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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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Kunsel is a very pragmatic person. He understands the value of information and the importance of acting on it before you get into a situation, as illustrated by the multiple points in the story where he talks to Zack or sends him messages to fill him in on everything he can. When he doesn't know something, he'll take the time and effort to look into it - and probably blurs the line of what he should have clearance to know on more than one occasion. For instance, even when it's plain that ShinRa, his own employer, is covering up something in Banora, he tells Zack he intends to dig for more information - and this after he's already gone to the effort of looking into the village's income and budget. Curiosity and his drive to know things could well be Kunsel's downfall one day.
He's personable and easygoing, as SOLDIERs go, teasing Zack (and getting teased back!) and willing to swap gossip and listen to rumors during downtime. He knows a lot about the people he works with as a result of this, from the mud-slinging feuds of scientists from twenty years back, to Hollander's favorite T-shirt, to Genesis's obsession with LOVELESS. Of course, some of his information might have more clandestine sources - like sneaking into a training room to snoop around when he wants see what someone's up to in there. Even so, he's good at networking, and more than willing to share information he thinks someone might need.
On the other side of things, though, just because he's friendly doesn't mean he can't buckle down and do his duty. He takes that seriously enough that ShinRa put him in charge of taking one of the company's most respected scientists into custody, clearly trusting that he wouldn't be swayed by anything the man might reveal about the Science Department's shadier practices. As a matter of fact, Kunsel's well aware of many of the company's less-than-ethical dealings. He knows about some of the details of the Jenova Project, knows that the company's lied multiple times about key employees' deaths in order to cover up misconduct, has learned that Director Lazard was embezzling, and even discovers pieces of information referring to Zack as a "research sample." He's working under no illusions here. Despite this, he continues to work diligently for ShinRa. Given the evidence, it's clear he isn't doing it for ShinRa, though, which brings me to my next point.
One of Kunsel's strongest traits is his loyalty, though Kunsel's loyal to specific people, not necessarily the company he works for. Kunsel works hard to keep the people he cares for safe, whether it's showing them the ropes or arming them with information. In his most extreme concrete example, Kunsel deliberately goes behind ShinRa's back to warn Zack of the battalion that was sent after him. There would have to be consequences for that if it ever got to the wrong people, but he never hesitated in contacting his friend. He states bluntly that he doesn't care that Zack's made an enemy of ShinRa. He only cares that Zack makes it back alive. It isn't just Zack he cares about, though. In one message he sends, he worries about all of his fellow SOLDIERs, and what the surge in recent attacks and disrupted chain of command in the wake of Lazard's disappearance might mean for them. Loyalty to his comrades may well be the reason Kunsel didn't consider doing anything overtly against ShinRa until the very end.
Besides, how else is he supposed to get the information he needs if he doesn't have access to it? He's using ShinRa as much as ShinRa's using him.
Flavor Abilities:
Like all SOLDIERs, Kunsel's been well trained in how to fight. Even without the enhancements that come from being a SOLDIER, Kunsel knows full well how to use a sword, as well as fight hand-to-hand, and is intelligent enough to improvise with other weapons if he has to (though not necessarily with anything like proficiency.) He's very good with technology, particularly informational systems (computers, cell phones, etc.), and it's implied that he has at least some hacking ability, given how he often seems to know a lot of things about people and events that he likely shouldn't. In his own words, he states: "It’s no use keeping secrets from me, because I know how to get information."
He also has the signature SOLDIER blue eyes that almost seem to glow.
Suitability:
SOLDIERs frequently get sent on missions to inhospitable areas all over the world, so there's no doubt that Kunsel's received a fair amount of survival training in various kinds of terrain. Having been through a war, he's had hands-on experience with field medicine, too. Unfortunately, that probably mostly consisted of "get them stable enough to survive until someone can pour a Potion down their throat, or cast a Cure on them." Still, that's better than nothing, right?
As a SOLDIER Second Class, Kunsel has been trusted to be in charge of other men, presumably taking responsibility for their lives and welfare, whether it's a simple mission to take a rogue scientist into custody, or something more dire, like heading to Fort Condor to battle the rioting monster population. He can work well with others or on his own with equal efficiency, and can take charge or follow orders as necessary.
When it comes to protecting his friends, though, Kunsel will pull out all the stops. He has and will put their welfare above his own, and will go to great lengths to help them in whatever way he can. Usually, this takes the form of arming them with whatever knowledge he can get his hands on, but if they're in the same area and something is threatening them? You better believe he'll be there to help or defend them. Even if it's someone he doesn't know, he would still want to help. That's what SOLDIERs do.
Of course, without his SOLDIER enhancements, Kunsel will tire more quickly than he's used to, his strength, speed, and stamina more on par with a normal human. Granted, one who's still physically fit, but nowhere near the levels of a SOLDIER Second Class. He'll need some time to get accustomed to that, but like most SOLDIERs, he's adaptable. You don't make it far in the program if you're not.
RP Samples:
Sample One - Network style
Sample Two - Snowblind/Prose
The chapel is whole, the glass still in all its windows, and as near as Kunsel can tell, the roof has never had to be patched. No rotting floorboards, no flowers growing in an exposed patch of dirt.
No flower cart with a broken wheel.
There really isn't any doubt. Never was past the moment he woke up. Even the silence of the building is different, somehow more stifling, more ominous.
And cold.
Kunsel grimaces as his breath frosts the air in front of his nose. No, this most definitely isn't the church in the slums. Where exactly he is is another question entirely, and one he hasn't discovered a real answer to yet, but hopefully the strange PHS he'd woken up with will have more information. The name Norfinbury didn't tell him a lot. Tempting as it is to look through its contents, though, he needs to take stock of his immediate situation first. Is he in any danger? What resources does he have? Is there anyone else here?
Are there monsters?
The chapel itself seems to be empty, at least, giving Kunsel a chance to investigate the backpack he'd found in his possession with the PHS. A quick search reveals food and water, maybe enough to last a week, but no weapons, no information. Nothing except...
Once again, Kunsel's eyes land on the new PHS, still repeating its request for registration. Under normal circumstances, his fingers would be itching to examine the device, to turn it on and explore every function it has, every file, every contact list. He's never seen a model like it before, and that's saying something, considering how avidly he follows the news of the latest PHS upgrades.
But he hasn't finished searching the church. He hasn't gone outside. Can he afford to sit down and look through a PHS?
On the other hand, can he afford not to know?
Information is vital to survival. That was one of the lessons Kunsel had taken to heart. Grimly, he considers the device for another moment longer.
Then he reaches out to tap the screen like it had asked when he first woke up to its voice.
REVISION REQUEST
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Snowblind/Prose sample two.
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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. It looks like all of the windows were smashed in with something like a bat, but they didn't smash all the way and instead left countless spiderweb-like cracks in the windows, making it difficult to see out of them.
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