AZUME PERMISSIONS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS

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BASIC INFO NAME: Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald A.K.A.: Identification Number L-17 CANON: Fate/Grand Order HOMEWORLD: The Type-Mooniverse Earth AGE: 34 GENDER: Male SPECIES: Human FIRST GLANCE APPEARANCE: Link HEIGHT: 5'11" BUILD: Somewhere between slim and lean HAIR: Blond and usually slicked back, which occasionally earns comments about a receding hairline.......... EYES: Blue DRESS: Formal enough. He tends to prefer long, well-fitted coats, white gloves, and dress pants. SCENT: ...idk he smells alright? Maybe a little metallic, but not HE'S A ROBOT metallic. Like someone who works with metal a lot. VOICE: Posh, smug, and maybe a little nasally. DEMEANOR: Dignified and refined... for the most part. He's got a bit of a temper, though. PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: ✔ hell you guys know me you know i love this shit 4TH-WALLING: ✔ honestly it's not the weirdest thing to happen in his canon THREADJACKING: ✔ yeah fuck him up MIND-READING: ✔ i mean it's probably not going to happen given no powers but idk maybe someone's psychic pokemon will do it? FIGHTING: ✔ kick his ass kick his ass ROMANCE: ✔ I MEAN..... it's gonna be a rough road considering he's A) him and B) got some undying devotion going on already but honestly he could do with a healthier relationship with someone who actually gives a shit about him. INJURY: ✔ KICK HIS ASS KICK HIS ASS KILLING: ✘ tentatively. i'm not sure if this is the kind of game where people die when they are killed but in any case we'd have to work that shit out

