Post by Jocelyn Tate on Jul 9, 2010 15:14:01 GMT -5
Name: Joshua Quasar
Real name: Iosua al-Qasr
Age: 13 / Real age: 71
Hair color: black
Eye color: green
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Appearance: A brooding, average height boy for his age, somewhat thin. Suffers from mild acne.
Biography: "Joshua" has an extraordinary background. He is in fact Emir Iosua al-Qasr, the sovereign ruler of House al-Qasr, the dominant force in the galaxy of Fornux, grandfather of the heir apparent to the throne, a popular war hero and a genius scientist. He comes from an interstellar society where competing dynasties vie for political and economical power with any means necessary, and where he in his position has had to face off threats of assassination, financial ruin and embarrassment. Once his nephew was nearly killed in front of his very eyes.
In his galaxy, he is the most powerful man, and the second most powerful person (after his daughter-in-law, the Empress).
A mighty man like the Emir has enemies as well, and the most notorious of them is the Dastardly Count Giacomo Esposito, "Dastardly" by order of the court, who for years has tried to master the laws of time and space.
As Iosua suddenly found himself lying on a grassy field in California instead of staring down the chronically fugitive Dastardly Count in his laboratory, it became apparent that the Count had succeeded in this goal. He was now a stranger in a strange land. Baffling (although, honestly speaking, not quite as baffling) was the fact that he was now nearly sixty years younger.
Iosua quickly got to work. Some of his patented nanomachines still lingered inside him: devices that would quickly learn and translate languages, medical devices that instead of keeping his aging body alive now helped him fight off bizarre diseases and allergies. The woeful technological level of the planet offered opportunities and hindrances. He was able to quickly amass a great fortune by "inventing" some simple computer processor designs, but it's difficult to reverse-engineer the temporal-spatial wormhole you were thrown through when society hasn't even mastered nuclear fusion yet.
He decided to turn to more eccentric means to find a way back home. With his money it was simplicity itself to get enrolled at Saint Dymphna's Academy, where preternatural powers and scientific geniuses seemed to be the norm, and in his pimply, squeaky-voiced state he'd fit in perfectly. ... right?
Personality: Joshua is a very determined person, with an old soul (in a literal sense): he is mature for his age, but cannot always overcome the things puberty does to a person's psychological state. He is quick to grow impatient, is angered by incompetence, and prizes intellect and personal integrity above everything else.
He is very traditional, but realizes he is either in the past or in some bizarre alternate dimension, and thus tries to keep attention away as best as he can; on the other hand, he does not really care for the "stupid apes" of this backwards planet, and thus only sees personal relationships as a way towards his ultimate goal of getting back. He enjoys some luxuries, but abhors opulence and is generally stingy. His greatest failing is probably his hubris, which has nearly gotten him killed on several occasions (and thrown to our Earth on the latest).
Skills: Fencing, charismatic and persuasive speeches, military strategy, scientific research (especially physics and biology), ruling powerful interstellar dynasties, running multiplanetary companies.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Rich -10
Genius -10
From nonexistent country -10 (closest equivalent I could think of for his background)
Multilingual -6
Anti-social +6
Real name: Iosua al-Qasr
Age: 13 / Real age: 71
Hair color: black
Eye color: green
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Appearance: A brooding, average height boy for his age, somewhat thin. Suffers from mild acne.
Biography: "Joshua" has an extraordinary background. He is in fact Emir Iosua al-Qasr, the sovereign ruler of House al-Qasr, the dominant force in the galaxy of Fornux, grandfather of the heir apparent to the throne, a popular war hero and a genius scientist. He comes from an interstellar society where competing dynasties vie for political and economical power with any means necessary, and where he in his position has had to face off threats of assassination, financial ruin and embarrassment. Once his nephew was nearly killed in front of his very eyes.
In his galaxy, he is the most powerful man, and the second most powerful person (after his daughter-in-law, the Empress).
A mighty man like the Emir has enemies as well, and the most notorious of them is the Dastardly Count Giacomo Esposito, "Dastardly" by order of the court, who for years has tried to master the laws of time and space.
As Iosua suddenly found himself lying on a grassy field in California instead of staring down the chronically fugitive Dastardly Count in his laboratory, it became apparent that the Count had succeeded in this goal. He was now a stranger in a strange land. Baffling (although, honestly speaking, not quite as baffling) was the fact that he was now nearly sixty years younger.
Iosua quickly got to work. Some of his patented nanomachines still lingered inside him: devices that would quickly learn and translate languages, medical devices that instead of keeping his aging body alive now helped him fight off bizarre diseases and allergies. The woeful technological level of the planet offered opportunities and hindrances. He was able to quickly amass a great fortune by "inventing" some simple computer processor designs, but it's difficult to reverse-engineer the temporal-spatial wormhole you were thrown through when society hasn't even mastered nuclear fusion yet.
He decided to turn to more eccentric means to find a way back home. With his money it was simplicity itself to get enrolled at Saint Dymphna's Academy, where preternatural powers and scientific geniuses seemed to be the norm, and in his pimply, squeaky-voiced state he'd fit in perfectly. ... right?
Personality: Joshua is a very determined person, with an old soul (in a literal sense): he is mature for his age, but cannot always overcome the things puberty does to a person's psychological state. He is quick to grow impatient, is angered by incompetence, and prizes intellect and personal integrity above everything else.
He is very traditional, but realizes he is either in the past or in some bizarre alternate dimension, and thus tries to keep attention away as best as he can; on the other hand, he does not really care for the "stupid apes" of this backwards planet, and thus only sees personal relationships as a way towards his ultimate goal of getting back. He enjoys some luxuries, but abhors opulence and is generally stingy. His greatest failing is probably his hubris, which has nearly gotten him killed on several occasions (and thrown to our Earth on the latest).
Skills: Fencing, charismatic and persuasive speeches, military strategy, scientific research (especially physics and biology), ruling powerful interstellar dynasties, running multiplanetary companies.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Rich -10
Genius -10
From nonexistent country -10 (closest equivalent I could think of for his background)
Multilingual -6
Anti-social +6