of a moving training). He is utterly unapologetic about this, and shows absolutely no remorse for either case.
Hell, part of his plan is to take advantage of another male jade blood's planned culling—one of the members of a boyband—and fill the hole his death would leave. Upon this success, he would then be free from his duties of being shipped off to the space nunnery, where he would never again be able to party, or have sex, or truly live. Because of this perceived impending doom inching closer and closer, Lanque wastes no time to deceive people to get what he wants from them, even using said tragic fate to make people pity him into giving in, and could not care less about the negative impact it has on others.
Why should he? As far as he cares, his life is going to be ending, and everyone else has their lives spanning before them, enjoying the freedom they hardly even know they have, while he's known nothing but the shackles of his preordained role. Understandably, Lanque is very jaded (there was no avoiding this pun), and pushes against every expectation of him he can. So much so, it's part of his identity, and might have been a factor in his gender identity as well. You see, while he is indeed a male jade blood, he was not hatched male in the physical sense as pertains to troll physiology (whatever that means!). In short, he is a transman stuck in a role and situation structured entirely around the idea of being mothers and nurturers to their species, a role decidedly female by their society, and he is decidedly not.
Despite all these flaws, there is some proof that Lanque isn't necessarily all bad, and doesn't hate all of the jades he's stuck with. Wanshi is the youngest of their group, and she made a remark that there is a jade blood among their group that does play with her, even if he pretends to be too cool for it otherwise. With him being the only male in their group, it's clearly him, which would imply he does have a fondness for her. Perhaps somewhere within him he does care for kids or younger trolls, a nurturing aspect of himself he has otherwise squashed in defiance to his forced role, that he denies himself in order to maintain the persona he's crafted for himself. But we don't know for certain.
Lanque and Wanshi's closeness is further suggested by the fact that one of the routes you can take with the situation the former caused, is that Wanshi plants evidence in an attempt to incriminate someone else. She tries to cover for Lanque, and likewise when she gets picked as the culprit, does not out him at all. Yet, at the same time, Lanque does not speak up for her, nor defends her at all, and so while he might be capable of growing fond and making friends with people, he is just as likely to throw them under the bus if it serves his scheme.
Hmm, okay, maybe he is all bad, but perhaps he has the potential to be better. Too bad he has no intention to walk down that path!
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Rocket Grunt Starter: Lv.15 Noibat & Lv.5 Salandit Password: Atomic Fireball
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Current Characters in Victory Road: Emet-Selch & Thanatos
Character
Name: Lanque Bombyx
Series: Hiveswap
Timeline: End of act 2
Canon Resource Links: Lonk
Personality:
Where does one even begin with the level of absolute NastyBoy™ that is Lanque? Between being shamelessly aware of how terrible he is, perhaps even proud of his level of venomousness, and his willingness to manipulate others through adapting to a situation and the company it holds in order to get the best outcome for himself despite what it costs to others...needless to say, Lanque wears the descriptor well. Lanque is a bit of an emotional vampire, not to mention a social chameleon, and so if the situation calls for him to fake niceness, he can and will, but if it's more fortuitous for him to be his scathing self, well, he will do that as well.
Being one of the chosen Jades to become an eventual space nun means that for most of Lanque's life he was shut away in the brooding caverns of Alternia. His, and the other jade blooded trolls of the selfsame fate's, duty is to tend to the mothergrub and the newly hatched troll grubs as they go on their way to pupate and eventually undergo their trials. This is a duty that Lanque in no way chose and in every way is resistant to. After all, jade bloods are almost exclusively female, and is the troll caste that has the most gender-specific role in their society. This distinction is pretty important to why Lanque is the way he is.
Being a male troll in an almost exclusively female caste, with a lot of female/mother-adjacent expectations on him, on top of being robbed of any autonomy over his own future, let alone his present, it's at least understandable why he'd act out the way he does. Not that it makes him any less of an asshole, but it certainly doesn't come from nowhere. It doesn't help either that jades are pretty notoriously gossipy and passive-aggressive. But what can one expect when you've been locked up with maybe four other people your whole life and expected to attend to a duty you have no choice in at all.
The cloister is effectively treated like a catholic school, in that there's strict laws and expectations that come from religious texts—one of which being chasteness. That one Lanque certainly doesn't care for. With Lanque being robbed of his freedom, he tries to take it wherever he can get it, and has adopted a very self-centered point of view and a chillingly aloof personality. Considering the jades he's been stuck with, this isn't too surprising, because almost all of them are similarly self-centered and venomous—basically all of them can't stand each other, but are stuck together regardless, which only breeds further resentment.
With this in mind, it makes sense that Lanque has become the self-serving narcissist he is. Between having to combat against the toxicity of his cloistermates, and wanting to defy the fate that's been decided for him, he'll stop at nothing to try and achieve his freedom. And I mean nothing. In an attempt to orchestrate a distraction so that he could take advantage of the one time a sweep his group of jades are allowed to leave the brooding caverns, he effectively created a situation that could (and depending on the player's choice) lead to someone dying. Whether it be one of the jades (Lynera) or Joey (the main character, whom of which he kills himself by tossing her off of a moving training). He is utterly unapologetic about this, and shows absolutely no remorse for either case.
Hell, part of his plan is to take advantage of another male jade blood's planned culling—one of the members of a boyband—and fill the hole his death would leave. Upon this success, he would then be free from his duties of being shipped off to the space nunnery, where he would never again be able to party, or have sex, or truly live. Because of this perceived impending doom inching closer and closer, Lanque wastes no time to deceive people to get what he wants from them, even using said tragic fate to make people pity him into giving in, and could not care less about the negative impact it has on others.
Why should he? As far as he cares, his life is going to be ending, and everyone else has their lives spanning before them, enjoying the freedom they hardly even know they have, while he's known nothing but the shackles of his preordained role. Understandably, Lanque is very jaded (there was no avoiding this pun), and pushes against every expectation of him he can. So much so, it's part of his identity, and might have been a factor in his gender identity as well. You see, while he is indeed a male jade blood, he was not hatched male in the physical sense as pertains to troll physiology (whatever that means!). In short, he is a transman stuck in a role and situation structured entirely around the idea of being mothers and nurturers to their species, a role decidedly female by their society, and he is decidedly not.
Despite all these flaws, there is some proof that Lanque isn't necessarily all bad, and doesn't hate all of the jades he's stuck with. Wanshi is the youngest of their group, and she made a remark that there is a jade blood among their group that does play with her, even if he pretends to be too cool for it otherwise. With him being the only male in their group, it's clearly him, which would imply he does have a fondness for her. Perhaps somewhere within him he does care for kids or younger trolls, a nurturing aspect of himself he has otherwise squashed in defiance to his forced role, that he denies himself in order to maintain the persona he's crafted for himself. But we don't know for certain.
Lanque and Wanshi's closeness is further suggested by the fact that one of the routes you can take with the situation the former caused, is that Wanshi plants evidence in an attempt to incriminate someone else. She tries to cover for Lanque, and likewise when she gets picked as the culprit, does not out him at all. Yet, at the same time, Lanque does not speak up for her, nor defends her at all, and so while he might be capable of growing fond and making friends with people, he is just as likely to throw them under the bus if it serves his scheme.
Hmm, okay, maybe he is all bad, but perhaps he has the potential to be better. Too bad he has no intention to walk down that path!
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket Grunt
Starter: Lv.15 Noibat & Lv.5 Salandit
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample:
TDM Thread with Neville
Victory Road Sample:
TDM thread with Steven