FIRST IMPRESSIONS and also permissions PERSONALITY Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald is kind of an asshole. Well, no, that’s simplifying things, even if it’s true. He’s the sort of person who’s never really faced any difficulties in life—partially because he was born into an aristocratic family and partially because he had oodles of natural talent and was considered a prodigy from a very young age. This comes with all the personal flaws you’d expect from such a person: arrogance, elitism, entitlement, and a complete inability to deal with failure. As far as Kayneth is concerned, the world is set up to ensure his personal success. Even things like compliments tend to annoy him, because as far as he’s concerned, things he gets complimented on just come naturally to him. It’s like getting complimented for breathing. That isn’t to say that he’s immune to ego stroking, but it has to be done right. Like… convincing him that he becomes the author of a time travelling system in the future and that his family basically takes over Clock Tower, for example. Of course, he’s not simply satisfied with where he is now... in fact, thinking about it, a life like that is somewhat boring, isn't it? Practically everything he does is geared towards increasing his own prestige as a mage, including throwing himself into a conflict like the Holy Grail War, which he did partially for entertainment purposes and partially to add some martial prowess to his already impressive resume. Clearly, being the head of a famous family of mages, getting named a genius by most, and having become a lecturer at the Clock Tower at a fairly young age wasn’t enough. He’s quite self-centered and fails to understand people who aren’t, so he tends to be suspicious of people who are naturally predisposed to helping others. He’s kind of a typical member of the magical aristocracy in that regard, actually. He has a tendency to look down on anyone whose family hasn’t practiced magic for a significant amount of generations and has no qualms about bullying them or assuming the absolute worst of their capabilities, especially if they do something that he perceives as an insult. See, for example, his interactions with the low-born Waver Velvet, who he publicly humiliates in front of a class full of students for a thesis that attacks the fundamentals of the lineage-based system that the Mage Association effectively built itself on. See also the fact that even when he’s talking to Waver El-Melloi II Velvet, he notes his low-class accent as a negative. Of course, this tendency to think the worst of those who he perceives as low-born and disrespectful of magic eventually backfires rather spectacularly when he underestimates Kiritsugu Emiya based on the fact that he uses conventional methods over magic, but that hasn't happened yet. Speaking of that hotel! He extends that umbrella to cultures that he thinks are out of touch with their history and have become irreversibly consumerist. At one point, he decided the nice hotel room he’s staying in is a complete pigsty because to him, it’s putting on airs without having anything of cultural significance in it. Granted, he was annoyed with something at the time, which leads into another point—Kayneth has a very… odd way of dealing with anger in that he tries to internalize it, but you can read him like a book anyway. Possibly because his mind tends to go very strange places when he’s angry, like the time when he realized he accidentally insulted himself because he insulted someone who’d managed to injure him. Even though he may look perfectly calm, you can practically feel it radiating from him, and if pushed hard enough he can get downright murderous. …that, and he has a tendency to take it out on people (or things…) who can’t really stand up to him. Usually, it’s the offender if they’re in front of him… but, well, he does have his weaknesses, after all, even if it may seem like he doesn't. The biggest one would be Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, his fiancée. He’s kind of hopelessly in love with her (even though she doesn’t exactly reciprocate) and has an extremely difficult time saying a word against her. He’s also pretty willing to do dumb things to try and prove himself to her despite the fact that he’s usually stubbornly inflexible, so, uh, in short—he’s completely whipped, which he’s… somewhat aware of. Maybe a little bit. Of course, he does have a tendency to get super jealous and possessive when she’s showing other people affection… yeah, summoning the dude who unconsciously charms women without really analyzing the strength of your relationship might not have been the best idea, Kayneth. Speaking of Lancer, aka Diarmuid... well, Kayneth sees him more as another tool in his arsenal than an actual person, which makes Lancer's desire to get his chivalry on all the much more frustrating even without that little Love Spot issue. It's difficult to say whether or not he'd apply this attitude to people other than Lancer given that Lancer's kind of a special case, being a Servant that he summoned and all, but given how Magi usually tend to regard human life, it's not entirely impossible that he would be perfectly willing to use another person as a tool without actually recognizing them as a person. With all of that said, he’s not totally awful. He is capable of coming off as a gentleman (admittedly one with a slight foppish and kind of melodramatic streak), as he’s a fairly popular guy at the Clock Tower and tends to be highly regarded by people who have fairly simple dealings with him. He's actually fairly savvy when it comes to political dealings on account of Clock Tower being a complicated mess of backstabbing and ambition. If you want to get anywhere there, much less anywhere remotely respectable, politicking is practically a survival skill. His aristocratic upbringing and lineage ensured that he'd have plenty of connections to start out with, but he's perfectly capable of making more --- after all, while it was admittedly somewhat terrible for his personal life, Sola-ui was actually a politically strategic match, as she happens to be the daughter of the head of the Spiritual Evocation department. He does have a sense of honor that he takes very seriously, though it tends to clash with the knightly sort of honor a lot of Servants have in that he prefers to oversee things from the shadows rather than getting right into the action (unless goaded into it, of course). Mage Honor is complicated and tends to be more about personal glory than anything really chivalrous, but he does, for the most part, tend to be sporting. While he's perfectly willing to employ clever deceptions, he's not the sort to pull dirty tricks, and he loves nothing more than the honorable variety of mage battles. Even when he considers himself above his opponent, he does have some genuine respect for them if they show some cleverness and play by the rules. The problem is that he tends to expect them from everyone, and… well… all bets on that 'honor' thing would be off if he were to completely lose his shit. And if his opponent isn't being honorable... well, heaven help them, because he's not exactly above threatening to kill them by dissecting them while keeping their lungs alive with magic... which, well, he's likely to do even when he can't actually use it. And if he's pushed too far into a corner, it's entirely possible that all bets are off regardless. He's the sort of person that would discard honor before necessarily giving up... but it must be stated that it would take a monumental amount of misfortune to get him to that state. Speaking of giving up... he's not exactly good at that, particularly when he feels desperate. HISTORY The Type-Moon Wiki entry on him does a good job of summing up his background as it is in Fate/Zero, which is good for starters. However, this isn't how things go for him in Fate/Grand Order's Fate/Accel Zero Order event, so I've got a writeup! Basically, Fate/Accel Zero Order is an alternate universe where the main point of divergence is that Kiritsugu basically doesn’t exist and Irisviel is Saber’s master. This is what attracts the attention of Chaldea, an organization that’s trying to prevent human history from ending in 2016 via time travelling to points where history’s going weird and fixing things by taking Servants with them. Some of these Servants are Demi-Servants, where a normal-ish human is basically possessed by a Servant and gains their superpowers, but retains their original personality in the two cases that are relevant to this particular storyline. So anyway, the main character, Ritsuka Fujimaru (who I’m assuming is the female version because Gudako owns) time travels to Fuyuki of 1994 along with her Demi-Servant companions, Mash and the adult Waver Velvet (who currently has the superpowers of Zhuge Liang). Waver promptly begins treating the event as his own personal fix-it fic where he tries to limit the loss of life and kill off the most uncooperative Servants where things go smoothly. This includes making sure Kayneth survives the war, because as he’s aged Waver has sort of gained a mix of respect for his old asshole teacher and guilt over the part he may have had in Kayneth’s horrible, horrible death in the canon timeline. He does this by arranging a meeting with Kayneth where he proves he’s Kayneth’s successor from the future (without letting on that he’s Waver Fuckin’ Velvet) by quoting the love poetry for Sola-ui Kayneth left in his study. He then proceeds to bullshit the fuck out of Kayneth by saying that he’s the one responsible for the time travel and that his family basically Wins Big. Kayneth, being a High INT Low WIS sort of fellow, falls for it hook, line, and sinker (despite his observation that Waver has a low-class accent, because Kayneth’s Like That) and begins cooperating with Waver to take out Caster, who’s the biggest issue in the war. They go into Caster’s hideout and take him the fuck out, and then Kayneth leaves to get the extra Command Seal from Risei Kotomine without, like, fucking murdering the dude. When Team Chaldea meets up with Kayneth again, Waver essentially arranges an Exit Stage Left back to London for Kayneth by saying that the Holy Grail War is basically a conspiracy between the Tohsaka Family and the Archibalds’ enemies, the Trombelio family, to distract Kayneth from a plot back at Clock Tower to make it more of a democratic institution than the stuffy aristocracy Kayneth favors. He… seems to buy it, like he’s been this whole time, but… well, after he leaves Lancer to Team Chaldea because hell if he’s taking Lancer back to London with his fiancee, he does let Waver know that he’s sort of caught on that he’s full of shit when he put two and two together and realized he’d never let anyone see those poetry snippets if he was still alive. He asks Waver if he died in Waver’s timeline, and Waver… confirms. So yeah he just peaces out after that. Back to London with him. All’s well that ends well, right? Uhhh…. Well, actually, the timelines that Chaldea enters in are threats to human history. Once they go in and fix things, the will of the world kind of… prunes that branch off. So basically, once Chaldea finishes up with this timeline, it’s done. It’s erased. Man. Kayneth really can’t catch a break. INVENTORY POKEMON PARTY. Here it is! POKEMON IN STORAGE. For whenever that feature is added. NON-POKEMON POSSESSIONS. Link to come when he has some that aren't the Team Galactic uniform.

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