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鍞é›ĸ ── 𝒛𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊 ── 钟įĻģ ([personal profile] fortify) wrote2022-02-23 06:53 pm

come sail away application.

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PLAYER
PLAYER
Name: seiko
Age: 21+
Contact: [plurk.com profile] bladeworks, dpscheck#5185
Permission Post: here (not filled yet)
Reserve: here.


CHARACTER
CHARACTER
Name: Zhongli.
True Name: Morax.
Canon: Genshin Impact { post 3.4 (lantern rite)
Age: 6,000+
History: preferred link to wiki.

Powers/Abilities:
  • Geokinesis: can create, destroy and manipulate any form of rock and rock-infused soil. He is a physics breaker like most OP gacha characters.
  • Jade Barrier: Barrier that protects from physical and elemental damage (including supernatural phenomena.) It can be broken in certain circumstances by extremely powerful attacks. Can be used offensively, and can be corroded through if enemies have such an ability. (although in game it only lasts for a certain amount of time, he can hold a jade barrier indefinitely.)
  • Supernatural speed, ability, stamina, strength, dexterity, endurance, and constitution.
  • Weapon Mastery: highly proficient with spears and other in combat, as well throwing really big rocks (and smaller ones, too.)
  • Re:immortalilty: I'm pretty sure archons even with their gnosis are not immortal to death via murder/war/attacks, but either way here Zhongli will just take a long ass time to get dead. Strange disease or curses will work a little longer than a normal human, but only if his powers aren't suppressed in the situation. Otherwise he die like you and me.


  • Job History: (All quotes taken from the wiki, which are direct game lore, I didn't know how else to describe his duties better.).

    Funeral Parlor Consultant:
    • "Though no one knows where Zhongli is from, he is a master of courtesy and rules. His grasp of Liyue's traditions is superior to that of any scholar. From his seat at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, he performs all manner of rituals. Proper clothing, auspicious timing, locations and appliances, observances and regulations, all such things can be left in his hands without a care."
    • "A mysterious expert contracted by the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor. Extremely knowledgeable in all things."
    • "The Hus of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, who have been in this business for 77 generations, are the masters of handling funerals. However, Hu Tao, the current owner of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, primarily focuses on the art of sending mortals on their way.

      For the various ceremonies for sending adepti off, Hu Tao usually employs the help of a friend in more or less the same business. That person's name is Zhongli. The adepti have been with Liyue for millennia, but only a handful have ascended in the past three thousand years, which means that everything regarding the traditions now only exists in texts. This is not something one would likely witness twice in their entire lifetime.

      Not even the most particular and learned of researchers or scholars could find one fault in Wangsheng Funeral Parlor's ceremonies for sending adepti off.

      Everything must be perfect, from the costumes, the time, the place, the items, the weather, the scheduled length, the size of the permitted audience, to the stature, profession, and age of said audience. Nothing can be overlooked.

      When folk describe Zhongli as "living history," the latter usually only smiles and sighs.

      "I... just have a good memory."
    • Has also mastered the art of getting everyone else to pay for him even in the most expensive and eccentric situations.
    • Despite not being part of his job and having no mora on him ever, incredibly knowledgeable about finance, commerce, and their values. ...As well as everything else, as stated earlier.

    Geo Archon of Contracts:
      "In his long life, he has met countless people, and shall meet countless more still. As they say: the waters change course, but the mountains move not." - THE RAIDEN SHOGUN.

    • master of contract creation.
    • defending Liyue and its people.
    • Descended once a year to give council to the Qixing for the coming year.
    • created Teyvat's currency, Mora.
    • guided humanity through the years to not only survive but prosper.


    Suppressions: Zhongli mainly supressed emotions of hurt, anger, and loneliness. He is learning to better express with human emotions, but even then he hides away what he's feeling and makes an effort to never let anyone understand what he feels about a situation. Emotions and attachment have been extremely painful for him with the losses of those he cares for.

      note { There is also argument in fandom that as Morax, Zhongli was originally violent and bloodthirsty due to his Warrior God title and the revelation that Guizhong considered their partnership as him being the "brawn" to her "brains," but there is conflict with Chinese interpretations due to the characters used in Chinese/Japanese that were (at least originally) translated into "God of War." Also, Liyue writers have wrote many fantastical tales, so there is also the suggestion the bloodthirsty nature concept may be from there.

      As for my personal take, I have not seen anything official in storyline that he was aggressive/violence/warmongering in his younger days, so I do not play him with the idea he was ever warlike or brutal, but rather a warrior that had intense power and kept his words to use his might in circumstances when they called for it. He is not hesitant about using force to protect what/who he considers important, and was not particularly merciful or forgiving in his actions when they were executed.

      Unfortunately, we just don't know enough about him at this time for a really special list, but it is suggested that either corruption and erosion will make him violent and insane. I would go with that in how I play him here, as well.
    Greatest Fear: Erosion. **
      Erosion is the withering of rocks due to water/wind/other rocks/debris/dust/time, and so Zhongli also will eventually suffer from it since he basically is the geo elemental in a physical manifestation (aka, is a living rock himself, at least in some degree.) The current manifestation of erosion to us in game is comparable to dementia in terms of losing oneself. He fears losing himself and the memories of those he has cherished, and he fears what he might do to others when he, too, eventually erodes as he will remember not even himself and it basically drives the individual insane. It's not a question of if so much as when. There is no escaping it, not even (or perhaps especially, in this case) for the god of stone.
    Greatest Desire: To live out his life as a human being and experience life without the burden of being an archon.

    Greatest Regret: The inability to save many of his friends and losing them one by one (continuously, as this has happened before and will happen again.)

    Sample:
  • Sample one.
  • Sample two.


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