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Cullen Rutherford | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Reserved
Name: Katie
Age: 28
Contact Info: autoclave @ plurk
Other Characters: n/a
Character Information
Name: Cullen Rutherford
Canon: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Age: Early 30s
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post game
Background Link: history
Inventory:
-armor
-lion coat
-sword
-shield
-small clothes
-boot
Personality:
In his deep down squishy center of himself Cullen is someone who wants to help people, wants to protect them. As a child he looked up to the templars and wanted to become one so he could protect people -- just from mages but protect the mages as well. Things go a little sour, to say the least, however when many of the Circle of Magi he was assigned to practiced blood magic and tortured him. He was the only templar to survive and the trauma of the experience left him scarred, to say the least. He becomes very distrustful of mages, paranoid and angry. He thinks the only way to keep anyone safe is to keep mages on a tight leash. His anger and his pain blinds him from logic and makes it so he has trouble seeing the corruption that's been going through the Templar Order -- especially in Kirkwall. But the tragedy of Kirkwall is a wake up call for him.
He needs to do better. He needs to fight. And Cassandra gives him a chance to prove himself, to be something more than a templar. He joins the inquisition and it's here that he finally begins to find some peace and himself again. He leads the troops there with a firm but caring hand. He will do anything to make sure the Inquisition does not fail -- even at the cost of himself if it has to be that way.
Cullen is the type of person who constantly puts everything else before himself. He absolutely is willing to sacrifice himself for the cause if it comes down to it -- and doing it on his own terms. When the attack in Haven happens he's not sure any of them will be able to get out alive but he figures if they're going to go out, do it with style. Do it on your own terms. It's a running joke that everyone thinks he works too much and needs a hobby. He's constantly restless and throwing himself into one task or another, dedicated to both his men and the Inquistion itself.
He tends to be a very straightforward person, for the most part. If he thinks something is stupid or wrong he will flat out tell you right away. It happens in several of the war table missions with his card only saying things like. "No. This is stupid." Or "While we're at it why not put her head on a pike and parade it around...you're going to make me do that aren't you." He also can be quite sardonic when he wants to be and sometimes he’ll even be in a good enough mood to drop some jokes.
His social skills in general could probably use some work. He often comes off as curt or just plain awkward. And if he's interested in someone romantically? He's just plain dumb. In Origins when a female mage flirts with him he literally runs away from her. In Inquisition he is often awkward and tongue tied when talking to the Inquisitor if she's romancing him. When the Orlesians at the court hit on him he's shown to be very put off by it whether he's been romanced or not. He wants nothing to do with them. And he's incredibly self conscious as well -- hence why he refuses to dance at the ball at first. He has no desire to make a fool out of himself. Overall, he's not really used to dealing with people on a larger scale -- working as a templar meant usually working in a Circle and interacting with mages and other templars. Regular social situations aren't something he has a ton of experience with.
He's a good strategist and tactician -- this not only shows up in his work with the soldiers but in recreation as well. It's implied that when he plays chess with Dorian he wins more often than not. As a child his sister had better at it and always won so he trained and trained until he could finally beat here. Which is another thing about him -- he's extremely determined when it comes to his goals. Josephine at one point describes him as a hammer looking for a nail and it's not really a bad comparison all things considered.
Still, as determined as he is he has trouble having faith himself, especially when it comes to his lyrium addiction. At one point he almost begs Cassandra to find someone to take over his post. Withdraw makes him a liability in his eyes. And this is too important. It is only with the support of both Cassandra and the inquisitor that he does not give in and start taking it again. All templars are made to be reliant/addicted to lyrium but since he's left the order he is trying to let go of that. He thinks he can be a good man without it, maybe even a better one than he had been before. The issue of the red templars seem to be something that particularly weights on him because he knows had things played out just a little differently than they did he could have ended up like them. On other hand sometimes he can be overly confident in himself – like when he loses to Josephine at Wicked Grace.
Cullen is very away of his faults and short comings. Where he's failed in the past due to being blinded by his anger and trauma. He wants to do better now, be better now. He knows he cannot apologize, he cannot change what he's done in the past, he can only change what he does now. He does not have to be the man he was before. He won't make the same mistakes this time, he simply won't allow himself to.
He's also a huge nerd who wears a Macklemore coat. Don't mistake him for someone you should take too seriously. He's kind of a mess, honestly. He apparently complains about the roof leaking all the time and never fixes the big hole in his ceiling. I feel like this says a lot about him
Flavor Abilities: None. Without the lyrium he can no longer access any Templar abilities anyway.
Suitability:
Cullen is from a world that largely is defined on survival, whether it be from the Blight, the mage and Templar feuds or more recent problems like the threat of Corypheus. Because of running the Inquisition forces I think it would make him very suitable for this game. It leaves him in the position where he knows how to help people in dire situations, and moreso he’ll want to help those people. Many of his most important War Table assignments involved helping refugees and stopping conflicts from escalating more than they already have. Here he would want to do the same, help people as much as possible whether that means helping people out of storms or other natural disasters or neutralizing less natural threats as well.
RP Samples:
prose
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network sample on test drive meme
ACCEPTED - NOTE
A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. The downstairs bedrooms are used for storage and contain a lot of boxes and trunks that seem to be pretty unorganized. All of the boxes and trunks in the right bedroom are empty. The master bedroom has a general astronomy theme from the stardusted comforter to the posters of galaxies on the wall. The galaxies are ones that exist in the observable universe from Earth. There's a chair on the balcony positioned as if it once was used to sit and observe the sky with a telescope, but the telescope isn't there anymore.
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NOTE: Cullen will not have his sword or shield with him.